Speaker

Daniël van der Linden is a Demand Generation Professional at One Productivity Group, where he helps organizations connect strategy, technology, and business growth. With a passion for innovation, relationship-building, and creating meaningful customer experiences, he focuses on helping organizations understand how modern productivity, project management, and portfolio management solutions can support transformation and deliver business value.

 

Keynote: Beyond Delivery: Defining Project Success = People
Daniël van der Linden puts people back at the center of project success in her keynote, "Beyond Delivery: Defining Project Success = People". This practical, down-to-earth keynote shows how technology adoption creates value at every level (individual, team, and organizational), offering fresh perspectives and actionable insights to turn new tools and AI-driven ways of working into results that last. Drawing on her work helping teams within large organizations, including Q8 and Liverpool FC, streamline their processes and adopt AI-driven ways of working, Marie-Laure makes the case that adoption does not start with the technology; it starts with the people. She focuses on the value of ambassadors: the colleagues inside each team who carry a new way of working to the people around them. Speaking to the Summit theme "value for tomorrow starts now," she shares practical insights from her implementation work on why lasting adoption depends on these ambassadors and how project leaders can involve them. Attendees come away with a clearer view of project success as something measured by the people who use what a project delivers, not just by the delivery itself.

 

Learning goals summary:

• Understand that it's not just about implementing the right tool; it's about bringing the people who will use it along from the start.
• Empower project and change leaders to see technology adoption not as an afterthought to delivery but as an opportunity to engage, enable, and mobilize their people.
• Discover how ambassadors inside teams turn a new way of working from a project deliverable into everyday practice.
• Explore where automation and AI can cut administrative work and support smarter, faster decision-making.
• Step into your next rollout ready to define success by the people who use what you deliver.