Speaker

Biography Veerle Simons is Solutions Consultant for Key Accounts at AMX Consulting, the leading implementation and training partner for Smartsheet and Miro, where she works with AMX's largest enterprise customers to align Smartsheet and Miro solutions with their business objectives. Over four years at AMX, she has built and customized Smartsheet and Miro solutions that optimize client workflows, and trained and onboarded clients to ensure smooth adoption, including as a Customer Education Facilitator with the Miro Academy team. Before joining AMX, she worked as a Digital Transformation Consultant at Magnus Red, where her assignments included agile coaching, PMO support for a B2C market entry project in Japan, and business analysis for a software project affecting around 1,150 employees. She holds an MSc in Strategic Management from Tilburg University. AMX was ranked the #122 fastest-growing company in Europe by the Financial Times and has been named Smartsheet EMEA Partner in 2020, 2021, and 2023, alongside the Wirtschaftswoche Best of Consulting SMB Award in 2022.

 

Workshop: Portfolio Management Made Easy: The PMO Scalability Challenge
What happens when your organization grows from managing 10 projects to more than 100, but your project management office (PMO) processes don't scale with it? Veerle Simons and Emilie Visser take on that question in their interactive workshop, "Portfolio Management Made Easy: The PMO Scalability Challenge". This hands-on, practical session shows how scalable portfolio management creates value at every level (project, PMO, and portfolio), offering fresh perspectives and actionable insights to keep the focus on what matters most: delivering meaningful business value. The workshop is built around three common challenges: standardizing project delivery without losing flexibility, creating real-time portfolio visibility to focus on the projects that matter most, and using automation and AI to reduce administrative work and enable smarter, faster decision-making. Participants step into a real-world PMO challenge and work through it together, through audience participation, practical scenarios, and live Smartsheet examples. Drawing on AMX's implementation work with organizations such as HUGO BOSS and Canyon Bicycles, Veerle and Emilie show how PMOs can move beyond fragmented processes and manual reporting toward a standardized, automated, and insight-driven way of working. The result: project professionals who spend less time managing information and more time creating impact and building value for tomorrow.

 

Learning goals summary:

• Realize that scaling a PMO is not just about handling more projects; it's about building processes that keep delivering business value as the portfolio grows.
• Empower PMO leaders and project professionals to see portfolio growth not as a source of overload but as an opportunity to standardize, automate, and focus.
• Learn how to standardize project delivery without losing flexibility, and how real-time portfolio visibility keeps effort on the projects that matter most.
• Explore where automation and AI can cut administrative work and support smarter, faster decision-making.
• Get back to your PMO ready to trade manual reporting for an insight-driven way of managing your portfolio.