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This presentation introduces "The AI Scaffold," a systematic workflow for project managers to integrate Google NotebookLM responsibly across the entire project lifecycle. We demonstrate how to use this AI-powered structure to transform raw project artifacts into cohesive, actionable, and verifiable plans.

Attendees will learn to:

• Access resources, templates and sample prompt library, to develop their own AI scaffold for project management.
• Use PMBOK-informed templates and selected project sources to generate verifiable project artifacts in NotebookLM, ensuring outputs are grounded in fact.
• Apply the "AI Scaffold" methodology to build a defensible project foundation, following the logical sequence from discovery documentation to a summary schedule to a business case, project charter, and a stakeholder analysis.
• Learn practical strategies to "level-up" productivity during project execution, such as creating a reusable prompt library for synthesizing operational logs into status reports.

This workshop will dive in some MS Excel tools using data validation, nested formulas, macros, and VBA to help standardize device documentation efforts, ensuring information is valid and consistent across multiple electronic devices and cards.

The same tools can be used to standardize other efforts where repetitive tasks need to be automated with little knowledge in scripting.

Attendees will learn how to use:

• Nested formulas in Excel
• Macros in Excel
• VBA in Excel

This presentation will explain:

• What a homelab is
• Why people homelab 
• Why I homelab
• What it has taught me 
• How I apply that knowledge in my day-to-day duties
• Resources to get started

It will also include a look at the community aspect of homelabbing and how connections are the basis of career growth in today’s world, and conclude with the side-benefits of homelabbing, which are data sovereignty and control. 

Success in the workplace is tied to emotional intelligence. Research shows that it is twice as important as technical skills. This session will:

• Explain what emotional intelligence is
• Provide examples to show how you can benefit from it
• Offer some skills to help you build your emotional intelligence

• Define emotional intelligence
• Explain the benefits of emotional intelligence
• Determine when you need to shift your emotional response

• Learning how your brain operates
• Exploring mindfulness techniques to support brain integration
• Developing practical strategies to strengthen emotional intelligence
• Obtaining resources to improve your emotional intelligence