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PMI® Agile 2026

PMI and Agile Alliance brought agile practitioners, leaders, coaches and technologists together in National Harbor, Maryland, to explore AI-powered teams, enterprise agility, leadership and the human side of agile work.

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  • July 26–28, 2026
  • National Harbor, Maryland, USA
  • In person
Why this event matters

PMI® Agile 2026 brought the practitioner-driven spirit of Agile Alliance and the PMI global community together for a focused look at where agile is going next for practitioners, teams and organizations. Across keynotes, breakout sessions and community events, the conference worked through the questions shaping agile work now: how to adapt with AI, connect strategy to execution, lead through change and keep people at the center.

It also showed the continued momentum of the PMI and Agile Alliance partnership, bringing a global professional community together while preserving the practitioner-led culture that has long defined the agile movement.

Event highlights

PMI® Agile 2026 took place in National Harbor, Maryland, USA, in July 2026, bringing together agile practitioners, leaders, technologists, coaches and change-makers. Discussions moved from AI-powered teams and enterprise agility to leadership, organizational transformation and the enduring importance of human connection.

Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi opened the conference with “Rethinking How Organizations Change”, challenging conventional approaches to transformation and exploring why organizations often experience constant change without meaningful results. An executive panel with Pierre Le Manh, David Dabscheck, Colleen Johnson and Dr. Vince Molinaro examined how leaders navigate complexity, connect strategy to execution and create lasting value in rapidly evolving environments.

Highly attended sessions covered the project professional’s identity in the age of AI, AI-native teams (where backlogs became idea logs and refinement gave way to rapid prototyping), outcome-driven roadmaps and leadership’s role in enterprise agility, including decentralizing decision-making and using guardrails instead of gatekeepers. Community moments included Agile Coach Camp Worldwide, Reimagining Agility, Hack for Good and the volunteer “Purple Shirts”.

Dr. Johan Roos closed the conference with “The Fourth Value: Human Magic in the Age of Algorithms”, on why human-centricity remains the load-bearing value of the “Manifesto for Enterprise Agility” and why AI raises the stakes for judgment, curiosity, wisdom, creativity and learning.

PMI® Agile 2026, National Harbor: From left: Pierre Le Manh, Colleen Johnson, David Dabscheck and Dr. Vince Molinaro during the executive panel
Recap

Key takeaways

  • AI is changing the nature of agile work: the focus has moved from whether AI will change the profession to how practitioners adapt and lead the shift.
  • Agility is no longer just a team capability; it is becoming an organizational capability.
  • As technology becomes more powerful, human capabilities such as judgment, curiosity and creativity become more important.
For PM professionals

Why it matters

For project professionals in Lebanon, PMI® Agile 2026 set out where agile practice is heading: AI reshaping how work moves through teams, roadmaps that connect strategy to measurable outcomes, and leadership behaviors that make adaptability last. Practitioners holding or preparing for the PMI-ACP®, and leaders driving transformation, can use these themes to decide where to focus their learning.

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Opening keynote Rethinking How Organizations Change Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi
Executive panel Navigating complexity, connecting strategy to execution and creating lasting value Pierre Le Manh, David Dabscheck, Colleen Johnson, Dr. Vince Molinaro
Session You Will Fail—Play a Board Game to Experience Agile in Action Neal Rowland
Closing keynote The Fourth Value: Human Magic in the Age of Algorithms Dr. Johan Roos
About the speakers

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Ms. Elisabeth Hendrickson

Founder / CEO at Curious Duck Digital Laboratory, LLC

Opening keynote Rethinking How Organizations Change

Ms. Elisabeth Hendrickson is a technology executive, advisor, coach, speaker, author, and VP R&D based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Founder and CEO of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory, LLC, where she helps software development leaders and teams improve collaboration, decision-making, and execution through interim leadership, coaching, and facilitation.

Previously, she held leadership roles including Advisor at Nekko.ai and 33 Teams, VP Engineering at Outlier AI, and several leadership positions at Pivotal Software, Inc., including VP R&D for PKS and VP R&D for Data, where she managed significant budgets, improved release cadences, and scaled engineering organizations.

She studied Engineering and Applied Science with an emphasis in CS at Caltech and holds a Bachelor's degree in Business/E-Business from the University of Phoenix.

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Mr. Joel Tosi

Co-Founder & CTO at Dojo & Co

Opening keynote Rethinking How Organizations Change

Mr. Joel Tosi is Co-Founder & CTO at Dojo & Co, where he helps organizations improve the flow of work and become learning organizations using immersive learning environments known as Dojos.

Spanning the complete value stream from ideation and discovery through maneuverable architecture, responsible engineering, and operations, Joel collaborates directly with teams and leadership to evolve toward better products and better outcomes.

He has partnered with large and small organizations on product delivery and organizational culture, encompassing infrastructure and DevOps, agile, XP, lean, and SCRUM coaching, as well as facilitating innovation workshops.

Joel is a public speaker, community builder, and co-author of the books 'Signals & Levers', 'Creating Your Dojo', and 'Coaching for Learning'. He holds an educational background from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

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Pierre Le Manh

Mr. Pierre Le Manh

Former President and CEO at Project Management Institute (PMI)

Executive panel Navigating complexity, connecting strategy to execution and creating lasting value

Mr. Pierre Le Manh served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Project Management Institute (PMI) from September 2022 until September 30, 2026. A global executive with a multicultural background, he has led companies across several knowledge industries through complex transformations and globalization. Before joining PMI, he led the preparation of Galileo Global Education’s expansion into North America. At Ipsos, he served as Chief Executive Officer for North America and as Global Deputy CEO. Earlier, he was CEO of Consodata, Encyclopaedia Universalis and CFL Holding and CFO of the performing arts nonprofit Adami, having begun his career at Accenture.

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Mr. David Dabscheck

Co-CEO at GIANT Innovation

Executive panel Navigating complexity, connecting strategy to execution and creating lasting value

Mr. David Dabscheck is the founder and co-CEO of GIANT Innovation, where he transforms the way organizations and people think and act to become world-class innovators.

He has helped dozens of organizations become more innovative, agile, creative, and AI-fluent, including work with Citi, Walmart, Roche, Dallas Fort-Worth Airport, The World Bank, and Siemens Energy.

David serves as a board member for several Israeli and New York technology companies and is the founder of the Innovation Practitioners Roundtable.

He has taught at leading universities and executive education programs around the world, including Columbia University, Northeastern University, NYU, Woosong University, Duke Corporate Education, and the National Science Foundation's Innovation-Corps program.

David holds an MBA from Columbia University, an MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Queensland.

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Ms. Colleen Johnson

CEO at ProKanban

Executive panel Navigating complexity, connecting strategy to execution and creating lasting value

Ms. Colleen Johnson is the CEO of ProKanban.org, located in the Denver Metropolitan Area. She focuses on helping organizations improve predictability, manage delivery risk, and make smarter decisions with data.

Her professional background encompasses enterprise services, global trainer networks, and building internal capabilities to help teams address visibility problems, enhance delivery predictability, gain portfolio and investment visibility, and identify delivery bottlenecks. She is an alumnus of the University of Colorado at Denver.

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Dr. Vince Molinaro

Founder at Leadership Contract Inc

Executive panel Navigating complexity, connecting strategy to execution and creating lasting value

Vince Molinaro Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Leadership Contract Inc., where he helps organizations navigate strategic shifts and build accountable leadership cultures.

As a NY Times Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and advisor, he works with global organizations, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, to develop leaders who step up, take ownership, and execute amidst market disruption, AI, restructuring, and culture change.

He has authored five books, including The Leadership Contract, Accountable Leaders, and Community of Leaders, with his forthcoming book Leading Strategic Shifts arriving in February 2027. Recognized as one of the Top Business Speakers by the All American Speakers Bureau in 2023, he brings candor, humility, and humor to keynotes, workshops, and executive team engagements.

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Dr. Johan Roos

Professor of Strategic Management at Luxembourg School of Business

Closing keynote The Fourth Value: Human Magic in the Age of Algorithms

Johan Roos is a Professor of Strategic Management and Board Member at the Luxembourg School of Business, Associate Faculty for executive education at Hult Ashridge, Senior Strategic Advisor to AACSB, and Partner for R&D and Quality at IntHRface & BrickMind.

He also serves as Senior Advisor to the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Previously, he held leadership roles including Dean of MBA Programs at the Stockholm School of Economics, President of Copenhagen Business School, CEO and Dean of Jönköping International Business School, and Chief Academic Officer at Hult International Business School.

As a recognized innovator, he is a co-inventor of LEGO® Serious Play®. His recent work focuses on helping professionals maintain human agency in an age of advanced algorithms, explored in his book Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms.

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