Events

RISE is produced by the team behind Web Summit. In 6 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference which last year attracted 60,000 attendees from 170+ countries around the world.
In July 2018, people from the world’s biggest companies and most exciting startups will come to Hong Kong to share their stories and experiences. They’ll be joined by major global media, hundreds of investors and thousands of attendees for three days of legendary networking. Brightline is Rise partner and will be releasing the book Strategy at Work in Chinese during the conference.

Ricardo will deliver the PMFits workshop on June 3rd. It will be the first public delivery of the workshop. On June 4th, Ricardo will present a special edition of the portfolio management workshop PMRank. He will also deliver a keynote at the end of the day and will present PMOtto, the leading AI Interface for project on June 5th.

Ricardo will attend the Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management Summit to introduce PMOtto.ai and discuss with Microsoft leadership about Brightline Initiative and Strategic Initiative Management.

Ricardo Vargas will be the keynote speaker on May 25th, 2018 and will talk about Strategic Initiative Management at one of the largest conferences in Eastern Europe: the Combis Conference in Croatia. With more than 500 attendees, Combis is a high tech conference aiming to inspire young leaders to drive technology to build a prosperous and inclusive world.

Ricardo will represent Brightline Initiative on a keynote about the Brightline 10 Guiding Principles. Brightline is a key partner of ASP in the conference that will discuss the gap in understanding, performance, and execution of strategy. This gap invariably translates into unwanted costs, lost opportunities and the failure to execute.

Ricardo and the Brightline Initiative team will conduct a workshop on Strategic Initiative Management. The summit will discuss the harnessing the power of emerging technology, how to stay agile and incubate innovation within a large corporation, leading the charge for sustainability while ensuring profitability, communicating and implementing a strategic vision that employees support.

Bringing together hundreds of project, programme and portfolio managers from around the world, PMI^® EMEA congress provides three days of premier education, knowledge sharing, and networking. Congress empowers participants with the skills needed to positively impact projects and programmes through innovative keynotes, peer-driven content and cutting edge global perspectives into today’s evolving project and business challenges.

Ricardo Vargas will represent Brightline at the MIT SDM Symposium 2018: Characterizing the GAP. It is the first academic conference supported by Brightline in partnership with MIT.

Ricardo will deliver a workshop on behalf of Brightline Initiative at Collision 2018 covering the connection between Strategy Design and Delivery. Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit. In three years, Collision has grown to almost 20,000 attendees from 119 countries. Attendees include CEOs of both the world’s fastest growing startups and the world’s largest companies, alongside leading investors and media.

Ricardo will represent Brightline Initiative and deliver a workshop at TED2018 in Vancouver. Held annually on the West Coast of North America, the TED Conference is at the heart of TED. More than a thousand people attend this five-day conference about Technology, Entertainment and Design -- as well as science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Over 70 speakers appear on the main stage to give 18-minute talks and shorter presentations, including music, performance and comedy.