Dimitris Antoniadis
Director of Program & Project Management Services, Danton Progm
Published Author, Senior Lecturer, Initiator of the Project Controls Degree in the UK
United Kingdom
About
Dimitris has 35+ years’ experience in Program and Project Management positions having covered project phases from concept to handover and operation/maintenance.
He is currently holding two Directorships in the Program, Project Management and PMO with Danton Progm and Proc Global. He is a technical advisor to Novacept and a Senior Lecturer of the BSc Degrees in Project Management and Project Control for London Metropolitan College. He has set up the B.Sc. Degree in Project Control and supported the College taking it through the approval processes.
He held senior management positions in major utilities, infrastructure, and construction organizations delivering programs of work ranging from £250M to £3.2Bn. As a Senior Manager to regulated businesses such as Thames Water, Southern Water, and UK Power Networks, worked closely with the Strategy Directorates to advice on the generation of the five or eight year programs of work. He also advised a major telecoms organization on the £10Bn program of works and set up the PMO.
Whilst with UK Power Networks he was a member of the industry working group advising the UK Government Infrastructure Project Authority (IPA) on Program, Project Management and PMO issues and approach to delivering works.
As Head of PMO he has set up and run the departments within challenging partnering environments, setting up all the processes for delivering programs of work and projects. Within these roles he has set up continuing professional development and competencies schemes for the companies and delivered a number of courses to the project practitioners.
He is the author of the book ‘Demystifying Project Control’; contributed chapters in books on complexity, leadership and other project management topics and has written a number of journal and conference papers. The latter, in most cases, were delivered as guest speaker.
He was awarded the PhD, from Loughborough University, UK, for his research on the subject of ‘Managing Complexity in Project Teams’ for which he has developed a framework.
He is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in UK.
Parts of his work can be seen in www.danton-progm.co.uk
Title & Abstract
Project Control and Blockchain
Integration, accuracy, transparency, speed of transfer, and trustworthiness of project data is very important for projects and key to decision making. It’s only very recent that current technologies started accommodating one or maybe two of these requirements.
On the other hand, blockchain technology, which provides security, trustworthiness, transparency, and irreversibility, is progressing rapidly in a number of industries, like banking, insurance, shipping, etc. Blockchain drives operational efficiencies by removing intermediaries, minimising time and effort spent on admin, record keeping, and transaction reconciliation.
Many of the technology characteristics could be used to support the management and delivery of projects and therefore project control. Combined with other initiatives, such as storage of design/drawings on the cloud, common data environment, smart contracts, collaborative working, standard project management structures, etc., it can support the efficient delivery of projects and generally P3M.
This presentation will cover two case studies including the setup of project/programme level control in a specific transformation programme of works and a blockchain proof of concept project.
You will also explore the benefits of blockchain, implementation requirements, issues, limitations, and how it can be adopted to improve project control and the delivery of the projects and programmes.
Presentation Category:
- New Technologies
Competency Level: Intermediate