This event will explore the critical role of robust assurance frameworks in safeguarding the success of complex engineering and large-scale infrastructure projects, from initial concept right through to final handover and operation. With project failures often stemming from shonky governance, scope creep, and unforeseen technical risks, learning to implement effective assurance is no longer optional, it is a core necessity for protecting investment and delivering stakeholder value.
This session will cover practical methods for establishing independent project scrutiny, validating technical and financial models, ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety standards, and embedding a culture of continuous risk management. Join industry leaders to understand how tier 1 organisations build confidence in project estimates, manage supply chain volatility, and utilise digital tools for real-time performance monitoring. You will gain actionable insights into creating an assurance roadmap that ensures project objectives are met on the dot, within budget, and to the required quality, ultimately maximising return on investment and driving sustainable business outcomes.
Learning outcomes:
- Implement Robust Assurance Systems (Know): Understand how to design and embed an independent, multi-layered assurance framework that provides continuous oversight and early identification of critical risks across the entire project lifecycle, ensuring the project stays on track.
- Maximise Project ROI and Value (Want): Learn proven strategies for optimizing capital expenditure, validating investment decisions, and utilising assurance as a proactive tool to prevent cost overruns and delays, thereby maximising the return on investment (ROI).
- Enhance Governance and Compliance (Learn): Gain actionable insights into establishing best-practice project governance structures and ensuring rigorous compliance with complex local (Australian) and international safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
- Leverage Digital for Real-Time Oversight (Learn): Discover how to effectively apply data analytics, digital tools, and emerging technologies to enable real-time project performance monitoring, providing timely, evidence-based reporting to senior management and stakeholders.
Please note a small cover charge will apply for this associations partnered event.
Member: $15.00 AU
Non - Member: $45.00 AUD
CPE Points: 1
Presenters:
Niamh Judge, Associate Director, Protiviti
Niamh Judge is an accomplished Associate Director within the Internal Audit & Financial Advisory team at Protiviti, specialising in Project and Program Assurance. With over a decade of experience in consulting across both public and private sectors, Niamh brings deep expertise in managing high-impact programs and delivering independent assurance across complex environments. Her work spans major system implementations, regulatory programs, and large-scale migration initiatives. Niamh has led assurance reviews across the full program lifecycle, including governance, requirements traceability, testing and quality assurance, organisational change management, go-live readiness, post-implementation reviews, and delivery risk.
Pedram Danesh-Mand Director, Project Controls & Assurance KPMG Australia
As a director in the Project & Program Delivery team in KPMG’s Infrastructure, Assets & Places division, Pedram leads and inspires teams, setting a benchmark for delivery of Integrated Project Controls (Scope, Time, Cost, Risk) and Project Risk Management to provide clients with transparent and practical risk engineering solutions.
Pedram helps public and private organisations develop and deliver major projects and programs successfully. He is highly skilled in Project Planning & Scheduling, Integrated Project Controls, Monte Carlo Simulation, Quantitative Schedule/Cost Risk Analysis, Earned Value (EV), and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).
With a successful record of executive positions with high profile organisations and as an industry innovation award winner, Pedram has advised high level government agencies, law firms and top contractors while working on a wide range of projects across Energy Natural Resources, Renewable, Generation, Transmission Line, Transport, Telecommunications, Coal, and Oil & Gas.
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