Project Controls Expo (PCE) USA is North America's premier annual forum dedicated exclusively to Project Controls.Now in its 5th edition at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., the event reflects deep-rooted ties to the federalgovernment and major public sector initiatives. PCE USA convenes leading practitioners, agency executives, costengineers, EVM specialists, and private sector pioneers to exchange advanced methodologies, real-world casestudies, and frameworks that maximize delivery performance across America's most complex capital programs.
PCE USA features an exceptionally robust federal government presence, showcasing speakers and delegatesfrom the nation's most critical U.S. agency programs across infrastructure, energy, and defense.
Retired Director of Project Controls, MBTA
Principal Project Manager – Program Controls, Mott MacDonald
Sr. Director, Continuous Improvement & Preconstruction Urban Transportation Solutions, Aecon
Professor and Director, Northeastern University
Founder/CEO, ProjectTeam, Inc.
Founder / CEO, xPM Solution
Project Controls Manager, Amtrak
Senior Consultant / Program Risk Manager, Turner & Townsend
Managing Director, Infrastructure
Founder, PMA Consultants
President- USA, Blue Stone Management
Section Manager, CDB, Burns & McDonnell
CEO, TDG The Digit Group
Physical Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Senior Manager, BDO
To navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of Project Controls, Project Controls Expo USA 2026 converges industry pioneers, cutting-edge innovations, and the most influential voices across the sector. Explore why thousands of global practitioners consider this the definitive, must-attend forum for project excellence.
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The 2025 PCE USA brought together 800+ delegates at Nationals Park for two days of technical sessions, networking, and the project controls awards ceremony. Topics included earned value management, schedule analytics, risk integration, and AI-powered project controls.
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Project Controls Expo USA is the largest project controls conference in North America, bringing together 800+ delegates, 40+ expert speakers, and 36 exhibitors across 6 seminar streams covering cost management, scheduling, risk, and delivery of complex capital programmes. The 2026 edition takes place 5-7 October at Nationals Park, Washington DC, featuring speakers from organizations including the U.S. Department of Energy, Amtrak, GSA, and the Government Accountability Office.
Project controls is the discipline of planning, monitoring, and managing cost, schedule, risk, and performance on capital projects to keep delivery on time and on budget. It combines cost engineering, scheduling (CPM), earned value management (EVM), and risk analysis to give project teams and executives early visibility into problems before they escalate.
PAI is shifting project controls from retrospective reporting to predictive, real-time decision support — including automated cost estimating, AI-driven schedule risk forecasting, and anomaly detection in performance data. At Project Controls Expo USA 2026, this theme runs through multiple sessions, including Baltimore DPW's Eric Atandi on applying AI to municipal capital projects and the Department of Energy's Amber Young on integrating AI into EVMS maturity assessments.
Earned Value Management is a project controls methodology that measures project performance by comparing planned work, completed work, and actual cost, giving teams an objective read on whether a project is ahead, behind, or over budget. It's a core topic at Project Controls Expo USA, featured in sessions from EVMS specialists such as Amber Young (U.S. Department of Energy) and Jacque Keats (SMA, Inc.).
Confirmed 2026 speakers include Amber Young (U.S. Department of Energy), Dathan Beasley (Turner & Townsend), Mohamed Atia and Neal Panchuk (Aecon), Vivek Khullar (Burns & McDonnell), and Dr. Ali Montaser (Accenture I&CP), covering topics from EVMS and AI governance to risk-integrated target pricing on multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programmes.
The 2026 agenda runs across dedicated tracks including Technology & Innovation in Project Controls, Delivery of Complex Projects & Programmes, Risk, Resilience & Independent Assurance, Contract & Commercial Management, and Owners & Government Capital Programmes. Sessions span AI in cost/schedule forecasting, EVM and PMO governance, climate risk resilience, and lessons from megaprojects like the Scarborough Subway Extensio
A Vector-Based Approach to Dynamic Risk Management: Integrating Velocity into the 3D Risk Matrix - A transformative approach
Project Controls in the Age of AI: Why Delivery Certainty Still Starts with People, Process and Data
AI and the Future of Project Controls
HS2 — What Went Wrong and What Must We Learn?
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