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One Digital Platform – 3000 Projects – the Mission: Saving Lives
What does it take to migrate hundreds of projects to a new project management platform while driving user adoption at scale?
At ZF LIFETEC, a leading global manufacturer of passive safety systems for vehicles, we successfully migrated nearly 700 projects from a legacy system to cplace, laying the foundation for a platform that today supports more than 3,000 projects across our organization.
In this session, we will share our migration approach, key challenges, and the success factors behind the rollout. Learn how early stakeholder involvement, continuous communication, and targeted promotion helped us achieve high acceptance from day one. We will also provide insights into our live system, our reporting and into the next steps and future plans.
From Hype to the Road — Taking the Driver’s Seat on Citizen AI
Everyone talks about AI. But building it into the daily work of enterprise project management? That’s a different story.
At Daimler Truck, the Project Management Office took the driver’s seat. They combined years of project management expertise with cplace and Citizen AI and built intelligent assistants that read project data, generate insights, and feed decisions back into the system. All by themselves.
André Gutjahr and Arthur Chevts take you behind the scenes: from the first idea to a live AI Flywheel on stage. You’ll see how Citizen Developers can level up an entire enterprise PM platform — with AI as a reliable co-pilot.
How PULSE Connects the Dots
Join us for an inside look at PULSE, BioNTech’s new project and portfolio management solution, and discover how it’s helping BioNTech connect execution, operations, and strategy.
In this session, the speakers will share highlights from the implementation journey and the lessons learned along the way. Learn how operational insights lead to sharper strategic decisions, and see how AI is being built into PULSE: not as a feature, but as a driver of real business value.
Wie cplace bei Rheinmetall zur Single Source of Truth im Projektmanagement wird
Verstreute Tools, verteilte Daten und komplexe Strukturen über zahlreiche nationale und internationale Standorte hinweg – vor diesen Herausforderungen stand Rheinmetall in seinem Projektmanagement. In diesem Vortrag erfahren Sie, wie Rheinmetall cplace als zentrale Single Source of Truth etabliert.
Die Projektmanager nehmen Sie mit auf eine Reise – vom Datenchaos des Arbeitsalltags über den Rollout von cplace in komplexen, regulierten Unternehmensstrukturen bis hin zur integrierten Planung von Verbundprojekten und Szenarien. Außerdem erhalten Sie konkrete Einblicke, wie cplace als zentrales Tool bei Rheinmetall Silos aufbricht und Prozesse vereinheitlicht.
Decentralized planning in high dynamic R&D environment
Decentralized Planning separates strategic oversight from operational execution. Project managers define phases, milestones, work packages, and deliverables, while departments independently manage their own task backlogs, structured around their internal workflows and linked directly to the project’s deliverables.
This strengthens departmental ownership and commitment, reduces planning overhead for project managers, and keeps the overall project aligned without top-down micromanagement.
Turning Complexity into Clarity with cplace: Connecting Strategy, Portfolio Management, Governance and Execution across TRATON Group R&D
How do you bring more than 12,000 engineers, four strong commercial vehicle brands, and a landscape of legacy tools into one common way of working — without losing speed, flexibility, or the identity of each brand? At TRATON Group R&D, we took on this challenge, choosing cplace as the digital backbone that connects strategy, financial planning, timebooking, portfolio management, governance, and execution across Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus. Together with Dataciders as our implementation partner, we replaced existing legacy systems and built a scalable PPM platform in agile PI cycles — from initial GoLive to a successful international rollout.
In our presentation, we share how we turned complexity into clarity, and what it takes to make cplace a single source of truth for our global R&D transformation.
Main Keynote: The Builder Era
For three decades, enterprise PPM meant the same cycle: a 300-row RFP, months of implementation, and off-the-shelf software that never quite fit. cplace Day 2026 is the day that cycle ends.
On the biggest PPM stage in Europe, streaming for the first time to the US, we’ll show what the Builder Era actually looks like: enterprise software described in the morning, running in production by evening.
What you’ll experience live:
- The CEO’s case: Why the era of long implementations, rigid platforms, and shelved software is finally coming to an end.
- cplace AI in action: From proactive agents to the AI Builder that turns requirements into governed solutions, every capability is shown live and proven by enterprises already running it in production.
- The new delivery model: How months of implementation became weeks, and what that shift means for every project.
The Builder Era doesn’t begin someday. It begins live on stage at cplace Day 2026! Join us. And start building.
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