Date: 10 November 2026
Location: Manor House in Mason, Ohio See the map
Source: Project Management Institute
On 10 November, the PMI Southwest Ohio and Dayton/Miami Valley Chapters will bring regional project managers together for PMI Summit 2026: Building Future Ready Project Leaders at the Manor House in Mason, Ohio. This year's Summit will focus on three areas shaping the future of project leadership: sustainability, core project management capabilities and practical AI skills.
As part of the program, Elena Treshcheva will deliver a talk, ‘AI Won't Replace Your Team – But It Will Demand More of Them.’
“True AI leverage for project managers lies beyond personal productivity – it rests in team adoption, governance, and process. Grounded in regulated financial technology delivery, this session explores how to turn individual experimentation into organizational capability. Attendees will address real-world adoption challenges, including data sensitivity constraints, evolving team skill profiles, workload impacts, and identifying the essential value humans must uniquely supply when delegating tasks to AI models”.
Key takeaways:
- Distinguish personal productivity from PM leverage. Recognize why individual AI use is table stakes, and where the project manager’s real influence lies: team-level governance, process and enablement.
- Enable AI adoption under real constraints. Learn practical approaches to building context that is fully informative yet free of sensitive data, making AI usable in regulated environments.
- Plan for skill growth across the intersection. Understand how AI expands team capability in both directions – technical skills for domain experts, domain depth for engineers – and what that means for resourcing and development plans.
- Reset expectations around the engagement paradox. Anticipate why AI-assisted work often takes more time per task with wider breadth, and how to reflect that honestly in capacity planning – grounded in what humans uniquely contribute: intent.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.
Elena Treshcheva
Program Manager, Exactpro
Elena Treshcheva is a Program Manager at Exactpro, an independent software testing services provider for financial market infrastructures. She manages technology delivery programs for US exchanges and trading platforms, leading cross-functional teams through the full project life cycle in a regulated, high-stakes environment – from compliance and release-validation testing to documentation and knowledge-transfer initiatives. Before moving into industry, she spent nearly a decade in academia, where she led a university research laboratory and delivered digital corpora research projects.