PMI Hawaii Chapter Professional Development Day 2026

CPMAI goes beyond the typical AI CHATGPT content to addressing how AI can be used to enhance decision-making at the organization level using a data-driven project approach.

Retrospective of the 2026 PMP® Mentorship Program, designed in partnership with Manaʻolana International. This 9-month experience connects seasoned PMs with professionals through structured sessions, a Personal Development Plan (PDP), PDU opportunities, and community-building. Review the past year with the mentors and mentees – see their progress, listen to challenges and how we overcame them. This session offers insight into how mentorship can support PMP challenges, career advancement strategies, or leadership succession and strengthen Hawaiʻi’s project management community.

Most construction firms have tried AI. Few have deployed it into daily operations. This session walks through one Maui contractor's journey from experimentation to production.

Daniel Souza shares how ELCCO Inc. built a working AI toolkit spanning submittal review, bid analysis, estimating and change order pricing, training content development, and marketing — all without a data science team, custom software development, or replacing a single estimator.

Attendees leave with a framework for identifying which of their own workflows are AI-ready, a candid view of where AI still fails in construction and why verification discipline is non-negotiable, and a repeatable method for turning tribal knowledge into tools teams actually adopt.

A working session for project professionals ready to move from AI curiosity to AI capability.