Michelle Boyd
Synozur, Executive Director, First Nations AI & Digital Futures Initiative and Head of Delivery Excellence
Snohomish, Washington, United States
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Michelle Boyd is Executive Director, First Nations AI & Digital Futures Initiative and Director of Delivery Excellence at Synozur. In her Executive Director role, she works alongside Native American tribes and tribal leaders to co‑create AI and digital initiatives grounded in trust, cultural respect, and community‑led priorities—ensuring technology empowers rather than overshadows.
With more than 15 years of experience as a technical program and project leader, Michelle has spent the last decade in management consulting, delivering complex initiatives across program, product, and project management. Her work spans design and creative programs, enterprise application and platform implementations, and large‑scale change management and adoption efforts, consistently translating strategy into execution.
Michelle holds an MBA, is PMP‑ and SIDL‑certified, and is the author of an eBook on establishing a Project Management Office (PMO). She speaks regularly at industry events, including Microsoft TechCon.
Based in Snohomish, Washington, Michelle is an oenophile (lover of wine) and yoga enthusiast, bringing a balanced and thoughtful approach to both her professional and personal life.
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Project Management Agent: The Future of Delivery
Project management is at an inflection point. For decades, leaders have relied on tools, dashboards, and manual reporting to keep delivery on track. Now, AI is shifting from assistant to agent—a proactive orchestrator that runs the flow of work across Teams, Planner, Outlook, and beyond. This session introduces the concept of the Project Management Agent, an AI‑powered operating layer that consolidates updates, surfaces risks, rebalances workloads, and ensures governance in real time. Instead of chasing status reports or juggling disconnected systems, leaders can rely on the agent as a single source of truth and accountability. Attendees will see how today’s Copilot capabilities in Microsoft 365 are the building blocks of this future, and walk away with a practical framework for piloting agent‑driven delivery in their own organizations. The result: less overhead, faster decisions, and a new model for scaling operational excellence.
Project Management Agent: The Future of Delivery
Project management is at an inflection point. For decades, leaders have depended on tools, dashboards, and manual reporting to keep delivery on track. Today, AI is evolving from assistant to agent—a proactive orchestrator that drives the flow of work across Teams, Planner, Outlook, and beyond.
This session introduces the Project Management Agent: an AI‑powered operating layer that consolidates updates, surfaces risks, rebalances workloads, and enforces governance in real time. Instead of chasing status reports or juggling disconnected systems, leaders can rely on the agent as a single source of truth and accountability.
Attendees will see how current Copilot capabilities in Microsoft 365 form the building blocks of this future, and leave with a practical framework for piloting agent‑driven delivery in their own organizations. The outcome: reduced overhead, faster decisions, and a new model for scaling operational excellence.
AI in Portfolio Governance: From Reporting to Real‑Time Insight
Portfolio governance has long been bogged down by static reports, manual updates, and lagging indicators. With Microsoft Copilot embedded across Planner, Teams, and Viva, governance is shifting to real‑time, AI‑driven insight. This session explores how leaders can embed Copilot into portfolio reviews to surface risks, resource conflicts, and adoption signals instantly. Attendees will see how AI converts delivery data into actionable governance metrics, reducing overhead while improving transparency and trust. Through live scenarios, Michelle Boyd will demonstrate how Copilot can transform messy project inputs into structured dashboards, highlight portfolio‑level risks, and propose mitigation strategies. The session closes with a practical framework for building AI‑enabled governance practices that scale across programs and portfolios.
AI-Powered Project Planning with Teams, Copilot, and Planner
Learn prompting best practices to generate structured, actionable project plans using Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams. This session will show you how to guide Copilot with effective natural language prompts to create project plan templates in Microsoft Planner—complete with tasks, buckets, assignments, and timelines. Whether you're starting from scratch or standardizing repeatable workflows, you'll walk away with practical techniques to turn ideas into organized plans in minutes.
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