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Thursday, January 25, 2007
PMF to co-sponsor 1st Annual UTD Project Management Symposium
PMForum.org is one of three co-sponsors announced for the 1st Annual UTD Project Management Symposium, to be held during 6-7 August 2007 in Plano, Texas, USA. The conference is being sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management in the School of Management’s Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Co-sponsors of the conference will be PMForum.org and the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
David L. Pells, Managing Editor, PMForum.org and James Joiner, UTDAccording to James Joiner, Director of UTD’s graduate program in project management and pictured at right with David Pells, managing editor for PMForum.org, “We are happy to team up with PMForum on this project. They will help bring some high level speakers, provide global visibility, and publish some of the papers. It should be a winning combination.”
The 2 Day event will be the first major project management conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area since the PMI’91 Seminars/Symposium 16 years ago. The UTD conference will focus on topics important to organizations, industries and the economy of North Texas. Proposed Tracks include the following:
Track 1 – PM for Nanotechnology & Semiconductor Development
Track 2 – Project, Program & Portfolio Management
Track 3 – Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Medical & Healthcare Projects
Track 5 – Big PM: Management of large IT Projects
Track 6 – Micro PM: Management of smaller projects
Track 7 – The Role of PM for Corporate Governance
Other Conference Events will include an Opening Ceremony with keynote speakers on Monday morning; a Monday evening reception for attendees, speakers and vendors; and a Closing Panel Discussion of keynote speakers on “The Future of Project Management”. A vendor exhibition is planned, with sponsorships also to be available.
Key Dates include: 15 March 2007 – Abstracts Due; 15 April 2007 – Papers selected; 1 May 2007 – registrations open; 30 June 2007 – Full papers due; 5 August – onsite registrations open; 6-7 August – conference to be held.
The Symposium will be held at the Plano Center in Plano, Texas. Again, according to Mr. Joiner, “both UTD and the Dallas Chapter are Registered Education Providers with PMI, so attendees should receive up to 12 PDUs. Paper presenters can receive five more. The registration fee will only be $399 for the two-day conference, which is reasonably low, so we expect a good turnout.”
Project management experts, leaders and professionals worldwide are invited to email an abstract for presentation of a professional paper on one of the above topics. For more information, contact James Joiner at jamesj@utdallas.edu.
UTD’s Project Management Program provides application-oriented education for professionals with significant project, program or general management responsibilities. Established in the Executive Education center in UTD’s School of Management, students have the option of earning a Certificate in Project Management, a Master of Science degree with an emphasis in project management, or a Master of Business Administration degree with project management emphasis.
The UTD PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is registered with the PMI Registered Education Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. UTD’s PM Program in delivered both on campus and online, and attracts students from across the United States and around the world. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
PMForum.org administers and produces www.pmforum.org and the monthly eJournal PM World Today (www.pmworldtoday.net), and has built up a reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of news and information about professional project management. The contents of the company’s websites are global in both scope and perspective. Some of the world’s leading authorities on modern project management are now associated with PMForum.org as advisors, authors and correspondents. For more information, visit www.pmforum.org.
David L. Pells, Managing Editor, PMForum.org and James Joiner, UTDThe 2 Day event will be the first major project management conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area since the PMI’91 Seminars/Symposium 16 years ago. The UTD conference will focus on topics important to organizations, industries and the economy of North Texas. Proposed Tracks include the following:
Track 1 – PM for Nanotechnology & Semiconductor Development
Track 2 – Project, Program & Portfolio Management
Track 3 – Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Medical & Healthcare Projects
Track 5 – Big PM: Management of large IT Projects
Track 6 – Micro PM: Management of smaller projects
Track 7 – The Role of PM for Corporate Governance
Other Conference Events will include an Opening Ceremony with keynote speakers on Monday morning; a Monday evening reception for attendees, speakers and vendors; and a Closing Panel Discussion of keynote speakers on “The Future of Project Management”. A vendor exhibition is planned, with sponsorships also to be available.
Key Dates include: 15 March 2007 – Abstracts Due; 15 April 2007 – Papers selected; 1 May 2007 – registrations open; 30 June 2007 – Full papers due; 5 August – onsite registrations open; 6-7 August – conference to be held.
Project management experts, leaders and professionals worldwide are invited to email an abstract for presentation of a professional paper on one of the above topics. For more information, contact James Joiner at jamesj@utdallas.edu.
The UTD PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is registered with the PMI Registered Education Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. UTD’s PM Program in delivered both on campus and online, and attracts students from across the United States and around the world. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
PMForum.org administers and produces www.pmforum.org and the monthly eJournal PM World Today (www.pmworldtoday.net), and has built up a reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of news and information about professional project management. The contents of the company’s websites are global in both scope and perspective. Some of the world’s leading authorities on modern project management are now associated with PMForum.org as advisors, authors and correspondents. For more information, visit www.pmforum.org.
