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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Nobel Laureate Walesa Opens IPMA World Congress
Reported by Miles Shepherd in Krakow, Poland
Special guest President Lech Walesa, legendary leader of Solidarity Trade Union and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1983, opened the International Project Management Association’s 21st World Congress in Krakow yesterday. Speaking on the theme of managing the Peaceful Revolution, President Walęsa noted this as Poland’s largest, most difficult and most successful project.
President Lech Walesa speaking at IPMA’s World Congress, KrakowWalęsa, President of Poland 1990 – 1995, drew parallels between his experiences as a political leader and the behavior needed of a successful project manager. Key to this in his view is the need to understand the values of all participants in the project and to ensure that as many of them as possible are shared.
Some adjustments must be made by all participants but basic agreement must and can be achieved if the enterprise is to be successful. President Walęsa was speaking at the prestigious Jagiellonian University’s Auditorium Maximum.
Earlier, Stanislaw Sroka (pictured below), Conference Chair and President of SPMP, the Polish Project Management Association, and Chairman of the World Congress welcomed guests and delegates to the Congress. To this was added the welcome of the Mayor of Krakow and an interesting address by the leader of the Regional Parliament who placed the importance of project management in the context of economic transformation. In the case of the region is developing major infrastructure programmes based on transition funding by the European Union.
The second Keynote Speaker was Professor Roland Gareis from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Gareis’ well known handbooks on project management processes have been supplemented by his extensive research on project orientation at various levels of society and business.
The IPMA World Congress is an annual conference that brings together some of the world’s leading project management authorities and experts for paper presentations, panel discussions, speeches and meetings. Hosted each year by one of IPMA’s member professional societies, the IPMA World Congress is often the most global of any PM conference or symposia in the world, with attendees from IPMA member societies plus others. World Congresses often feature opening keynote speeches by famous local industrial, political or social leaders. The 2007 IPMA World Congress is in Krakow, Poland during 18-21 June 2007. The 22nd IPMA 2008 World Congress on Project Management is scheduled for Rome, Italy during November 9-11, 2008.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is a global organization of over 40 national representative societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. National societies serve the needs of individual members in local languages, while IPMA provides an umbrella organization to represent them at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level Project Management Certification Programme continues to grow, with over 50.000 professionals having now achieved IPMA Certification. The IPMA annually presents project management awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular hosting of International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2007-2008 is Veikko Valila Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch.
Special guest President Lech Walesa, legendary leader of Solidarity Trade Union and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1983, opened the International Project Management Association’s 21st World Congress in Krakow yesterday. Speaking on the theme of managing the Peaceful Revolution, President Walęsa noted this as Poland’s largest, most difficult and most successful project.
President Lech Walesa speaking at IPMA’s World Congress, KrakowSome adjustments must be made by all participants but basic agreement must and can be achieved if the enterprise is to be successful. President Walęsa was speaking at the prestigious Jagiellonian University’s Auditorium Maximum.
Earlier, Stanislaw Sroka (pictured below), Conference Chair and President of SPMP, the Polish Project Management Association, and Chairman of the World Congress welcomed guests and delegates to the Congress. To this was added the welcome of the Mayor of Krakow and an interesting address by the leader of the Regional Parliament who placed the importance of project management in the context of economic transformation. In the case of the region is developing major infrastructure programmes based on transition funding by the European Union.
The IPMA World Congress is an annual conference that brings together some of the world’s leading project management authorities and experts for paper presentations, panel discussions, speeches and meetings. Hosted each year by one of IPMA’s member professional societies, the IPMA World Congress is often the most global of any PM conference or symposia in the world, with attendees from IPMA member societies plus others. World Congresses often feature opening keynote speeches by famous local industrial, political or social leaders. The 2007 IPMA World Congress is in Krakow, Poland during 18-21 June 2007. The 22nd IPMA 2008 World Congress on Project Management is scheduled for Rome, Italy during November 9-11, 2008.
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