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Monday, August 06, 2007
1st UTD Project Management Symposium Opens in Texas with Over 200 Attendees
Reported by David Pells and Nelson Soucek in Plano, TX, USA
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium opened today in Plano, Texas with attendance exceeding 200, seven PM vendors, keynote speeches and 12 morning presentations. Alain Bensoussan, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and former Chair of the European Space Agency, was the opening keynote speaker. Dr. Bensoussan’s speech focused on “The Challenges of Uncertainty” and included anecdotes, lessons learned and strategic advice based on his many years of experience in the European aerospace industry and academic research.
Dr. Bensoussan is the Director of the International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis (ICDRiA) at UTD and has an extensive research background in stochastic control, probability and stochastic processes. Alain Bensoussan is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris Dauphine. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1962, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris in 1969. Dr. Bensoussan is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Technology, of the Academia Europae, and the International Academy of Astronautics. He is an IEEE Fellow, and has received the Von Humboldt award as well as the NASA public service medal.
The second keynote speech was by Karen Tate, PMP, Director-at-Large and member of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Karen is also Founder and President of The Griffen Tate Group, an Ohio-based project management consulting firm that provides consulting, training, facilitation and course development. Karen’s presentation was on the topic of “Project Management as a Strategic Competency”.
A PMI member since 1991, she has been a frequent speaker and presenter at PMI chapter meetings, conferences and SeminarsWorld® programs around the world. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and has a BS in finance and an MBA from Xavier Univerity in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen has also been a frequent contributor of articles and was a former columnist for PM Network®, served as a PMI Project of the Year judge, and was a member of the PMI Education Member Advisory Group. She has been chair of the External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee (ERVI) of the PMI Board of Directors since 2005.
David Pells, PM Forum; Jim Joiner, UTD; Dwaraka Iyengar, PMI DallasAccording to Jim Joiner, conference chair and director of UTD’s graduate program in project management, “we are very pleased with the turnout today. The opening speeches by Professor Bensoussan and Karen Tate were excellent. Now if the rest of the day goes so well, we will have a successful first conference this year.”
Other speakers on Monday morning included Russell Martinelli, Garrett Haggerty, Thomas Shubnell, Harry Rever, Mark Kozak-Holland, Roy Pool, Curt Raschke, Rene’ Le Bel, A Matt Piazza, Terry Brunenn, Bhavin Shukla, Sue Friedman, Lothar Katz and Ram Garg. Copies of their papers and presentations will be available on the UTD conference website.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium was held on Monday 6 August 2007, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., at the Plano Convention Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, Texas, USA. The 1 day symposium featured speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks:
Track 1 – Program & Portfolio Management
Track 2 – Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor
Track 3 – Software Development & Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Product Development, including small projects
Track 5 – The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance
Track 6 – Project Management in the Global Economy
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), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project). Co-sponsors include the PMI Dallas Chapter (www.pmidallas.org) and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium is now being planned for August 2008, which is expected to be approximately twice as large as this year’s event.
Copies of their presentations and papers will soon be posted and available at the UTD conference website at:
http://som.utdallas.edu/project/project-symp.htm and at: http://www.pmforum.org/library/presentations/index.htm.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium opened today in Plano, Texas with attendance exceeding 200, seven PM vendors, keynote speeches and 12 morning presentations. Alain Bensoussan, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and former Chair of the European Space Agency, was the opening keynote speaker. Dr. Bensoussan’s speech focused on “The Challenges of Uncertainty” and included anecdotes, lessons learned and strategic advice based on his many years of experience in the European aerospace industry and academic research.
A PMI member since 1991, she has been a frequent speaker and presenter at PMI chapter meetings, conferences and SeminarsWorld® programs around the world. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and has a BS in finance and an MBA from Xavier Univerity in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen has also been a frequent contributor of articles and was a former columnist for PM Network®, served as a PMI Project of the Year judge, and was a member of the PMI Education Member Advisory Group. She has been chair of the External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee (ERVI) of the PMI Board of Directors since 2005.
David Pells, PM Forum; Jim Joiner, UTD; Dwaraka Iyengar, PMI DallasOther speakers on Monday morning included Russell Martinelli, Garrett Haggerty, Thomas Shubnell, Harry Rever, Mark Kozak-Holland, Roy Pool, Curt Raschke, Rene’ Le Bel, A Matt Piazza, Terry Brunenn, Bhavin Shukla, Sue Friedman, Lothar Katz and Ram Garg. Copies of their papers and presentations will be available on the UTD conference website.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium was held on Monday 6 August 2007, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., at the Plano Convention Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, Texas, USA. The 1 day symposium featured speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks:
Track 1 – Program & Portfolio Management
Track 2 – Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor
Track 3 – Software Development & Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Product Development, including small projects
Track 5 – The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance
Track 6 – Project Management in the Global Economy
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), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project). Co-sponsors include the PMI Dallas Chapter (www.pmidallas.org) and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium is now being planned for August 2008, which is expected to be approximately twice as large as this year’s event.
Copies of their presentations and papers will soon be posted and available at the UTD conference website at:
http://som.utdallas.edu/project/project-symp.htm and at: http://www.pmforum.org/library/presentations/index.htm.
