PMFORUM Breaking News

Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ) has selected PMForum to promote and report about their 2008 International Symposium to the global professional community. PMForum announced on Monday, 14 November that it has been named “Media Partner” for the International Project & Program Management Symposium Tokyo 2008, to be held in Tokyo, Japan during the 10th and 11th of March 2008. This will be the second International Symposium hosted by PMAJ and is expected to be the largest project management conference in Japan next year.

According to Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka (pictured), President of PMAJ, “PMForum is the world’s best known independent source of project management news and information. We expect this relationship to provide much more exposure and visibility for our international symposium. We will be especially grateful for their live news coverage directly from our Symposium in Tokyo; the fact that David Pells, CEO of PMForum and many of the Advisors on its editorial board will come and join us in Tokyo demonstrates how highly we value PMForum.”

The Tokyo symposium is expected to prove “project management as new economic infrastructure and a driver for social development and transformation.” With a slate of globally recognized speakers, the symposium has been organized in collaboration with leaders from the global project management community and will be supported by major Japanese corporations and government agencies. The symposium will focus on the following topics, among others:

• New domains of project management, including program management and portfolio management


• Organizational pursuit of project management value and governance


• Major project cases


• Building the future of project management

The Symposium will be conducted on 10 and 11 March 2008 at Tower Hall, Funabori, Tokyo, Japan with participants from 20 or more countries. The sponsoring organization is PMAJ, with full support expected from the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry and the Engineering Advancement Society of Japan, plus other leading Japanese public organizations. The Symposium Project Director is Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka, President, PMAJ; the symposium project manager is Mr. Tetsuhiro Yamane, Vice President, PMAJ. For more information about the 2008 International Symposium in Tokyo, visit http://www.pmaj.or.jp/.

As a PMForum media partner, PMAJ will receive banner ad promotion on PMForum web pages; listing in PMForum’s online Events Calendar, pre-event news coverage of announcements and developments, live breaking news coverage directly from location during the event, and post-event reporting. Examples of PMForum partnering efforts and media coverage can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/events/partner_program.htm.

PMAJ is the National Project Management Association of Japan, born in 2005 thorough the integration of two project management bodies, Japan Project Management Forum (JPMF – pioneer of Japan’s project management society) and Project Management Professionals Certification Center (PMCC). PMAJ has 3,000 individual and 110 corporate members from all branches of the Japanese industry and governmental agencies. PMAJ offers its own standard “The Guidebook of Project and Program Management for Enterprise Innovation – P2M” and P2M based certification system. For more information, visit http://www.pmaj.or.jp/.

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