PMFORUM Breaking News

The Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ) has announced that David Pells, PMI Fellow and Managing Editor at PMForum, will be Master of Ceremonies for the opening of the “International Project & Program Management Symposium Tokyo 2008 – In pursuit of organizational project management value.” The two-day symposium will be held in Tokyo, Japan during 10-11 March 2008.

The symposium will be conducted on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th March 2008 at Tower Hall, Funabori, Tokyo, Japan, with delegates expected from 20 or more countries. The sponsoring organization is PMAJ, with full support expected from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and The Engineering Advancement Association of Japan, plus other major 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, visit http://www.pmaj.or.jp/ENG/PPM2008/.

According to David Pells (pictured), “This is a tremendous honor and I look forward to the event in Tokyo. The Tokyo 2008 Symposium should be one of the most important project management conferences in the world this year. The keynote speakers are all high level Japanese executives or globally recognized project management leaders. All are strategic thinkers. I look forward to contributing!”

David will act as Master of Ceremony for the inaugural session that opens the symposium on March 10 and will be Chair of the first Keynote session. During the opening ceremony, he will introduce Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka, the symposium director, and a special representative from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese government, who will welcome delegates from around the world. During the first keynote session, David will introduce Mr. Jitsuro Terashima, Managing Director of Mitsui & Company and President of Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute.

According to Symposium Project Director Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka, “David Pells is well known throughout the world of professional project management. His recent work with PMForum and PM World Today has gained widespread recognition. We wanted a well known character from the media to open our symposium, and David offered to provide this important service. We expect it to be perfect!”

The March 2008 symposium will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Japan’s foundation of the professional project management society and will demonstrate “project management as new economic infrastructure and a driver for social development and transformation”. The symposium is being supported by major Japanese corporations and government agencies, including the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI).

The national Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ) was born in 2005 thorough the integration of the 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/.