PMFORUM Breaking News

The ZPM International Expert Seminar (ZPM Ex-Se) will be held on 4 June 2008, as part of the traditional ZPM Project Management Annual Forum, scheduled for 4-6 June 2008 in Terme Radenci, Slovenia. The ZPM Expert Symposium is an event for industrial researchers and experts to come together, collaborate, discuss and create strategies with industry representatives from different countries inside and outside the Central European Region. The seminar is FREE to all!

The main focus of the ZPM Ex-Se 2008 will be “SMEs Production Networks & Open Sourced Software”.

The agenda will include:

1. SMEs Production Networks,


2. Project Based Production and Business Networks,


3. Open Sourced Software Solutions,


4. Case Study – Tool East Solution,


5. Round table session

Announced participants so far include: Dr. Brane Semolic (P&TMI, TCS, Slovenia), Ali Imtiaz (FIR, Germany), Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge (BIBA, Germany), Margherita Forcolin (INSIEL, Italy), Ivan Popov (IT Partners, Bulgaria), Mitja Jermol (IJS, Slovenia), Anton Zlicar (TCS, Slovenia), Drago Trebeznik (Quintelligence, Slovenia), Tone Sagadin (TCS, Slovenia).

The ZPM IAF will be a half-day event (14:00 – 18:00) and will be relevant for SMEs with project-based production, production management experts, organizational experts, IT experts, business consultants and as well as managers and end-users. ZPM Ex-Se venue: Terme Radenci, HOTEL RADIN, Slovenia, http://www.terme-radenci.si/

Co-organizers of the ZPM Ex-Se 2008 include the Project and Technology Management Institute (P&TMI), University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics, Mariborska c.2, 3000 Celje; Toolmakers Cluster of Slovenia (TCS), Kidričeva 25, 3000 Celje; and the Tool East Consortia. EU IST Project Tool East (No. IST-FP6-027802), http://www.tooleast.org/. The event is supported by the Project Management Association of Slovenia (ZPM), International Project Management Association (IPMA) the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC).

The Chairman for the ZPM Ex-Se is Dr. Brane Semolic, Head of Project & Technology Management Institute, President of the ZPM Experts Council, IPMA Research Management Board Chairman, brane.semoli@siol.net
, GSM +386 40 821 280. Other contacts include Dr. Iztok Palcic at Iztok.palcic@uni-mb.si and Nina Skrabl at nina.skrabl@toolscluster.net.