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The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management – ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run – have announced their keynote speakers for the November World Congress. Project and programme mangers worldwide are invited to Rome during 9-11 November 2008 for an unforgettable projet management experience, and to hear the following keynote speakers.

Prof. Lynn Crawford, Professor of Project Management at the Bond University, Australia, and at the ESC of Lille, France and one of the world leading project management thinkers - “Project Management for a Faster Tomorrow”

Prof. Roland Gareis, Head of Department Projekt Management Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria and globally recognized for his resear on the topic of project based society - “Change Management and Projects”

Mary McKinlay, Vice President IPMA, Adjunct Professor Management ESC, Lille, France and globally recognized project management advisor in the UK - “Where is project management running to...?”

Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman Techint Group of Companies, senior executive of a global group of companies and businesses - “Project Management of human resources in a globalised group”

Toni Ruttiman, "el Suizo", “the Swiss”, an extraordinary forty year old Project Manager, Swiss citizen and polyglot - a man who has built 360 bridges around the world following natural disasters, wars and other calamaties

Kenneth Sheely, Deputy Director of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) at the United States Department of Energy (DOE), one of the world’s most important security programmes – Project Management techniques applied to a worldwide challenge: “Reducing the Global Threat of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism

The IPMA 22^nd World Congress on Project Management will be held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008. According to the “ROMA 2008 – Project Management to Run” project team, with keynote speeches and 12 streams of presentations over three days, as many as 200 presentations on important project management topics can be anticipated.

The congress is expected to attract leading project management authorities and over 1,000 participants from the 45+ countries represented by IPMA membership. The Roma 2008 World Congress will be one of the largest project management events in the world this year. The 22nd IPMA World Congress and Exhibition will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi near the heart of downtown Rome. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.

The local hosts for the ROMA 2008 World Congress are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is PierMarco Romagnoli.

Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve each country in its national language. IPMA provides an umbrella organization at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level PM Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch.