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PMForum has been named a media partner for the ProMAC 2008 project management conference to be held in Anchorage, Alaska during September 15-18, 2008. The ProMAC 2008 conference will be held at Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage. This will be the fourth ProMAC project management conference, following on successful events previously held in Australia, Japan and Singapore.

According to Professor Jang Ra (pictured), Conference Chair, “This is the first international project management conference in Anchorage with high level participation by major Asia and Alaskan organizations. Professor Ali Jaafari at APIC recommended PMForum to us, so we hope they can help spread the word about our symposium. This will be an important event for both the region and our PM program at University Alaska Anchorage.”

The ProMAC 2008 conference will serve as an important forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences to revolutionize today’s project management knowledge and techniques for the future. Special plenary sessions will feature top executives and government officials from the Asia Pacific region who will describe and exchange practices and plans. Paper presentations and workshops will also be held on project management topics of interest to both local organizations and international experts. For details, visit http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/.

ProMAC International Project Management Conferences are promoted through an international partnership of The Society of Project Management (Japan), the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Asia Pacific International College (APIC) in Australia, the University of Alaska Anchorage and other participating academic and professional institutions. ProMAC has been established as a series of international conferences for academia and practicing project managers to gather and interact with each other. Successful ProMAC Conferences have previously been held in Singapore in 2002, Tokyo in 2004 and Sydney in 2006.

The Master of Science in Project Management (MSPM) at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) was officially established in June 2003. On November 3, 2003 the UAA ESPM was accredited by Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities as one of thirteen project management degree programs in the United States and the only one on the west coast. The program began classes in spring 2004 with 20 students and one year later, over 60 students had enrolled in PM classes for the spring 2005 semester. The MSPM program is organized around the nine knowledge areas defined in PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), a globally recognized standard for managing projects in today's marketplace. For more information, visit http://soe.uaa.alaska.edu/espm/index.html.

An official “call for papers”, invitation to exhibitors and other information about the conference have been issued. As a PMForum media partner, the ProMAC 2008 conference will receive a listing and banner ad on PMForum’s global PM Events Calendar, pre-event news coverage of announcements and developments, live breaking news reported directly from location during the event, and post-event reporting. Examples of PMForum media partners and associated articles and news coverage can be seen at http://www.pmforum.org/events/partner_program.htm.

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