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Not since the 1750s with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution has the basic fabric of society been so fundamentally impacted. The way we live, the way we do business, the very structures of our organizations are undergoing change – rapid change on a global scale. Those hierarchies that resist change will flounder and perish. The early adapters will embrace change; lead the revolution and choose project management as the framework to facilitate change for their organizations.
We are on the threshold of the next revolution – the Age of Wisdom, after Information and Knowledge. What is your entrance strategy?

Over the last six years, industry practitioners, academicians and government officials worldwide have been attending ProMAC conferences to find such solutions. ProMAC 2008, “Project Management Leading Managerial Revolutions”, will be held at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska during September 15-18, 2008. This conference is a result of enthusiastic participation in previous conferences in Singapore, Japan, and Australia.

The 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 featuring top executives and government officials will be held to exchange their practices and plans. Numerous paper presentations and workshops will be held. For details, visit http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/.

According to the conference organizers, the following will find value and should plan to attend:

• Senior executives


• Program managers and managers of project managers


• Project managers and other project team members


• Members of a project management office


• Customers and other stakeholders


• Functional managers with employees assigned to project teams


• Educators teaching project and related subjects


• Consultants and other specialists in project management and related fields


• Trainers developing project management educational programs


• Researchers analyzing project management

The ProMAC 2008 conference host and lead sponsor is the Masters of Science program in Project Management (MSPM) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Other sponsors include the PMI Anchorage Alaska Chapter, the Society of Project Management (Japan), Asia Pacific International College (Australia), Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), Alaska Airlines, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company , ASRC Energy Systems, British Petroleum (BP), ConocoPhillips, CH2MHill, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Hawk Consultants LLC, NANA Development Corporation, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The general conference co-chairs are Dr. Jang Ra, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA (Chair); Prof. Ali Jaafari, Asia Pacific International College, Australia; Dr. Osamu Ohno, Society of Project Management, Japan; and Prof. Khim Teck Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The Project Manager is Danny Elmore, University of Alaska Anchorage.