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Techint Chair Gianfelice Rocca to keynote IPMA Congress in Rome
The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run - has announced that Dr. Gianfelice Rocca will be a keynote speaker for the November congress. Dr. Rocca is Chairman of the Techint Group of Companies, Vice President of Confindustria and on the boards of directors of a number of other Italian and international organizations.
After graduating from the University of Milan with a degree in physics, Gianfelice Rocca completed his studies at Harvard Business School in Boston. He joined the Techint Group in 1974 and in 1981 he was appointed managing director of Techint SpA with sole responsibility for the company’s activities in Europe and Mexico. In 1997 he became president of the holding company owning the Techint Group.
The Techint Group is a world leader in steelmaking, energy and infrastructures, working with more than 100 companies the world over, controlling assets worth more than 26 billion dollars, and employing 60,000 people. The principal companies in the group are
Gianfelice Rocca is also vice president of Confindustria, where he is responsible for Education. He sits on the board of a number of other companies. At the international level, he is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Harvard Business School’s European Advisory Board, the Aspen Institute’s executive committee and the Advisory Board of the Allianz Group.
At the 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, as the key-note speaker, Dr. Rocca will speak on the topic of “Project Management of human resources in a globalised group.”
According to the abstract, “Quality human resources are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, just like energy and raw materials. A highly globalised international group with more than 60,000 employees therefore needs to plan its resources and their training sufficiently in advance on the basis of the organization’s strategic requirements. For a number of years the Techint Group has had a policy of hiring talented young people on the basis of a curve which anticipates growth in the group’s lines of business and which draws on the cultural diversity of the countries in which the Group works. A strong focus on local culture and a global business strategy requiring managers who have attended postgraduate programmes in an international context are the two key aspects or goals of the human resources project. This way of proceeding permits preparation of training plans to ensure that the Group has well-prepared, strongly motivated human resources available exactly when they are required by business plans.”
The IPMA 22nd 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.
The Techint Group is a world leader in steelmaking, energy and infrastructures, working with more than 100 companies the world over, controlling assets worth more than 26 billion dollars, and employing 60,000 people. The principal companies in the group are
- Tenaris, a world leader in the production of steel pipes and a supplier of related services for the petroleum and natural gas, automotive and large-scale plants industries;
- Ternium, a leader on the American continent in the production of flat steel products;
- Techint E&C, concerned with design and construction of electrical power stations, pipelines, petrochemical plants, transmission lines and large-scale infrastructure projects; and
- Tenova, a world-wide steelmaking technologies company engaged in exploration, extraction and distribution of oil & gas in Latin America.
Gianfelice Rocca is also vice president of Confindustria, where he is responsible for Education. He sits on the board of a number of other companies. At the international level, he is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Harvard Business School’s European Advisory Board, the Aspen Institute’s executive committee and the Advisory Board of the Allianz Group.
At the 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, as the key-note speaker, Dr. Rocca will speak on the topic of “Project Management of human resources in a globalised group.”
According to the abstract, “Quality human resources are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, just like energy and raw materials. A highly globalised international group with more than 60,000 employees therefore needs to plan its resources and their training sufficiently in advance on the basis of the organization’s strategic requirements. For a number of years the Techint Group has had a policy of hiring talented young people on the basis of a curve which anticipates growth in the group’s lines of business and which draws on the cultural diversity of the countries in which the Group works. A strong focus on local culture and a global business strategy requiring managers who have attended postgraduate programmes in an international context are the two key aspects or goals of the human resources project. This way of proceeding permits preparation of training plans to ensure that the Group has well-prepared, strongly motivated human resources available exactly when they are required by business plans.”
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.
