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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
With Great Success Begins the PMI Global Congress - Latin America at Sao Paulo, Brazil
Reported by Ana Maria Rodriguez in Sao Paulo
With the presence of more than 1,000 Project Managers the PMI Global Congress 2008- Latin America was officially opened on Monday 11 August by Mr. Gregory Balestrero, president and chief officer executive officer of PMI. As mentioned by Mr. Balestrero, this is the largest PMI Global Congress outside the USA ever. The congress has been totally sold out for the last weeks, more than 500 Project Managers were not able to register due to the overwhelming respond to PMI's invitation. Most of the attendees come from different cities in Brazil, a country where PMI has 13 chapters. Professionals from other countries in the region have also joined the congress, with great enthusiasm to learn about Brazil’s state-of-the-art Project Management Best Practices and also about practices in other Latin American countries.
Mr. Balestrero’s presentation emphasized the increasing need for talented Project Managers and in contrast, the low availability of experienced professionals. According to his words, good PMs are highly required in markets such as China, Middle East and India. Therefore, management should make an extraordinary effort to maintain employees in order to guarantee resources for good projects.
Mr. Ricardo Viana Vargas (pictured at left), member of the PMI Board of Directors and chair of PMI’s Strategic Planning Committee, who also resides in Brazil, welcomed attendees with some words on the importance of sustainability for business in Latin America. According to Mr. Vargas, this means keeping the good resources in the region by investing on their development.
Mr. Ramiro Garcés, Vice President of Human Resources for the Latin American region of Kimberly-Clark Corporation lectured the opening general session as a keynote speaker. Mr. Garcés also emphatized the need to form a winning culture at working places. Mr. Garcés was born in Medellín, Colombia, and held various leadership roles with several multinational companies before joining Kimberly-Clark.
Meninos do Morumbi, a group of kids and teenagers from the city welcomed visitors with a great show of brazilian music. The cheery spirit of Brazil touched all assistants with this musical spectacle.
The congress offers attendees more than 60 educational presentations within 13 areas of focus to meet a variety of career development paths. Today’s presentations included a broad variety of topics, from information on PMI’s new credentials (speaker: Steve Gazurian), the implementation of a PMO at Motorola Mexico (Speakers, Rivera and Danneker), the GovSIG standard for Communication Planning (spealer: Diana Jonas), and others. A presentation from Mr. Michael O’Brochta PMP on Great Project Managers was particularly interesting, probably because as he says "Project Management is about applying common sense with uncommon discipline".
The three-day event is being hold at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Sao Paulo and will continue until Wednesday August 13th.
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With the presence of more than 1,000 Project Managers the PMI Global Congress 2008- Latin America was officially opened on Monday 11 August by Mr. Gregory Balestrero, president and chief officer executive officer of PMI. As mentioned by Mr. Balestrero, this is the largest PMI Global Congress outside the USA ever. The congress has been totally sold out for the last weeks, more than 500 Project Managers were not able to register due to the overwhelming respond to PMI's invitation. Most of the attendees come from different cities in Brazil, a country where PMI has 13 chapters. Professionals from other countries in the region have also joined the congress, with great enthusiasm to learn about Brazil’s state-of-the-art Project Management Best Practices and also about practices in other Latin American countries.
Mr. Ramiro Garcés, Vice President of Human Resources for the Latin American region of Kimberly-Clark Corporation lectured the opening general session as a keynote speaker. Mr. Garcés also emphatized the need to form a winning culture at working places. Mr. Garcés was born in Medellín, Colombia, and held various leadership roles with several multinational companies before joining Kimberly-Clark.
The congress offers attendees more than 60 educational presentations within 13 areas of focus to meet a variety of career development paths. Today’s presentations included a broad variety of topics, from information on PMI’s new credentials (speaker: Steve Gazurian), the implementation of a PMO at Motorola Mexico (Speakers, Rivera and Danneker), the GovSIG standard for Communication Planning (spealer: Diana Jonas), and others. A presentation from Mr. Michael O’Brochta PMP on Great Project Managers was particularly interesting, probably because as he says "Project Management is about applying common sense with uncommon discipline".
The three-day event is being hold at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Sao Paulo and will continue until Wednesday August 13th.
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