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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Mary McKinlay to Deliver Keynote Speech at 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome in November
The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run - has announced that Mary McKinlay will deliver a keynote speech at the November congress. Mary McKinlay is a Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and Managing Director of Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd., UK. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at ESC Lille in France. The title for Mary's speech is "Where is project management running to...?".
Mary McKinlay has been involved in project management for over 28 years as practitioner, researcher and trainer. Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career working on the Tornado aircraft project and subsequently has worked on many large programmes, from civil aircraft to submarines. A further dimension was added by work on research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics. Mary is a regular contributor to conferences in UK and overseas and presents on a wide range of PM topics.
Mary served on the Council of the Association for Project Management (APM, UK) from 2001 until 2006. She was an APM delegate to the International Project Management Association until her election as Vice President last year. Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, she has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards in 2004 and Lead Assessor in 2005 and 2006. Mary also delivers Assessor Training for the Awards. For the past five years she has been a Judge for the APM, UK Project Awards. Mary is an active member of IoD Kent and a Governor of the University of Greenwich. She is also a member of the PM Ambassadors™ Speakers Bureau and speaks at PM events worldwide. (http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm#McKinlay)
According to her abstract, "The face of Project Management is changing. The application of project management techniques is being seen in a wider context than ever before. It is recognised that the tools and techniques form just a part of the skills required to manage projects successfully. Indeed Project Management and it’s related disciplines, Programme and Portfolio Management, are out of the starting gate and are running throughout the World, not just in the traditional fields of Engineering and Construction. Project Management has been declared to be a “Life Skill” by a British Prime Minister. Research on the Project Oriented Nation is looking at PM Education as one of the characteristics. Project Management now has serious Higher Education Courses in it’s own right instead of being simply regarded as an optional module to add on to another discipline. There is a lively debate about whether or not Project Management is a profession on the one hand and in the UK the Association for Project Management (APM) is seeking to become a Royal Chartered Institution. Where is it all going and how can we go with it and play a full part in the development of our world."
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.
Mary served on the Council of the Association for Project Management (APM, UK) from 2001 until 2006. She was an APM delegate to the International Project Management Association until her election as Vice President last year. Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, she has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards in 2004 and Lead Assessor in 2005 and 2006. Mary also delivers Assessor Training for the Awards. For the past five years she has been a Judge for the APM, UK Project Awards. Mary is an active member of IoD Kent and a Governor of the University of Greenwich. She is also a member of the PM Ambassadors™ Speakers Bureau and speaks at PM events worldwide. (http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm#McKinlay)
According to her abstract, "The face of Project Management is changing. The application of project management techniques is being seen in a wider context than ever before. It is recognised that the tools and techniques form just a part of the skills required to manage projects successfully. Indeed Project Management and it’s related disciplines, Programme and Portfolio Management, are out of the starting gate and are running throughout the World, not just in the traditional fields of Engineering and Construction. Project Management has been declared to be a “Life Skill” by a British Prime Minister. Research on the Project Oriented Nation is looking at PM Education as one of the characteristics. Project Management now has serious Higher Education Courses in it’s own right instead of being simply regarded as an optional module to add on to another discipline. There is a lively debate about whether or not Project Management is a profession on the one hand and in the UK the Association for Project Management (APM) is seeking to become a Royal Chartered Institution. Where is it all going and how can we go with it and play a full part in the development of our world."
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.
