Following the success of the Golf tournament held on the occasion of the 21
st IPMA World Congress (Cracow 2007) - evidence of the likeness between project management and golf philosophies of strategic games - the organizers of Roma 22
nd World Congress have announced that an Open Golf Cup 2008 tournament is now planned for 8
th November 2008. The tournament will be held at the Sheraton Golf Parco de' Medici Hotel & Resort in Rome.
In its magnificent grounds, located some 15 minutes from the Congress venue, you will have an 18-hole master class golf course as well as a 9-hole executive course, plus a Driving Range along with related hotel and restaurants on the premises.
In addition to the tournament, the Sheraton Golf will welcome the Delegates in other pre- and post-Congress days offering course availability at a very special fee. For more information about the course and resort, visit
www.golfparcodemedici.com.
The IPMA 22
nd World Congress on Project Management,
"ROMA 2008 - Project Management to Run", will be held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008. The congress will include keynote speeches, professional presentations with discussions on important project management topics, and an international exhibition of project management products and services. Over 1,000 participants from the 45+ countries represented by IPMA membership are expected to attend, making it one of the largest project management events in the world this year.
The 22
nd 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 an international federation of more than 45 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. Additional information is available at
www.ipma.ch.