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11 Streams of Paper Presentations fill Afternoons of ROMA 2008 World Congress in Rome
Reported live from the IPMA World Congress in Rome
The 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - Project Management to Run, was held during 9-11 November at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome, Italy. The afternoons were full of paper presentations, meetings and discussions. Following keynote presentations, speeches by executives and fascinating panel discussions on Monday and Tuesday mornings, the afternoons included 11 streams professional paper presentations. In total, over 200 papers were presented in Rome.
The general themes of the streams were:
S1 – Time dimension in project management (Adesh Jain, stream chair)
S2 – Complexity in project management (David Dombkins, stream chair)
S3 – Project management for large infrastructure and industrial plants (Nello Uccelletti, stream chair)
S4 – PM in public sectors & projects financed by international institutions (Maurizio Gatti, stream chair)
S5 – Project management in main public events (Maurizio Alessandro, chair)
S6 – Project management in new fields (Mary McKinlay, stream chair)
S7 – New trends in project management (Veikko Valila, stream chair)
S8 – Management by projects in industry (Gilles Caupin, stream chair)
S9 – Project portfolio and business process management (Roland Gareis, chair)
S10 – Project management in history (Miles Shepherd, stream chair)
S11 – Soft skills: education and certification benefits (Brigitte Schaden, chair)
Altogether, approximately 80 papers were presented on Monday afternoon and another 100 on Tuesday. To see the final list of speakers and topics, visit the congress website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
(Photos: Miles Shepherd & David Pells making presentations in Rome)
The local hosts for the ROMA 2008 World Congress – Project Management to Run - were the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Mr. Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Mr. Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Mr. Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is Mr. PierMarco Romagnoli. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 45 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. IPMA’s Annual World Congress is one of the largest and most important gatherings of project management authorities and leaders each year. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila; president-elect for 2009/10 is Brigette Schaden. Additional information about IPMA is available at www.ipma.ch.
Reported live from Rome by David Pells and Nelson Soucek who were covering the IPMA world congress for PMForum, along with a number of PMForum global advisors and international correspondents.
The 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - Project Management to Run, was held during 9-11 November at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome, Italy. The afternoons were full of paper presentations, meetings and discussions. Following keynote presentations, speeches by executives and fascinating panel discussions on Monday and Tuesday mornings, the afternoons included 11 streams professional paper presentations. In total, over 200 papers were presented in Rome.
S1 – Time dimension in project management (Adesh Jain, stream chair)
S2 – Complexity in project management (David Dombkins, stream chair)
S3 – Project management for large infrastructure and industrial plants (Nello Uccelletti, stream chair)
S4 – PM in public sectors & projects financed by international institutions (Maurizio Gatti, stream chair)
S5 – Project management in main public events (Maurizio Alessandro, chair)
S6 – Project management in new fields (Mary McKinlay, stream chair)
S7 – New trends in project management (Veikko Valila, stream chair)
S8 – Management by projects in industry (Gilles Caupin, stream chair)
S9 – Project portfolio and business process management (Roland Gareis, chair)
S10 – Project management in history (Miles Shepherd, stream chair)
S11 – Soft skills: education and certification benefits (Brigitte Schaden, chair)
Altogether, approximately 80 papers were presented on Monday afternoon and another 100 on Tuesday. To see the final list of speakers and topics, visit the congress website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
The local hosts for the ROMA 2008 World Congress – Project Management to Run - were the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Mr. Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Mr. Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Mr. Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is Mr. PierMarco Romagnoli. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
Reported live from Rome by David Pells and Nelson Soucek who were covering the IPMA world congress for PMForum, along with a number of PMForum global advisors and international correspondents.
