PMFORUM Breaking News

Early registration is now open for the 3^rd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium, to be held August 13-14, 2009 on The University of Texas at Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas. The conference is being sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management (PM) in the School of Management's Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas, in partnership with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) and PMForum. The theme of this year's UT Dallas Project Management Symposium will be "Managing in a Changing World".

Project managers and PM experts, leaders and professionals living and working in North Texas are invited to register now for this major regional project management conference. The 2009 UT Dallas PM Symposium is expected to include five keynotes, 40 speakers, 300+ participants and numerous networking opportunities. Participating PMI members will receive up to 16 professional development units (PDUs) for PMP recertification. Early registration is $425 per person. For information or to register, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/graduate/execed/projectMgmtProg/projSymposium/.

According to James Joiner (pictured), Director of the Project Management Program at The UT Dallas, "We have several exciting keynote speakers this year, including recently-retired NASA astronaut Jim Reilly, a UT Dallas alumni. We have also had a great response to our call for papers, so we will have two full days of excellent presentations and topics. We are encouraging everyone to take advantage of early registration to get the best price, especially in today's stressful economy where a dollar needs to go further."

The 2 Day Project Management Symposium will include an Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speakers, professional presentations and discussions on a variety of topics, panel discussions, lunches and coffee breaks, a Thursday evening networking reception, and a closing keynote address. The Symposium will be held on the UT Dallas Campus, in the School of Management, a state-of-the-art facility with audio-visual and multi-media technologies in each room. Sponsorship opportunities are also available; for information, contact pmsymposium@utdallas.edu.

The symposium will be sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), in cooperation with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) and PMForum, Inc. Both the PMI Dallas Chapter and UT Dallas are registered education providers with PMI, so attendees will receive PDUs for PMP recertification.

The Project Management Program at UT Dallas provides application-oriented education for professionals with significant project, program or general management responsibilities. Established in the Executive Education Center in The UT Dallas' School of Management, students have the option of earning a Certificate in Project Management, a Master of Science degree with an emphasis in project management, or a Master of Business Administration degree with project management emphasis.

The UT Dallas PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) and is registered with the PMI Registered Education Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. UTD's PM Program in delivered both on campus and online, and attracts students from across the USA and worldwide. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.

The PMI Dallas Chapter is a volunteer-based professional association dedicated to supporting the growth and development of project management practitioners, as well as building awareness of the project management discipline and its critical role in business and organization success. With more than 250,000 members in over 160 countries, the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) is the world's leading membership association for project management. Founded in 1984 and with over 4,000 members, the PMI Dallas Chapter is one of the world's largest PMI components. To learn more about the PMI Dallas Chapter and its service offerings, visit www.pmidallas.org

Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world's first website devoted to professional project management and is still one of the world's most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and stories by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. Through its Events Partnering Program, PMForum helps develop and support major PM events worldwide. For information, visit http://www.pmforum.org/events/partner_program.htm.