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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Professor Pierre Bonnal of CERN to deliver keynote speech at May 2009 EVM World Project Performance Management Conference in Florida
The PMI College of Performance Management (PMI-CPM) has announced that Professor Pierre Bonnal, CERN executive and head of Business Administration at Haute Ecole de Gestion in Geneva, Switzerland, will deliver a keynote speech at the EVM World 2009 Project Performance Management Conference being held in May 2009. The PMI-CPM's 25th Annual International Earned Value Management (EVM) conference, EVM World 2009 Project Performance Management Conference, will be held at the Naples Grande Resort Hotel in Naples, Florida, USA during 27-29 May 2009.

Professor Pierre Bannal (pictured at right) holds a mechanical engineering degree from l'Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tarbes and another in industrial engineering from the newly renamed Ecole Centrale of Marseilles. He holds a M.Sc. in project management from the University of Quebec and a Ph.D. in industrial management from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. He is a newly appointed professor with a solid industrial background, having worked at Airbus Industrie, Fatigue Technology Inc., Doris Engineering, Areva-SGN, and Switzerland-based CERN. His academic fields of interest are project management and governance, front-end project management (feasibility analyses), project risk management, innovation and R&D management, and corporate strategy and governance.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research and is credited as the birthplace of the World Wide Web. In his presentation, you'll learn about one of the world's largest particle accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider, and other extraordinary programs currently underway at CERN and how earned value management and
collaboration plays a critical role in groundbreaking scientific discovery.

EVM World 2009 will be one of the best opportunities in the world this year to learn more about project performance management techniques, including EVM. The conference will provide professional education training seminars and workshops, presentations on current topics from practicing professionals, updates from US federal government agencies, access to world leaders in project performance management, networking and the latest in software and consulting services.

If you are involved with earned value, performance management or governmental projects and programs, don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best, meet world leaders in this field, and advance your careers. Participants can also earn PDUs for PMP recertification. For information or to register, visit www.pmi-cpm.org



The PMI College of Performance Management (PMI-CPM) is a knowledge-based component of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), the world's largest professional organization for project management. PMI-CPM was originally established as the Performance Management Association, but became the first college of PMI in 1999. PMI-CPM is an international, non-profit professional organization dedicated to the disciplines of project management and performance measurement. The organization assists earned value professionals and project managers with professional growth, and promotes the application of earned value management globally. PMI-CPM is a growing body of professionals dedicated to managing projects on time and on budget. Visit www.pmi-cpm.org

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