PMFORUM Breaking News

Reported by Miles Shepherd in the UK

The Association for Project Management (APM) has announced that Professor Darren Dalcher has been appointed Conference Chair for the 2009 APM Project Management Conference - Delivering Projects Professionally - to be held on Wednesday, 21^st October 2009 at the Brewery in London. The conference will be an interactive forum providing participants with an insight into the development of effective project professionals.

Darren Dalcher (pictured) is Director of the National Centre for Project Management, Professor of Software Project Management at Middlesex University, UK and Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iceland. Professor Dalcher is active in a number of international committees, steering groups and editorial boards. He is heavily involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered numerous keynote addresses and tutorials. Well known throughout the UK's project and programme management communities, he is editor of the Advances in Project Management book series and was listed as one of APM's top ten influential experts in PM in 2008.

The APM conference will address such issues as project sponsorship, training and development, growing the skill-set of project professionals and the benefits of the new Chartered status, which the APM is pursuing. An invitation for speakers and presentations has been issued around these topics. The 2009 conference will also see the annual Awards banquet on the evening of Wednesday, 21 October 2009.

Those interested in attending, or for further information about exhibiting at the conference, should visit www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp or contact conference@apm.org.uk.

The Association for Project Management (APM) is the UK's national body for professional project management. With over 17,500 individual and 500 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad, APM is one of the largest organisations of its kind in Europe. The organisation develops and promotes project management across all sectors of industry and beyond. APM's mission is: "To develop and promote the professional disciplines of project and programme management for the public benefit." APM is the UK member of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). With headquarters in Buckinghamshire, APM has twelve regional branches throughout the UK and one in Hong Kong. More information can be found at www.apm.org.uk.