PMFORUM Breaking News

Reported by Miles Shepherd in the UK

The Association for Project Management (APM) has named PMForum as a Media Partner for their 2009 national Project Management Conference - Delivering Projects Professionally - to be held on Wednesday, 21^st October 2009 at The Brewery in London.

The APM Project Management Conference 2009 will provide an interactive forum for participants to discuss such topics as project sponsorship, training and development, growing a professional skill-set, 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 include APM's annual awards banquet on Wednesday evening, 21 October. For more information, visit https://www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp.

As a media partner, APM will receive publicity on PMForum web pages including listing in PMForum's global Events Calendar, pre-event news coverage of announcements and developments, live breaking news reported directly from location during the event, and post-event reporting. Examples of PMForum's event media coverage can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/events/partner_program.htm.

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 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, APM has twelve regional branches throughout the UK and one in Hong Kong. More information can be found at www.apm.org.uk.