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IPMA President Brigitte Schaden to open PM-05 Project Management Conference in Greece on 29 June
Reported by Theofanis Giotis in Athens

Brigitte Schaden, President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) will be the opening keynote speaker at the PM-05: Advancing Project Management for the 21st Century, the fifth Project Management Conference in Greece, on 29 May 2010. The conference with the theme "Concepts, Tools & Techniques for Managing Successful Projects" will be held during 29-31 May 2010 at the Moevenpick Resort & Thalasso Hotel in Heraklion, on the historic Mediterranean island of Crete. Brigitte's presentation will be on the topic of "IPMA… Moving Forward!" Conference information at http://2010.pmgreece.gr.

Brigitte Schaden is currently President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), a global federation of national project management societies and the world's first project management professional association. She is also the chair of the Austrian Project Management Association (pma) and working as an international assessor for IPMA´s 4 Level Certification System. She is First Assessor of the Certification Body of Project Management Romania and Greece. She gives international lectures and seminars (conferences, congresses, MBAs). Brigitte is Managing Director, Chief Consultant and Coach of BSConsulting, based in Vienna, Austria.

According to Professor John-Paris Pantouvakis, conference chair for PM-05, "We are honored to again have the IPMA Chair, Brigitte Schaden, as our opening keynote speaker this year. As first female president, Brigitte has led a resurgence in IPMA, which is growing rapidly again this year. We will be happy to see what news and success secrets she shares with us."


Project management professionals and leaders worldwide are invited to attend the conference in Crete, to hear numerous presentations and speeches, and to contribute their knowledge and experience to the success of the event. The conference is aimed at academics, researchers, industrialists, professionals, policy makers, assessors, and certification & funding bodies concerned with projects and programmes in every economic sector. More information can be found at http://pmgreece.gr/content.php?cid=events:scpm5.

PM-05 is being organized by the Centre for Construction Innovation, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), in cooperation with the Network of Project Managers in Greece (PM-Greece), the Scientific Association for the Advancement of Project Management in Greece. http://www.pmgreece.gr/.

Conference Chair is Dr. John - Paris Pantouvakis, Associate Professor, Director of the Department of Construction Engineering & Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, NTUA, Athens, Greece. Prof Pantouvakis is also the president of PM-Greece. Professor Pantouvakis can be contacted at jpp@central.ntua.gr.

PMForum is a Media Partner for this event. To see more news coverage, please visit http://www.pmforum.org/events/2010/PM-05_Advancing_PM_21stCentury.html.


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