Reported by Theofanis Giotis in AthensBrigitte
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.