Featured Events - October 2006
- Pells to Keynote International PM Event in São Paulo, Brazil
- Real Maestro to Conduct at PMI International Seminarin São Paulo, Brazil
- 7th Beneluxday PM Conference Quickly Approaching
- IRNOP VII Project Management Conference to be Held in Xi'an, China,
11-13 October 2006 - Lester Thurow to Keynote PMI North American Congress in Seattle
Pells to Keynote International PM Event in São Paulo, Brazil
David Pells, managing editor of www.pmforum.org and PM World Today, has been added to the list of keynote speakers for the VI International Project Management Seminar to be held in São Paulo, Brazil during 4-6 October 2006. The event is expected to attract over 700 attendees for a 3-day program exploring the theme "Project Management: bound for the next frontiers". The sponsor for the Seminar is the São Paulo Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®)
Mr. Pells' presentation will be entitled "The Third Wave Revisited - How trends in society are propelling the growth of modern project management". According to Mr. Pells, "It has become clear to me that modern project management can provide a perfect solution for many organizations today that are responding to business, economic and social trends around the world. Many of these trends were, in fact, predicted by Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave, published in 1980. It occurred to me that this is one of the reasons that project management has grown so rapidly in IT and high technology industries in recent years, and for the accelerating globalization of the PM profession. "
In addition to his managing editor positions, David Pells is president and CEO of iWorld Projects & Systems, Inc., a public US corporation. A past member of the PMI board of directors, Mr. Pells won PMI's person of the year award in 1998 and was named a PMI Fellow in 1999. He is also former Chair of the Global Project Management Forum Steering Committee and is well known around the world of project management.
Sponsored by the São Paulo chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), the VI Project Management International Seminar will take place in October, from 4th to 6th in São Paulo, Brazil. Last year the audience surpassed 500 and, this year, the sixth edition of the annual seminar expects to receive 700 attendees.
In addition to Mr. Pells, other keynote speakers will be Mr. Antonio Campello, executive of Embraer, the biggest aircraft company in Brazil; Mr. Luiz Bairão, director of Microsiga, a leading ERP company; and Mr. Gilles Caupin, former president and chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and of the French project management association AFITEP.
Siemens and Promon are key industrial sponsors of the event. Attendees can receive 18 professional development units (PDUs). For more information, visit the seminar's web site: www.pmisp.org.br/viseminario.
Reported by Alcides Santopietro
correspondent in Brazil for www.pmforum.org
Real Maestro to Conduct at PMI International Seminar
in São Paulo, Brazil
Almost everyone who takes a training course in Project Management is solicited to associate the role of a project manager leading a project with the role of a Maestro conducting an orchestra.
Both the project manager and the maestro need to reach an objective through the work of the players (would they be the team members?), who are specialists in different areas (or should we say musical instruments?) and need someone’s upper vision of the whole endeavor to keep it under control. Many other similarities can still be found in the work of an orchestra’s maestro and a project manager.
The organization team of the VI International Project Management Seminar, event to be held next week in São Paulo, Brazil, is gifting the audience with a real maestro, to literally present how a project can be conducted as an orchestra.
Maestro Walter Lourenção is his name. Accumulating experience as artistic director of MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Art Museum of São Paulo), as radio and TV programs presenter and as conductor of the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo. For 15 years he's been enriching organizational events around Brazil with his presentation, where he associates different skills and aspects of their organizational lives with challenges present in the conduction of an orchestra.
Invited by Project Management Institute São Paulo Chapter (PMI-SP®), he, accompanied by his orchestra, will delight the audience of the seminar with pieces of plays, interacting with the attendees explaining the different aspects of the conduction of an orchestra, always associating them with the project management daily challenges. Topics like people management, leadership and project control are going to be musically discussed at his presentation, that will close-up the seminar on its third day.
The VI Project Management International Seminar will take place on October, from 4th to 6th in São Paulo, Brazil; this sixth edition of the annual seminar expects to receive 700 attendees.
This year the event brings new speakers, such as Mr. David Pells, PMI Fellow and President of iWorld Projects & Systems, Mr. Gilles Caupin, Chairman of IPMA Certification Management Board, Mr. Elcio Anibal de Lucca, President of Serasa S/A.
Siemens, KPMG, Promon, Microsoft, ESI International and Grupo A&C are key sponsors of the event, that will grant 18 PDUs to attending PMPs. For more information, visit the seminar's web site: http://www.pmisp.org.br/viseminario.
Reported by Alcides Santopietro
correspondent in Brazil for www.pmforum.org
7TH Beneluxday PM Conference
Quickly Approaching October 7
The Belgium and Netherlands chapters of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) have announced a joint project management event to be held October 7, 2006 in Antwerp.
The one-day congress will have the title “Globalisation: Is the Project Manager (un)touchable?”
According to the announcement on the conference website, “Europe has reached the state where countries are shrinking to mere regions of a larger Europe. Recent discussions are no longer about "how many (eg) power companies are allowed in one country?” It is more a question of "how do we keep at least one local company alive?” This is not just the case for power companies but also for airlines, telcos, stock markets, banks, defence industry, etc.”
“Will the project manager be Touchable and disappear, or will he prove to be Untouchable and survive?” This is the question posed by the conference organizers, who also plan to address the following topics during the one-day congress:
• What is the effect on our profession here and today?
• What is happening to our entire environment?
• What changes are needed, if any, by Project Managers to fit this changing role?
PMI Beneluxday 2006 will be held on Saturday 7th of October 2006 at the Corinthia Hotel - Antwerp in Belgium.
More information can be found at www.pmibeneluxday.org
IRNOP VII Project Management Conference to be Held
in Xi'an, China, 11-13 October 2006
The International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) will hold it Seventh international conference in Xi’an, China during 11-13 October, 2006. The hosts of the conference are The International Project Management Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), supported by the Project Management Research Committee (PMRC) of China. The conference will be held in the International Conference Center on the NPU campus in Xi’an, China.
Multiple tracks of keynote speeches, parallel paper presentations and workshops will be held during the three day conference, on various PM research topics and results by researchers from around the world.
The program technical committee includes many leading project management educators and researchers from Asia, Europe and North America, including the following:
- Rodney Turner, University of Limerick, UK (Chairman)
- Anders Soderholm, Umea Business School, Sweden
- Janice Thomas, Athabasca University, Canada
- Kim Wikstrom, Abo Akademi University, Finland
- Lynn Crawford, ESC Lille, France
- Martina Huemann, University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria
- Patrick Fong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Ralf Muller, Umea Business School, Sweden
- Dai Dashuang, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Lu Xiangnan, Zhejiang University, China
- Ou Lixiong, Northwest Polytechnical University, China
- Qi Anbang, Nankai University, China
- Qian Fupei, Project Management Research Committee, China
- Wang Shouqing, Tsinghua University, China
- Wei Fajie, BeiHang University, China
- Xue Yan, International Project Management Partner Ltd., China
- Yang Naiding, Northwest Polytechnical University, China
- Zhang Lianying, Tianjin University, China
Many other individuals are involved in the Organizing Committee and the Secretariat of the conference. The Secretary General is Mr. Ou Lixiong of the International Project Management Institute at NPU.
An interesting social program will include the following activities highlighting the history and culture of Xi'an:
- Classical Marching-in Ceremony - on Wednesday night in Suspension Bridge Square outside the south gate of the City Wall.
- Tang Paradise -Thursday in a theme park demonstrating the charm and grandeur of the royal gardens of the Tang Dynasty.
- The Terracotta Warriors and Horses - Friday visit to the museum to see 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots and weapons, one of the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century.
- Xi'an High Tech Industrial Development Zone - Friday tour of one of the ten advanced national high technology development zones in China, and a "Green Space" model.
According to Wikipedia, Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi province and one of the ten largest cities in China. Known as one of the most important cities in Chinese history, Xi'an is listed as one of the four great ancient capitals of China because it has been the capital of 13 dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang. Xi'an is also the eastern end of the Silk Road. The city has more than 3,100 years of history. With a metropolitan population of 7.9 million, Xi'an is the largest and most developed city in the central to northwestern part of China. The city is surrounded by a well-preserved defensive wall which was re-constructed during the Ming Dynasty.
NPU is a multi-disciplinary university of science and technology and featuring the engineering education of aeronautics, astronautics and marine engineering. The university stresses the integration of engineering, science, management and humanities. One of the most important universities in China, NPU sits in one of the "cradles" of modern project management in China, and expects to play an important role in the future development of PM throughout the country.
IRNOP was founded in 1993 as a loosely coupled network of researchers and have developed from there, adding researchers in countries all over the world. The IRNOP network connects scholars with a background in business, economics, engineering and other fields, with a common interest in projects, project organizations, project management and temporary systems. So far, IRNOP has organized six conferences. For more information, visit
www.irnop.org.
Lester Thurow to Keynote PMI North American Congress
in Seattle
Lester Thurow, the globally recognized MIT Economist and author of Fortune Favors the Bold: Winners and Losers in a Global Economy, will present the keynote speech at the PMI Global Congress 2006 – North America, scheduled to be held in Seattle during 21-24 October 2006.
Lester Thurow received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1964 and has been a professor of management and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for more than 30 years. He was dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1987 - 1993.
Dr. Thurow's academic work has focused on globalization, economic instability and the distribution of income and wealth. He is a longtime advocate of a Japanese and European style approach involving greater government intervention in the economy, now known as "Third Way" philosophy. His best selling book, Head to Head (1992), compared economic growth and living standards among Japan, Europe & USA. His other books include The Future of Capitalism (1996) and Building Wealth, (2000) which were also New York Times best sellers in the United States. He is also the author of Zero Sum Society and the Future of Capitalism and is frequently quoted on matters related to globalization.
In the past, Dr. Thurow has served on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek, and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as vice president of the American Economics Association in 1993. A former Rhodes Scholar, he is on the board of the globally active companies Analog Devices, Inc. and E*Trade.
Global Congress - North America is one of four global project management conferences sponsored each year by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), the world's largest project management professional society. Other Featured speakers in Seattle will include Mike Mullane, American Astronaut, and Neal Whitten, a widely known American project management author and consultant.
The conference is scheduled for 21-24 October 2006 at the Seattle Convention Center in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA.
For more information, visit
http://congresses.pmi.org/NorthAmerica2006.
The conference is scheduled for 21-24 October 2006 at the Seattle Convention Center
in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. For more information,
visit http://congresses.pmi.org/NorthAmerica2006.