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Welcome from the Conference Chair
It is with great pleasure and excitement that I invite you to participate in the PMI NAC Conference 2010 to be held in Edmonton between May 3rd and 4th.
Our conference theme this year is “Delivering Critical Value”. The project management landscape is changing as the measure of a project’s success is increasingly determined by value beyond monetary numbers. The Project Manager’s focus on execution, scheduling, and cost is extending to include higher-level functions such as strategic planning, project evaluation and selection, and portfolio management. This value-driven approach beyond satisfaction of triple constraints has raised a question that, if a project is delivered on time, on budget, and satisfies scope, does this really mean the customer is satisfied with the “value” delivered by the project?
To answer this challenging question, today’s Project Manager has to deliver value every day by leading their teams not only during classic project life cycle, but also before and after. On this note, Dr. Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. (Senior Executive Director for Project Management- International Institute of Learning) will start the first keynote presentation on “A Value-Driven Approach for the Future of Project Management”. The conference program will also feature prominent keynote presenters Loretta Laroche, Sanjay Nath, Lee Lambert, and Mark Adams and concurrent sessions with international and local speakers. Benefit from these high-level speakers to gain real skills, solutions, and strategies that will allow you to more effectively deliver critical value.
The conference is the perfect forum and opportunity to enhance your knowledge, renew acquaintances, make new friends, and have rich experiences. We are continuing the practices for shared badges and early bird registration price for our participants as well!!
I would like to express a deep thanks to the PMI NAC Board, PMI NAC Chapter Conference team, and OOMPH team for developing and organizing this great event by devoting an extended number of hours of hard work. We also sincerely appreciate our sponsors.
On behalf of my team, welcome to PMI NAC Conference 2010 and best wishes for an enjoyable and productive event. See you in May, 2010.
Aina Khan, M.SC, PMP
Conference Chair
PMI NAC Conference 2010
Welcome from the Project Sponsor
Since we last met at a conference here in Edmonton (2008), the world has certainly evolved. We now live in an Alberta where a much-feared recession has occurred that has left many of us out of work and facing a personal climate of economic challenge. We live in a business climate of financial uncertainty where the job security and “spend, spend, spend” philosophy of the 2003–2007 period has been suddenly erased. Our organizations are carefully watching every penny that is being spent on training, staffing and, most especially, on the projects they undertake.
Now, more than ever, the principles of project management, the skills of the project manager, and the discipline of “managing by projects” becomes vital. Our ability to enable our organizations to wrest success from our projects combined with doing so in an organized, logical, and minimal-stress environment is increasingly valued in the marketplace. In every cloud there is, supposedly, a silver lining.
The evolving profession of project management has also taught us that no person is an island. Success in either finding that next job or in completing a project involves making a connection. It is about creating a network of supporters, friends, and fans that can enable us to succeed.
Our 2010 Conference is all about these themes of Value and Connecting. It is about this opportunity to constantly increase our capabilities in providing value to our organizations, to ourselves, and to our profession. It is also about connecting to new ways of thinking, to new project management challenges, to new skills, and to one another.
Our Conference Leadership Team has, again, provided us with an excellent line-up of speakers, new thinking opportunities, and networking events that will support us all in our pursuit of value and connection. We are confident that you will find the quality of event that you deserve. My personal thanks go out to this team and their leader, Aina Khan, for their dedication and unflagging effort in assembling this year’s conference.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Northern Alberta Chapter and as your project sponsor for this event, I am pleased to welcome you all to the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort for May 3rd & 4th, 2010. Please consider this year’s event as part of your 2010 personal success and development plan.
Randy Black, PEng, PMP
Past President, Northern Alberta Chapter
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