Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, the 3rd Dubai International Projects Management Forum (DIPMF) will kick start tomorrow (Monday) 24th October 2016 at the Conventions Center, Madinat Jumeirah. The event, which is organized by the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) in collaboration with the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA), Emaar Properties, and Projects Management Institute (PMI), has attracted 35 international speakers comprising ministers, chairmen of public entities, top executives of mega businesses as well as an elite bunch of international experts & specialists of the Projects Management (PM) industry. PM is considered a key pillar of development and modern management science as it has considerable impact on defining success in various fields.
HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, welcomed the participants to the DIPMF held under the theme ‘Shaping the Future’ in keeping with the UAE Strategy for the Future. The key objective of the Forum is to identify early opportunities & challenges in various vital sectors across the nation, analyze them, and map out long-run proactive plans spanning all fields in a bid to achieve deliverables that serve the interests of the nation.
“Staging the 3rd edition of the Forum is an outcome of the existing cooperation between the RTA, DEWA, Emaar, and the PMI. It also emulates the huge successes achieved from the past two editions of the forum. The event stems from Dubai’s keenness to play a leading role in driving the development in the region, with the right ingredients for expediting this process at the highest global standards & practices. This can best be achieved by attracting globally reputed experts & competent specialists to world-class events to be utilized as effective knowledge transfer platforms. Dubai is also keen to act as a communications link contributing to the transfer of expertise, concepts and visions between international gurus of various fields in line with its identity as an Arab city with an international profile.
“PM is crucial to the implementation of plans, programs and projects as it helps realize the organizational objectives of each public or private entity. This role requires an institutional system for managing projects, programs and projects portfolios as well as competent PM staff. Examples of these include program managers, project managers, and project offices’ managers who have the right skill & leadership attributes to play an effective role in fostering a robust & sound PM environment that constitutes no burden to the organization.
“The Forum features new topics carefully selected as a result of conducting surveys, screening views of respondents, and analyzing deliverables as well as lessons learned. There will be a session about PM for Youth focusing on the principles and success enablers of PM, implementation of PM practices in various projects, and the successful models of young project managers to share their modern experiences. There will also be a workshop to discuss the best educational tools of teaching PM sciences as part of under or post-graduate studies. A closed session will examine rail PM in order to identify the best practices of managing rail projects.
“Topics of the Forum have been divided into four panel discussions, six parallel sessions and five specialist training courses. Panel discussions will cover PM issues in the fields of sustainability, future cities, PM in academic programs (knowledge management) and business leaders. The training courses will discuss project time charts management, project costs management, projects quality management, projects risks management, and business analysis. Concurrent sessions will debate issues related to governance, corporate PM, leadership in multicultural environment, maximization of project benefits, public-private partnership, mega projects management, and talents management. At the sidelines of the Forum, a number of field and technical visits will be made to iconic projects such as Burj Khalifa and the recreational cities & resorts project (Dubai Parks & Resorts).
Keynote Speakers
The DIPMF will host a lineup of top international speakers highlighted by Mr. Bill McDermott, CEO and Board Member of SEB International. Based in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is one of the leading business software firms worldwide. Its key product branded Mysap is an enterprise Resource Planning software expanded to incorporate e-commerce, thus enabling linking corporate transactions comprising purchase orders, invoices. The system serves more than 38,000 businesses in more than 120 countries.
Bill has more than three decades of experience in business technology under his belt. He has steadily risen to his current role as Chief Executive Officer. Before joining SAP, he served in senior executive roles with Siebel Systems and Gartner, Inc. He launched his business career at Xerox Corporation. Bill is a regular speaker in topics related to leadership. In 2014, he was the keynote speaker of Leadercast; an organization focused on developing leaders to follow. In addition to SAP, Bill serves on the Boards of Directors of Under Armour and ANSYS, Inc. He regularly contributes original content to major international publications and blogs on topics ranging from innovation to the future of business.
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