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Project Management Symposium 2014

Monday & Tuesday, June 9th and 10th


The Project Management Symposium: Academically Rigorous and Practically Applied, is a two day event sponsored by the Project Management Center for Excellence at the University of Maryland and the Project Management Institute (PMI) Silver Spring Chapter. It will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Stamp Student Union.



Featuring over 55 guest speakers and presenters, the symposium will offer project management professionals an opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Topics will range from Agile project management, IT & WEB-Based project management, and human factors to global project management and innovative financing. Attendees can use symposium sessions towards earning professional development units (PDUs) for maintaining their PMI credentials.



Featured guest speakers include:

Ron Taylor, Principal and Founder, Ron Taylor Group, author of The 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management

Karen Durham-Aquilera, Director of Contingency Operations and Office of Homeland Security, Headquarters, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

Regina McElroy, Director, Office of Innovative Program Delivery, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

Mladen Radujkovic, President, International Project Management Association and Dean of faculty and Professor of Project Management and Construction Management, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb Croatia

Melinda Peters, State Highway Administrator, Maryland Department of Transportation

Gregory Balestrero, Former President and CEO, Project Management Institute (PMI)