Global Symposium 2008

With over 300 public programmes, 100 in-company workshops, 16 Global Symposiums, first IPMA World Congress ever held outside Europe, participation of Central Ministers, Secretaries to Government of India, CEO’s and CMDs of CPSEs, participation of over 60 major associations in India and outside India, participation of over 10,000 professionals from all over the world and over 500 companies exposed to modern best practices of managing projects.

There are over 1800+ IPMA Level D certified professionals in India besides 31 IPMA Level C certified project managers and 12 IPMA Level B certified senior project managers. Shortly, PMA India will launch IPMA Level A (certifed project director) which is the highest level of certification, globally.

Step by Step ...... A Glimpse of Programmes - 1992 to 2007


(1992) Dr. SK Mohapatra, Dr. DV Kapur, Dr. Abid Hussain & Dr. Harold Kerzner, USA sharing the platform to debate on the implications of sound project management on economy.		(1993) Erling Dessau, (UNDP) lighting the inaugural lamp. Others in the picture are: Giridhar Gomang, Adesh Jain, Dr. Harold Kerzner and Mantosh Sondhi.	(1994) Pranab Mukherjee sharing a light moment with Mantosh Sondhi, Dr. Nitish Sengupta and Gopi Arora before giving the valedictory address.


(1995) Jean Muller of France giving a keynote address explaining the position of France in PM field. Others on the dias(L-R):Dr. Frank Anbari, Adesh Jain & Pranab Mukherjee.		(1996) Panel discussion on Global PM Movement and its Dynamics. (L-R): V. Dwivedi, Gilles Caupin (France), Adesh Jain, Ron waller (USA) and Devendra Narain.	(1997) PM visionaries from 7 countries: Jain-India, Prof.Qian-China, Tanaka-Japan, Sargent-Australia, Prof. Voropajev-Russia, Katagiri-US, Verma-Canada & Ward-US.


(1998) Dr. PK Basu chairing a session on NASA approach to PM. Others on the dias (L-R): Andre Merwe, Dr. John Chirioni, Adesh Jain and Dr. Rodney Turner.		(1999) Panel discussion on Managing Telecom Projects L-R; Kapadia-Lucent, Rajagopalan-MTNL, Saran-DOT, Qvarngard-Ericsson, Mathur and Gupta-CDOT .	(2000) A discussion on project management certification. L-R: V Dwivedi, PMA, S Jha, MOSPI, GOI, Hiroshi Tanaka, Japan, John Pyman, APM, UK and K Venkatramanan, L&T.


(2001) Dr. Daniel Scheifele, Alfonso Bucero, Prof. CN Bredillet, Adesh Jain, Brian Kooyman and Dr. R Turner.		(2002) Lighting the Lamp. L -R: Prof. Fupei, Jaswal, Kumar, Pathan, Sengupta, Tanaka, Rao, Jain and Dr Pillai.	(2003) L-R: Shepherd, Tanaka, Dr. Barnes, Ramachandran, Hon’ble Minister, MOSPI S B Mukherjee and Jain.


(2005) Finance Minister P Chidambaram with the other dignitaries at the IPMA World Congress.		(2006) K Venkataramanan of L&T giving the Keynote Presentation.	(2007) Over 500 delegates from 20 countries participated in the Global Symposium.