The 7th WPMF Meet  was successfully held along with the 33rd Global Symposium 2025 on 22nd & 23rd December 2025  at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi. Event was organized by CEPM in association with the International Institute of Projects and Program Management (i2P2M), a Section 8, not for profit company. Indian Oil and HMEL were event Affiliates and event Associates were ISRO, SCOPE, Genpact and Technip Energies.

Two well known stalwarts – Mr. S. N. Subrahmanyan, CMD, Larsen & Toubro and Mr. Antonio Nieto Rodriguez from Belgium, a leading PM authority and thinker were awarded the MARG Darshak Award instituted to recognise persons who have charted a new direction in Project Management profession.

The 2025 CEPM Honorary Fellowship was conferred on Mr. Vinayak  Pai,  MD and CEO, Tata Projects and on Mr. Mohan Savarkar, Chief Product Officer VP, Tata Motors.

National Project Excellence Awards (NPEA) for 2025 generated lot of interest in industry. NPEA is conferred jointly by i2P2M and CEPM since 2022 covered 6 different categories of projects with very comprehensive 13 criteria covering 360 degrees. The  awardees in alphabetical order include Bharat Electronics, BPCL, Indian Oil, L&T, NTPC, Tata Motors, Tata Projects, GAIL and Adani.

Group photo of some of the participants of the 33rd Global Symposium and WPMF Meet held on 22-23 Dec, 2025 in New Delhi.

In 2004 the 32nd Global Symposium and 6th WPMF Meet was held in New Delhi on 16th and 17th December. Dr. S Somanath, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space, Govt of India. Ambassador Dr. Deepak Vohra gave the Valedictory Address. CEPM was honoured to confer the CEPM Hony. Fellowships on Mr. Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects), GAIL; Mr N Senthil Kumar, Director (Pipelines) and Board Member of IndianOil, Mr. K.P. Mahadevaswamy, CMD, NBCC (india) Ltd. Ms. Geetanjali Lamba Gandhi, Head of Program Management – Transitions, Genpact, USA and Mr. Purusottam Bej, Former DG of DRDO were conferred the Honorary CEPM Fellowship in the Inaugural Function.

6 projects under different categories won the coveted Awards National Project Excellence Awards (NPEA) given jointly by i2P2M and CEPM.  Under the Mega Infrastructure Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (Atal Setu) project was won by L&T ECC for Atal Setu’s Package 1 and by Daewoo-Tata Projects JV for it Atal Setu’s Package 2. 

Winners for the other 5 categories were:  Defence Electronics Research laboratory, Armament Research and Development Establishment, Naval Science & Technology Laboratory, Directorate of Civil Works & Estates and Defence Research & Development  Laboratory.

2004 Global Symposium and WPMF Meet Inaugural session. Adesh Jain, Chairman i2P2M giving the Theme Address
Guest of Honour, Dr. S Somanath, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space, Govt of India. being welcomed by Mr. TKA Nair, Chair, i2P2M AIC.
Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects), GAIL being conferred the 2024 CEPM Honorary Fellowship by Dr. Somanath
National Project Excellence Award (NPEA) won by DRDL, DRDO's missile laborartory in Aatma Nirbhar category
Arvind Kumar, Director (Refineries) Indian Oil speaking on Managing complexities in oil and gas sector
The event was supported by sponsors - Indian Oil, HMEL, JSPL, ISRO, GAIL, Technip Energies and Genpact
Ambassador, Dr. Deepak Vohra giving the Valedictory address
Glimpse of some of the participants of the 6th WPMF Meet and 32nd Global Symposium jointly organised by CEPM and i2P2M