For the third year running APM are holding their popular Knowledgeshare event in June 2011. Knowledgeshare 2011 is an excellent opportunity to discover the pioneering work of the 12 APM Specific Interest Groups and experience many different disciplines within project management and also to network with many project professionals.
This year the event will be loosely themed Turning theory into practice and among the presentations will be examples of where a theory has been put into practice with particularly successful or unsuccessful results. There will also be some presentations that look at existing practices that would benefit from having additional research carried out on them.
On each day, following an introductory plenary session from a high profile speaker there will be 2 tracks of presentations that will allow delegates to interact with most of the SIGs that are present. The current schedule is;
Day 1 (Wednesday 29th June) will see presentations from the Earned Value, Planning, Value Management, Contracts & Procurement and People SIGs. The first session of the day will be the plenary keynote address by Stan Hornagold.
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Stan Hornagold is a Director of Marstan Group. In 1987, he formed Hornagold & Hills, Management Consultants, which manages capital projects and delivers organisational change.Stan has 30 years experience in project management, which includes private sector and public sector projects. He specialises in the management of complex programmes involving large numbers of stakeholders. He was an adviser to both the UK and French Governments on the assessment of the bids for the channel tunnel. Stan is also an executive board member of the Construction Industry Council and a member of the board of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, which is responsible for regenerating East London
Day 2 (Thursday 30th June) will see presentations from the Programme Management, Portfolio Management, Governance, Benefits Management, Risk and Assurance SIGs. The first session of the day will be the plenary keynote address by Stephen Carver.
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Stephen is repeatedly rated as one of the top lecturers at Cranfield. He has a reputation of taking complex management concepts and being able to distil them down, into highly informative and fun lectures – often using ‘storytelling’ techniques. His specialist subjects are project management (especially in service based organisations) and he is also Director of the MBA Personal Communications course.
The agenda for the day can be viewed here. Descriptions of the presentations can be viewed here
#1 by Howard on June 16, 2011 - 10:32 am
Both days sound especially interesting and informative – how does one attend/get tickets?
Howard