PMForum named Media Partner for IPMA ROMA 2008 World Congress on Project Management in Rome

IPMA selects PMForum for press coverage of November 2008 World Congress in Rome and for reporting to the global professional community

Dallas, Texas, USA — PMForum announced today that it has been named “Media Partner” by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) for promotion of the ROMA 2008 World Congress on Project Management, to be held in Rome, Italy during the 10th and 11th of November 2008. As Media Partner, PMForum will also report news about the conference leading up to, during and after the event. ROMA 2008 will be IPMA’s 22nd World Congress and will be one of the largest project management events in the world next year.

According to Henrik Jonsson, Vice President of IPMA, “PMForum is now recognized as the world’s leading independent source of project management news. We want to work closely with them in order to increase global exposure and visibility for our 2008 World Congress, and expect their live news coverage directly from the congress in Rome to be especially exciting.”

Under the banner of “Project Management to Run”, the ROMA 2008 World Congress will be conducted during 9-11 November 2008 at the Palazzo dei Congressi, located in the heart of the Rome business center. More than 1,000 participants from over 50 countries are expected. The sponsoring organizations are the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP), the Italian Project Management Academy, and IPMA. The Chair of the 22nd IPMA World Congress project manager is Mr. Luigi Iperti; the Project Manager of IPMA 2008 is Mr. Vittorio Cariati. For more information about the ROMA 2008 World Congress, visit www.ipmaroma2008.it.

As a PMForum media partner, IPMA’s ROMA 2008 World Congress will receive banner ad promotion on PMForum web pages; listing in PMForum’s online Events Calendar, pre-event news coverage of announcements and developments, live breaking news coverage directly from location during the event, and post-event reporting. Examples of PMForum partnering efforts and media coverage can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/events/partner_program.htm. For more information about the 22nd World Congress on Project Management in Rome, visit

About IPMA

Founded in 1965 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve the specific development needs of each country in its national language. IPMA provides an umbrella organization to represent them at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level Project Management Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents project management awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management, and maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2007-2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch

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PMForum, Inc. administers and operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first project management website and one of the world’s best known and leading sources of project management news and information. PMForum also publishes the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading project management authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

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