It’s raining Project Management conferences in Bangalore

May 30th, 2008 by arunram

If you are a Project Management professional in Bangalore or anywhere in the Indian sub continent its time - to get out of you cubicles and pause your meetings to block your calendars!

It’s raining PM conferences in Bangalore! - 3 of them this year!

Its a great time for you to get out there and meet your peers from various organizations, share experiences, challenges, share tool expertise and best practices.

All this only indicate the demand for PM practitioners to come together and share. After all Bangalore is the hub of a lot of IT, Space, Construction, Aeronautics among other industries.

PML conference by QAI - May 30 - 31, 2008

This conference by QAI promises 2 days of action packed at Le Meridien with 12 plenary speakers and 18 papers and practices. The highlight of the conference is the Project Management Leadership Award - “Leadership Recognized“. There is a panel discussion on the “Emerging challenges for Indian project managers in global context”. One of the interesting talks is by Tarak Bajaj of Delphi on “Project Management for TATA Nano Electronics cluster”. The conference cover only the IT industry. Conference fee is Rs. 7500. 14 PDUs for participation.

SPM ICON 2008 by QSIT - July 17 - 19, 2008

QSIT’s conference at Leela Palace is 2 day conference with one earlier day covering tutorials. There are 4 tutorials on the 17th of July on rather familiar PM topics. There are 2 key notes - Lakshmi Narayanan (Chairman, NASSCOM) and Raj Kalady (PMI). There are 10 key talks and 12 paper presentations. The is also a panel discussion on the topic “Managing Projects in a Global context” (almost identical to the PML panel discussion!!! sign of the times?!). 26 PDUs for 3 days.

PMPC 2008 by PMI Bangalore - September 18 - 20, 2008

The Project Management Practitioner’s conference 2008 (PMPC) - This is one of the most awaited and prestigious PM conference of the year organized by PMI Bangalore at “The Capitol”. The conference has been announced to be held from 18th to 20th of September this year.

The conference seeks to bring together Project Management practitioners and the key stakeholders namely - Industry, Academia, Government and Society. The conference seeks to brings Project management learnings from large projects from various industries.

Last year’s conference had - 3 days, 7 keynotes, 28 speakers, 3 panel discussions and 10 industries. Some of the key speakers of last year included T.R.Anand (Satyam), N.S.Parthasarathy (MindTree), Dr. Prahlada (DRDO), Sqn. Ldr. B.C. Srikanta (ADA), Stéphane Vesval (EADS) amongst others.

(Disclosure: the blog post author is associated with PMI Bangalore)

More the merrier

The numerous PM conferences only underscore the need for better Program and Project and the huge demand for PM practitioners in the burgeoning IT services industry. And it is interesting to note that vendors like Serena and iPlan are sponsoring more than one event. And don’t be surprised if all of these run full capacity.