WHAT DELEGATES WILL GAIN FROM ATTENDING

By participating in the full conference programme, delegates will:

• Gain insight into good practices and principles associated with modern PPPM.
• Gain first hand understanding of what it takes to deliver some of the country’s biggest and most complex project undertakings.
• Learn how your peers achieve project success and deal with failure.
• Gain new insights into the PPPM knowledge areas and what lies behind changes and updates to industry standards.
• Understand how and where the wide range of project standards and methodologies can and should be applied. 
• Learn about the new technologies, tools and techniques being developed and deployed to assist project managers and achieve maturity in how PPPM is applied in your organisation.
• Benchmark your PPPM practices against those in similar industries.
• Develop an understanding of the PPPM career path and the prospects available to you as you contemplate your PPPM future.

DELEGATES PROFILE

PMSA conferences and congresses attract a wide range of delegates. For the most part, they are senior project practitioners in their various industries, often with a background in construction, engineering, information technology, financial services and the growing number of fields where the discipline of project management is gaining a foothold.

Delegates are often key decision-makers in the project context and responsible for realising organisational strategy through effective project, programme and portfolio management.

In a broad sense, delegates fall under the following range of job titles:

• Project managers
• Programme managers
• Portfolio managers
• PMO leaders
• Change management practitioners
• Consultants
• Entrepreneurs
• General managers
• Company and departmental executives / leaders
• Project specialists
• Project engineers
• Project support and project administration practitioners
• Researchers in project management
• Project education, training and service providers

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

Project, programme and portfolio management is steadily manifesting in all industries with business processes that can benefit from the prevailing and highly evolved standards and methods associated with the discipline. PMSA approaches the subject matter from a generic perspective, meaning that while content may refer to a specific case pertinent to an industry, the project lessons learned can be widely applied across industries.

In the past, the types of industries that have been represented at PMSA conferences and congresses include:

• Government, utilities and other public services (e.g. Provincial, local and municipal government, Eskom, Transnet, SAPO)
• Transport and logistics (e.g. Gautrain, Bombela Consortium)
• The full spectrum of engineering disciplines (e.g. Joy Mining)
• Consulting services (Colab, ARUP, PDNA)
• Construction (e.g. Group Five, Aurecon)
• Mining (e.g Khumba, Exxaro)
• Manufacturing
• Retail (e.g. Edcon, Woolworths, Shoprite)
• Financial services (e.g. all major banks, Sanlam, Metropolitan)
• Telecommunication (e.g. all major cellular operators, Telkom)
• Marketing, media and advertising (e.g. Media 24)
• Tertiary education (e.g. most major universities)
• Professional services industries (e.g. Deloitte, PWC)
• Information technology (e.g. BCX, Oracle, Bytes)
• Medical services and public health (e.g. Netcare, MediClinic)