Each year the Annual General Meeting (AGM) elects new members of the PMI Finland Board of Directors. Like in the past the election will be conducted electronically prior to the AGM, based on the nominations received. 3 Positions are open for election this year. If you are interested in making a difference to the development of PM Profession, by becoming a board member, you will be able to personally help shaping the activities and directions of this Chapter. As a board member, you will have the opportunity to:

•    Network with leaders in the profession
•    Enhance your project management and leadership skills
•    Earn PDUs (5 PDUs from the board membership per each year)
•    Actively influence the direction the Chapter is taking
•    Help your project management colleagues with your service
•    Have fun and enjoy giving back to the profession
 

The election will take place in December and the new Board members will be announced during the next Annual General Meeting during first quarter of 2019.

If you are interested to join the Board, please contact us for more information of application process no later than December 8th, 2018.

If you are looking for the right time to gain the PMP for the best value of money this is the right moment.

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® is the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers. The benefits of being PMP starts with network, advantage when it comes to salary, and projects done on time and budget.

For more information on other benefits and how to apply follow the global Project Management Institute    HERE.

The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Award for Innovation in Project Management was launched in 2015 under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, with the aim to encourage and promote the innovation culture in the project management Field. It includes 4 categories celebrating individuals, teams, organizations and academia, and offers 8 awards recognizing the successes of participants with cash prizes totaling $710,000.

Winners are flown to Dubai to accept their award(s) during the annual Dubai International Project Management Forum held this year on  8-11 DEC 2018.  This is certainly one of the most prestigious PM events in the world.

Here is the link to the 2018 site for this year’s Awards and the Application Forms:  http://www.hbmaipm.com/

It is very important to note that Applications are due 31 JULY 2018.

Categories and Award values:

ORGANIZATIONS CATEGORY

1. The Innovative Idea in Project Management Award (USD $100,000.00)
2. The Innovative Idea in Program Management Award (USD $150,000.00)
3. The Innovative Idea in Portfolio Management Award (USD $200,000.00)

INDIVIDUALS CATEGORY:

1. The Innovative Project Manager Award (USD $50,000.00)
2. The Innovative PMO Manager Award (USD $50,000.00)

TEAM CATEGORY:

1. The Innovative Project Team Award (USD $80,000.00)

ACADEMIC CATEGORY:

1.  Research in Innovative Project Management Practices Award (USD $40,000.00)
2.  Innovative us of Project Management Practices – Academic Category ( USD $40,000.00)

Three PMI Finland board members, Vesa Koskela, Javier Martin and Lutful Mandson visited PMI Europe Leaders (“Region-8″) meeting in Malmö Sweden 17-19 November.

Region-8 meeting is yearly conference where European chapter board members and volunteer leaders join to share their experiences on PMI activities, network with other chapters, learn and have fun together.

This year’s R8-meeting had attendance from 30+ chapters, with total of 170 participants from all across Europe.

On Friday 17th there was meeting with chapter presidents and european co-operation liasons, focusing on co-operation pilot projects between European chapters: Mentoring program, Corporate ambassador and Speakers bureau, running until May 2018. Finland chapter is part of Speakers bureau activity aiming to create database of speakers making it easier for chapters to create high quality conferences and other events.

Saturday and Sunday included three parallel tracks with speakers from different chapters sharing their experiences. Topics include e.g. different partnership models with sponsors, experiences from marketing activities, how GDPR shall be taken into account in chapters, etc, etc.

Equally important to presentations, we all had great networking discussions with chapter leaders from all across Europe sharing experiences and ideas as well as agreed actions for continued collaboration.  On Saturday evening we were enjoying excellent dinner generously offered by mayor of Malmö.

Team Finland,
Vesa Koskela, President
Javier Martin, Board member, Finance
Lutful Mandson, Board member

We have BRT session on Friday morning and if you are still hungry after that to learn about innovation, technology and leadership, there is opportunity to view live Tedx event from Vaasa during afternoon (not PMI organised event).

TEDxVasa event is organised on 22nd September around theme “Progress through Innovation, Technology and Leadership”. Event starts at 12:15 and runs until 17:00 and includes ten inspiring speakers. You can claim PDUs for all PM related presentations according to length e.g. 4x 15 min presentation = 1 PDU.

Why we are promoting this to our members, though PMI Finland is not organising this?
Event is professionally set up event providing great value for project practitioners, and is free of charge.

Event will be streamed on Youtube, available for anyone to join remotely. It will be also available in TED.com.

Event is held at Hanken School of Economics in Vaasa, but is sold out. There is live streaming in Wärtsilä Vaasa premises for Wärtsilä employees, and in Ritz Vaasa for everyone free of charge.

In order to enable TEDxVasa event to grow, please go and like the Facebook or LinkedIn.