Agenda

5th International Athens Conference on Project Management Best Practices

14 June 2010

08.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.45	Opening Remarks
	Leonidas-Phoebus Koskos, Executive Director, Hellenic American Union Executive Vice President, Hellenic American University Bob Gibson, Director, Cooper Power Systems-USA
	KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
9.45-10.00	The role of Project Management towards sustainability and green economy: challenges and opportunities George Merguerian, Business Management Consultants
10.00-10.45	Innovation in Project Management and infrastructure development: how to be green and lean from the ground up. The Green iD example Guillaume Saouli, Green iD SA, Winner of the President's Award from PMI Risk Management SIG, and "the 2010 Innovation Award" from the Swiss Society for Project Management & PMI Swiss Chapter
10.45-11.15	Coffee Break
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
	*Cost - Value / Case Studies*	*Cost - Value for IT Projects*
11.15-12.00	How the Interdisciplinary Approach promotes Green and Lean Project Management Anthony Coumidis McBains Cooper-UK	AIA, IT&T Business Unit and Environmental Services Department - Greening the Airport Business Leonidas Daravelis & Panagiotis Karamanos Athens International Airport
12.00-12.30	Rapid application techniques for fast project delivery Bob Gibson, Cooper Power Systems-USA	How Governance leads to leaner, greener projects and deliverables Derek Oliver, Ravenswood Consultants-UK
12.30-13.00	Project Management best practices in Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency projects Ioannis Vougiouklakis, Center of Renewable Energy Sources and Saving	Being Green-IT @ JTI Philippe Ducret, JTI SA - Switzerland
11.15-13.00	WORKSHOP: Exploring Agile Project Management methodologies George Merguerian, Business Management Consultants
13.00-14.30	Lunch Break
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
	Tools for Lean and Green Project Management	Tools for Lean and Green IT Project Management
14.30-15.15	Lean & Green Project Management: two synergetic philosophies influencing modern project management Nicos Kourounakis, Hellenic American University Green Project Tracking in a live environment (15') Thanasis Vamvakas, Ether Applications	Information & communication technology tools towards green Projects Kostas Tsirbas, Ether Applications
15.15-15.45	Sustaining green and lean management efforts throughout the organization Kostas Theofanides, Ellinika Kafsima	The case of Green IT: demonstrating and measuring their value to the organization Anestis Demopoulos, Manager, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
14.30-16.00	WORKSHOP: Applying 6 Sigma tools in Project Management Bob Gibson, Cooper Power Systems-USA
16.00-16.30	Coffee Break
	KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
16.30-17.00	Toyota's 5 year Environmental Action Plan: a case study Miltiadis Tsoskounoglou, Toyota Hellas
17.00-18.00	Resource use optimization as key factor for greener projects Peter Berndt de Souza Mello, PMI's Project Management Excellence Award Winner-2009, X25 Treinamento e Consultoria
18.00	Closing Remarks