Agenda

How to deliver successful IT Projects using MSF Team Model and MSF Process Model
Theofanis Giotis
MSc, MCT, PMP, Ph.D. Cand.
Co-Founder, CEO – ITEC

Speaker Profile: Mr. Theofanis Giotis is a Co-Founder and CEO of ITEC Training & ITEC Solutions since 1988. He is also the cofounder and president of the PMI Greece Chapter. He has over 20 years of professional experience in services and consulting. He has managed hundreds of IT/TELCO projects and delivered more than 100 presentations on ICT and Project Management. Theofanis is a graduate of PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class and PMForum International Correspondent from Greece.

ITEC, established 20 years ago, is a Greece based global firm specialising in Information Technology and Project Management Training, as well as Information Technology and Project Management Consulting. ITEC is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in Enterprise Project Management, Cisco Learning Partner and Project Management Institute’s Registered Educational Provider (PMI R.E.P.).  For more information refer to http://www.itec.edu or contact, Mr. Theofanis Giotis, at Theofanis.Giotis@ITEC.edu.

How to build a Project Based Organization
Alexander Matthey
MSc, PMP
Managing Director - 3PM

Speaker Profile: Mr. Alexander Matthey, PMP, expert and trainer in Project, Programme and Project Portfolio Management, possesses 24 years of professional experience in numerous industries from across Europe, Australasia, and the Middle East. He is a visiting professor at the Geneva University, at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce Lille and Faculty member of the International University in Geneva.

As VP Marketing and Sponsorship at the PMI Switzerland Chapter he promotes Professional Project Management by speaking and holding seminars at international and national conferences, at private companies, at universities and government organisations.

Mr. Matthey holds a Master’s degree in Science and in Business Information Systems. He is a certified Project Management Professional. He speaks French, English, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Russian.

Closing the Gap between Knowledge and Acted-Upon-Knowledge
Mounir Ajam
MS, PMP
CEO – SUKAD FZ-LLC

Speaker Profile: Engineer Mounir Ajam is a project management expert with 20 years of professional and consultancy experience in various industries such as: engineering, construction, oil, gas, petrochemical, and utilities. He is heavily involved with the PMI® at the regional and global levels. In 1998 he achieved the internationally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP®) and in 2007 he graduated from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Leadership Institute Masters Class. He has served on the advisory group to the Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) program and on the Board of Directors for the PMI-Arabian Gulf Chapter.

Professionally, Engineer Mounir joined SUKAD FZ-LLC as its Chief Executive Officer in 2005. His clients include top names like: Arab Media Group, ARAMEX International, Dubai Holding, Jumeirah Group, Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Ministry of Finance and Industry, National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabian Parsons, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), TATWEER, TECOM Investments, among others.
Mounir holds a Master of Science in Engineering & Construction Management from the University of California at Berkeley and an honor graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers International, and is on the International Who’s Who of Professionals.

DKV Leading the Way of the Knowledge Economy
Dr. Ayoub Kazim
Executive Director
Dubai Knowledge Village/Dubai International Academic City

Speaker Profile: Dr. Ayoub M. A. Kazim is an executive director of Dubai Knowledge Village (KV) of Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority (TECOM). He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama in 1989 and his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University in New York in 1994, and Ph.D. from University of Miami in 1998. Dr. Kazim has an extensive experience in technical, administrative and academic fields for more than 17 years through working at Dubai Municipality and UAE University in Al Ain. Moreover, he is actively involved in research where he published numerous articles related to renewable energy, hydrogen energy, fuel cells and energy policy and economics.