PM Fair 2018

The project manager’s mission has evolved and facilitation skills have become ever more important and key to the success of the challenging nature of the projects we manage today. The theme of the PM Fair 2018 therefore is aptly:
Facilitation: the Ultimate PM Skill?
If project managers were often coming from the technical and specialised world in the past, they tend now to be more generic, less linked with a product or a technique and be able to change industry while still being competent as project manager.
But what is actually a facilitating project manager?
The facilitating project manager is a complete manager, being able to communicate adequately to every audience, listen and understand stakeholders. He is serious but he also can be playful if the mood changes. He knows the rules and can go beyond them if necessary. He can improvise, reach a decision in a group without imposing his point of view, create solutions while associating different points of view, adapt if things change. He knows that people can grow, he identifies the gaps and help filling them. The facilitating project manager use different techniques like games to help his team grow as a whole and individually.
About the PM Fair
The PMI Belgium Chapter has a long-standing tradition of organizing an Annual Congress, now known as the PM Fair, in the beginning of October each year.
The event will be set up like a Fair and will offer a fertile ground for professional interaction, networking and knowledge sharing. It will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas, opinions, values and best practices with professionals from different industries/organizations in an informal environment. It will encourage active participation in various PM roles at special booths. It will also allow sponsors/authors to demonstrate their products or services to a targeted group of professionals. In nutshell, it will be a very special, very dynamic and a very friendly “Market” of Project Management.
As Project Management is not limited to any particular business segment or industry, we want to broaden our horizon with this concept to welcome practitioners, academicians, speakers, writers, lecturers, recruiters as well as sponsors from different organizations, industries, professions, universities, etc.
The Market Place consists of making our event a big fair. At the same place, it groups the sponsors, speakers, the persons who are looking for a job and the persons who can share some opportunities. The Market Place must be the central point of our event, the whole day, we must organize animations, entertainment, content, networking. The purpose is to have people the all day long and not just during coffee breaks or lunch. It’s the place to be.
The objective of the PM Fair is to make visible the PMI Belgium Chapter during one full day. The PM Fair must be the reference in the world of the project management in Belgium.
The objective is to regroup the professionals active in project/program/portfolio management in one place where they can share their experience with the others.
At the end of the day, it’s important that each attendee has learnt something, still convinces in his choice of career and still be motivated by the project management. Everybody must be happy at the end of the day and has just one idea: to attend the event of next year.
And icing on the cake, this year, we’ll also celebrate during the PM Fair the 20th Anniversary of the PMI Belgium Chapter.
You can earn 7 PDUs (Professional Development Units) by attending PM Fair 2018.
Applicable to attendees who hold one of the PMI certificates before attending the conference.
Speakers

Lars Sudmann, Keynote Session
Innovation that sticks!

Carsten Wendt, Keynote Session
Speak up and step back: Communication is more than information. Be a master of energy

Harley Lovegrove, Masterclass
Solving tough Problems

Richard Moret, Workshop
Gamify your project management with board games, computer games and augmented reality

Annette Vendelbo, Workshop
Prioritizing customer value using Kanban: making the most with scarce resources


Marysia Lachowicz and Kamil Tyburski, Workshop
Design Thinking: why you should start adopting it in your projects?

Jean Debrosse, Workshop
Leadership Presence-A Leader in every chair @ work in Project Management

Erik van Hurck, Workshop
Virtual Reality and AI will maximize the impact of the Project Manager

Nader K. Rad, Presentation
Improve Reasoning and Communication with the Denaming Technique

Thomas Hijl, Presentation
Your best performed project - manage it like a light switch - ON | OFF

Benoit Schmitt, Presentation
Research Portfolio Dynamics & Management in a Fast-Changing Biotech Setting

Marysia Lachowicz, Presentation
Design Thinking: why you should start adopting it in your projects?

Katia Van Belle, Presentation
Breakthrough or waste of time? Lessons learned from project facilitation

Frank Habermann, Presentation
Wanna be agile? First, tell me how you handle coffee

Kamil Mroz, Presentation
SOARing into your Project Kick-off

Michèle Longpre, Presentation
About this presentation: Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitating the Transition and Making it Stick

Inspiration Hall
As the talks in the main hall are ongoing, the Inspiration Hall will be opened for business with complementary content. It is hard to capture the idea of the Inspiration Hall, but we have tried in the following paragraph:
The inspiration hall is not a common marketplace.
It is the place to encounter new ideas.
The inspiration hall is not just a collection of informative stands.
It offers the opportunity to engage in new concepts.
The Inspiration Hall doesn’t follow a script.
It is meant for the adventurous, the curious and the rebels,
Seeking new skills and surprising practices.
It is a ship sailing for new shores in search of the one thing:
A new and better version of you
For PMI Belgium, the concept of the Inspiration Hall is key to its identity. The members of PMI Belgium and the attendees of the PM Fair are very much 21st century minded professionals, where critical thinking, creativity and collaboration are important values. Therefore, to cater for these adventurous, curious and even rebellious attendees of the PM Fair, we have a place for them where they can make their own way through all the content available. Every visitor of the Inspiration Hall will travel an individual journey collecting the specific value they are looking for.
Inspiration Hall Speakers

Friederike Abitz
Visual Techniques

Friederike Abitz
Dragon Dreaming

Carsten Wendt, Workshop
Dealing with difficult communication moments
Call for Sponsors
The PM Fair is a recurring initiative, thanks to the contribution of our esteemed sponsors! Become yourself a partner of the PM Fair and benefit of a direct visibility to over 3000 Professional Project Managers. Discover our flexible sponsor packages, which include logo sponsoring, booth, sponsor session, coffee break sponsor, booklet sponsor, and conference bag sponsor.
Consult the Call for sponsors for all the detail. If you wish to take advantage of this unique opportunity or need further information, please contact andree-anne.marsan@pmi-belgium.be. We look forward to seeing you among our PM Fair 2018 sponsors!
Organization Team
The organization of the PM Fair is a huge project with varied tasks that requires many skilled hands from start to finish, in order to deliver a high class congress. This important annual event is realized with the help of a dedicated team of volunteers. We are looking for more volunteers to join our passionate PM Fair 2018 team.
Volunteering with PMI can provide you with opportunities that enable you to share your knowledge and experience with other professionals. It will give you a global perspective of how project managers work in various industries. It will also help you to further strengthen your project management skills.
If you wish to join our enthusiastic team, please contact info@pmfair.org.

Director of PM Fair & Events

Team Leader, Content

Team Leader, Sponsoring

Marketing & Commnication

Entertainment & Registration Team
Venue & Catering Team

Team Leader, Quality

Team Leader, Sponsoring

Associate Director PM Fair

Team Leader, Finance

Volunteer Quality

Content Team

Quality Team

Content Team

Volunteer Sponsoring
Contact Us
You can contact us at info@pmfair.org, or using the following form.