PMI CAZ & SKEMA - Project Management Professional Day - PMPD 2020

PMI France | Côte d'Azur Branch | 2020 February, the 6th, at 2:00 pm

POST CONFERENCE INFORMATION

SUMMARY

This Conference was held on February 6th, 2020 in SKEMA Sophia-Antipolis (Just before the Covid-19 Crisis)

This Conference is part of a national PMPD Program (Project Management Professional Day) coordinated by the Academic Relations Domain (Jean-Roch Houllier, Mounir Soudani, Bastien Schilling) and supported by the Cote d’Azur Branch (Jean-Claude Dravet, Olivia Frager, Paulin Kitieu).

Main objective is to share with students the importance of Project Management, by giving them the opportunity to meet PM experts (Project Managers and Human Resources Managers) of several major companies deeply involved in Project Management.

Workshops, speed recruiting sessions and a keynote speech by Maestro Cindy Egolf have been used yo facilitate these exchanges

With

218 participants, 6 Partner Schools, 2 Press partners,

14 Partner Companies

this conference has overpassed all our expectations

(See below the list of partners with their LOGOs, links to their WEB site and any useful information)

VIDEO

Please have a look to the 1:30min PMPD 2020 Sophia - Short VIDEO to get a flavor of this Conference

PICTURES

Auditorium full Cindy, Marion and Manon Part of volunteers

Click on PICTURES to see more pictures about this conference

PRESS articles

WHITE PAPER on Best Practices to organize a PMPD Conference

In addition to the Conference, the students have also developped a "White Paper" (Cook Book) to collect Best Practices to organize such a Conference, and be able to organize similar one in all PMI France Branches across France in partnership with local/national schools and Companies.

If you are interested to run such a Conference, please CONTACT: PMPD info.PMPD@pmi-france.org

FEED-BACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

After the Conference a Satisfaction survey has been submitted to participants

Below is an abstract of the Survey answers

Global results:

Respondents: 41% of students / 57% professionals

Overall satisfaction rating: 4.12 - (On a scale from 1(Poor) to 5(Outstanding))

89% positive responses to question: "Did the PMPD2020 Conference meet your expectations?"

Comments:

«Thanks for this brilliant idea. Really happy to be part of it »

« Great Conference »

« The students did a great job, very well organized, timings respected»

« very good initiative »

« It was a wonderful event and I wish it could last longer (for a whole day maybe) for us to interact with more companies »

« It's great to see how young fresh experts get a Job Fair at their School Great initiative. Wish I had it when I was a student. Bravo »

«Very interesting initiative »

«Very good event! »

«more challenges and games in the workshop»

«Add breaks during Workshop to provide more Networking options»

This Conference is the result of a pedagogical project coached by Jean-Claude Dravet, Paulin Kitieu and Layach Allaoua, as part of a Project Management practical application of Project Management Best Practices (Waterfall and Agile). The project has been run by a group of 6 international students (Marion Lacoste, Manon Faucher, Chen Yang, Gyanalipsa Pradhan, Barkha Gupta, Prashant Sengar) members of the "Business Consulting & Digital Transformation" Master, in SKEMA Business School Sophia, with Corinne Hirzmann as Master Director.

PRE CONFERENCE INFORMATION

PMPD 2020 - Project Management Professional Day

Project Management for Students - Sponsored by PMI France Cote d'Azur in partnership with SKEMA Business School Sophia also hosting this event.

Event & Networking

Are you someone who always had the curiosity to learn and know about projects and project management or always has interest to have career into it? Then, this project management professional day (PMPD) conference is for you.

Methodology and terms like AGILE, SCRUM, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, WATERFALL METHOD, RISK MANAGEMENT will no longer be unfamiliar to you, as these all will be covered in the conference.

Not only this, you will also have an excellent opportunity to meet the PM professionals of the Côte d'Azur and official partners of the event. These professionals will be present to share their experience and their journey through Workshops, Q&A and Speed Recruiting especially designed for you.

Who are we ?

We are M2 students from Business Consulting and Digital Transformation Master in SKEMA Business School, organizing a conference dedicated to Project Management.

Our event is sponsored by the Project Management Institute France (Cote d'Azur) and you will have the opportunity to learn more about the different PMI certifications like CAPM, PMP and job opportunities and particularly the value of project management!

We are glad to invite you to our conference.

SKEMA students (left to right): Chen, Manon, Barkha, Marion, Lipsa, Prashant

Audience

This conference is open to anybody interested by Project Management, with a special focus on Students (M2, M1 and L3) willing to better understand how Project Management is practiced inside Companies: from hiring, to daily operation, internal development and professional perspectives.

Conference objectives

Give opportunity to students to meet with PM Professionals from 14 major companies:

AIR FRANCE, AMADEUS, ATOS, CAPGEMINI, CREDIT AGRICOLE, IIL France, ITER
ORANGE, PLANISWARE, SBM Offshore, SETEC, SOCIETE GENERALE, TMC France PACA, VOLT

(see LOGOs and links below), Alumni from Schools partners, juniors and seniors PM to have open discussions during dedicated Workshops.

Give opportunity to students to meet with Human Resources responsible from various Companies and share their resume during “speed recruiting” sessions and discuss about Internships, temporary or full time jobs PM related.

Give opportunity to Partner Companies to discover annd attract new PM talents

Maestro Cindy Egolf (http://www.orchestra-conductor.net/)

Deliver a keynote speech by Maestro Cindy Egolf on a leadership topic: "Manage like a Maestro". Cindy is an extraordinarily talented orchestral conductor. Her passion for music is magical and her goals are to ignite imagination and unite creativity.

PRESS articles

Place	Date
SKEMA Business School - Sophia-Antipolis 60 Rue Fedor Dostoïevski, 06902 Valbonne Sophia Antipolis	2020 February, the 6th Registration possible online, and from 1:30 pm in live
Price	Agenda
For everyone : Free / 0€ ID Card can be asked at checkin	1.00 pm : Welcome 2:00 pm : Plenary: Introduction / Opening session - Auditorium 137 Welcome by: PMPD 2020 Student Project Team Christophe Dispas (SKEMA Associate Dean, MSc Programmes Finance Director) Jean-Claude Dravet (PMI France Honorary President) Presentation of Partners Companies (3' each) 3.15 pm : Break-Out by Partner Companies: Interactive workshops (Multiple rooms) Job Fair - « speed recruiting » (K-Center) 5.45 pm : Plenary: Leadership keynote by Maestro Cindy Egolf: "Manage like a Maestro" - http://www.orchestra-conductor.net/ 6.15 pm : Plenary: Closing / Conclusion 7.00pm : Networking cocktail / Students got talent - K-Center
How to go	Questions
Car pooling : please contact us if interested Parking of the business school available and free	Don't forget your ID or dedicated (student) card For any questions that you may have, please contact us at pmi.fr.cote.azur@pmi-france.org info.pmpd@pmi-france.org

PDU

Participation to this event will give you 4 PDUs, in following categories : 2 PDUs in Leadership and 2 PDUs in Strategic, for all certified people in CAPM®, PMP®, PgMP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SP®.

Code to be used to claim your PDUs on CCRS system (https://ccrs.pmi.org/) : C379MVKMCW


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