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Dr. David Hillson – is an international risk management consultant and Director of Risk Doctor & Partners, offering specialist risk management consultancy and training across the globe, at both strategic and tactical levels. He has worked in over 40 countries and his clients include major organisations in construction, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, fast- moving consumer goods, energy, IT, defence and government. See BIO

Dr. Harold Kerzner – is Senior Executive Director for Project Management for the International Institute for Learning. Dr. Kerzner’s expertise is in the areas of project management and strategic planning. He has published more than 45 texts related to project management, including later editions. See BIO

Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski - is a top leadership speaker specializing in communications
and leadership in project management. Engaging and energetic she brings her audience with her on a journey to greater use of their leadership potential. Ms. Hirotsu Ziemski is also the author of "When Opposites Collide - Leadership beyond Gender". A consultant and facilitator she is proud to be associated with Management Concepts, Systemation and UC Berkeley and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the PMI SFBAC as her eighth year as an active volunteer. See BIO

Olivier Lazar - is a Project Management consultant, coach and trainer. Graduate with a Master’s degree in Strategy, Project and Program Management and an Executive MBA from the Lille Graduate School of Management, he’s actually Global Manager for the Project Management Excellence Practice at Altran, global leader in technology and innovation consulting; Olivier is also Partner at Valense, Project Management experts’ worldwide network. See BIO

Pablo Lledó - business practitioner, lecturer during many PMI Congresses: Washington 2010, Buenos Aires 2010, Panama 2010, Sao Paulo 2008, Montevideo 2008, Mexico 2008, Lima 2007, Cancun 2007, Chile 2006, Among his professional experience highlights its performance in areas of project formulation at Towers Perrin in England. Currently President of MasConsulting, company specialized in Project Management. His background is the economic formulation and evaluation of projects, project risk management and companies valuation. He is also Director of the Project Management Institute Buenos Aires and a professor of prestigious universities and business schools. See BIO

Roberto Toledo - has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in the project management field. He is currently Managing Partner of Alpha PM Consulting, Inc., a project management training and consulting firm based in South Texas and of Alpha Consultoria, SA one of Latin America's leading project management training and consulting firms and Cheetah Learning's licensee for the region. See BIO

Troy Hazard - business concultant of many leading world brands, such as: Goodyear, Coles Myer, Flight Centre, Baskin Robbins, Subway, and many others. See BIO

George R. Sifri, DBA, PMP- expert in IT project management, risk management and knowledge management. Instructor ESI International and Management Training & Development Center (MT & DC) with more than 20 years of experience in project management. See BIO

Aldo Gebbia - has graduated summa cum laude in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Naples. He is currently Vice President, Risk & Opportunity and Knowledge Management of Saipem www.saipem.com (Eni Group).He is Saipem’s Client Emergencies Response Coordinator, is a member of the Crisis Unit of Saipem, and of the Major Emergencies Sub-committee of Assomineraria. He is Charter Member of the PMI Rome Italy Chapter, founded in 1997, and has served as President of the same from Jan 2008 till April 2011. See BIO

Vincente Marcelo Ginestar - expert in logistics and ground transportation. He starts his relationship with transport companies in 1987, performing managerial tasks in well-know companies in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Nowadays, he is responsible for Andesmar Cargas S.A.’s commercial management in Buenos Aires and project management for major events, leading the project Andesmar Dakar 2009, 2010, 2011 y 2012. See BIO

Manon Deguire - educator and practitioner of project management, author of many publications. She is a Managing Partner of Valense Ltd. She has 25 years work experience in Canada, the UK and Europe. See BIO

So far, during the Congress our lecturers were: Rodney Turner, David Hillson, Michel Thiry, Gerard M. Hill, Claudia M. Baca, José D. Esterkin, Steve Flannes, Hugh Cameron, Darryl W. Booker, Bartosz Grucza.

This year Congress edition includes workshops and lectures given, among others, by:

Our lecturers are world-famous experts of project management. They are not only theorists, but also business practitioners, who present some of the practical topics.