Leading local and international project managers met in Hanoi onNovember 6 for the 7th International Conference on Project Management(ProMac2013), discussing issues affecting IT, education, finance and thenation's economy.
This year's ProMac conference attracted over250 international delegates from 10 countries, with strongrepresentation from R&D departments from the world's largestcompanies including Fujitsu, Hitachi and IBM Japan.
Teachingstaff from universities across Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China,India and Vietnam were also present.
This year's conference saw 60 topics discussed in groups by experts and project managers.
With rapid development occurring in many fields, there has been anincreasing need to foster project management skills across many areas ofeconomic development.
Bringing ProMac to Vietnam, the JapaneseSociety of Project Management (SPM) predicted the event would allowVietnamese project managers to tap into Japan 's vast projectmanagement community.
Dean of FPT University Le Truong Tung,under the management of the country FPT software, said FPT Universitywas the first one in Vietnam to introduce project management intotertiary and post-graduate training programmes, inviting projectmanagement experts from local companies including Viettel and CMC, todiscuss their experience and knowledge with students.
Tung saidthat project administration in Japan was ranked the best in the worldat mark 10, with Vietnam currently at mark 6.
He said hisuniversity was fully aware that students needed to be taught projectmanagement at university to enable a faster transition into theworkforce and the ability to work on large scale projects.
TruongGia Binh, chief of FPT shared his views on the challenge andopportunities in the field of project management in Vietnam .
Moving to information technology (IT) as the core platform fordevelopment, he said Vietnam faced significant challenges in ITdevelopment including low levels of high skilled IT workers.
Binh noted that these problems were partially discussed and progressed at Promac 2013 this year.
Chairman of SPM, Seki Tetsuro, said Vietnam was a potentialdestination for the global IT industry, with events like ProMac 2013,helping to identify areas of improvement and share inside knowledge.
The organising committee of PROMAC said it expected to see moreproject management units being taught in universities as a way to keepstudents in touch with changes in the industry.
The meeting wasco-held by the FPT University and Japanese Society of ProjectManagement and it concluded on November 9 in Hanoi.-VNA
This year's ProMac conference attracted over250 international delegates from 10 countries, with strongrepresentation from R&D departments from the world's largestcompanies including Fujitsu, Hitachi and IBM Japan.
Teachingstaff from universities across Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China,India and Vietnam were also present.
This year's conference saw 60 topics discussed in groups by experts and project managers.
With rapid development occurring in many fields, there has been anincreasing need to foster project management skills across many areas ofeconomic development.
Bringing ProMac to Vietnam, the JapaneseSociety of Project Management (SPM) predicted the event would allowVietnamese project managers to tap into Japan 's vast projectmanagement community.
Dean of FPT University Le Truong Tung,under the management of the country FPT software, said FPT Universitywas the first one in Vietnam to introduce project management intotertiary and post-graduate training programmes, inviting projectmanagement experts from local companies including Viettel and CMC, todiscuss their experience and knowledge with students.
Tung saidthat project administration in Japan was ranked the best in the worldat mark 10, with Vietnam currently at mark 6.
He said hisuniversity was fully aware that students needed to be taught projectmanagement at university to enable a faster transition into theworkforce and the ability to work on large scale projects.
TruongGia Binh, chief of FPT shared his views on the challenge andopportunities in the field of project management in Vietnam .
Moving to information technology (IT) as the core platform fordevelopment, he said Vietnam faced significant challenges in ITdevelopment including low levels of high skilled IT workers.
Binh noted that these problems were partially discussed and progressed at Promac 2013 this year.
Chairman of SPM, Seki Tetsuro, said Vietnam was a potentialdestination for the global IT industry, with events like ProMac 2013,helping to identify areas of improvement and share inside knowledge.
The organising committee of PROMAC said it expected to see moreproject management units being taught in universities as a way to keepstudents in touch with changes in the industry.
The meeting wasco-held by the FPT University and Japanese Society of ProjectManagement and it concluded on November 9 in Hanoi.-VNA
