Alin Veronika, PMP, PMI-RMP
President PMI Indonesia Chapter
PMI Indonesia Chapter has been organized its International Project Management Symposium and Exhibition since 2011. This year, 2017 will be the seventh SymEx and will be held on October 11 & 12, 2017 in Bandung. We are back to Bandung to present the more attractive program, nice and cozy ambience at SymEx 2017.
I’ve been joining SymEx since 2011 in Bali. As a participant, I’ve learned so many things from noble speakers. But the moment that I never forget from my first experience joining SymEx is meeting and networking with other project management fellows. SymEx 2011 was my starting point to explore more in the project management area and become more and more interested and finally fall in love with project management. It successfully made me become one of PMI Indonesia Chapter volunteer where I meet lots of practitioners from other industries and open my mind that my work environment not only related to construction management, infrastructure and Education but to other industries, such as: Information Technology, Telecommunication, Oil & Gas, Mining and others. I am so grateful to have such opportunity to broaden my network, meet new people, sharing and learning from others. It started from SymEx.
SymEx has been organized in different location in Indonesia. In 2011, Symex was held in Bali then we moved to Yogyakarta and Bandung in 2012 and 2013 respectively. For the first time, SymEx was held outside Java & Bali, Palembang was selected was the location of SymEx 2014. In 2015, we planned to organize SymEx in the capital of Indonesia – Jakarta, but due to many considerations we moved the location to Bogor. Last year SymEx in 2016 was held in Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia. And this year, we chose to come back to Bandung as our location to hold the 7th SymEx. Bandung is well known for its cool calming weather, delicious food, shopping, or the gorgeous sceneries, visitors come from all over to experience different things to do in Bandung’s exquisite atmosphere.
The SymEx 2017 theme is Project Management Leads Business Through Uncertainty. Whether in project or business, the key challenge that leaders should face is managing uncertainty. Through this symposium, we are expecting that future leaders can learn from world class speakers how to be ready to face the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) era by using project management, strategic and leadership. At the SymEx 2017, more than 14 prominent speakers both local speakers and international speakers. We hope more than 200 participants will join us at the symposium.
This event will be successful with the support of all attendees, I would like to thank you for those who are registered to attend our events, our committed speakers and sponsors.
I am joining SymEx 2017, how about you? I am looking forward to welcoming you at the SymEx 2017 ^-^.
Warmest Regards
Alin Veronika, PMP, PMI-RMP
President PMI Indonesia Chapter