Date

2006 Event Summary

12 Jan.

Dr. Barry Hsiung, President of PMI-Taiwan was invited by Dr. SP Tsai, host of BCC POP NETWORK for a Radio Program Interview. The program received great feedbacks from various public and private sectors.

Topic: Project Management & Cross Function Integration for Government Sector

25-26Feb.

Dr. Barry Hsiung, Mr. Mark Ting, Ms. Carrie Lao, Ms. Ivy Liu attend !uPMI-Asia Pacific Leadership Meeting!v&!uGlobal Congress!vin Bangkok. Dr. Hsiung attended !uPMI Research Forum!vas a panelist.

21 Apr.

Dr. Barry Hsiung, President of PMI-Taiwan and Ms. Ivy Liu, Secretary General of PMI-Taiwan was invited by Chung-Hua University to give speeches and received great feedbacks from the graduate and Ph.D. students

Topic: The Core Value of Project Management(Dr. Barry Hsiung)

Introduction of PMI and PMI Certification Program(Ms. Ivy Liu)

6-8May.

Dr. Barry Hsiung(President of PMI-Taiwan; PMI REP Advisor Group Member) attended PMI REP AG Meeting in Madrid, Spain.

24 May

PMI-Taiwan Board Meeting(PMITW-1.6)

10 Jun.

PMI-Taiwan 2006 Annual Member Plenary Conference & Board Election was held in style with solemnization. Dr. Barry Hsiung was reelected to be PMI-Taiwan!|s chapter president.

PMI Manager, Accreditation Programs Dr. Mike Price attended the conference and gave a presentation on.PMI Chairman Iain Fraser, Board of Director Dr. Yanping Chen, CEO Gregory Balestrero, Region 9 Mentor Saji K Madapat, Asia Pacific Service Centre Manager David Goh, PMI-HongKong President Patty Wong, PMI-Malaysia President Megat A. Zainuri, and Director of University of Sydney Chris Stevens has also sent their Letters of Congratulations to the conference. PMI-Taiwan had also presented the !y2006 Enterprise PMP Benchmarking Award!zto six companies including IBM-Taiwan, TSMC, HP-Taiwan, Trend Micro, Alcatel and Nokia-Taiwan to dedicate their success in holding the most PMPs in Taiwan and have demonstrated the value of project management to the organizations.

10 Jun.

PMI-Taiwan Board Meeting(PMITW-2.1)

26 Jun.

PMI-Taiwan co-organized the!uSystem Innovation and Management in Knowledge Intensive Service Industry Workshop!vwhich was held at the Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology Taichung.

Topic:

• ISO 15288 as a Framework to Guide Innovation and Management (Dr. Timothy Ferris)
• Systems Thinking and Innovation(Dr. Willy Peng, President of INCOSE Taiwan)
• Systems Engineering Application in Healthcare Service Industry
• An Innovation to Business Service Systems
• Program Management and Innovation for High Tech Industry
• Innovation and Idealization in Systems: I-TRIZ

19-21 Jul.

Dr. Barry Hsiung(President of PMI-Taiwan; PMI REP Advisor Group Member) attended PMI REP Research Forum in Montreal, Canada.

28 Aug.

PMI-Taiwan Chapter was officially registered at Taipei City Court as a Corporation(95AOaA|r2A80﹐1)

30 Aug.

Dr. Barry Hsiung, President of PMI-Taiwan was invited by Taipei City Government to give speeches and received great feedbacks from 50 attendees of the senior management level.

Topic: Global Project Management Body of Knowledge and Professional Certification Program

12~15 Sept.

PMI-Taiwan co-organized the International Project Management Forum 2006 in Hong Kong with GPAC and PMI-Hong Kong.Dr. Barry Hsiung, President; Dr. HT Chou, Vice President; Ms. Ivy Liu, Secretary General of PMI-Taiwan attended the conference with 3 other representatives from Taiwan.The Forum was held at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and attracted more than 270 delegants from over 10 countries.The Hong Kong government made the most of this professional event with media promotions and announcement. Ir Chai-Kwon Mak, Director of Highways from the Hong Kong Government presented as the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony and Ir Man-Ho Au JP, Director-General of Telecommunications from Office of the Telecommunications Authority at the closing ceremony made a great success of this event.

19~21 Oct.

Ms. Paquita Chang, Board Member and Ms. Ivy Liu, Secretary General of PMI-Taiwan attended 2006 PMI Leadership Meeting North America in Seattle.The Leadership Meeting attracted over 550 component leaders from 162 components and over 3000 delegates to attend the Global Congress.PMI-Taiwan representatives set up a Showcase to introduce and promote PMI-Taiwan in this global event and built up good connections and relationships with professionals from all over the world.

06 Nov.

PMI-Taiwan Board Meeting(PMITW-2.2)

5 Dec.

PMI-Taiwan organized an International Volunteer Day activities to kicked-off its volunteer development program.Volunteers break into groups for discussions and provided valuable suggestions to the program.Several important tasks were identified by volunteers and started the planning meetings after this event.

21 Dec.

Dr. Barry Hsiung, President of PMI-Taiwan was invited by the School of Ministry of National Defense to give a speech and received great feedbacks from 200 attendees included the General and Colonel level.