Dear valued members,

Hope you all have been enjoying the nice and warm sunny days in the month of May, which is rather exceptional for the season. Some of you may also be getting ready to run the 20 KM of Brussels that will take place on 27th of May. If you do, please send me your pictures at renuka.ayri@pmi-belgium.beso that we can publish them in our next newsletter.

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

Getting back to business, let me update you on our last chapter event that took place on 19th of April at ISF Tervuren. We had a house-full and registrations were closed two weeks before the event. This was one of the most interactive event. Kris Troukens, an expert on GDPR shared a lot of information about why the companies have to be ready and what they need to do to comply with the new GDPR. There was also a panel discussion at the end of the presentation and the participants had a plenty of questions for the panellists.

If you missed the opportunity to attend the event, don’t worry! You can download the presentation from our website. 

The pictures of the event are also available on our website.

 

 

 

GDPR is a hot topic at the moment as it will come into force on 25 May 2018. Frank Turley, the Director of Professional Development, interviewed Kris Troukens, Partner at GeDaPRe.eu to find out “What a PM should know about GDPR”. Please read the Interview with Kris Troukens on GDPR to learn about what the big players, like Google and Facebook are doing to get ready for the big day and what the government is doing to ensure that everything is running smoothly.

 

  

If you want to learn even more on GDPR, please go to https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-eu_en

Upcoming events

Satellite Event - 29th of May 2018 at CMAST

Topic: Introducing project management in small and medium sized enterprises: from chaos to order

Venue:
CMAST BVBA
Georges Van Dammeplein 57
9140 Temse

For more information and registration, please click here.

Please note that since this is a Satellite event, the number of places are limited and only a few are left. So, if you want to attend, register now before it’s too late!

Chapter Event – 5th of June 2018 at AE, Architects for Business & ICT

Topic: Are you ready for a mysterious business game?

Venue:
Architects for Business & ICT
Interleuvenlaan 27b
3001 Heverlee

AE , Architects for Business & ICT will provide us with a simple but challenging business game where collaboration and communication are key. The event will be done in an interactive game-format where everybody will participate and learn. We cannot share a lot of information because the game needs to remain a secret until the event. The reason? We want to give every participant the same opportunities. In this way, nobody is privileged and it will be amusing for everybody!

For more information and registration, please click here.

Satellite Event, Workshop, 7th of June in Waremme

Topic: New trends in project management

Venue:
Mölnlycke Health Care (Halls Hergé)
Chaussée Romaine 176 4300
Waremme

Please note that this event will be held in French language.

There will be a brief presentation on emerging methodologies in project management, such as Agile, Lean, Devops… This will be followed by a roundtable discussion to share experiences and to get to know each other over a drink and sandwiches.
For more information and registration, please click here.

PM FAIR 2018

The PMI Belgium Chapter has a long-standing tradition of organizing an Annual Congress, known as the PM Fair, in the beginning of October each year. As already announced in our previous newsletter, PM Fair 2018 will take place on Friday, 5th October at Proximus Lounge in Evere, Brussels. Early bird registrations are now open. Register before 8th of July to benefit the discounted rates for early birds. For more information about PM Fair 2018, go to http://www.pmfair.org

Would you like to be a speaker, a sponsor or to have a dynamic and professional stand in the Inspiration Hall?

Please contact us at events@pmi-belgium.be, you’ll be contacted by our team lead ers who will share with you the call for speakers, sponsors or inspiration hall.

We need help !

The PMI Belgium Chapter needs your input!

Our chapter exists for and through the PMI members active in Belgium. To be able to adjust our program and activities as much as possible to your wishes, we need to collect this information in some way.

How?
We have initiated two actions:

1. Surveys: You have received an invitation to participate in the annual survey. This survey originates from the board and the purpose is to collect your interests. Please participate in the survey as your remarks will be handled by the board and appropriate action can be taken. There is also an incentive linked to it. For more details click here.

2. The second action is more direct. At each (national) event, we will have a “suggestion box” located at the registration desk. If you have any suggestions on every possible topic related to PMI Belgium, write them down on a piece of paper and deposit it in the box. Or talk to someone from the board during the event and share your thoughts. You may also send your feedback or suggestions by email to membership@pmi-belgium.be.

Volunteering with PMI Belgium

After the Volunteering Day in February, the board took some actions to involve more people into volunteering activities. This resulted in a list of volunteering activities we currently have open in the VRMS system.
We are currently looking for volunteers for the following positions:

• Satellite event leaders
• Chapter event facilitators
• Photographer for the PM Fair
• Survey coordinator

More information for these opportunities is available on the website https://vrms.pmi.org
Any questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out to Freddy Wildemeersch (Director of Membership & Volunteering) or Roeland Bollen (Associate Director of Membership & Volunteering)

Introduction call for New Members

Members joining the PMI Belgium Chapter for the first time receive an e-mail and an invite to participate in an interactive Skype call with some of our board members.

During that call the history of the chapter, the day-to-day activities, the future events and the website are being explained. As it is a call there is also a possibility to ask questions and open discussions.

If you get an invite, don’t hesitate to accept it and participate. The next call will be planned for Monday the 4th of June at 8 PM.

Cross border collaboration – EU Passport

We already informed you that you can now attend PMI Chapter events in Europe and grow your knowledge and networks. If you are a member of any of our participating Chapters, when travelling abroad, you can attend events, at all these Chapters, at their local members’ only rates! You may consult the website https://european-chapters.eu/ for more information.

 

To help you further with this initiative, we thought of keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening in our neighbourhood. Please find below the information about upcoming events in our neighboring chapters.

 

PMI France Chapter – Forum PMI des Régions 2018 – Etape de Lille

Title : Hybridation, Agilité, Bienveillance, Intelligence artificielle & Neurosciences

Date: 15 June 2018

Time: 09:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Venue: SKEMA Business School

For more details on the event, go to https://pmi-france.org/branches/nord-de-france/conferences/lille-forum-2018

PMI Netherlands Chapter

Title: Taste Change Management in a Digital Transformation setting

Subtitle: Activate your change management skills

Date: 19 June 2018

Time: 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Venue:
INSynQ,
Beemdstraat 1C
5653 MA Eindhoven.
Free Parking

The registrations for this event are not yet open but will open soon. You will find more details in the coming days on https://www.pmi-netherlands-chapter.org. The registration code for the free European passport is: euchaptermember.

Our mission is to help you grow. Wishing you all a great learning experience with PMI.

PMI Belgium Board