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APM Women in Project Management SIG – Summer Newsletter 2019   Follow us on social mediaOur linkedIn group APM Women in Project Management SIG or via twitter @apmwipmsig #apmwipm #WiPM Newsletter contents Welcome message from our Chair Committee elections – new committee members, their roles and regions they represent Update on WiPM Vision and 20219-2020 plan Events update APM WiPM Conference 2019 Celebrating success Books & links we like And finally.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (APM) has announced the finalists for its APM Project Management Awards 2019, sponsored by RPC UK Ltd.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (APM) members are being invited to nominate candidates for the organisation’s upcoming board elections, which will see four newly elected members take an active role in shaping the future of the project profession.

Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) standard is off to a flying start with almost 800 individuals achieving ChPP status, including 495 within the first five months of the standard being announced in October, according to the newly published APM Members' Review for 2018/19.

Sue Kershaw, UK managing director of Major Projects Advisory at consultancy firm KPMG, has been announced as ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s (APM’s) first female president.

This was a very popular event with 80 attendees at Airbus Pegasus House, 2 July 2019, to learn about how and why Airbus use Earned Value Management and the benefits it gives them.

Fiona Caldecott, of 3Degrees Social, gave a presentation on how to create a powerful LinkedIn profile to members of the Midlands branch at the Great Barr Hotel near West Bromwich on 25 June 2019.

The middle of June 2019 saw the return of the APM North West Research Symposium - an event jointly supported by APM’s Research programme and the North West Branch - hosted at Lancaster University Management School by Dr Christine Unterhitzenberger and Professor Darren Dalcher.

Stoke Gifford Village Hall hosted an inspirational presentation, 5 June 2019, from the APM South Wales & West of England (SWWE) Project Management (PM) Challenge 2018/19 Winners, Team Babcock.

The following nominations have been received for the APM Thames Valley committee 2019-2020: Carol Bell Daren Evans Dr Steve Walters Grant Kane Jake Younger Kathy Stevenson Paul Bradley Sally Andrews Steven Hoesli Thank you to all the nominees.