2013 Annual Conference

Managing Projects, Programs, and Portfolios: The Power of Professionalism

This premier educational event takes place every August.

Come join us to . . .

Learn the latest tools, tips, techniques and trends in project, program and portfolio management that will help you take your career to the next level and improve your organizational success.
Network and share ideas and experiences with executives, project, program and portfolio managers, sponsors, and other practitioners from a wide variety of industries, government agencies, and educational institutions.
Earn professional development units (PDUs) toward maintaining your PMI credential.

Whatever your stake in projects, this event is a valuable asset for you, your team, and your organization.

Keynote Speakers

Traci Duez with "Breaking Free: Leading the Way"

Randy Black with "The Future of Project Management"

Four tracks will be presented this year:

Leading the Way	Project leaders provide advocacy of innovation, strategic direction and positive change. This track centers on leadership skills, training and knowledge that will help you become the leader you are meant to be.
Making the Leap	From waterfall to lean/six sigma and agile, project management continues to evolve bringing advancement and excellence to organizations. This track focuses on growing trends, tools and techniques.
Driving for Success	Successful project management leads to more efficient use of organization resources by progressive management of stakeholders, scope, cost, risk. This track focuses on successful practices that will ensure organizational transparency and project, program and portfolio success.
Proving the Value	Project, Program and Portfolio management promotes organizational success by providing standard, consistent and repeatable processes that increase value and reduce risk. This track focuses on the added value that project management brings to organizations as a whole.

Earn 8 PDUs for the entire conference

Location

Doubletree Hotel - Lloyd Center
1000 NE Multnomah
Portland, Oregon 97232

Deadlines (at 5:00 p.m.)	Chapter Members	Chapter Student Members	Non-Members
Super Earlybird (4/1 - 5/15/2013)	$209	$ 99	$349
Earlybird (5/15 - 6/30/2013)	$249	$ 99	$349
Regular (6/30 - 8/19/2013)	$299	$ 99	$349
Late (after 8/19/2013 at 5 p.m.)	$349	$149	$349

Organizations–do you need to register a group with one credit card payment? Use the Group Registration Process (TBD)

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90% of the registration amount will be refunded if the request for cancellation/refund is received more than 30 days prior to the event.
75% of the registration amount will be refunded if the request for cancellation/refund is received between 29 and 8 days prior to the event.
If request for refunds are received less than 7 days prior to the start of the event, the refund will not be processed since monetary outlays have been incurred for meals and materials.
All requests for refunds must be made in writing to the respective event coordinator: Annual Conference Director
Registrations cannot be transferred from event to event due to different rate structures; a refund will be processed and applied to the original credit card.
Cancellation/Refund Policy