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World's Largest Engineering and Technology Management Conference Returns
The Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, or "PICMET," will be held in Portland July 20-24, 2003.
PICMET '03, the largest conference on technology management in the world, will be focused on "Technology Management for Reshaping the World." The conference is sponsored by Portland State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Management. Over 650 heads of industry, researchers and technology managers are expected to attend. Panels, tutorials, paper sessions, plenaries and workshops will focus on topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, technology transfer, technology road-mapping, new product development, knowledge mining and measuring the business value of a technology.
The conference is an incubator for technology management, which is the new "international language," according to PICMET founder, president and CEO Dundar Kocaoglu. "The global centers of power in today's society are being defined by the development and management of technologies," says Kocaoglu, who also chairs PSU's Department of Engineering and Technology Management. "Those who are able to develop new ideas and harness technologies are leading the way for the rest of the world."
This year's conference keynote speakers include Kwan Rim, chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology; Seiichi Watanabe, executive vice president of Sony Corp.; Rosalie Zobel, European Commission; Nejat Veziroglu, director of Hydrogen Energy Research at University of Miami; Youngrak Choi, president of STEPI, Korea; and Steve Luczo, CEO of Segate Corp.
Twelve years after the first PICMET in 1991, the conference has doubled in size, while holding steadfast to its guiding principal: To be a forum for the transfer of knowledge between education and industry about engineering and technology management. "What continues to motivate us is the influence PICMET is making around the world," says Kocaoglu. Companies and educational institutions from Germany to Japan, Turkey and Korea, have publicly acknowledged PICMET as being the catalyst for their R&D and technology management efforts.
PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology) was established by Portland State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Management as a nonprofit organization to disseminate information on technology management through an international conference. Each conference is designed with university and industry partners. Graduate students in PSU's Engineering and Technology Management program are heavily involved in the planning process of selecting workshop topics and speakers and reviewing submitted academic papers, and are able to attend the conference
PICMET continues to evolve in response to the needs of its attendees. In addition to a weeklong conference, PICMET plans to expand into a year-round international center for engineering technology management to represent the industry with the latest research, publications, trends and legislation. For more information, visit www.picmet.org or call PSU's Department of Engineering and Technology Management at 503-725-4660.
PICMET '03, the largest conference on technology management in the world, will be focused on "Technology Management for Reshaping the World." The conference is sponsored by Portland State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Management. Over 650 heads of industry, researchers and technology managers are expected to attend. Panels, tutorials, paper sessions, plenaries and workshops will focus on topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, technology transfer, technology road-mapping, new product development, knowledge mining and measuring the business value of a technology.
The conference is an incubator for technology management, which is the new "international language," according to PICMET founder, president and CEO Dundar Kocaoglu. "The global centers of power in today's society are being defined by the development and management of technologies," says Kocaoglu, who also chairs PSU's Department of Engineering and Technology Management. "Those who are able to develop new ideas and harness technologies are leading the way for the rest of the world."
This year's conference keynote speakers include Kwan Rim, chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology; Seiichi Watanabe, executive vice president of Sony Corp.; Rosalie Zobel, European Commission; Nejat Veziroglu, director of Hydrogen Energy Research at University of Miami; Youngrak Choi, president of STEPI, Korea; and Steve Luczo, CEO of Segate Corp.
Twelve years after the first PICMET in 1991, the conference has doubled in size, while holding steadfast to its guiding principal: To be a forum for the transfer of knowledge between education and industry about engineering and technology management. "What continues to motivate us is the influence PICMET is making around the world," says Kocaoglu. Companies and educational institutions from Germany to Japan, Turkey and Korea, have publicly acknowledged PICMET as being the catalyst for their R&D and technology management efforts.
PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology) was established by Portland State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Management as a nonprofit organization to disseminate information on technology management through an international conference. Each conference is designed with university and industry partners. Graduate students in PSU's Engineering and Technology Management program are heavily involved in the planning process of selecting workshop topics and speakers and reviewing submitted academic papers, and are able to attend the conference
PICMET continues to evolve in response to the needs of its attendees. In addition to a weeklong conference, PICMET plans to expand into a year-round international center for engineering technology management to represent the industry with the latest research, publications, trends and legislation. For more information, visit www.picmet.org or call PSU's Department of Engineering and Technology Management at 503-725-4660.
