The document provides an agenda for the 8th Annual Project Management Congress Week taking place from May 10-15, 2016 in Sharjah, UAE. The inaugural session on May 10th includes registration, an exhibition opening, and several presentations and sessions on topics related to project management. Presentations will cover managing unknowns in entrepreneurial projects, target value design, underground substations, EPC trends in the Middle East power market, and the importance of facility management in project design. There will be prayer time and a networking lunch, followed by additional afternoon and evening sessions on topics such as software project performance, wind turbine project management, and innovation project management.

1. Inaugural Session
Presentation
0800 Registration and Morning Coffee
0845 Exhibition Opening
1015 Session One
1000
Tuesday 10th
May 2016
Radisson BLU Hotel, Sharjah - U.A.E.
0830 Chairman’s Opening Remarks & Welcome
Dr. Rashid Alleem, Founder & Executive Chairman
Alleem Corporation, Sharjah, UAE
0915 SEWA Project Management Module
Dr. Rashid Alleem, Founder & Executive Chairman
Alleem Corporation, Sharjah, UAE
1035 Managing the Unknown within the Entrepreneurial Project
Dr. Tariq Abdulsalam Omer, CEO
Alkhubara Consulting & Development, Dubai, UAE
1135 Target Value Design
Prof. Mohammed Arif, Professor of Sustainability
and Proces Management
University of Salford, UK
1015 Underground Substations Concepts with Special
Consideration of ME Environmental Conditions
Dirk Barz, Senior Project Manager Transmission Solutions,
Energy Management,
Siemens LLC, Dubai, UAE
1055 Project Management - Best Practices
Owais Ali Khan, Business Development Manager
Wärtsilä Gulf FZE, Dubai, UAE
1155 Program Management and Benefits Realization
Najmul Hussain, Program Director - PMI Certifications
Blue Ocean Academy, Dubai, UAE
8th
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
C O N G R E S S W E E K
Annual
1115 EPC Trends in ME Power Market
Tariq Shaikh, Head of Projects – Gulf, GE Power – Middle East,
Gas Power Systems
General Electric (GE), Dubai, UAE
1215 Importance of Facility Management at the
Design and project stage
Dilip Khatwani, Chief Executive Officer
Reliance Facilities Management LLC, Dubai, UAE

2. 1235 - 1330 Prayer Time, Networking Lunch
1330 Second Session
1535 Third Session
1520
1720 END OF CONGRESS
1715 Grand Raffle ( SPONSORED by Developer Bldg. Cont. )
1430 Determinants of Software Project Performance:
Implications from a Cross-National Study
Dr. Santanu Roy, Professor-in-Charge, Dual Country Program
Institute of Management Technology, Dubai, UAE
1410 Project Management Practices in the
MILRES Wind Turbine Project
Dr. Gurdal Ertek, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT Dubai), Dubai, UAE
1635 Innovation Project Management
Catrine S.V. Sutter, CEO & Founder
Catrine Sutter IT | BUSINESS | INNOVATIONS, Doha, Qatar
1615 Achieving Project Success: Behaviors of Project Players
Nikki Zadegan, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Business
Development Officer
mBELLAb Power Solutions LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
1350 Innovative Project Management through Technological
Enhancements
Dr. Mohammad Tariq, Executive Chairman
Paradigm Pioneers Group, Dubai, UAE
1655 Managing Major Projects Constraints; Reflections & Insights
Prof. Sunny Gervin Nyemah, Managing Partner
Bentley Kantor & Company, Dubai, UAE
1330 Multi Criteria Decision Making Application in Project Management
Fikri Dweiri, PhD, Vice Dean - College of Engineering
University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
1500 Importance of Float in Project Management
Sameh Monir El-Sayegh, Ph.D., PMP, Associate Professor of
Civil Engineering
American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
1555 Ten golden rules to make it a successful Project
Dr Hussain Ahmed, Prof. in Petroleum Engineering
American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
1450 The Project Manager in a Teen
Ahmed Rayyan Abbassi, 9A
Dubai Scholars Private School, Dubai, UAE
1535 Project Leadership
Prof. Dr. Gouher Ahmed, Professor of Strategic Leaderhip
and International Business