Chartering Revolutionary Projects - Synthetic Biology (Joint PIM-PBR Meeting)

Chartering Revolutionary Projects - Synthetic Biology

Preparing North Alabama for an Impact Predicted to be Larger than that of IT

A joint meeting at UAHuntsville of Project Management Institute -North Alabama Chapter with the Alabama Partnership for Biotechnology Research

Date: May 20, 2010 (Thursday Evening) Time: 5:30-8:00 PM PDUs: 2 Venue: UAHuntsville’s Chan Auditorium Speaker: Andrew Hessel, Bioinformatics/Biotechnology Co-Chair, Singularity University Cost: $10; event sponsorship available  Registration: Click here

The social and economic impact of the information technology industry is staggering, having revolutionized our society. Synthetic biology is the marriage of the engineering and software development skills possessed by local industry with biology. Its nature and work, strikingly similar to Information Technology (IT), is predicted by some to have an even greater potential impact on our daily lives and economy. Andrew Hessel has become a leading spokesman for this phenomenon, traveling extensively with a unique understanding of not only the technology involved, but also the practical business and investment aspects.

Certain to follow will be paradigm changes in the treatment of disease, cleanup of the environment, bioterrorism, defense and much more. How will your organization and career be affected and what are the opportunities? How can you, as project managers, prepare yourself and your workforce? Where are the global "hotspots" for the technology? What’s it like from a management standpoint at such a threshold in time? Come join us at this meeting to hear from our speaker and a distinguished panel of project managers, change managers and biologists from industry and academia.

To learn more about synthetic biology and its future possibilities, visit the following links.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ0kkgPxJk (an introduction to synthetic biology)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HeQlrtUOu4 (on the future of synthetic biology)

Directions to Chan Auditorium

I- 565 East to Exit 15 (Sparkman Drive). Go to Sparkman Drive stoplight, and then turn LEFT onto Sparkman Drive. Go through 5 stop lights to Ben Graves Drive. Turn RIGHT onto Ben Graves Drive, traveling around the loop. Chan Auditorium is in he 4th building on the left. Parking lot is in front of the building.