A Complete List of Project Management Conferences 2020
The only project management conference list you will ever need. This list contains all the information you might need when picking a conference including insights about the conference, locations, and ticket prices.
The only project management conference list you will ever need. This list contains all the information you might need when picking a conference including insights about the conference, locations, and ticket prices.
Vytas Butkus
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73 Project Management Conferences
In the field of project management, conferences provide a good opportunity to hear new ideas and network with professional peers. At the same time, certified project managers can acquire learning hours or units that are required to maintain their respective certificates by attending project management conferences.
A big number of project management conferences are hosted by associated project management bodies like the Project Management Institute (PMI), Association for Project Management (APM), or International Project Management Association (IPMA). There are also independent conferences, which veer away from the traditional approaches of project management. Scroll down for the full list of project management conferences. The list will be regularly updated, so come back to check it out whenever you are planning to visit a new conference.
The list includes only conferences that are dedicated to project management. It does not include Agile conferences, which are also often attended by project managers. If you know of any project management conference that is not in this list, please let us know in the comments and we will add it.
The distribution of conferences throughout the year follows holiday seasonality. The high peaks are in the spring and autumn, and activity almost grinds to a halt during the summer months of July and August. In terms of location, most of the conferences take place in Europe and North America.
Notable Conferences
PMI Global Conference
Project Management Institute (PMI) is one of the premier organizations for project managers. The institute is responsible for various popular certifications like the Project Management Professional (PMP) and for maintaining and updating the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). Thus, no wonder that their flagship conference draws in an amazing crowd of project managers from around the world. Additionally, PMI will host regional conferences in Africa and the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa).
APM Conference
Another organization, similar to PMI, is the Association for Project Management (APM). The association unites project management professionals in the UK and hosts conferences in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, as well as the Women in Project Management conference (date not yet announced).
SeminarsWorld
SeminarsWorld is a series of events also hosted by PMI. These events focus on the practical side of learning and offer various workshops to learn new skills. They are hosted in various cities all around the United States, which creates opportunities to meet peers from your local area.
Project Summit Business Analyst World
Another series of conferences is the Project Summit Business Analyst World. They are hosted in Orlando, Washington DC, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, and Chicago. Participants can earn up to 26 PDUs (Professional Development Units) or CDUs (Continuing Development Units) by attending these conferences.
PMO Conferences
Interest in Project Management Office (PMO) best practices has been growing exponentially, as witnessed by the increase in the number of dedicated conferences from three in 2019 to eight in 2020. Strangely enough, the conferences are congregated in the same three areas:
- FuturePMO, PMO Conference, and Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit in London, UK
- PMO Symposium and Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit in Orlando, Florida
- PMO Leadership Forum, PMO Leadership Summit, and PGCS in Australia
Digital PM Summit
Digital PM Summit, as the name suggests, connects project managers working with digital projects. Speakers include project management professionals from both big and small companies, as well as agile practitioners. There is also a day workshop, which features more hands-on learning in smaller groups.
Change Management Conference
Change management has become a big field in project management with rapid technological progress. The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) hosts the yearly Change Management Conference. Speakers include both internal change management professionals and external consultants, who guide companies during times of change. The conference is relevant to all project managers whose companies are undergoing big changes—like a digital transformation, for example.
Full List of Conferences in 2020
January
International Conference on Business Project Management (ICBPM)
- Date: Jan 9-10, 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Price range: $280–$550
International Conference on Industrial Project Management and Design (ICIPMD)
- Date: Jan 9-10, 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Price range: $280–$550
International Conference on Software Project and Resource Management ICSPRM
- Date: Jan 9-10, 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Price range: $280–$550
International Conference on Project Management and Quality Control ICPMQC
- Date: Jan 13-14, 2020
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
February
International Conference on Software Project and Risk Management (ICSPRM)
- Date: Feb 6-7, 2020
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
PMO LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
- Date: Feb 10-13, 2020
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Price range: $1,240–$3,100/AU$1,800–AU$4,500
STEP Conference
- Date: Feb 11-12, 2020
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Price range: $100–$500
PMO Leadership Forum
- Date: Feb 19-20, 2020
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Price range: $1,650–$2,130/AU$2,400–AU$3,100
International Conference on Lean Six Sigma and Project Management
- Date: Feb 20-21, 2020
- Location: Paris, France
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
SPMI Regional Symposium
- Date: Feb 20-21, 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Price range: $540–$950
SeminarsWorld® in Scottsdale
- Date: Feb 24-27, 2020
- Location: Scottsdale , USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
March
Building Agility and Sustainability in Project Management
- Date: Mar 2, 2020
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Price range: $150–$230/CA$195–CA$295
PMI Sweden Passion for Projects
- Date: Mar 9-10, 2020
- Location: Malmö, Sweden
- Price range: $310–$440/SEK2,950–SEK4,150
SeminarsWorld® in San Antonio
- Date: Mar 9-12, 2020
- Location: San Antonio, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
The Deliver Conference
- Date: Mar 12-13, 2020
- Location: Manchester, UK
- Price range: $120
The Digital Leadership Forum
- Date: Mar 16-17, 2020
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Price range: $540–$1,330/€490–€1,200
APM Power of Projects Conference Edinburgh 2020
- Date: Mar 17, 2020
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Price range: $30–$390/£30–£300
Conference Together in Excellence 2020
- Date: Mar 17-18, 2020
- Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Price range: $90–$220/€80–€200
April
SeminarsWorld® in McLean
- Date: Apr 6-9, 2020
- Location: McLean, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling
- Date: Apr 15-17, 2020
- Location: Toulouse, France
- Price range: $260–$500/€230–€450
PM Welt
- Date: Apr 21, 2020
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Price range: $640–$750/€580–€680
Enterprise Risk Management Summit
- Date: Apr 23-24, 2020
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Price range: $1,880/€1,700
International Conference on Kanban and Project Management ICKPM
- Date: Apr 23-24, 2020
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
International Scientific Conference on Project Management
- Date: Apr 23-24, 2020
- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Price range: $60–$210/€50–€190
May
The Change Management Conference
- Date: May 3-6, 2020
- Location: Anaheim, USA
- Price range: $1,400–$2,800
International Conference on Business Systems Engineering and Project Management (ICBSEPM) Singapore
- Date: May 4-5, 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
Project Summit Business Analyst World
- Date: May 4-6, 2020
- Location: Washington, USA
- Price range: $710–$2,220
HAPPYPROJECTS 20
- Date: May 7, 2020
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Price range: $650/€590
The UMD Project Management Symposium
- Date: May 7-8, 2020
- Location: Maryland, USA
- Price range: $300–$580
Portfolio and Project Management Summit
- Date: May 13-14, 2020
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Price range: $1,330–$13,310/€1,200–€12,000
PM Summit 2020 Ireland
- Date: May 13, 2020
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Price range: $250–$440/€230–€400
LearnFest Caribbean Jamaica
- Date: May 13-14, 2020
- Location: Kingston, Jamaica
- Price range: $100–$850
The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
- Date: May 14-15, 2020
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Price range: $740–$1,010/₹52500–₹71500
IPMA SENET Project Management Conference – Challenges of Growing Economies
- Date: May 17-19, 2020
- Location: Šamorín-Čilistov, Slovakia
- Price range: $110–$320/€100–€290
SeminarsWorld® in Pittsburgh
- Date: May 18-21, 2020
- Location: Pittsburgh, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
The ACE! Conference
- Date: May 20-22, 2020
- Location: Kraków, Poland
- Price range: $350+/€320+
APM Power of Projects Conference London 2020
- Date: May 21, 2020
- Location: London, UK
- Price range: $65–$590/£50–£455
ICIM 2020: Innovation and Management Conference
- Date: May 21-22, 2020
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Price range: $280–$330/€250–€300
15th Brazilian Congress on Management, Projects and Leadership
- Date: May 28-30, 2020
- Location: Asa Sul, Brazil
- Price range: $100-$350/R$378-R$1,370
June
The Resource Planning Summit
- Date: Jun 1-3, 2020
- Location: St. Louis, USA
- Price range: $1,000–$2,000
The PMO 2020 Conference
- Date: Jun 2-3, 2020
- Location: London, UK
- Price range: $460–$1,330/£350–£1,020
Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit London
- Date: Jun 10-11, 2020
- Location: London, UK
- Price range: $2,440–$3,190/€2,200–€2,880
PMI EMEA Congress
- Date: Jun 14-16, 2020
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Price range: $630–$3,180/€570–€2,870
IRNOP2020
- Date: Jun 14-17, 2020
- Location: Uppsala, Sweden
- Price range: N/A
SeminarsWorld® in Prague
- Date: Jun 17-18, 2020
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Price range: N/A
Mega SeminarsWorld® in Orlando
- Date: Jun 22-25, 2020
- Location: Orlando, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit Orlando
- Date: Jun 23-25, 2020
- Location: Orlando, USA
- Price range: $2,650–$3,280
APM Power of Projects Conference Manchester 2020
- Date: Jun 24, 2020
- Location: Manchester, UK
- Price range: $30–$370/£30–£280
International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
- Date: Jun 25-26, 2020
- Location: Paris, France
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
Project Management in Practice
- Date: Jun 25-26, 2020
- Location: Boston, USA
- Price range: $110
AACE International Conference
- Date: Jun 28-Jul 1, 2020
- Location: Chicago, USA
- Price range: $800–$1,530
July
SeminarsWorld® in Chicago
- Date: Jul 20-23, 2020
- Location: Chicago, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
August
SeminarsWorld® in Boston
- Date: Aug 3-6, 2020
- Location: Boston, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
Project and Program Management Symposium 2020
- Date: Aug 25-26, 2020
- Location: Canberra, Australia
- Price range: $460–$1,370/AU$670–AU$1,990
September
PMI Africa Conference
- Date: Sep 6-8, 2020
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Price range: $150–$700
IPMA Research Conference
- Date: Sep 10-11, 2020
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Price range: $170/€150
IPMA World Congress
- Date: Sep 22-24, 2020
- Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Price range: $430–$830/€390–€750
October
The Future PMO
- Date: Oct 1, 2020
- Location: London, UK
- Price range: $380–$1,160/£295–£890
SeminarsWorld® in Seattle
- Date: Oct 13-16 & Oct 20-21, 2020
- Location: Seattle, USA
- Price range: N/A
pma focus 2020
- Date: Oct 14, 2020
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Price range: $140–$360/€130–€330
PMI Global Conference
- Date: Oct 17-19, 2020
- Location: Seattle, USA
- Price range: N/A
The Digital PM Summit
- Date: Oct 18-20, 2020
- Location: Orlando, USA
- Price range: $800–$1,100
LearnFest Caribbean Bahamas
- Date: Oct 27-28, 2020
- Location: TBA, Bahamas
- Price range: N/A
November
PMO Symposium
- Date: Nov 8-11, 2020
- Location: Denver, USA
- Price range: N/A
Seminarsworld® in San Diego
- Date: Nov 9-12, 2020
- Location: San Diego, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
PM-Summit 2020 Germany
- Date: Nov 19-20, 2020
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Price range: N/A
AIPM National Conference
- Date: Nov 22-24, 2020
- Location: Gold Coast, Australia
- Price range: N/A
December
SeminarsWorld® in Las Vegas
- Date: Dec 7-10, 2020
- Location: Las Vegas, USA
- Price range: $720–$3,690
International Conference on Business Systems Engineering and Project Management (ICBSEPM) Egypt
- Date: Dec 14-15, 2020
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Price range: $280–$550/€250–€500
PMI Lithuania Conference
- Date: N/A
- Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
- Price range: N/A
APM Women in Project Management
- Date: N/A
- Location: N/A
- Price range: N/A
Dubai International Project Management Forum
- Date: N/A
- Location: N/A
- Price range: N/A