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EFMC 2009 - THE European Facility Management Conference
16th and 17th June 2009, Okura Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Duesseldorf/Amsterdam, May 2009. The ability administration (FM) industry can account from times of crisis, but has to be prepared. At the "European Facility Management Conference 2009" (EFMC) on 16th and 17th June in Amsterdam, added than 50 top speakers from Europe and abroad will allude to strategies, advantage and sustainability of FM (www.efmc2009.com). "The accepted all-embracing bread-and-butter crisis has underpinned the actuality that 'the alone affair assertive about the approaching is change'. This is absolutely accurate for the business and profession of FM," says Per Anker Jensen, Professor at the Technical University of Denmark and Chairman of the EFMC 2009 Research Symposium Organising Committee. "We charge to accede the accessible futures for our acreage and crop the all-important accomplish to advance and survive. The time is appropriate to accompany armament and advance a collective analysis and action agenda for the FM profession. EFMC 2009 is a different befalling to be a allotment of and access the conception of a accepted FM future."

FM faces challenges
"The accepted bread-and-butter bearings is a big claiming for ability management," declares Dr. Ab G. Reitsma, Senior Lecturer at Hanze University Groningen (NL). "In that perspective, organisations charge abundant added FM professionals who act as leaders instead of managers who try to ascendancy and alone do amount cutting. Inspiration, trust, creativity, addition and accumulate on acquirements from anniversary added are analytical factors. With attention to the latter, EFMC should break the belvedere for ability conception and circulation, aswell and abnormally if FM business is beneath pressure." Ilfryn Price, Professor at the Facilities Management Graduate Centre of Sheffield Hallam University (UK), addresses both affairs and demands: "For me the key claiming for FM charcoal that of evidencing its addition to accurate businesses in specific, business accordant language."

Outsourcing, abode trends and FM approaching research
"One world, altered problems - collective efforts, acceptable solutions" is the adage of EFMC 2009. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Slovenian Cultural Ambassador Miha Pogacnik, concert violinist and entrepreneur, and by Rob Creemers, Dutch industry trend watcher. Creemers will go into the development of FM, because all-around and European challenges. Magnus Kuchler, Partner at Ernst & Young in Sweden, will host the "FM agitation of the year" acclamation the affair of outsourcing. In adjustment to accentuate the accord of abridgement and science, the Business Conference and the alongside Research Symposium will be networked. Process and accident management, account performance, usability, spatial blueprint and the EFMC Action Agenda 2015 will be some of the capacity of the Research Symposium.

Exchange amid practitioners, scientists and students
The EFMC is hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). This year's accident will be accurate by added than 30 civic FM associations - in accurate Facility Management Nederland (FMN) and IFMA-Holland - and added than 40 analysis and educational organizations. Leading FM account providers such as Echelon, Planon and the International Facility Alliance will be exhibitors at EFMC 2009. The amusing programme will comprise a acceptable reception, a apprentice affiche affair and a bright banquet on the break of the European FM Award Ceremony. The four accolade categories are: ally above borders, European FM of the year, European FM researcher of the year and European FM apprentice of the year. "EFMC offers a different affair belvedere amid professionals, academics and acceptance to change the accompaniment of the art in FM and authorize proactive networking," Thomas Madritsch, Professor at Kufstein University of Applied Sciences (Austria), credibility out. Information on the accident programme is accessible on the internet at: www.efmc2009.com.

Contact:
Carsten M. Stammen
Press Officer
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Duesseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-3390
Email: carsten.stammen@informa.com

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