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

Duesseldorf/Amsterdam, April 2009. Facility administration (FM) experts added advocate an chip FM strategy, so that infrastructural, abstruse and bartering casework can advance with the customer's amount business. In the countdown to the "European Facility Management Conference 2009" (EFMC) on 16th and 17th June in Amsterdam (www.efmc2009.com), organizer IBC Euroforum (Informa Group) asked three FM professionals from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden for their appraisals.

FM can account from demands of crisis
"Just like added countries in the world, FM in the Netherlands will aswell face the after-effects of the bread-and-butter crisis," declares Lennart B. Harpe, Managing Director of the Dutch consulting and administration aggregation Humanagement. "Despite this threat, FM has a different befalling to account from the appeal for a advanced ambit of bigger account at lower costs. For archetype by alms articles and casework in business accompanying account concepts that accommodated the requirements of the amount business. As a aftereffect of this, FM contributes anon to the bottom-line after-effects of the organisation."

Stronger cardinal appulse of FM
Thomas Polinelli, Head of Service Delivery Europe at Zurich Insurance Company, would like to see FM drag its cachet in an alignment by acceptable added strategic: "Facility managers should be advised as a centre of ability and arete for business clients. They should be complex abundant beforehand in projects - from the planning, construction, appliance and into the advance and annihilation phases ambidextrous with the initiatives of the sustainability process."

International and inter-organisational collaboration
The EFMC is hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). "The rapidly alteration apple challenges the ability administration industry every day," says Helena Ohlsson, axle affiliate of both associations. "Workforce mobility, new technology and demands on acceptable means of active and alive action agitative opportunities for FM globally and locally." Ohlsson focuses on collaboration: "It is alluring to be allotment of a growing and developing business acreage area we all can be breath in influencing the approaching of the profession. By alive calm through our organizations and associations we advance standards, access competence, allotment experience, act on new markets and advance avant-garde means of strategically and tactically acknowledging amount business functions."

EFMC 2009: "One world, altered problems - Joint efforts, acceptable solutions"
More than 50 top speakers from Europe and abroad will allude to strategies, advantage and sustainability of FM. 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. Business processes, technology and abode trends, activity aeon administration and addition in FM will be some of the capacity of the Business Conference.

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 2009 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.

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
Internet: www.efmc2009.com

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