of Project Management in Italy
December 2025 PM Update from Rome
REPORT
By Dr. Alessandro Quagliarini
International Correspondent
Rome, Italy
Introduction
The PMexpo 2025, held in Rome, once again represented Italy’s most prominent annual gathering for project management professionals. The event brought together project managers, consultants, academics, and organizations to exchange experiences, explore innovation, and strengthen the culture of project management across industries. The program offered multiple parallel sessions and workshops divided by thematic areas:
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- PM Culture,
- Governance & Large Projects,
- AI & Project Thinking, Leadership & Soft Skills,
- PM Tools, Sustainability & Healthcare, and Mult Project Environments.
In this last 2025 Italy Report there are a brief recap of most relevant event’s sessions.
The Project Management Expo 2025[1] (PM Expo® 2025)
This time, in a special and more restricted edition for the 20th year of the ISIPM foundation, more than 800 attendees participated in person, engaging with speeches and workshops held across six dedicated rooms. The conference opened with welcoming remarks and framing of the day’s themes—culture, governance, AI, sustainability, and the people side of projects—setting expectations for a dense, multi-track program that spanned talks and workshops.
The event introduction: ISIPM President (Graziano Trasarti[2])
PM Expo® 2025 Project Manager (Emanuele Remediani[3]) introducing the speeches of the day
The Culture of Project Management
“OvviEtà di PM | Unconventional Talk”: The opening keynote by Enzo Memoli set a reflective and unconventional tone. Through humor and insight, he explored how the role of the modern project manager evolves with time and experience — how “obviousness” can become awareness. Memoli invited participants to question professional habits and rediscover the meaning of leadership and communication in complex environments…
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How to cite this work: Quagliarini, A. (2025). PMexpo 2025: The Evolving Landscape of Project Management in Italy, Project Management Update from Italy, report, PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue XII, December. Available online at: https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/pmwj159-Dec2025-Quagliarini-PMexpo-2025-Report-from-Italy.pdf
About the Author
Alessandro Quagliarini
Rome, Italy
Alessandro Quagliarini, PhD, MSc Eng, PMP, MBA, is an experienced Program Manager, with more than 18 years of experience in the ICT sector. He holds a master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and a degree in Business Administration from the Bologna University Business School. He got both PMP® and ISIPM-Av® advanced certifications in Project Management, and he is also certified as an Information Management Systems Lead Auditor. He is a Member of the Board of the “Italian Institute of Project Management” (ISIPM) for ten years, and he is an Accredited Teacher in Project Management.
Alessandro is currently engaged in the “Digital Transformation” engineering and industrialization programs of the new Italian “Open Fiber” telecommunications network, with particular focus on the engineering of delivery and assurance processes for the provision of retail, business and industries customers, on the operational management and procurement support for the definition of specifications and contracts, on the definition of operating rules/ instructions for maintenance and of requirements for systems development, on the support to the commercial and regulatory lines for the definition of services and processes for customers (Other Licensed Operators and Industries), and on the definition and management of operations compliance with ISO Standards and International Best Practices.
As a Member of the ISIPM Board, he focuses his volunteer activities mainly on the cultural diffusion of the project management to young people – specifically to high school students and also staff, including teachers. As an ISIPM accredited teacher, he has taught project management in public and private institutions, in schools and in universities. He has experience in the organization of events and as a speaker in conferences, and also in proposing and managing EU-funded projects.
Alessandro can be contacted at a.quagliarini@gmail.com
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[2] https://it.linkedin.com/in/graziano-trasarti-9ab6982
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-remediani-697a311a/
