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   delivered what dozens of other
   events only promise:

• Unbiased, educational
  content not paid for by
  vendors
  
  
• Senior HR executives who
  have solved the problems
  you face
  
  
• Top industry experts to
  explain the very latest
  developments
  
  
• Consultants to help you identify your options and
  make decisions
  
  
• Vendor CEOs to give you
  product insights you can
  act on

     WiFi at McCormick Place!

   Yes, we finally have WiFi available
    throughout our meeting rooms and
   hallways at HR Technology®.
   McCormick Place will charge you
   $9.95 per day, but you can use your
   wireless-equipped laptop for
   whatever you want, including inside
   some sessions where it will play a
   key role. But please keep it charged
   yourself and politely stay off e-mail
   when a presenter is talking!

Conference: October 15 - 17, 2008
Expo: October 15 - 16, 2008

Our more than 2,200 attendees and leading industry experts all agree that we are the best HR technology show in the industry. Here are some of 2008's highlights:

Naomi Lee Bloom, Managing Partner, Bloom & Wallace
Jim Holincheck, Managing VP, Gartner
Lisa Rowan, Program Director, HR and Talent Management Services, IDC
Zach Thomas, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

Thursday, October 16, 8:45 – 10 a.m.
Industry analysts are among the smartest people we know about HR technology. Their full-time jobs involve visiting and questioning end-users and vendors, plus reading and writing about the most critical technology issues you face. Hundreds of large corporations subscribe to their advisory services for five-figures a year. HR Technology® is the only public conference that brings them together so you can hear their thoughts on current technology trends and their predictions for the future. Join them for this 11th Annual conversation and always exciting and enlightening argument.

Thursday, October 16, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
We’ve been working up to this for four years with our signature Shootouts: first for Performance Management alone, then Integrated Performance & Compensation, Integrated Performance & Learning, and last year, Performance & Recruiting. Finally, the Talent Management sector of the industry has matured sufficiently and enough vendors have integrated applications for us to present “The Industry’s First Talent Management Shootout.” We’ll use our traditional format that conference attendees have flocked to for seven years at 11 earlier Shootouts. Each vendor will tackle a fully scripted scenario of problems – like those your managers and employees face every day – and show in live, custom demonstrations how their software can help solve them. Leighanne Levensaler, the leading authority and Director of Talent Management Research at Bersin & Associates, will co-author the script, as she did the previous two. This one session can save you months of research and sales pitches. Come watch, listen, learn and then vote for your favorite. (Note: With vendor capabilities changing so quickly, the final contestants, certain to be leading providers in the category as always, will not be chosen until August.).

Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, and author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, recently published by Harvard Business Review Press

Friday, October 17, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
On the heels of his latest book, Wharton professor Peter Cappelli, HR strategy columnist for HREOnline, will explain his famously contrarian views on Talent Management. His central thesis: there’s little new under the sun in Talent Management and much of what is presently being proposed was tried and discarded decades ago by leading corporations. Not doomed to repeat the history he knows so well, Cappelli will tell you what still might be appropriate for a Talent Management strategy in 2008. And certainly no one sensible buys software before creating the strategy that the software is intended to enable. Drawing from state-of-the-art supply chain and operations management strategies and practices, Cappelli will offer you a provocative, new way to view Talent Management.

2008 TOP HR PRODUCTS AWARDS
AND LUNCHEON KEYNOTE:
Tapping Your Music Within

Richard Pimentel, Senior Partner, Milt Wright & Associates

Wednesday, October 15, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
For 20 years, Human Resource Executive® Magazine has recognized excellence and innovation in the HR vendor community with its Top 10 HR Products and Top Training Products awards. HR’s most coveted product awards are presented every year on the opening day of the conference. Don’t miss this year’s selections and why they made the cut — it just might include the much-needed solution you’ve been looking for. And stay to hear Richard Pimentel, the Vietnam veteran and activist for the rights of those with disabilities. Subject of the recent film Music Within, Pimentel powerfully describes how we can all make a difference by tapping into our innate leadership qualities.

Most of our Analyst Panelists will be hosting separate, group discussions and Q&A sessions focused on their own favorite topics and hopefully yours, too. So gather your team, create your most burning questions and take part. One of your fellow attendees may also have some answers for you! Naomi Lee Bloom will talk about what it really takes to support integrated Talent Management. Lisa Rowan will focus on HR Outsourcing in all its forms and flavors. Zach Thomas, the Gen Xer of the group, will appropriately discuss how Web 2.0 technologies are impacting HR initiatives. And Christa Degnan Manning from AMR joins us to talk about HCM.