HR Technology Conference & Expo

A Conference on Every Aspect of Technology for HR

   For 11 years, our conference has
   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

"Worth flying from Finland to learn the vendors and hear success stories of other customers."

Mikko Levo
Manager, HR Technology, Nokia,
Finland

sponsors

Conference: Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2009
Expo: Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2009
McCormick Place, Chicago

2009 Conference Overview

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 this year's highlights:

OPENING REMARKS AND KEYNOTE :
Human Resources 2.0: How the New Web and the Net Generation Are Transforming Talent, Management and the Enterprise

Don Tapscott, internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology and author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World and co-author of the world-wide bestseller Wikinomics.

Wednesday, September 30, 8:45 – 10 a.m.
The current economy demands new thinking about everything, including HR and technology strategies. Web 2.0, a new medium of human communications, is rapidly becoming a platform for enabling self-organization and communities. At the same time, the Net Generation has come of age, with its eldest members now turning 30. Together, these two factors are forcing companies to rethink areas such as Recruitment, Retention, Compensation, Training, collaboration and the management of talent. While others have merely expressed opinions on some of these subjects, Don Tapscott will share the findings of a recent $4 million landmark study that resulted in his latest book Grown Up Digital and explore what companies need to do to harness the power of human capital and turn it to competitive advantage.

12th ANNUAL INDUSTRY ANALYST PANEL:
Today’s Technology Trends and Predictions

Josh Bersin, CEO & President, Bersin & Associates
Naomi Lee Bloom, Managing Partner, Bloom & Wallace
Jim Holincheck, Managing VP, Finance, HCM and Procurement, Gartner
Lisa Rowan, Program Director, HR, Learning and Talent Management Services, IDC

Thursday, October 1, 8:45 – 10 a.m.
We were the first, and after a dozen years, remain the only public conference to bring together industry analysts so you can hear their thoughts on current technology trends and their predictions for the future. Of course, never has that been more important than now. They get smart about HR technology by spending all their time visiting and questioning end-users and vendors, answering telephone queries, plus reading and writing about the most critical technology issues you face. Hundreds of large corporations subscribe to their advisory services for five-figures or more a year. Join them for this 12th Annual conversation and always exciting and enlightening argument.

GENERAL SESSION:
Second Annual Talent Management Shootout

Thursday, October 1, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
Our 13th Shootout – and signature event – promises to be the best ever. With three-time winner and world-class presenter Tod Loofbourrow moving up to chairman of Authoria, any one of the incredibly crowded field of vendors offering Talent Management applications could win. And even more are eligible to take part having delivered new applications since last year’s event. We’re hoping to get one or more ERP vendors to shoot against their smaller (but sometimes more popular) competitors. We’ll use one of our various formats that conference attendees have flocked to for eight years. Each vendor will tackle a 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 it. Leighanne Levensaler, Director of Talent Management Research for Bersin & Associates, will co-author the script, as she did the previous three. This one session will save you months of research and sales pitches. Come watch, listen, learn and then vote. With vendor capabilities changing so quickly, the final contestants won’t be chosen until August.

CLOSING KEYNOTE:
Do the Right Thing:
HR Technology Strategies for the Best and Worst of Times

Naomi Lee Bloom, Managing Partner, Bloom & Wallace

Friday, October 2, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
HR Technology® has had one star fixed in its firmament since starting in 1998: Naomi Lee Bloom. Invited onto every Analyst Panel, honored as one of our only three “Visionaries of HR Technology,” keynoted twice and hosted innumerable public and private Q&A sessions. Now she will apply her encyclopedic knowledge of HR technology and processes to make sure you’ve done all the right things to weather the current economic climate and have successfully prepared your organizations and careers for the inevitable recovery, whenever it comes. From unleashing low-cost/high-value process improvements to ensuring that your “system of record,” Talent Management tools, analytics and social software are properly in place for the recovery, her closing keynote will cover the gamut of must-know strategies and tactics. Plan to stay for what will certainly be one of the conference highlights.

2009 TOP HR PRODUCTS AWARDS
AND LUNCHEON KEYNOTE:
Notes From an IT Refugee

Wayne Cotter, standup comic, regular guest on Letterman and Leno

Wednesday, September 30, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
For more than 20 years, Human Resource Executive® magazine has recognized excellence and innovation in the HR vendor community through its Top 10 HR Products and Top Training Products awards competitions. Don’t miss this year’s selections and why they made the cut at our annual luncheon — it just might include the much-needed solution you’ve been looking for. And stay to hear Wayne Cotter, one of David Letterman’s and Jay Leno’s favorite guests. A former mainframe geek, now acclaimed by Variety as “the funniest standup” comic in years, he will share his unique perspective on the changes in IT since he abandoned his cube to become a star more than 20 years ago.

Thank you to our loyal companies for attending
HR Technology® many times over the last six years.

All Six Conferences

Five Conferences

Accenture
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
Charles Schwab & Co.
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Fidelity Investments
Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Permanente
Microsoft
State Farm Insurance Company
Wachovia
Walgreens
Weyerhaeuser

      Carnegie Mellon University
      Findley Davies, Inc.
      Johns Hopkins University/
      Applied Physics Laboratory
      L.L. Bean, Inc.
      Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
      Meijer
      Nokia Corporation
      Raytheon Company
      Scotiabank
      T. Rowe Price

Four Conferences

Alcon Laboratories
American Family Insurance
Aon Consulting
Archer Daniels Midland
Baxter Healthcare
Boeing
Brown-Forman Corporation
Capital One
Career Education Corporation
CDW Corporation
Constellation Energy
Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Delta
Department of National Defense
Edward Jones
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Exelon Corporation
GlaxoSmithKline
Herman Miller, Inc.
Hewitt Associates
Human Capital Institute
Humana Inc.
IBM
ITT Industries
KeyBank
Kohl’s Department Stores
KPMG MSLP
LDS Church

MassMutual Financial Group
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
McDonald’s Corporation
Mercer HR Services
Miami-Dade County Public
Schools
Motorola
Nicoll Consulting Inc.
Nike
Nordstrom
Northwestern Mutual
The Ohio State University
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PSEG Services Corp.
Research In Motion
Robert W. Baird Inc.
SBC Systems
Spectrum Health
Target Corporation
TIES
Towers Perrin
Turner Construction Company
University of Southern California
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
West Bend Mutual Insurance
Company
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
Zachary Construction Corporation

Produced by Human Resource Executive® Magazine and
LRP Publications, and LRP Conferences, LLC.