Here's how it works:
One of our expert strategic advisors will contact you prior to the conference for a full audit of your OpenHire account and evaluation of your usage of the system. During the conference you’ll meet face-to-face with your advisor for a one-hour session to review the results of your system audit and discuss your internal processes and challenges. You’ll learn how to better meet your business goals and objectives with OpenHire features you may not be currently using. In addition, you’ll receive a full report and a 6-month follow up call to review your progress.

Turbo-charge your company’s use of OpenHire with free service (a $1200 value!)

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Bill McGuire – Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

Jobs have varying levels of responsibility so why wouldn’t applicants have different steps during the hiring process? This session will help you develop multiple workflows comprised of varying Hiring Stages based on job type, helping eliminate unnecessary hiring stages.

Amy Smith, Director, Talent Acquisition, PSAV Presentation Services

This case study will outline how PSAV Presentation Services utilize OpenHire and social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to exceed service level standards in their recruiting processes, filling over 1500 roles in their organization in 2010 with a small team of recruiters. Attendees will learn:

• How to implement effective social media with limited resources
• Tips and tools to use OpenHire as part of your overall recruiting strategy
• Tips to exceed service level standards for applicant feedback and hiring manager expectations

Bio: Amy Smith is the Director, Talent Acquisition for PSAV Presentation Services and has been with the organization for 6 years. In 2007, she led the selection and implementation of OpenHire to over 600 hiring managers and a team of 10 recruiters. As a recruiting professional for more than 12 years, she has spent her career managing high volume recruiting in corporate technology environments with a strong customer focus. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Communication from Ball State University and volunteers as a team leader for the CLC Employment Club in Carmel, IN.

Katie Hille, HR Generalist, SWBC
Tina Woita, Strategic Learning Solutions Manager

In this session attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to select interview questions that are more specific to the individual positions, thus creating interview guides that are more specific and more effective. The session will also cover utilizing the CQE function of OpenHire to help screen candidates more effectively by using some of the questions selected from the specific interview guides. Ultimately, this enables the recruiter to streamline their hiring process and can be quite the time saving technique if used properly.

Takeaways include interview guides recruiters can use to improve their current process in addition to a better understanding of how to use the CQE feature in OpenHire.

Bio: Katie Hillie joined SWBC in December 2001. As SWBC’s Human Resources Generalist, she is responsible for recruiting, addressing HR issues, communicating HR policies, investigating employee relation’s issues, processing and orienting new employees, and conducting exit interviews.

Katie has over 10 years of human resources experience. Prior to filling the role of HR Generalist, she was an HR Recruiter and an HR/Benefits Assistant for the company. She earned an Associate of Arts degree in business from the University of Phoenix in 2010 and will receive her Bachelor of Science degree in management in 2012. In addition, Katie is actively involved with many non-profit organizations, including Junior Achievement and United Way.

The OpenHire User Group session is your opportunity to directly connect with other OpenHire users as well as members of the OpenHire product management and development team. Ask questions, get feedback and hear updates on the product roadmap, as well as exciting new features that were released in the past year.

Brett Carter, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

Would it be advantageous to direct the content on your portal to different audiences? This session will explore the various ways to expose information to your employees via the RedCarpet event portal based on: their location, their managerial status, where they are within the span of the event, along with many other opportunities.

Bill McQuire, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

At first glance, you were attracted to RedCarpet’s sleek handling of Onboarding employees but take another look and be captivated by other uses of RedCarpet in managing employee events, such as Transfers, Mergers & Acquisitions and Offboarding. This session will cover setting up other event types; assigning the associated teams, categories and people; managing the event portals and designing notifications for additional event types.

Karen Perron, Product Manager, RedCarpet, SilkRoad technology
Cindy Pascale, Valdo Inc.

Research shows that effective follow through to a good hiring process is an equally strong Onboarding process. Using technology and best practices, organizations are able to accelerate the time to performance of new employees. Attendees in this session will learn Onboarding best practices and will leave with a solid understanding of how their organization can implement them. In addition to:

• The role of HR is creating an effective Onboarding process
• The importance of a streamlined, technology driven Onboarding process to ensure accuracy in information, provisions, security, benefits, etc.
• Step-by-step Onboarding socialization, assimilation and integration actions and toolkits that are easy for both hiring managers and new employees to implement

Tina Woita, Training Manager, SilkRoad technology

Are you interested in learning how RedCarpet can manage your E-Verify process? This session will explain how RedCarpet integrates with the E-Verify program to supply you with a one-stop shop, allowing you to conduct your E-Verify process directly through RedCarpet.

The RedCarpet User Group session is your opportunity to directly connect with other RedCarpet users as well as members of the RedCarpet product management and development team. Ask questions, get feedback and hear updates on the product roadmap, as well as exciting new features that were released in the past year.

Jill Bergmann, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

This session will afford you the flexibility to create and manage your own assessment and appraisal forms. Walking away from this session, you will understand how to design, develop, and deploy your own forms.

Jill Bergmann, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

Do you want to obtain feedback from more than just the Employee and his/her Manager during an Appraisal? Now you can by adding additional reviewers to the Appraisal workflow. This session will help you add steps to your Appraisal workflow that will allow others to rate and/or comment on another employee.

Bill McGuire, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

A key manager is retiring at the end of the year. A star performer may be moving on to another position in the company. A new position is being created and will need to be filled in 6 months. Businesses continuously face issues like these. Why not be prepared, build a strong Bench of possible replacements. Let WingSpan’s Succession Planning module help you be prepared for changes. In this session you will learn the following:

• What is Succession Planning?
• How to tie in Appraisal and Assessment scores to a Succession Plan through the creation of "tags"
• How to Configure a Customized 9-Box Matrix
• How to Run Reports
• How to Edit your System Defaults

The WingSpan User Group session is your opportunity to directly connect with other WingSpan users as well as members of the WingSpan product management and development team. Ask questions, get feedback and hear updates on the product roadmap, as well as exciting new features that were released in the past year.

Lyle Emmott, GreenLight Product Manager, SilkRoad technology

Do you want to know how to optimize your eCourse content delivery in GreenLight? This session introduces you to SCORM and how to optimize SCORM in your courseware. You will learn about the default settings used by GreenLight and how to modify settings to change content behavior or to add simple sequencing rules to control how your users view content.

Tina Woita, Training Manager, SilkRoad technology and Leon McKay, Development Manager, SilkRoad technology

This session will introduce the GreenLight eCommerce component, allowing you to create an online store for your course catalog. The flexibility to deploy discounts, bulk purchase options, & individual sales will expand your use of the system.

The GreenLight User Group session is your opportunity to directly connect with other GreenLight users as well as members of the GreenLight product management and development team. Ask questions, get feedback and hear updates on the product roadmap, as well as exciting new features that were released in the past year.

Consuela Shorter, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

HeartBeat is the central point of your HR operation in managing employee data. This session introduces HeartBeat as an internal collaboration tool between HR, Managers, and Employees. Learn the benefits and uses of Manager and Employee Self-Service related to managing changes in Employee personal and job data, and Manager approvals.

Kirk Hallowell, PH.D, Director of Learning and Development, Tegrant Corporation

WingSpan offers powerful capabilities to support 360 (multi-rater) assessments as standalone reports or integrated into the performance appraisal process. 360 feedback can be an extremely powerful tool when fully supported with employee orientation, rater training, structured feedback, developmental planning and accountability for results. Research suggest that conducting 360 assessment without these important design considerations can lead to limited results. This session summarizes proven best practices in making sure the assessment capabilities in WingSpan have the greatest impact in your organization.

Bio: Kirk Hallowell, Ph.D., serves as Director of Learning and Development for Tegrant Corporation, a leading manufacturer of consumer and commercial packaging and components. Kirk has formerly held positions as Senior Consultant for Lominger International and Personnel Decisions International where he supported the implementation of 360 feedback programs in 25 organizations. Kirk has provide individual feedback and development planning support for over 2000 executive leaders.

In our keynote presentation, former Chief Solutions Officer and Leadership Coach at Yahoo!, Tim Sanders, will talk about the importance of relationships to running a business and the key to building and keeping those relationships through emotional talent: confidence, friendliness, empathy and authenticity. The New York Times and international business best-selling author has had years of valuable experience and insight on technology and human behavior. This is a session not to be missed!

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Deanna Newsome, Director of Onboarding and Core HR Strategy, SilkRoad technology
Matt Sims, Human Resource Manager, Tenneco Inc.

As organizations focus on streamlining their onboarding process, including moving from a manual to automated approach, HR team members are frequently asked to present the business case results. In this session, customer examples will be shared on how RedCarpet has helped numerous customers achieve new hire satisfaction, increased Day 1 readiness and ROI, with statistics such as:

• 95% reduction of non-value added orientation time
• 90% improvement in Day 1 Readiness
• 95% reduction of new hire paperwork
• 98% new hire satisfaction ratings
• $1.3 million in cost savings

Bio: Matt Sims - Matt has 10+ years of Human Resources experience. He is responsible for managing recruitment, employee relations, communications, safety and environmental support, training and employee development at Tenneco. Tenneco is a $6.0B+ Global OE & aftermarket supplier to the transportation industry, serving the Ride Control, Emission Control, Brakes and Elastomer categories. Their global is HQ located in Lake Forest, IL with over 22,000 employees worldwide. Customers include global automakers, commercial vehicle manufacturers, auto retailers and independent repair shops.

Dan Cooper, ej4

Do you wish you could align yourself strategically with company goals? What if you could tie the results of your training directly back to metrics that have increased, or decreased, because of your training programs? This session will walk you through messaging for presenting these metrics to management and a delivery methodology to reach those goals. From this session you will take away:

• An understanding on how to create your company’s "Framework for Execution"
• Helpful tips to develop messaging around the true value of training that resonates with management
• Facilitate attendees in evaluating their current e-learning programs and strategy
• Facilitate the sharing of online learning best practices

Bio - Dan Cooper, ej4
Dan is one of three founding partners of ej4 and was named CEO in 2010. In 2003, Dan built ej4's technology architecture and has helped transform ej4 from a custom content production house into the leader in video based online training. Dan oversees the company’s technical and business strategy.

Dan's career started as a news cameraman for an NBC affiliate shooting and editing news stories. Thrown into the world of production he started working on projects like TV commercials, music videos with stars like hip-hop recording artist, Nelly, and training videos. With this experience he started his own multimedia production company providing video, web, and media based learning programs for corporate clients. He holds a bachelor’s degree in TV/Radio Communications from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Bob Kelleher - Keynote

The combination of technological advances, globalization, shifting economic drivers, government intervention, changing global workforce demographics, vastly different motivational drivers with Gen X , and the emergence of social responsibility as a motivational driver is leading to a pronounced shift in the definition of leadership. Over the past 25 years, we have seen the shift from management (managing things, data, process) to leadership (leading people). We're now evolving yet again: Creativeship, defined as the necessity to create an organizational culture that can compete and thrive in this new era.

Bio: Bob Kelleher is the founder and CEO of the Employee Engagement Group (www.EmployeeEngagement.com) and is a noted speaker, thought leader and consultant on the subjects of employee engagement, workforce trends and leadership, and often travels the glob giving presentations to and consulting with leadership teams. Having been an internal practitioner for many years, Bob's practical approach and willingness to share best practices ("been there/done that") have proven to be a winning formula for audiences throughout the world.

Leslie Daley, VP of Team Services, Lifestyle Family Fitness

If you can't define it, you can't measure it. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. If you can't manage it, you leave it to chance and speculation. Unfortunately, there's a language barrier when HR people try to talk HR metrics to management. This session will provide you with insight into how to position your HR metrics to influence and drive your business. You will also be provided with the tools needed to create a HR dashboard or improve upon your existing metrics.

Bio - Leslie Daley is the Vice President of Human Resources at Lifestyle Family Fitness with responsibility for managing and leading the Payroll Department, Training and Development and Human Resources. Prior to joining Lifestyle Family Fitness, Leslie worked in the healthcare industry for the Health and Fitness Firm where she served as Chief Operating Officer for 6 years. Her major accomplishments were in the area of building a team of professionals and creating internal operational processes and procedures that allowed the company to experience substantial growth and profitability. Notable are her years as the Vice President of Human Resources at Lifestyle Family Fitness where she was instrumental in growing the business from 7 locations with 400 employees to 55 locations with 2800 employees in four states.

In her current role, Leslie Daley leads a team of 15 staff members that provide services and support to over 2800 employees. She has engaged the company in many new initiatives that have provided the company with the ability to customize and optimize processes. Leslie has partnered with various vendors that have allowed Lifestyle Family Fitness the ability to fully automate the lifecycle of each of the employees. She has established strategic alliances and partnerships that have been very important to the continued growth and profitability of the business.

Andy Rice, Practice Manager, Integrated Talent Management, The Newman Group

We've all heard how important it is to integrate the processes that drive talent management—but how do you decide how each talent function interacts with the others to support an overall business strategy? How do you get leaders to buy-in? How do you determine what needs to be done, what to do first, and who needs to be involved and how do you put the technology in place to make it all work?

In this session, Andy Rice explores a practical “Black Box” approach to planning that is helping companies answer these questions and changing the way they address Integrated Talent Management Strategy. In this session, we will explore key aspects of ITM planning, including:

• defining the ITM Vision
• asking the Right Questions
• understanding the Planning Framework
• balancing Big Picture Vision and Operational Detail
• supporting a Sustainable ITM Effort
• scalability and the Role of Technology

This is a great chance to learn from a practical perspective that is changing the way the companies address the Integrated Talent Management opportunity.

Bio: Andy Rice brings a wealth of experience to his role as Integrated Talent Management Practice Manager for The Newman Group. Throughout his tenure with the company, he has played an instrumental part in the success of key clients, working with Fortune 500 companies on critical initiatives including managing technology selections and implementations, change management efforts, integrated talent management planning and assessment projects, and staffing transformation projects.

Prior The Newman Group, Mr. Rice developed an extensive background in business process management, talent management and human resources. He held roles as a Senior Project Manager at Yahoo! Resumix, Senior Staffing Manager / Staffing Director at Genentech, and Regional HR Director of Viant, a global internet and business consulting company. He has also has an extensive background in college and professional recruiting, learning and development and HR Management, including performance management, leadership development, management coaching, career development coaching and employee relations.

Mr. Rice graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and spent the first five years after graduating as an engineer and engineering manager at Intel.

Nancy Wade, Employment Administrator University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

In this session learn how a serious economic downturn coupled with an increase in the number of open job positions resulted in the UCAR being forced to come up with a more efficient way to review and sort candidate resumes.

Learn how Nancy's goal in reviewing and screening resumes, which includes full consideration of the candidate and a skepticism of shortcuts and software methods which seem to bypass a "human review" of a resume, resulted in a discovery of new ways to use the OpenHire SQE feature.

This presentation will focus on Nancy's realization that a problem existed and the development of a solution that would help her meet UCAR's goals and the road Nancy took to get there.

Contribution:

• Does a resume review problem really exist?
• How can we re-engineer our process to add efficiencies and value?
• What trial and error methods can be used to discover the best use of the CQE feature?

Bio: Nancy Wade is the employment administrator for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Her day-to-day tasks include resume review for ~300 positions each year and interaction with – and training of – hiring supervisors. In 2010, she worked with the local workforce center to host a job fair for local Veterans. Nancy was responsible for implementing a new internship program for area high school students in 2010 and will be working on an internship for business and law students in 2011. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications in 2000 and a Master's degree in creative writing in 2009.

Consuela Shorter, SilkRoad technology and Bill McGuire, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

This session will help you utilize the tools within OpenHire to help you find qualified candidates for your postings. We will look at creating resources, utilizing Hot Matches, and many more techniques to finding the right candidate to fit any job.

Rich Berger, SPHR, HRIP, Senior Director, Global HRIS, Citrix Systems

Citrix, the world's 5th largest SaaS provider, has over 6,000 employees in 37 countries around the world. One of the keys to our success is the ability to rapidly communicate our Citrix values to incoming employees while, at the same time, collecting all the information and forms we need for an immediate start on day 1. After our rollout of Red Carpet in 2009/2010 in the United States, we are now live in 8 countries in Asia/Pacific, including India, and are moving forward on our European implementations.

Learn how Citrix has put together a process for implementing country by country, how we have created a core new hire form and identified all the social media that each country needs to do for implementation. We will share some "secrets" to project management as well as "successes" with our integration to the RMS and to SAP.

This session will include a presentation by our team, virtually, from Hong Kong, Munich and California.

Bio: Rich Berger, SPHR, HRIP, has over 30 years experience as a practitioner and thought leader in Human Resources and HR technology and currently serves as the Senior Director of HRIS at Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he is responsible for Global HRIS strategy and implementation.

He previously was employed as the Vice President of HR Transition and Transformation at Affiliated Computer Services as well as the Director of Core Process Redesign at Motorola, Inc. He was one of the founding members of the International Association for Human Resources Information Management (IHRIM) Global Special Interest Group, and is currently Vice Chair of the International Board of Directors of IHRIM.

Rich has spoken at conferences of International Association for Human Resources Information Management, HCI, Privacy and American Business, IQPC, HRO World, numerous vendor conferences and the National Foreign Trade Council. Mr. Berger has had articles published in Workforce Magazine, IHRIM Journal, and Program Management Journal and is one of the authors of the book "Out of Site: An Inside Look at HR Outsourcing." Mr. Berger holds a BS degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and an MBA with a concentration in HR from Western New England College.

Tina Woita, Strategic Learning Solutions Manager, SilkRoad technology and Jill Bergmann, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

This session will afford you the flexibility to create and manage your own assessment and appraisal forms. Walking away from this session, you will understand how to design, develop, and deploy your own forms.

Mimi Jerkan, Process Consultant, SilkRoad technology

Processes need to align to business goals. As strategic partners, HR professionals are often tasked to provide the key direction for business process improvement exercise to align with those goals. The Basics of Process Improvement will assist HR team leaders at all levels. Hear some practical information on how to initiate and successfully carry out process improvement activities.

Janet Emery, Director, Online Learning, DIRECTV

This presentation by DIRECTV will demonstrate how the GreenLight product is being using in a variety of different learner settings to produce a strong ROI from the training organization.

Topics will include:

• Demonstrations of how we use the GreenLight product for eLearning and classroom environments
• Examples of what the system can do
• Demonstrations of curriculum libraries, importing user information and job codes, creating and scoring various exams, and reporting the results of user activities.
• Examples of the eLearning work
• Discussion of the small administrative overhead required to manage the system

Bio: Janet Emery – Throughout her career as a learning professional, Janet Emery has consistently delivered outstanding results by staying a step ahead of today's ever-changing learning solutions and technology. She is currently the Director of Online Learning for DIRECTV Customer Care, where she has responsibility for the e-Learning and knowledge management teams serving 32 call centers and more than 20,000 customer care agents and sales staff.

Janet has extensive experience in the global Fortune 500 environment and proven success in the creation of innovative customer care solutions that produce solid ROI. Her previous roles in workforce development include Director of Global Processes & Operations and Director of e-Learning Strategies and Initiatives at Hewlett-Packard. As an independent consultant her customers included Microsoft, Albertsons, Tech-Micro, MCI/WorldComm and Hewlett-Packard among others.

Janet Emery, Director, Online Learning, DIRECTV

In this session we will facilitate a technical Q&A with the attendees to share administrative know how on the system. Examples are, how we came to create and use 'buckets' to manage thousands of job codes, importing from IEX and ADP, reporting, exams, all the real nuts and bolts of what we’ve found as best practices, and sharing the best practices of the attendees.

Bio: Throughout her career as a learning professional, Janet Emery has consistently delivered outstanding results by staying a step ahead of today's ever-changing learning solutions and technology. She is currently the Director of Online Learning for DIRECTV Customer Care, where she has responsibility for the e-Learning and knowledge management teams serving 32 call centers and more than 20,000 customer care agents and sales staff.

Janet has extensive experience in the global Fortune 500 environment and proven success in the creation of innovative customer care solutions that produce solid ROI. Her previous roles in workforce development include Director of Global Processes & Operations and Director of e-Learning Strategies and Initiatives at Hewlett-Packard. As an independent consultant her customers included Microsoft, Albertsons, Tech-Micro, MCI/WorldComm and Hewlett-Packard among others.

Denise Shoup, Manager, Training and Employee Development, EnerSys Americas

Do you work for a regulated company? Are you periodically audited for ISO 9000? Does compliance mean alphabet soup? In this case study, learn how a company with over 3000 employees in US, Canada, and Mexico with over 50 locations has begun to formalize compliance training by using GreenLight and with only a training staff of 3!

If you have similar needs to standardize information for many people quickly and be able to show training records on demand, attend this session to find out how to:

• Create simple ecourses using web meeting recordings and then adding them to content objects
  
• Use surveys to confirm participants' understanding when there is no quiz associated with an ecourse
• Use assignments in Greenlight to gather data for a needs assessment as well as to complete performance evaluations
• Manage qualifications for job specific training and supervisor specific requests

Bio - Denise Shoup has worked with EnerSys for 2 ½ years and is the current Manager of Training and Employee Development. Prior to EnerSysy Denise spent 6 years as a training manager for a large pharmaceutical company, now Merck and 13 years at AT&T/Lucent Technologies in various training positions, which led to increased responsibility in the training and employee development field. Denise holds a Masters Degree in Training, Design and Development from Penn State University.

Consuela Shorter, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

Manager and Employee Self Service requests and system requests are completed based on a defined workflow structure. In this session, we will review the current request types and workflow options, and manage the notifications associated with requests.

Marie C. Waugh, Director, Talent Acquisition & Development, Southern Union Company
Leesa Hutcherson, Director, HR Data Services, Southern Union Company
Tina Kutach, Global HRIS Manager, Mustang Engineering LP
Jorge Barrera, Mustang Engineering LP

Every implementation has it unique characteristics by product, scope and/or company. However, there are several key factors that lead to a successful implementation. Two of the biggest names in the energy and oil/gas industry - Mustang Engineering and Southern Union Company's will share how they leverage the SilkRoad consulting services and pre-implementation process to create a "customized roadmap" to successfully rollout OpenHire and RedCarpet. Moderated by Lisa McDougald, Director Talent Acquisition Strategies, SilkRoad technology.

Bio - Tina Kutach - Tina Kutach is the Global HRIS Manager at Mustang. In this role she is responsible for Mustang's Human Resources Information Systems. Since joining the company in 1997, Mustang has more than doubled in size, now employing almost 4000 Mustangers worldwide, with offices in London, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, and Mumbai, India. Tina's primary focus is on HRIS initiatives in the areas of international expansion, acquisition integration.

Bio - Jorge Barrera - Throughout Jorge's career within the Mustang Organization, he has rapidly moved from serving as in reproduction environment to move coordinator and as an up and coming star on the HRIS team. Jorge started out supporting all onboarding paperwork for satellite Mustangers. He was instrumental in taking our HR file room from 4500+ hard copy files to a paperless Global filing system called Citadon. Now he has taken on building and designing our workflows in RedCarpet to then integrate into our file room as well as Oracle our HR database.

Bio - Marie Waugh - Marie Waugh has twenty years of experience in Human Resources in several industries. In her current role she is the Director of Talent Acquisition and Development for Southern Union Company headquartered in Houston, Texas. In this capacity Ms. Waugh is responsible for all activities associated with acquiring, training and developing the people needed for the Company's continued success.

Bio - Lessa Hutcherson - Leesa Hutcherson is the Director of HR Data Services for Southern Union Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas. She has more than fifteen years of experience in Human Resources as well as 15 years working in backroom operations for the banking industry. In her current role, Ms. Hutcherson is responsible for the Oracle HCM system, maintaining all employee and contractor master data records. In addition, Ms Hutcherson is the designated Project Manager for all HR, Compensation, or Benefit projects. She also serves as the liaison for projects outside of HR that require integration with Oracle.

Rob Humphrey, Linkedin

Whether your critical recruitment challenge is employment branding, diversity hiring, or simply acquiring the very best talent for your organization, now is the time to embrace all that professional social networks have to offer. LinkedIn's Rob Humphrey will use unique insights and data to illuminate where your candidates are and how you can engage them in the most compelling way.

If you were at the inaugural SilkRoad Connections event you know that this is not your standard presentation. Rob's session will be an immersive learning experience utilizing "live" web experiences primarily through the lens of candidates of the active and passive variety. You'll leave the session with a clearer understanding of how social media can support your talent acquisition strategy and inspired to change the way your team recruits.

Learn how OpenHire can help you execute on your social media strategy, including:

• An appreciation for the massive data set that is behind the scenes at LinkedIn.com and how you can harness that information to re-define your strategy, your tactics, and your career.
• 10 tips that you can use immediately to make you and your team more successful and productive

Bio - Rob is LinkedIn's Resident Instigator and Evangelist, a recovering global staffing leader, and an Internet recruiting pioneer. Rob delivers customized keynote presentations and facilitates engaging seminars on social media, college to career transition, personal/employer branding, and trends in recruiting for a variety of audiences. Rob has specific expertise and experience in the HealthCare and Federal Government domain and has a BS in Health Care Administration from Ithaca College in New York.

Key career highlights include producing one of the world's first "niche" job boards, founding a venture-backed online recruitment firm as well as working as the chief strategist behind several award-winning social media marketing campaigns.

Lyle Emmott, GreenLight Product Manager, SilkRoad technology

Do you want to create adaptive learning in GreenLight? It has been proven that adaptive learning is a useful way to deliver just in time or just enough training to the people who need it. Building training with content that uses adaptive learning design principles helps companies to tailor courses to the specific needs and knowledge levels of individual learners and to only deliver what learners need, when they need it. In this session Lyle Emmott will provide a practical, hands on demonstration of how to create an adaptive learning model in GreenLight.

*Participants should have a basic understanding of SCORM or should attend
"Introduction to Using SCORM in GreenLight."

Stephen Brown, Director of Learning Technology for GreenLight, SilkRoad technology

Do you want to learn how to leverage custom SQL reports in GreenLight? This session will cover the basics on how SQL reporting templates work in GreenLight. In this session Steve Brown will provide a demonstration of how to import SQL templates into GreenLight, review some standard formulas and calculations that can be used in GreenLight reporting and speak to best practices when building your reports.

This session will be an open question and answer forum with a panel comprised of three current RedCarpet customers from various industries. Come prepared with any and all questions you have about implementation, best practices, tips, tricks and more! This panel will be moderated by Karen Perron, RedCarpet Product Manager, SilkRoad technology.

Bio: Rich Berger, Citrix, SPHR, HRIP, Senior Director, Global HRIS, Citrix Systems
Rich Berger, SPHR, HRIP, has over 30 years experience as a practitioner and thought leader in Human Resources and HR technology and currently serves as the Senior Director of HRIS at Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he is responsible for Global HRIS strategy and implementation. He previously was employed as the Vice President of HR Transition and Transformation at Affiliated Computer Services as well as the Director of Core Process Redesign at Motorola, Inc. He was one of the founding members of the International Association for Human Resources Information Management (IHRIM) Global Special Interest Group, and is currently Vice Chair of the International Board of Directors of IHRIM.
Rich has spoken at conferences of International Association for Human Resources Information Management, HCI, Privacy and American Business, IQPC, HRO World, numerous vendor conferences and the National Foreign Trade Council. Mr. Berger has had articles published in Workforce Magazine, IHRIM Journal, and Program Management Journal and is one of the authors of the book "Out of Site: An Inside Look at HR Outsourcing." Mr. Berger holds a BS degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and an MBA with a concentration in HR from Western New England College.

Bio: Jerri Natali, Director of Human Resources, Allied Wireless Communication Company
Jerri serves as the Director of Human Resources, responsible for benefits, compensation, and human resource information systems for Allied Wireless Communications in Little Rock, AR. Prior to working for AWCC, she served as senior integration leader for Verizon Wireless and vice president of process improvement for Alltel Wireless Communications. Jerri joined Alltel in 1990 and held a variety of positions including director of merger & acquisitions, director of leadership, and director of billing administration. She also served 15 years within accounting and finance, customer service and field operations in various leadership roles. Jerri graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds an MBA from University of Phoenix.

Bio: Jill Kreissl, Director, Employment, Cook Children's Healthcare System
Jill Kreissl is the Director of Recruiting at Cook Children's, where she is responsible for coordinating all employment functions; including identifying recruitment strategies, placing appropriate advertising, facilitating the hiring process from applicant screening and interviewing to on-boarding and new hire orientation. In addition to overseeing all recruiting efforts, she manages the workforce retention and turnover data & analysis. She received training in Behavioral Interviewing in 2001 and is certified as a Targeted Selection Facilitator from DDI (Development Dimensions International) since 2007.Mrs. Kreissl is experienced in helping hiring managers make better hiring decisions based on their selection process. This involves expertise in training individuals to understand that past behaviors are the best predictors for future behaviors and how to use behavioral interviewing to determine the better candidate. In addition to these duties, she is trained in other areas of Human Resources such as employee relations, benefits, and compensation.

Cheryl J. Ramirez, Director, Organizational Development & Training, OGE Energy Corp

This session will focus on how OGE Energy Corp is seeking to drive cultural change through its performance management process, tools and leadership training. In using the WingSpan module, we are taking an intentional and integrated approach to performance management.

Bio - Cheryl has over twenty-five years of practical and professional organizational development experience, specializing in coaching of executive leaders and project managers involved in internal and external change initiatives. In her current role, she is accountable for design, development and delivery of multi-year leadership development programs, bringing a new performance management system into existence, and working with senior executives to bring forth cultural change.

Bill McGuire, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

A key manager is retiring at the end of the year. A star performer may be moving on to another position in the company. A new position is being created and will need to be filled in 6 months. Businesses continuously face issues like these. Why not be prepared, build a strong bench of possible replacements. Let WingSpan’s succession planning module help you be prepared for changes. In this session you will learn the following:

• What is Succession Planning?
• How to tie in appraisal and assessment scores to a succession plan through the creation of "tags"
• How to configure a customized 9-box matrix
• How to run reports
• How to edit your system defaults

Bill McGuire, Product Trainer, SilkRoad technology

You are starting to really spread your wings within WingSpan but would like to learn some "tips and tricks" to get the most out of the application. This session will provide some ideas to help make your WingSpan experience top notch! We will cover topics like: adding job descriptions in the manage jobs section; how to change wording inside WingSpan and on the left navigation menu; how to edit appraisal workflows and add support documentation; getting the most out of your goal module. If this is not enough we will open the floor up for anyone to share ideas that have worked for their individual company!

Kelsey Galarza, Director of Product Segments and Services

Over the past decade, pre-employment background screening has shifted from a "nice-to-have" to "must have" requirement. Today's tough job market - with an increasingly desperate and mobile job seeker population - demands an awareness of common pre-employment screening pitfalls and best practices. Knowing whom you are hiring is vital as you strive to improve the quality of your staff and protect your organization from risk.

Join HireRight, the only partner to offer a pre-integrated screening solution with SilkRoad, as we cover critical best practices for effective screening and verification.
In this session you will learn:

• Best practices in pre-employment screening.
• Common pitfalls and what to look for in background check reports.
• Ways to uncover more about your candidate's background
• How to meet essential compliance requirements
• How you can increase your productivity with background screening integration through OpenHire

Bio: Kelsey Galarza is the Director of Product Segments and Services for HireRight, where she is responsible for background screening services ranging from criminal to credit. She also manages the solution teams for several key vertical segments including small business and Healthcare. During her time at HireRight, Ms. Galarza has designed and deployed two industry-leading software solutions for small business, as well as defined the roadmap for numerous other products and services. Prior to HireRight, she held marketing and technical roles at technology companies such as Quantum and Verizon Wireless. Ms. Galarza has an undergraduate degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

The HeartBeat User Group session is your opportunity to directly connect with other HeartBeat users as well as members of the HeartBeat product management and development team. Ask questions, get feedback and hear updates on the product roadmap, as well as exciting new features that were released in the past year. Please add the following session description to the "RedCarpet User Panel Discussion: Onboarding Best Practices" on Tuesday, May 24th.

This session will be an open question and answer forum with a panel comprised of three current RedCarpet customers from various industries. Come prepared with any and all questions you have about implementation, best practices, tips, tricks and more! This panel will be moderated by Karen Perron, RedCarpet Product Manager, SilkRoad technology.

Hear from leading industry analysts on their views of the state of talent management today, including key areas of growth and change in the space. Come prepared to ask questions and learn from these experts during this interactive session, moderated by SilkRoad technology COO Brian Platz.

Josh Bersin, CEO and President, Bersin & Associates
Kevin Martin, Senior VP, Research Operations, Aberdeen Group
Jason Corsello, Senior VP, Products & Technology, Knowledge Infusion

Josh Bersin has worked with hundreds of companies to deliver high impact employee learning, leadership development and talent management. In 2001, he founded Bersin & Associates to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Today, the firm is the “go to” source for learning and HR decision makers seeking product and market data, insight on trends and expert advice on enterprise learning and talent management.

Kevin Martin leads all research operations at Aberdeen Group and is responsible for creating and delivering innovative research deliverables that educate end user organizations to action regarding their use of technology to solve business pressures. Prior to this role, Kevin ran a group of Aberdeen research practices focused on customer and employee-centric research. This group included the following coverage areas: Human Capital Management (HCM), Service Management, Sales Effectiveness, and Marketing Automation & Strategy. Kevin also served as Aberdeen’s principal analyst for HCM.

Jason Corsello is Senior Vice President of Products & Technology, responsible for Knowledge Infusion’s solutions, technology, and corporate development strategy. As part of his role, Jason also leads KI OnDemand, the revolutionary service model that gives client’s subscription-based access to best practices, and advisory and consulting services. As a recognized leader in the technology landscape and emerging technologies marketplace, Jason also plays a lead consulting role with clients needing this type of guidance.

Michael Goldberg, Director of Talent Acquisition, Freeman

The role of the recruiter has changed drastically over the last few years. The days of post and wait for the candidates to apply have come and gone. Yet, we are asked to do more with less while maintaining a positive recruiting relationship with our hiring managers. In this informative session, you will learn key steps to improving and enhancing your role as a business partner to your hiring managers. How? Come and join Michael Goldberg as he takes your partnership building skills to the next level.

Bio: Michael is a Talent Acquisition Leader who is passionate about bringing the best talent to an organization based on fully understanding the company’s business and aligning hiring with their goals. His focus is on recruiting strategy, metrics management and building long standing partnerships with his hiring managers. Michael currently leads the Recruiting function at Freeman, a Dallas-based $1.2B global convention and event management company. Over the last four and a half years, Michael and his team have been able to reduce time to fill over 50% while averaging Recruiter Satisfaction Indexes of 96%. Last year, Michael and his team was able to move from a 7th ranked corporate service ranking to 3rd within 1 year in their annual survey to the branches regarding corporate departments.

Most importantly, Michael was responsible for leading the implementation of OpenHire which went live on April 18th of this year.

Michael has his BA in Psychology from the University of Georgia and an MBA from the University of Dallas. Michael has been published in the ERE Corporate Recruiting Journal and spoken at many National and local Recruiting events.