SuccessFactors Announces SuccessConnect 2011 Sydney
Features keynotes from CEO and founder Lars Dalgaard, best-selling author Dr. Karie Willyerd, HR strategy expert Dr. Mark Huselid, and guest speakers from Nissan North America, Burton-Jones & Associates, the University of Technology Sydney and Accenture
SYDNEY, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessFactors, Inc. (NYSE: SFSF), the global leader in business execution software, today announced the details of its annual national Australian customer event SuccessConnect 2011, which will take place in Sydney, August 23-26 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Celebrating 10 years of customer and company success, this year's SuccessConnect theme is "Driving Real Change", which will showcase how HR and executives can impact their companies with SuccessFactors' Business Execution (BizX) Software Suite.
Anish Baijal, director of talent management and human resources at Nissan North America will open the event with a special keynote address followed by SuccessFactors founder and CEO Lars Daalgard. Other featured keynote speakers include Dr. Alan Burton-Jones, co-editor of the recently published Oxford Handbook of Human Capital (Oxford University Press, 2011) and from Burton-Jones & Associates, Emeritus Professor Dexter Dunphy from the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney and Vinzenz Kremer, executive partner at Accenture (the global platinum sponsor for SuccessConnect 2011). Additional insights and presentations will be given by SuccessFactors' Chief People Officer, Jeff Diana, and SuccessFactors Principal Director Dr. Steven Hunt and Vice Presidents Erik Berggren, Peter Howes and Anastasia Ellerby.
Dr. Mark Huselid, distinguished professor of HR strategy and best-selling author of 'The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact', will also present a keynote on the changing role of the workforce and the new strategy for creating successful workforce organisations, while Dr. Karie Willyerd, Vice President of learning and social adoption for SuccessFactors and the former Jambok CEO and co-author of 'The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today', will present at SuccessConnect Sydney on learning and social adoption.
Murray Sargant, vice president and general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, SuccessFactors said, "Our exceptional growth in Asia Pacific is a testament to our commitment to deliver the most comprehensive HR, talent management and business agendas in Australia. SuccessConnect 2011 will be our largest user conference to date in Asia Pacific and will feature our latest ground-breaking technology, thought leadership presentations and many learning, sharing and networking opportunities.
"2011 is particularly meaningful because it's our company's tenth year. The past decade has proven that the cloud software model is the way of the future, as we now celebrate the largest number of users in the cloud of any enterprise vendor – so here's to another decade of success and growth, for both SuccessFactors and its family of customers."
SuccessConnect 2011 offers three educational tracks for customers: HR Leadership, Best Practices in Talent Management and the BizX Product Solutions. Customers will also have the chance to meet with SuccessFactors executives and network with other attendees so they can share company goals and discuss ways to implement new strategies.
Kicking off with opening cocktails at the Sydney Opera House on the evening of the 23rd of August, attendees will have the chance to meet with SuccessFactors' executives and network with others to share and discuss real-life scenarios, as well as the opportunity to speak with product experts and peers to discover best practices and ideas. SuccessFactors will also be showcasing opening night, Dr. Karie Willeryerd's book, '2020 Workplace' which was No. eight on the 800 CEO Read's list of best-selling business books.
SuccessConnect Sydney will also include a program for prospective customers to learn more about SuccessFactors products and services via the day-long Discovery Program on opening day, Wednesday August 24.
SuccessFactors is proud to be a strategic partner with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), working collaboratively in a number of ways including workshops, benchmarking and the AHRI SuccessFactors Award for HR Impact. The 2011/12 AHRI Workshop program will also be part of the launch at the SuccessConnect opening night.
For more information on SuccessConnect 2011, and to register, please visit: http://register.yrd.com.au/APAC11/.
About SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business Execution Software, which delivers business alignment, team execution, people performance, and learning management solutions to organisations of all sizes across more than 60 industries. With approximately 15 million subscription seats globally, we strive to delight our customers by delivering innovative solutions, content and analytics, process expertise and best practices insights from serving our broad and diverse customer base. Today, we have more than 3,500 customers in more than 168 countries using our application suite in 34 languages.
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