PHILADELPHIA -- September 27, 2006 -- VirtualEdge Corporation (VE), a worldwide provider of Talent Lifecycle Software solutions, announced today that its Annual VE Power Summit was an enormous success last week in La Jolla, CA.
This year´s Summit theme was Achieving Competitive Advantage through Teamwork, where VE customers shared best practices and discussed talent strategies and initiatives that improve business performance and provide competitive advantage. The VE Power Summit provided opportunities to gain new talent management insights that customers can use to power recruiting success. Through a variety of networking opportunities, VirtualEdge customers, partners, HR industry experts and thought leaders were able to network and share their knowledge and experience on a variety of topics, including global recruiting implementations; managing and developing critical talent pools; reviewing VE´s next release and product roadmap; and more.
Attending the Summit were VE customers representing a broad range of industries, including Banking and Financial Services; Pharmaceutical; Health Products and Services; and Technology.
This year´s first-day Summit keynote was delivered by Bo Burlingham, editor at large at Inc. magazine and author of new book Small Giants. Bo´s presentation provided the standing room only crowd, valuable insight by looking deeply at what makes some companies great, going the extra mile for its customers and the importance of taking care of its employees.
VirtualEdge CEO, Diane Smith commented, "With the coming shortage of skilled workers, organizations will soon face unprecedented talent challenges. VE´s 2006 Power Summit offered all attendees a tremendous opportunity to gain new talent management insights that can be utilized to power recruiting success and drive the overall talent capital of our customers businesses. I would like to thank all our customers from around the world for their attendance, helping to make this flagship conference a resounding success."
The VE Power Summit was sponsored by several of VE´s partners including Accurate Background Inc., HireRight, Jobster, CareerBuilder, The Newman Group, Pinstripe and SmartPost.
About VirtualEdge
VirtualEdge Corporation (VE) is a worldwide leader in Talent Lifecycle Software. VE provides the enterprise software foundation enabling companies to optimize the flow of talent throughout the organization, significantly improving productivity and fundamentally impacting the overall capital of the business. VE is the trusted solution partner for approximately one million users at more than 125 enterprises in over 80 countries. Many of the world´s foremost organizations such as Agilent Technologies, Avery Dennison, Campbell Soup Company, Chevron Corporation, CITGO, Delta Airlines, Genworth Financial, Honda of America Manufacturing, Rohm and Haas, sanofi-aventis, The Schwan Food Company, and SunGard utilize VE solutions. To learn more about VirtualEdge, visit www.VirtualEdge.com or in the United States, call (877)485-5454.