| On September 19, 2007, SumTotal® Systems, Inc. | | | | sweeping companywide initiative at Wal-Mart to |
| (NASDAQ: SUMT) welcomes industry luminary and | | | | improve operations, processes and customer |
| recently retired Wal-Mart USA Vice President of | | | | satisfaction. Along with DiBendetto’s high-powered |
| Talent Planning and Development John DiBenedetto as | | | | keynote session, attendees will have the opportunity to |
| its keynote speaker for TotalConnection 2007, | | | | engage in a lively Q&A with one of the world’s |
| SumTotal’s global user conference running from | | | | best-known talent-management professionals. |
| September 18 to 20 in Dallas, Texas, at the Hilton | | | | In addition to the former Wal-Mart executive’s |
| Anatole. | | | | keynote, TotalConnection 2007 features experts in the |
| DiBenedetto will share his thoughts on and experiences | | | | fields of talent management, learning and workplace |
| with transforming talent management at the | | | | performance from Adobe, Baker Hughes, GEICO |
| world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart. As part of this | | | | Insurance, GP, JEA, the Los Angeles Police |
| Herculean and far-ranging effort, DiBenedetto built a | | | | Department, Mayo Clinic, Shell International, |
| “SuperCenter of Learning,” dubbed Wal-Mart | | | | Questionmark, Rapid Learning Deployment, Scania, |
| University, for the retailer’s more than 1 million | | | | SkillSoft, Trinity Workforce Learning, WebEx, Wells |
| U.S.-based associates. | | | | Fargo and more. |
| “Talent management professionals and business | | | | Along with these experts, there will be hundreds of |
| executives the world over know how difficult it is to | | | | ways for attendees to network with their peers from |
| win the war for talent and create a culture that | | | | within and across industries. For example, SumTotal will |
| develops great employees,” said Don Fowler, | | | | host customer roundtables that bring together clients, |
| SumTotal’s chief executive. “Our attendees will | | | | from similar industries, to share best practices. This |
| have an exciting opportunity to learn first-hand how | | | | year’s interactive program also delivers new |
| John DiBenedetto won hard-fought victories to create | | | | learning tracks, platform-specific sessions, partner |
| just such a culture, and on a scale that’s hard to | | | | solutions and discussions designed to equip attendees |
| fathom.” | | | | with novel ideas, proven practices and answers to |
| As part of his keynote address, DiBenedetto will | | | | their most-pressing questions. |
| explain what it took to spur change in concert with a | | | | |