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Event ID: 878860 Remaining Competitive in Todays Changing Corporate Environment How AMD Aligned Its Learning Strategy to Meet Its Business Needs Kathy Warden: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to todays webinar, Remaining Competitive in Todays Changing Corporate Environment and How AMD Aligned Its Learning Strategy to Meet Its Business Needs. My name is Kathy Warden, and Ill be your host for today. A few things before we begin--if you have any questions during the presentation, feel free to submit them at any time using the question feature in the right-hand of your screen in the GoTo webinar console. We will do our best to get your questions during the presentation, as well as a QA session at the end of the presentation. Todays session will be recorded and a link to the recording will be provided to you after the webinar. Im pleased to introduce to you our presenters for today, David Stachura and Melonia da Gama. Dave is an experienced and sales enablement expert who specializes in building and operationalizing new training programs, infrastructure, and processes. Hes been with AMD since 2003, and was responsible for creating AMDs sales enablement program in 2009. Melonia is responsible for product marketing as it relates to learning business units at Kenexa. She is responsible for establishing Kenexas leadership position in the worldwide learning market through sales and marketing initiatives, as well as integrating new products and services into the Connected portfolio. Mel, Ill turn it over to you. Melonia da Gama: Great. Thanks so much, Kathleen, and thanks everyone for joining us today. Were very excited to have Dave here with us. As Kathleen said, he works for AMD, and he has been heading up sales enablement there. Certainly, I would say what Dave has done or through his leadership hes made AMD a best-in-class organization when it comes to sales enablement. If anyone was on our webinar on Wednesday with Aberdeen and the analyst there, Pe