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July 18, 2007
Fall VON Content is King!
I want Fall VON to rock your world.
I dont want you thinking that VON is VON anymore.
I am looking to have the show mean business to you.
The show has a predominance of wireless in it this year as well as the IPTV types.
But the show is more than any one topic.
Look at the conference below, I cant believe the topics wont interest you.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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8:30am - 9:00am Industry Perspective
Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman, pulvermedia
9:00am - 9:30am Industry Perspective
Daniel Hesse, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Embarq Corporation
9:30am - 10:00am Industry Perspective
Jeff Weber, Vice President, Product & Strategy, AT&T Operations
10:00am - 10:45am Morning Break
10:45am - 11:15am Industry Perspective
11:15am - 11:45am Industry Perspective
Paul Mankiewich, Chief Technical Officer & Chief Architect, Alcatel-Lucent
11:45am - 12:15 Industry Perspective
Christopher Fine, Vice President, Global Technology Division, Goldman, Sachs & Company
Breakout Sessions
1:30pm - 2:45pm Triple Play: What makes the Bundle Viral?
Track: Track 1: Video and IP
(M) Rory Altman, Director, Co-Founder, Altman Vilandrie & Company
Mark Kaish, VP, Voice Strategy and Development, Cox Communications
Sanjay Macwan, Executive Director, AT&T Chief Security Office, AT&T
1:30pm - 2:45pm VoIP over 3G
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
Dean Bubley, Founder, Disruptive Analysis
David Hattey, President & CEO, FirstHand Technologies
John Hannan, Director, Business Development, QUALCOMM
James Tagg, CEO, Truphone
Boaz Zilberman, Founder and Chief Architect, fring
1:30pm - 2:45pm Is the Network Ready for Real-Time?
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
Ann Marie Vega, Managing Principal, Global Network Services, Alcatel-Lucent
1:30pm - 2:45pm Driving Revenue and Margin Through Service Creation
Track: Track 4: Presence and Positioning
Eric Burger, Deputy Chief Technical Officer, BEA
David Jodoin, CEO, Iperia
1:30pm - 2:45pm Unconference
Track: Track 5: Unconference
2:45pm - 3:00pm Afternoon Break
Breakout Sessions
3:00pm - 4:15pm Three Screen Service Delivery
Track: Track 1: Video and IP
3:00pm - 4:15pm WiMAX, Alternative Access in a Number of Ways
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
(M) Ed Vildandrie, Director, Co-Founder, Altman Vilandrie & Company
Vijay Venkateswaran, Vice President, Services Development, Mobile Satellite Ventures
3:00pm - 4:15pm The Presence Difference
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
David Boyer, Chief Architect - Unified Communication Clients, Avaya
Joe Hildebrand, Chief Technology Officer, Jabber
3:00pm - 4:15pm Voice over Wi-Fi: Putting the Puzzle Together
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
Joe Epstein, Chief Architect, Meru Networks
Robert Franzo, Director, VoIP Marketing, Broadcom
Geri Mitchell- Brown, Wi-Fi Strategist and Director of Technical Business Development, SpectraLink
Judy Racino-Farrer, Sr. Manager of Marketing and Membership, Wi-Fi Alliance
Sherman Scholten, Director of Voice Product Marketing, Cisco - Linksys
3:00pm - 4:15pm VoIP and Virtualization The new age of Service Creation
Track: Track 5: Unconference
(M) Thomas Howe, CEO, Thomas Howe Company
David Jodoin, CEO, Iperia
4:30pm - 6:00pm General Session: Wireless Mobility - What Makes Convergence Real In This Space?
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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9:00am - 9:30am Industry Perspective
Tero Ojanperä, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Nokia
9:30am - 10:00am Industry Perspective
Ali Tabassi, Vice President, Technology Development, Sprint Nextel
10:00am - 10:30am Industry Perspective
Mark Spencer, CTO, Digium and Danny Windham, CEO, Digium
10:30am - 11:15am Morning Break
Breakout Sessions
11:15am - 12:30 Telco 1-2-3
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
(M) Ron Gruia, Principal Analyst for Emerging Telecom, Frost & Sullivan
Martine Lapierre, Carriers Group / Executive Management Team & VP Competitive Transformation, Chief Marketing Office, Alcatel-Lucent
Michael O'Hara, General Manager, Marketing and Industry Management Communicatiosn Sector, Microsoft
11:15am - 12:30 Hosted Media Processing (HMP) vs. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in Media Servers
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
Herman Abel, Product Manager, Aculab
Michael Coffee, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commetrex
Grant Henderson, Vice President, Product Marketing, RadiSys
(M) Mike Myshrall, Managing Director, Mercator Capital
John Smrstik, Worldwide Business Manager, High Density & Core Infrastructure DSP Products, Texas Instruments
11:15am - 12:30 The Challenges of Putting IMS to Work
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
(M) Tom Valovic, Program Director, VoIP Infrastructure, IDC
11:15am - 12:30 Positioning for Public New Enhancements for 911 and Other Government Services
Track: Track 4: Presence and Positioning
(M) Stefan Bewley, Senior Consultant, Altman Vilandrie & Company
Jeff Smith, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, EdgeWater Development Group
Joe Walsh, Chief Operating Officer, Square Loop
Bob White, E9-1-1 Spatial Data Manager | GIS Instructor, State of Maine, Office of Information Technology | NENA
11:15am - 12:30 Goin' Mobile With Skype - Beep Beep
Track: Track 4: Presence and Positioning
(M) Jon Arnold, Principal, J Arnold & Associates
Stephane Marceau, CEO, MOBIVOX
Bill Tam, CEO, EQO Communications
2:00pm - 2:30pm Industry Perspective
Amol Sarva, Former CEO of Virgin Mobile and represenatitive fopr
WIRELESS FOUNDERS COALITION FOR INNOVATION
2:30pm - 3:00pm Industry Perspective
Nick Jensen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dialogic
3:00pm - 3:30pm Industry Perspective
Darrell Jordan-Smith, Vice President, Global Communication Industry, Sun Microsystems
3:30pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Break
4:00pm - 4:30pm Industry Perspective
4:30pm - 5:00pm Industry Perspective
Dr. Hamid Ahmadi, Corporate Vice President, Senior Fellow And Chief Architect, Motorola
5:00pm - 5:30pm Industry Perspective
Niels Anderskouv, Vice President, Digital Signal Processing Systems Business, Texas Instruments
Thursday, November 1, 2007
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Breakout Sessions
9:00am - 10:15am Online Video Business Models
Track: Track 1: Video and IP
(M) Rod Randall, Senior Managing Director, Vesbridge Partners
9:00am - 10:15am Putting IMS Interoperabilty to the Test
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
Andy Huckridge, Director, IMS Solutions Marketing, Spirent Communications
Duane Sword, Vice President, Product Management, Empirix-Hammer
9:00am - 10:15am The Impact of Voice Codec Proliferation
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
9:00am - 10:15am The Growing Importance of Voice in the New World
Track: Track 4: Presence and Positioning
Danny Klein, Associate, Vesbridge Partners
9:00am - 10:15am Unconference
Track: Track 5: Unconference
10:15am - 10:30am Morning Break
Breakout Sessions
10:30am - 11:45am Digital Rights Management
Track: Track 1: Video and IP
10:30am - 11:45am Will there be such a thing as a Hardphone?
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
Nick Delany, President, VTech Communications
Danielle Deibler, Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems
Arjun Roychowdhury, Director, IMS and Broadband Apps, Hughes Systique
10:30am - 11:45am Peer to Peer will do to VoIP, What VoIP did to the PSTN
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
David Bryan, CEO, Sipeerior Technologies
(M) Henry Sinnreich, Architecture, Internet Communications, Adobe Systems
10:30am - 11:45am Identity Management Role in Communication Services
Track: Track 4: Presence and Positioning
Jon Peterson, Sr. Technical Industry Liaison, NeuStar
Georges Smine, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Nominum
10:30am - 11:45am Unconference
Track: Track 5: Unconference
Breakout Sessions
1:15pm - 2:30pm FMC in the Enterprise
Track: Track 2: Wireless Mobility
1:15pm - 2:30pm Video on Demand: Will the model be more IP or TV?
Track: Track 1: Video and IP
(M) Michael Kende, Principal Consultant, Analysys Consulting
1:15pm - 2:30pm Quality of Service Strategies
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
Alan Clark, CEO, Telchemy
Steve Des Rochers, Vice President, Solutions, Brix Networks
Loki Jorgenson, Chief Scientist, Apparent Networks
1:15pm - 2:30pm Why We Peer?
Track: Track 3: Voice Communication
Steve Heap, Chief Technical Officer, Arbinet
Eli Katz, Founder & CEO, XConnect Global Networks
Cyril Matthews, Director of Registry and Network Services, VoEX
Shrihari Pandit, President and Chief Executive Officer, Stealth Communication
Rodrigue Ullens, co-Founder & CEO, Voxbone
1:15pm - 2:30pm Unconference
Track: Track 5: Unconference
If you got this far, send me a note.
Posted by carl at July 18, 2007 06:40 PM