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August 09, 2007
The Innovators Track Revealed
Below are the guidelines I propose for the 5th Track (also known as the Innovators Track, unconference, etc.)
I would like to have most of the agenda set before the event. I have divided the agenda into a set of time blocks that match roughly to the VON conference and indeed I have some sessions mixed into the track.
I have schedule with 8 open sections called time blocks for the participants to speak.. These time blocks break into fifteen minute increments.
The selection of speakers for these time blocks is aimed at providing a loose format of topic sets. The topic sets represent broad categories for the speakers to self identify their interest and participation. A total of 5 discussants will be selected as leaders for their discussion. As leaders list themselves in their topic sets other individuals may identify their desire to contribute. The slots can be shared and bonded but each is subject to the tight time restraints. As topic sets are filled up they get placed in time blocks.
I have Tom Howe doing an Introduction and giving the discussants a chance to engage in a little agenda bashing.
I have identified six topic sets. They appear in no particular order (honest)
Rapid Apps on Rails:
A discussion about the impact of Ruby on Rails, Ajax and other tools that aid the developer in building new services rapidly and how combined with Amazon and Level services represent a new era in service deployments.
Enterprise 2.X
This is a discussion that looks at how the Enterprises are finally gaining the ability to provide services across a network and how it changes service models.
Social Networking
According to Cisco its working. Social networks are eating up the bandwidth and the Internet is again growing. What makes these services compelling and who is going to gain from these changes.
The New Age of Communication
We have talked about the concept of these new services now let’s look at some of them and let’s talk about why this is the perfect time to offer services in the marketplace. Is the price of rollout so low that adoption can be small and niche, or do we all need massive viral adoption?
New Services with old lines
Single Number is thing of the past, now we have disposable numbers and with the ILECs having to watch the Cable companies expand into their space the time may be ripe for these kinds of services. Best of all by extracting the person from the number the service is much more intriguing.
The Pulver Challenge
What companies stood up and said they were ready to accept Jeff’s challenge and show real innovation. Did they make the grade of bringing something new to IP communication or are we still at a point where we are replicating what we have seen before. Warning a wiseman said that there is nothing new under the sun, but we expect great things from this panel.
Obviously things can be added where time permits. We should allow people to add topics.
The time blocks are broken down as follows.
Schedule
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 10 AM Welcome to the Discussants
10 AM - 10 45 AM Agenda Bash
11 15 AM to 12 30 PM Time Block 1
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM to 2:45 PM Voice over 3G
3:15 PM to 4:30 PM New Age Service Creation
4:45 PM to 6 PM Time Block 2
Wednesday
9 AM to 10:15 AM Time Block 3
11:15 AM to 12:30 PM Going mobile with Skype
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM to 2:45 PM Time Block 4
3:15 PM to 4:30 PM Time Block 5
4:45 PM to 6:00 PM Time Block 6
Thursday
9:00 AM to 10:15 Time Block 7
10:30 AM to 11:45 Time Block 8
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM Lunch
12:45 PM to 2: 00 PM BOF Plus Minus Delta of this Format
2:15 PM to 3:30 PM The Secret Life of HD VoIP
3:45 PM to 5:00 PM The Wrap Up
So this is the plan, but I am looking for your feedback.
Let me know what you think.
Posted by carl at August 9, 2007 02:02 PM