Schedule Under Development and Subject to Change
Last Updated: April 21, 2005


Tuesday, April 19, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am
9:30am
Industry Perspective
The Present Future of VoIP
 • Jeff Pulver, Founder, pulver.com
9:30am
10:00am
Industry Perspective
The Renaissance of Telecom
 • Carl Condon, Vice President for Technology Development, Bell Canada
10:00am
10:30am
Industry Perspective
VoIP Technology: Innovation and the Impact on Industry and Consumer Adoption
 • Craig Wallace, President & CEO, AOL Canada
10:30am
10:45am
Morning Break
10:45am
11:15am
Industry Perspective
What Will Be the Outcome of the VoIP Horserace?
 • Bill Rainey, President, Vonage Canada
11:15am
11:45am
Industry Perspective
VoIP, Phone Spam, and Access Fees: A Radical Proposal
 • Tom Evslin, Founder, ITXC, Evslin Consulting
11:45am
12:15
Industry Perspective:
Managing the Threat of VoIP
 • Matt Stein, Vice President, New Technology and Services, Primus Telecommunications
12:15
12:45
Industry Perspective
A Vision for Global Telephony
 • Niklas Zennström, CEO and Co-Founder, Skype
12:45
1:45pm
Lunch
Enterprise Track VoIP Track VoBB Track
1:45pm
3:00pm
Breakout Sessions
WiFi, WiMax, Why Not?
 • Charles Brown, Executive Vice President, WaveRider Communications
 • Mark Evans, Senior Technology Reporter, National Post
 • Ben Guderian, Director of Market Strategy, SpectraLink
 • Ari Rabban, VP, Corporate Development & Marketing, VocalTec Communications
Show Me The Minutes: Voice Over Broadband
 • Jonathan Askin, General Counsel, pulver.com
 • Yuval Barzakay, President & CEO, Comwave Telecom
 • Ken Carriere, VP, Product Development, Yak Communications
 • Kan Inaba, Director, VoIP, Voice & Messaging, Bell Canada
 • Steven Koles, GM, Netscape & Enhanced Services, AOL Canada
 • Joe Parent, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Vonage
 • Kalli Sotiropoulos, Head, Product Development, Primus Canada
Update on Call Center Use of VoIP
 • Paul Barker, Editor, CNS Magazine
 • Tom Chang, Director, Sales Engineering, CosmoCom
 • Tracy Fleming, National IP Telephony Practice Leader, Avaya Canada
 • Tim Hewson, Nortel
3:00pm
3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm
4:30pm
Breakout Sessions
Analyst Roundtable
 • Jon Arnold, Principal, J Arnold & Associates
 • Daniel Berninger, VP and Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research
 • Jeff Fan, Director, Equity Research Analyst, Telecom, UBS
 • Ronald Gruia, Sr. Strategic Analyst, Emerging Communications Solutions, Frost & Sullivan
Show Me The Minutes: Cable
 • Hugh Black, Vice President, TRILLIUM Corp. Communications
 • Michael Jablon, Senior Director, Marketing, Time Warner Cable
 • Eugene Kam, Vice President, Product Integration, Rogers Cable Communications
VoIP Solutions for SMB
 • David Cork, CEO, Natural Convergence
 • Marc Gingras, VP, Product Line Mgmt. & Marketing, Nimcat Networks
 • Vera Reifenstein, Director - IP Connectivity, SMB, Bell Canada
 • Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum
 • Rick Spence, Marketing Consultant and Business Writer, Entrepreneur Consulting and Communications
 • Tim Welch, VP, Sales, Centrepoint Technologies
4:30pm
4:45pm
Afternoon Break
4:45pm
6:00pm
Breakout Sessions
Canadian Venture Capital
 • Robin Axon, Vice President, Venture West
 • Ronald Gruia, Sr. Strategic Analyst, Emerging Communications Solutions, Frost & Sullivan
 • Jim Glover, Investment Director, BDC Venture Capital
 • David Mc Carthy, Managing Director, BCE Capital
TV Over IP: Part of the Triple Play
 • Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL Prime
 • Kfir Benjamin, Director, Sales N.A., Surf Communication Solutions
 • Glen Campbell, First VP Telecommunications & Media, Merrill Lynch
 • Susan Stearman, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, IPlay3, NetCentrex
 • Thad Ward, Marketing Manager, Acterna
SIP in the Enterprise
 • Thomas Howe, CTO, Versatel Networks
 • Helene Joncas, VP, Marketing & Business Development, SIPquest
 • Stu Milberg, Vice President, Business Development, LibréTel
 • Chris Pallen, Carrier Multimedia Services Marketing, Nortel
6:00pm
7:30pm
Exhibit Hall Opens/ Welcome Reception


Wednesday, April 20, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am
10:15am
Breakout Sessions
Mobility Disruption: 3G and WiFi
 • Anne Coulombe, Director Secure Convergence, Enterasys Networks
 • Tom Carter, SVP, Worldwide Sales, BridgePort Networks
 • Thomas Howe, CTO, Versatel Networks
 • Alain Mouttham, CEO & Co-Founder, SIPquest
 • Greg Meckbach, Editor, Communications & Networking Magazine
Next-Gen 911 Solutions
 • Marcus Andronici, Product Marketing Manager, Intrado
 • Rick Jones, Operations Issues Director, NENA
IP PBX vs. Centrex
 • Carl Ford, Vice President, Community & Content, pulver.com
 • Bernard Gutnick, VP, Product Marketing, Sylantro Systems
 • Scott Hoffpauir, CTO, BroadSoft
 • Dan Hoffman, President and CEO, M5 Networks
10:00am
10:15am
Morning Break
10:30am
11:45am
Breakout Sessions
Network Management
 • Khaled Al-Salous, KAS Information Zone
 • Stephan Monette, VoIP Wholesale Manager, Unlimitel
 • Duane Sword, Vice President, Marketing, Empirix
 • Rajeev Tankha, VoIP Product Manager, MetaSolv
 • Howard Thaw, COO, Iotum
 • Jamie Warter, Vice President, Marketing, West Ridge Networks
VoIP Clearinghouse Strategies
 • Chris Celiberti, Director Advanced Services, NeuStar
 • Carl Ford, Vice President, Community & Content, pulver.com
 • Hugh Goldstein, Regional Sales Director, Arbinet-thexchange
 • Dimitri Panasevich, Director, IPCB.net
Conferencing Solutions using VoIP
 • Matthew Cooper, Director Business Development, Connectbynet
 • Scott Petrack, Divisional Chief Executive Officer, eDial, a division of Alcatel
 • Patrick Tan, AVP, Applications, Ubiquity Software
11:45am
1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm
1:30pm
Industry Perspective
VoIP Technology Innovation and the Impact on Service Provider Deployment and Adoption
 • Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS Corp.
1:30pm
2:00pm
Industry Perspective
 • Alexander Brock, VP, Business Development, Rogers Communications
2:00pm
2:30pm
Keynote
 • Kate Batty, Sr. Director, SMB Marketing, Bell Canada
2:30pm
2:45pm
Afternoon Break
2:45pm
4:00pm
Breakout Sessions
Presence in the App
 • Roch Charbonneau, Partner, Superna Business Consulting
 • Jack Jachner, Senior Director, Alcatel
 • Mark Mc Ilvane, President & CEO, Personeta
 • Ross Sedgewick, Director, Product Marketing, Siemens Communications
Architecting the VoIP Network
 • Jon Arnold, Principal, J Arnold & Associates
 • Ali Marashi, CTO, Internap Network Services
 • Martin Taylor, VP,Technology Strategy, MetaSwitch
 • Rajesh Tyagi, SVP, Product Mgmt. & Customer Engineering, sentitO Networks
 • John Wang, Product Manager, MCI Canada
Voice XML Comes of Age
 • Sandi Jones, Director, Strategic Marketing & Technologies, Allstream
 • Don Jackson, VP, Advanced Telephony, Tellme Networks
 • Chris Lotspeich, Director of Marketing, LumenVox
 • Stu Milberg, Vice President, Business Development, LibréTel
4:00pm
4:15pm
Afternoon Break
4:15pm
4:45pm
Industry Perspective
 • Ofer Gneezy, President & CEO, iBasis
4:45pm
5:15pm
Industry Perspective
 • David Endler, Director, Security Research / Chairman, TippingPoint & VoIPSA
5:15pm
6:30pm
General Session: IMS Update: Ready for Prime Time?
 • John Egli, Carrier VoIP Marketing, Nortel
 • Ronald Gruia, Sr. Strategic Analyst, Emerging Communications Solutions, Frost & Sullivan
 • Jack Kozik, CTO & Director of Architecture, Mobile Applications Grp., Lucent Technologies
 • Mike Martins, Associate Director, Wireless Technology, Bell Canada
 • Arun Sobti, CEO and Chairman, IP Unity
 • Martin Taylor, VP,Technology Strategy, MetaSwitch
7:30pm
11:00pm
VON Networking Party @ Crocodile Rock!


Thursday, April 21, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am
9:00am
Industry Perspective
 • Ron Mc Kenzie, Executive Vice President, AllStream
9:00am
9:30am
Industry Perspective
The Changing Landscape of Canadian Telecommunications
 • Larry Shaw, Director General, Telecommunications Policy, Industry Canada
9:30am
10:00am
Industry Perspective
VoIP: Just the Beginning
 • Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International
10:00am
10:30am
Industry Perspective
News From the Application Front
 • Ian Mc Laren, CEO, Ubiquity Software
10:30am
10:45am
Morning Break
10:45am
11:15am
Industry Perspective
Guaranteeing Carrier Success in the Small Business Market
 • David Cuddy, CTO, Natural Convergence
11:15am
11:45am
Industry Perspective
Service Provider Secrets to VoIP Success
 • Doug Bellinger, CTO, EVP Product Development, Atreus Systems
11:45am
12:15
Keynote
Asterisk, DUNDi and the Opening of Telephony
 • Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk
12:15
1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm
2:00pm
Town Hall Meeting
 • Lawson Hunter, Executive Vice President, Bell Canada
 • Larry Shaw, Director General, Telecommunications Policy, Industry Canada
2:00pm
3:15pm
Breakout Sessions
Interworking
 • John Egli, Carrier VoIP Marketing, Nortel
 • Ed Luff, Director , Product Marketing, Newport Networks
 • Konstantin Nikashov, CEO, MERA Systems
Money-Making Apps
 • Gordon Arthur, VP, Business Development, Pactolus Communications Software
 • Jonathan Askin, General Counsel, pulver.com
 • John Eitel, President & CEO, CallthePlanet
 • Patrick Tan, AVP, Applications, Ubiquity Software
 • Ray Vilis, VP, Product Line Management, Versatel Networks
New VoIP Entrance Facilities
 • Jeff Dionne, CEO, Arcturus Networks
 • Carl Ford, Vice President, Community & Content, pulver.com
 • Matt Lazaro, Sr. Product Manager, Avaya
 • Jean Lavoie, Director, Technology, Mediatrix Telecom
 • Charles Rutledge, VP of Marketing, Quintum Technologies
3:15pm
3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm
4:45pm
Breakout Sessions
Media Servers
 • Eric Burger, CTO, Brooktrout Technology
 • Ronald Gruia, Sr. Strategic Analyst, Emerging Communications Solutions, Frost & Sullivan
 • Arun Sobti, CEO and Chairman, IP Unity
Session Controllers for Fun and Profit
 • Jim Greenway, VP, Marketing, Kagoor Networks
 • Ed Luff, Director , Product Marketing, Newport Networks
 • Jonathan Richards, Associate, SeaBoard Group
 • Jeffrey Stern, Koolspan
Instant Messaging
 • Uday Choudhury, AVP, Product Management, BayPackets
 • Carl Ford, Vice President, Community & Content, pulver.com
 • Christopher Herot, CTO, Convoq
 • Skuli Mogensen, CEO & Founder, OZ Communications
 • Cliff Mc Collum, VP Technology and Development, Voice Mobility
4:45pm
4:50pm
Conference Ends

Exhibit Hours:
  • Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Thursday, April 21, 2005, 10:00am - 2:00pm