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Exhibit Hours:
10:00am - 5:00pm Tuesday, April 4, 2006
10:00am - 2:00pm Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Skype API Developers - Adding Value and Building the Brand
Monday, April 3, 2006, 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Skype was the biggest IP story in 2005, but the fundamental challenge remains - monetizing a free service that works very well. With open APIs, Skype has fostered a healthy ecosystem of developers who are focused on this problem. This General Session presents a dynamic forum of leading developers who will share how their applications are helping Skype get beyond free voice calls.
Jon Arnold, Principal, J Arnold & Associates
Jon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent telecom consultancy with a focus on IP communications. Previously, he was the VoIP Program Leader at Frost & Sullivan, where he was responsible for managing their subscription service for Global VoIP Equipment Markets. Jon is a frequent speaker at VoIP and telecom conferences, and has been a regular at VON since 2001. He leads the IPCC's Working Group on industry research, and is a contributing editor to the IP Telephony Dictionary. Jon is frequently quoted in the business and trade press, and television, including BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, NYT, WSJ, Financial Times, and CNET News.
Goren Gershon, Director, Engineering, WebDialogs
Mr. Gershon Goren joined WebDialogs in August 2000 and currently leads all WebDialogs engineering research and development activities. Under his leadership, WebDialogs has successfully developed and launched multiple releases of its WebInterpoint Web Conferencing solution. Prior to WebDialogs, Mr. Goren served as a team leader for Amdocs Ltd. At Amdocs, he conceived, designed and led the development of an Intranet based system for application servers, queues and log monitoring. In addition, Mr. Goren developed several other applications and programs for Amdocs. He has also held a programming position at Publishing Systems Ltd in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Mr. Goren received a degree in Management and Information Systems from Ben-Gurion University In The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Andrew Hansen, Founder/Owner, Virtual Communications
Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and is; as his blog says on or beyond the bleeding edge with upcoming and new communication technologies. As an active participant in the Skype community, and member of the Skype Developer Advisory council, he has consulted with many established hardware and web startup companies on embracing presence and VoIP communication into there overall strategy. Clients include Jyve, KhaosLabs, Skype, Multi-link Inc, Skylook and many other Fortune 500 companies based in NA and Europe.
Prior to starting Virtual Communications in 2003, Andrew had a storied career in IVR and CTI development and deployment internationally, working with companies such as Nortel, Lucent and Excendia developing emerging sales channels for VoIP and unified messaging solutions worldwide.
Ben Lilienthal, CEO, VAPPS
Ben is an experienced entreprenuer who spots technology trends and build business around those distruptive innovations. His primary focus is collaborative communications applications and value-added services around those applications. Vapps provides hosted Voip APPlicationS specifically audio conferencing, call recording and call playback through a number of partners including Skype. The HIGH SPEED CONFERENCING service was created by Vapps as part of the Skype Voice Services program in collaboration with Skype.
