Schedule Under Development and Subject to Change Last Updated: September 14, 2006 |
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
8:30am 9:00am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00am 9:15am |
Welcome & Introduction |
9:15am 10:00am |
Keynote: : State of the Collaboration & Conferencing Service Market Marc Beattie, Partner & CSP Practice Manager, Wainhouse Research |
10:00am 10:30am |
Will Users Buy into Unified Communications and Collaboration? Greg Brophy, Director of Product Management, Conferencing and Collaboration Portfolio, Avaya |
10:30am 11:00am |
Morning Break |
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11:00am 12:00 |
Workshop A1: Migrating your Conferencing Services to IP – Choosing the Best Architecture to Ensure Success John Nye, Managing Director , Conferencing Solutions, Ubiquity Doug Tucker, CTO Americas, Ubiquity |
Workshop B1: Beyond Voice: Exploiting the Potential of Collaboration Lou Guercia, President and CEO, WebDialogs, Inc. Aaron Mc Cormack, CEO, BT Conferencing |
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12:00 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00pm 2:00pm |
Workshop A2: Finding the Right Mix – Developing High Margin CoIP Services for Collaboration Service Providers Marc Beattie, Partner & CSP Practice Manager, Wainhouse Research Robert Haley, Director of Marketing, Compunetix, Inc. Gene Warren, President and CEO, ACT Teleconferencing |
Workshop B2: Rapid Deployment of IP Application Servers for IMS/SIP Conferencing Andy Nilssen, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research Kenneth Osowski, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, Pactolus Communications Software Corp. |
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2:00pm 2:30pm |
Afternoon Break |
2:30pm 3:00pm |
Service Provider Perspective - What it means to be a CSP Warren Baxley, Director of Conferencing Architecture and Strategy, Intercall Conferencing |
3:00pm 3:30pm |
What Collaboration Services Mean to End Users James Di Marino, Manager, Teleconferencing Technologies, Genzyme Corporation |
3:30pm 4:00pm |
WebMetrics 2006 Update – Top Trends from WR’s Survey on Web Conferencing Usage Andy Nilssen, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research |
4:00pm 4:30pm |
The Relevance Engine- Using Workflow Intelligence to Find & Connect with Others Alec Sanders, CEO, iotum |
4:30pm 6:30pm |
Networking Cocktail Reception |
Thursday, September 14, 2006
8:30am 9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00am 9:15am |
Welcome & Summary of Day 1 |
9:15am 9:45am |
Where do Free Conferencing Services Fit In? David Erickson, Founder & CEO, Free Conferencing Corporation of America |
9:45am 10:15am |
Why Skype Matters Lou Guercia, President and CEO, WebDialogs, Inc. |
10:15am 11:15am |
Workshop A3: IMS – Impact and Opportunities for CSPs Greg Ellison, Sr. Manager, Conference Network Engineering, Global Crossing Grant Henderson, Exec. VP, Marketing & Strategy, Convedia (now RadiSys Canada, Inc.) |
Workshop B3: Hosted IPT & Call Centers: Driving Value through New Services Greg Brophy, Director of Product Management, Conferencing and Collaboration Portfolio, Avaya |
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11:15am 11:45am |
Morning Break |
11:45am 12:45 |
Workshop A4: VoIP Audio Conferencing: Benefits & Shortcomings – Real Life Best Practices from the Front Line Ben Lilienthal, Co-founder and CEO, Vapps William Stofega, Research Manager, IDC |
Workshop B4: A Pragmatic View of Collaboration Technology Trends James Brennan, Senior Product Manager, Network Systems, Polycom Joe Sigrist, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Systems, Polycom, Inc |
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12:45 1:45pm |
Lunch |
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