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VON Europe 2004 Conference agenda at a glance

Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday, June 7, 2004
Conference Day One
Tuesday, June 8th 2004
Conference Day Two
Wednesday, June 9th 2004
Conference Day Three: Enterprise IP Communications Summit
Thursday, June 10th 2004

Security
Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 1:30pm - 2:45pm
VoIP is not like traditional telephone solutions. Being a part of your IT infrastructure – as a service provider or an enterprise - concerns include Denial of Service attacks and code flaws. This panel discusses the practical protection of VoIP networks today and in the present future, and explores how to implement strategies that achieve results.

Francois Cosquer, Director Security Research, Alcatel
Francois is Director Security Research currently heading Alcatel Security Competence Center. Before joining Alcatel, he worked with various Research Institutions (ECRC-Munich, INESC-Lisbon), equipment vendors (SAGEM-London, NEC-Berlin) and telecom operators (Portugal Telecom-Lisbon, Cegetel-Paris). He is author of several international publications and co-author of LNCS book on Advances in Distributed Systems. Francois is Alcatel North America representative at the ATIS focus group on Security. Francois graduated in Electronics and Computing and holds a MSc and PhD in Computer Science.

Greg Moore, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Systems
Greg is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco's IP Communications Business Unit responsible for voice security improvements. He began working for Cisco as a Systems Engineer in 1997. Prior to joining Cisco, Greg spent seventeen years designing and building secure networks for the U.S. Department of Energy and a top-five public utilities engineering company. Greg received a Bachelors of Computer Science degree from Graceland College in 1981.

Marie-Paule Odini, HP VoIP Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
Marie-Paule joined HP in 1987. She subsequently held positions in technical consulting, sales development and marketing in different HP organisations in France and in the US - all focused on network and service provider business, either on solutions for the network infrastructure or for the operation.

She also spent five years with France Telecom research and development labs on defining architecture and value added services for corporate customers, working with standard bodies and industry forums as well as FT operational and marketing organisations.

More recently, Marie-Paule joined HP NSPBU organisation to lead HP NGN solutions for service providers.

Marie-Paule holds a master of Electrical Engineering from Utah State Unv.

Ari Takanen, CEO, Codenomicon Ltd.
Ari Takanen, founder and CEO of Codenomicon has for years already been studying information security issues in next generation networks and security critical environments. The work of Codenomicon and University of Oulu aims at ensuring that new technologies are accepted by the general public by providing means of measuring and ensuring quality in networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research that studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. SIP implementations.