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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

Enhanced services and media servers
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 9:00am - 10:15am
With integrated voice and data services, comes the need for integrated storage, and a whole new range of application opportunities:

- How can service providers use media servers to deliver compelling new applications?
- What are the new capabilities of the latest media servers?
- Which applications and feature innovations are capturing the market interest?
- What’s the revenue opportunity?

Keith Bhatia, Senior VP Development Manager, IP Unity
Keith brings more than 16 years of sales and business development experience to IP Unity, and is responsible for expanding IP Unity's industry relationships and partnerships. Keith comes to the company from SS8/ADC, where he served as vice president for global sales, leading his team to generate more than $100 million in revenue. Prior to that, Keith directed business development at Nokia, and held managerial posts at both Ericsson and Philips Telecom and Data Systems.

Keith holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Nova Southeast University in Florida, and a MBA from Sheffield Hallum University in the United Kingdom. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering.

Irvind Ghai, Director, VOP Asia-Pacific, Broadband Communications, Texas Instruments
As Director for VOP Asia-Pacific, Irvind S. Ghai identifies market trends and opportunities to deploy IP solutions, extending across the entire spectrum from Carrier boxes, Enterprise/Residential Gateways to IP Phones. Prior to this, as Texas Instruments’ worldwide High Density Voice manager, Ghai provided the vision and strategic direction for TI’s product portfolio in the infrastructure market. Ghai is responsible for driving product definition and development in order to launch and sustain innovative platforms for this market.

As part of TI’s Broadband Team, the VoP Group provides integrated silicon and software solutions, which enable equipment manufacturers to develop products that send real-time voice, fax and data over packet networks.

Jeff Liebl, VP of Marketing, Ubiquity Software
Jeff Liebl brings both enterprise and service provider communications industry experience, as well as voice and data expertise, to his role at Ubiquity. Liebl is responsible for all outbound marketing activities as well as internal product line management. Liebl's communications experience includes management roles in corporate development, business development, product and vertical marketing at Jetstream Communications and 3Com Corporation, along with experience as a strategic marketing consultant to the high performance communications and computing industry at Smaby Group, Inc. Liebl has presented to audiences at numerous industry conferences and seminars. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, at the University of St. Thomas and his Master of Business Administration from The University of Michigan Business School.

Garland Sharratt, VP, Partner Development & Chief Architect, Convedia
Garland Sharratt is responsible for defining and managing Convedia's overall product architecture as well as for Convedia's strategic partnering initiatives. Garland brings to Convedia over 15 years of experience in telecommunication systems as well as in-depth expertise in Advanced Intelligent Network architectures, service management, IP telephony, networking protocols and multimedia communications systems.
Previously, Garland spent 12 years in key product management, product planning, business development, software development and systems engineering positions at Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research (now Nortel Networks). During his tenure with Nortel, Mr. Sharratt was an instrumental player in cornerstone products such as DMS-100 ISDN Primary Rate Interface, Nortel's AIN based PCS product and Nortel's AIN based VPN product.