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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

Birds of a Feather:SIP Forum: Lets talk about Standards!
Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 6:45pm - 8:00pm
The SIP Forum talks about the work in the IETF and how they are aiding the IP Communications industry to stick with the standards and avoid regional and vendor proprietary implementations.

Eric Burger, VP, CTO for Next-Gen Communications, Brooktrout Technology
Eric Burger is vice president, chief technology officer for Next-Gen Communications for Brooktrout Technology where he is responsible for setting the technology direction for Brooktrout's current and future next generation products. Mr. Burger represents Brooktrout by participating on several industry standards forums including the IETF, IEEE and SIP Forum. Prior to joining Brooktrout, Mr. Burger co-founded SnowShore Networks where he served as Chief Technology Officer responsible for building real-time, Internet-centric, large scale, packet media processing servers. Mr. Burger has held several strategic positions in the communications industry, including chief scientist at ADC/Centigram Communications Corporation, where he led the development of Centigram's IP-centric architecture; and vice president of engineering for The Telephone Connection, Inc. (TTCI).

Edward Keegan, Director, Lukas Technologies
Co-founder of ETphones.com, Ed was previously Head of Business Development at Indigo Software. There, he was responsible for putting the company on the Voice over IP map, in both Europe and North America, through partnerships and strategic alliances with the world's leading Carriers, Operators, OEMs, and ISVs, and a highly successful corporate and product branding campaign. His 15 years of industry experience includes tenures at Mediatext and with Primarydata, where he was EMEA Director of Sales and Marketing. Ed is Chairman of the SIP Forum's Marketing Working Group.

Henry Sinnreich, Distiguished Member of Engineering, MCI
Dr. Henry Sinnreich is Distinguished Member of Engineering at MCI. Operating in more than 65 countries, the company is a premier provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance, international and Internet services. Dr. Sinnreich has been at MCI Communications since 1981 where he has held various engineering and executive positions working on lightwave systems, digital crossconnects, lab testing and vendor product evaluation/integration and in telephony switch systems engineering. Dr. Sinnreich has worked on Internet and web services since 1993 and has initiated multimedia and voice projects based on standards developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he is an active contributor, having authored several IETF drafts.