VON Europe 2005 Conference and Expo - produced by pulver.com

VON Europe 2005 Expo Hours:
Tuesday May 24th: 6:30pm-8:30pm (with Welcome Reception)
Wednesday May 25th: 10am-4pm
Thursday May 26th: 10am-4pm
Birds of a Feather: Plug & Play Telephony
Monday, May 23, 2005, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Embedding call-processing software in SIP-centric phones enables automatic installation and provisioning. Embedded software can also eliminate the need for centralized switching, thereby creating a distributed telephony architecture. This interactive session will look at the technology, discuss the benefits and also consider go-to-market strategies.

Bob Emmerson, Freelance Writer, Electric Words
Bob Emmerson is an English national living in the Netherlands. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and mathematics from London University and now works as a freelance writer, part-time consultant, and “industry observer.” Bob writes about Information and Communications Technology for various technical and business publications. In addition, he has produced market reports for the Financial Times and Ovum as well as a number of white papers and co-authored a book entitled "21st Century Communications."

Dmitry Goroshevsky, CEO & Founder, Popular Telephony
Dmitry Goroshevsky is an Internet Telephony pioneer with over a decade of expertise in IP telephony, and founder of Popular Telephony. Mr. Goroshevsky was CEO of Internet Telecom, an early IP telephony core technology development company spearheading development of advanced IP telephony systems for broadband cable and PBX markets. He guided Internet Telecom through its sale in 2000 to Terayon Communications Systems. Mr. Goroshevsky was influenced by the expansion of the Internet in the '90s and became one of the first to develop the potential of VoIP. In 1995, he co-founded and managed DeltaThree, the first global VoIP service provider.
Mr. Goroshevsky's vision and business insight have culminated in inventing the serverless telephony concept, Peerio.

Mahshad Koohgoli, CEO, Nimcat Networks
Mahshad Koohgoli has spent most of his career in the telecommunications field. Starting with a lecturing stint in the University Of Exeter, England, Mahshad joined Bell Northern Research in Ottawa in 1982. In what later became Nortel Networks, Mahshad held various technical, marketing and executive posts for 14 years, before moving on to sample the challenges posed by smaller companies. Mahshad is a co-founder of SpaceBridge Networks, a satellite communications company, and the founder of Lantern Communications Canada, an optical networking company. In 2002, Mahshad co-founded Nimcat Networks, an enterprise communications company that develops server-less peer-to-peer communications solutions. Mahshad holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. from University of Sussex, England.