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Schedule Under Development and Subject to Change Last Updated: October 21, 2004 |
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Sunday, October 17, 2004
11:00am 6:00pm |
Best Bet for the Cure: Charity Poker Tournament to benefit Diabetes Research Main Tournament |
4:00pm 7:30pm |
Pre-registration for VON Package and Workshop Attendees |
6:15pm 7:30pm |
Town Hall Meeting Jeffrey Carlisle, Bureau Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC Robert Pepper, Chief of Policy Development, FCC |
7:30pm 11:55pm |
Charity Poker Tournament Celebrity Play http://www.pulver.com/poker/ |
Monday, October 18, 2004
Pre Conference Workshops - Monday 18th October
Fall VON's Pre-Conference workshops are intensive educational and interactive sessions for those interested in exploring specific aspects of VoIP technology, applications or regulations. The workshops provide attendees with the opportunity to ask specific questions and have their cases considered in a small educational forum. There are six, full day pre-conference sessions to choose from.
8:00am 9:00am |
Pre-registration for VON Package and Workshop Attendees |
9:00am 4:15pm |
Telecom Manager's Roundtable |
9:00am 4:15pm |
SIP Tutorial |
9:00am 4:15pm |
Building the VoIP Central Office |
9:00am 4:30pm |
Telecom Policy Summit |
9:00am 4:15pm |
Wi-Fi VoIP Summit |
9:00am 4:15pm |
2004 Landline Replacement Summit |
4:30pm 5:00pm |
Keynote Senator John Sununu, New Hampshire |
5:00pm 5:30pm |
Keynote The Synchronized Enterprise: Second Gen IP Apps And Process Efficiency Joseph Licata, President, Enterprise Networks Division, Siemens Communications |
5:30pm 6:00pm |
Keynote Dr. Kevin Kealy, Security Scientist, AT&T |
6:00pm 8:00pm |
Exhibit Hall Opens / Welcome Reception |
6:30pm 7:45pm |
Birds of a Feather: IPCC Service Provider Debbie Hetland, Program Manager, IPCC Michael Khalilian, President & CEO, Intl. Packet Communications Consortium Girish Pathak, VP, Chief Customer Strategist, TELUS Earl Turner, Sr. Director VIP Technology, Time Warner Telecom |
Tuesday, October 19, 2004

7:15am 8:00am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
8:15am 8:45am |
Industry Perspective The Present Future of VoIP Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com |
8:45am 9:15am |
Industry Perspective VoIP Regulation Chairman Michael Powell, FCC |
9:15am 9:45am |
Industry Perspective Charles Giancarlo, CTO, Cisco Systems |
9:45am 10:15am |
Industry Perspective VoIP...the Evolution Continues Cathy Martine, Senior Vice President, Internet Telephony, AT&T |
10:15am 10:45am |
Industry Perspective The Changing Landscape of Communications Sir Terry Matthews, Chairman, Mitel Networks |
10:45am 11:15am |
Morning Break |
11:15am 12:45 |
VON Enterprise Forum: The analyst perspective on the enterprise Steve Elliot, Senior Analyst, IDC David Fraley, Analyst, Gartner Dataquest Ronald Gruia, Program Leader, Enterprise Solutions, Frost & Sullivan Ken Osowski, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Pactolus Communication Software Stephen Raab, Director, DellOro Group |
11:15am 11:45am |
Industry Perspective Anoop Gupta, Corporate VP, Real-Time Collaboration Bus. Unit, Microsoft |
11:45am 12:15 |
Industry Perspective VoIP: A Year (or more) in Review Jack Waters, EVP, CTO & President Voice Technologies, Level(3) Communications |
12:15 12:45 |
Industry Perspective Christopher Fine, Vice President, Goldman Sachs |
12:45 2:00pm |
Lunch |
2:00pm 2:30pm |
Keynote VoBB: Redefining the Telecom Landscape Hassan Ahmed, CEO& Chairman, Sonus Networks |
2:30pm 3:00pm |
Keynote IP SIP Communications - An iceberg yet to be revealed Sunil Bhalla, Sr. VP & GM of Voice Communications, Polycom |
3:00pm 3:30pm |
Keynote Brian Forbes, VP of Business Development, Netrake |
3:30pm 3:45pm |
Afternoon Break |
| Applications & Markets |
Business & Strategy |
Competitive Landscape |
Technology |
Telecom Policy & Regulation |
VON Enterprise Summit |
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3:45pm 5:00pm |
Breakout Sessions |
The Voice of the Service Providers Katherine Bagin, IP Telephony VP, Product Marketing & Distribution, AT&T Joe Glynn, VP IP Product Innovations, Qwest Kevin Mitchell, Directing Analyst, Service Provider Voice & Data, Infonetics Research Michelle Swittenberg, Executive Director, Consumer VoIP, Verizon |
Venture Capital: The Sharpened Focus Rubin Gruber, Founder & Chairman Emerritus, Sonus Networks Anthony Marino, Principal, Venrock Associates Gary Rubinoff, President & Managing Director, BCE Capital Inc. Rod Randall, Senior Managing Director, Vesbridge Partners, LLC Jamie Robertson-Lavalle, Director, Communications Intrastructure Sector, Intel Capital |
US Regulatory Update Dorothy Attwood, Sr. VP, Regulatory Policy & Planning, SBC Telecommunications Jim Kohlenberger, Executive Director, former White House Telecom Advisor, The VON Coalition Christopher Libertelli, Sr. Legal Advisor to Chairman Powell, FCC David Svanda, Principal, Svanda Consulting Richard Whitt, Director, MCI |
IETF Update Eric Burger, Vice President and CTO, Brooktrout Technology Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems Jon Peterson, NeuStar Jonathan Rosenberg, CTO, dynamicsoft |
After the smoke clears…living with an IP PBX Simon Gwatkin, VP of Strategic Marketing, Mitel Networks Corporation Mark Hinckley, Director, Systems Engineering, Nortel Networks William Jahsman, Principal, Park City Consulting Group Don Price, CTO, Technical Director, Avaya |
Here, there and everywhere: IP Centrex Ahal Besorai, President & CEO, Inclarity Dan Hoffman, CEO, M5 Networks Matt Noah, CEO, NetSuds.com Ken Shulman, CTO & EVP, Wholesale Service, Broadview Networks Pete Sandrev, President, Hosted Telephony Service Operations, Broadvox Sam Shiffman, Executive Vice President, PointOne |
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5:00pm 5:15pm |
Break |
5:15pm 6:30pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Cable Operators: Capitalizing on the triple play Opportunity Jean-Francois Mule, Director, PacketCable Architecture, CableLabs Michael Pacifico, Director of Marketing, Cox Communications Tom White, VP, Marketing, Voice Services, Comcast |
Analyst Roundtable: Trends in VoIP Markets Tom Valovic, Director, VOIP Infrastructure, IDC |
Social Policy Update: E 911, CALEA, Disability Access Rick Jones, Operations Issues Director, NENA Timothy Jasionowski, CTO, Streamdoor Brian Rosen, President, Emergicom Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University Jim Tobias, President, Inclusive Technologies |
IAX2: The next SIP? Guillaume Giraudon, Network Engineer, Independent Consultant Patrick Reilly, Sr. Product Development Mgr., Global Crossing Ravi Sakaria, President/Co-Founder, VoicePulse Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk Brad Templeton, Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation Rajesh Tyagi, SVP, Product Mgmt. & Customer Engineering, sentitO Networks |
Taking over Telecom – the Data Comms Managers Guide to Voice (Allstate Insurance) Debbie Bour, Manager,Global Voice Services, Avery Dennison Rick Hawkins, Manager,Global Data Services, Avery Dennison Ben Lasher, Director Corp. Communications & Computing Services, Analog Devices David Steen, CEO, Teleplus Consulting |
The integration advantage from system integrators Jay Brandstadter, Professional Advisor, Computer Sciences Priscilla Doyle, Technical Manager, Lucent Technologies Ed Morea, VP Northeast, MBT International Matt Noah, CEO, NetSuds.com Richard Whitehead, CTO, Clarus Systems |
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6:30pm 6:45pm |
Break |
6:45pm 8:00pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Birds of a Feather: Implementing SIP - real life experiences Shane Cleckler, Manager of Systems Engineering, Ingate Systems Andy Huckridge, Senior Product Marketing, Spirent Communications Jens Lundstrom, COO, Hotsip AB Ed Luff, Director , Product Marketing, Newport Networks John Philips, VP, Product Development, DSL.net Larry Schessel, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Cisco Systems Alessandro Valenti, CTO, Sleipner SA |
Birds of a Feather: Business Case for Session Control Dan Dearing, VP, Marketing, NexTone Communications Carl Ford, VP Content & Community Development, pulver.com Jim Hourihan, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Acme Packet Johan Terve, VP, Marketing & Sales, Ingate Systems |
Birds of a Feather: Global MSF Interoperability 2004 Results Neil Anderson, Sr. Director Services, Spirent Communications Mark Carroll, Director Engineering, Cisco Systems Chris Daniel, Sr. Director, Business Development, Leapstone Systems Joe Glynn, VP IP Product Innovations, Qwest Jim Mceachern, Carrier VoIP Standards Strategy, Nortel Networks Roger Ward, MSF President, BT |
Birds of a Feather: Rich Presence & IM hosted by: Internet2's Presence & Integrated Communications working group Jeremy George, Director, Yale University Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University |
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
7:30am 8:30am |
Registeration & Continental Breakfast |
8:30am 9:45am |
Breakout Sessions |
Voice over Broadband Service Providers Alan Bugos, Vice President, Engineer, iBasis David Epstein, Co-Founder, President, BroadVoice Teresa Hastings, Director, Product Engineering, MCI Bryan Martin, President & CEO, 8x8 Ravi Sakaria, President/Co-Founder, VoicePulse Michael Tribolet, EVP, Operations, Vonage |
Video over IP / 3G Video Peter Linder, Technical Director Wireline Networks, Ericsson Asher Shiratzky, TBU CTO, RADVISION Garland Sharratt, VP, Business Development, Convedia Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications Nick Turner, General Manager, EMEA, NexTone Communications Stef Van Aarle, VP, LWS Marketing& Strategy &VP, Professional Service Product Management, Lucent Technologies |
Roaming between WiFi and GSM Networks Steve Blumenthal, Sr. VP of Engineering, BridgePort Networks Robert Mimeault, President and CEO, Versatel Networks John O'Connell, President & CEO, Kineto Wireless Lee Phillips, CEO, tekVizion PVS, Inc. Chris Smith, Co-Founder, AltoPoint Gary Tauss, President & CEO, LongBoard |
Open Source and Telecom Peter Badovinatz, Sr. Technical Staff Member, IBM Linux Technology Center Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International Jiri Kuthan, CTO, Iptel.org Bill Rich, Co-Founder, SIP Foundry Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk Craig Southeren, Managing Director, Post Increment |
Killer App: The Ad Hoc call centers Ray Adensamer, Marketing Manager, Convedia Ian Bell, Chief Architect, pulver.com Mathew Frazer, VP, Business Development, Genesys/Alcatel Georges Karam, CEO, Atelka Ross Sedgewick, Director, Product Marketing, Siemens |
Killer App: Integrating mobility with WiFi Joseph Bardwell, President & Chief Scientist, Connect802 Corp Terry Barbounis, Chief Technology Provocateur, The First Church of Christ, Scientist Matt Ginn, VP, Market Development, Meru Networks Andre Kindness, Product Manager, HP Co., ProCurve Networking Business Lee Quintanar, 1 VP, Enterprise Telecom, Country Wide Financial Corporation Tony Rybczynski, Director- Strategic Enterprise Technologies, Nortel Networks |
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9:45am 10:00am |
Morning Break |
10:00am 11:15am |
Breakout Sessions |
Rural Voice over IP Solutions David Irwin, President, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, PC Andy Randall, VP, Marketing, MetaSwitch Clifford Rohde, Regulatory Attorney, Ntl. Exchange Carrier Association Ingrid Simunic, Marketing Director, VocalTec Communications |
Back Office Support Systems Todd Benjamin, President & CEO, Rodopi Software Chris Celiberti, VP, Business Development & Carrier Relations, LibreTel Eric Hernaez, President, telic.net Liam Maxwell, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Portal Software Bob Richardson, Sr. Vice President, Services, Primal Solutions, Inc. |
SIP Update Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems Hisham Khartabil, Senior Technology Specialist, Nokia Henry Sinnreich, Distiguished Member of Engineering, MCI Robert Sparks, CTO, Xten Networks |
VoIP in Japan Alan Bugos, Vice President, Engineer, iBasis Hideaki Koga, COO & Chief of Strategic Planning, NextGen Inc. Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom Takuya Sawada, Assistant Manager, KDDI Corporation |
Killer App: Using presence and instant messaging Jack Jachner, Senior Director, Alcatel David Leach, Program Manager, Siemens Alain Mouttham, CEO, SIPquest John Streck, Director, Networking R&D, North Carolina State University Ed Simnett, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft |
Utilizing MPLS and QoS to deliver voice, video and data Joe Aibinder, Director, VoIP Bus. Services, AT&T Andreas Antonopoulos, Partner/Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research Robert Hagens, Sr. Vice President, Level 3 Communications Girish Pathak, VP, Chief Customer Strategist, TELUS David Siegel, VP, Network Architecture & Planning, Global Crossing |
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11:15am 11:30am |
Break |
11:30am 12:00 |
Keynote Meeting the Demands of Today's Networked Consumer Jim Dondero, VP, Wireline/Optical Marketing, Nortel Networks |
12:00 12:30 |
Keynote The future IC net? Jim Hourihan, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Acme Packet |
12:30 1:00pm |
Keynote Michael Hassett, Sr. VP, Retail Markets Product Management, Verizon Communications |
1:00pm 2:15pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm 2:00pm |
Keynote David Gurle, Executive Vice President, Reuters |
2:00pm 2:30pm |
Keynote James Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications |
2:30pm 2:45pm |
Break |
2:45pm 4:45pm |
VON Enterprise Forum General Session: IP PBX Showdown (3Com, Cisco Systems, Avaya & Nortel Networks) Wendy Bohling, Director, Avaya Mark Bissell, Global Dir., Enterprise Multimedia Systems, Nortel Networks Peter Brockmann, VP of Mktg., Enterprise Voice Solutions, 3Com John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World Jim Doherty, Cisco Systems Christian Szpilfogel, Head of Platforms, Enterprise Solutions, Mitel Networks Mark Wilson, Vice President, Lucent Technologies |
2:45pm 3:15pm |
Industry Perspective The “Best-of-Breed” VoIP revolution in the operators world Shabtai Adlersberg, CEO & President, AudioCodes |
3:15pm 3:45pm |
Industry Perspective John Yoakum, Emerging Opportunities, Nortel Networks |
3:45pm 4:15pm |
Industry Perspective Localizing Rich Telecom Service Creation for the Global Market Marc Zionts, CEO, Excel Swtiching |
4:15pm 4:45pm |
Industry Perspective Multimedia SIP Service Platforms Peter Briscoe, Founder, President & CEO, Convedia |
4:45pm 5:00pm |
Afternoon Break |
5:00pm 5:30pm |
Industry Perspective Stef Van Aarle, VP, LWS Marketing& Strategy &VP, Professional Service Product Management, Lucent Technologies |
5:30pm 6:00pm |
Industry Perspective Beyond IP Telephony: Unlocking Business Value and Driving Business Growth Denzil Samuels, VP, Service Provider Division, Avaya |
6:00pm 6:30pm |
Industry Perspective Danny Petkevich, Dir. of Mktg., Infrastructure DSPs, Freescale Semiconductor |
8:00pm 0:00am |
Jeff's All Conference Party with special musical guest: The Goo Goo Dolls |
Thursday, October 21, 2004
8:00am 9:00am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00am 9:30am |
Industry Perspective Mobile instant messaging and presence for enhancing voice collaboration in corporate environments. Val Babajov, CEO, Webmessenger |
9:30am 10:00am |
Industry Perspective Eric Giler, President, Brooktrout Technology |
10:00am 10:30am |
Industry Perspectives Accelerating VoIP Disruption Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications |
10:30am 11:00am |
Industry Perspective Joe Rinde, President, Rinde Associates |
11:00am 11:15am |
Morning Break |
11:15am 11:45am |
Keynote Todd Simpson, COO, Jasomi Networks |
11:45am 12:00 |
Keynote Capt.. Chris Christopher, Deputy Dir. NMCI, Future Operations, Communications & Bus. Initiatives, Navy Marine Corps. Intranet |
12:00 12:15 |
Keynote Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk |
12:15 1:15pm |
Lunch |
1:15pm 2:30pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Clearing and Peering Richard Brennan, Vice-Chair, ETSI TISPAN, Telxxis LLC Jim Dalton, CEO, TransNexus Steve Heap, CTO & VP of Business Development, Arbinet Tom Kershaw, Vice President, VeriSign |
Presence & Wireless Instant Messaging Piotr Boni, Distinguished MTS, Verizon Dan Coole, VP Strategic Commincations, Oz George Emilov, CTO, WebMessenger Stu Milberg, VP, Business Development, Pulver Enterprises Keith Weiner, CEO, DiamondWare |
VoIP Security Akif Arsoy, Product Manager, VoIP, VeriSign David Cross, Tello VSP, Seiri Samuel Guenette, CTO, M5T Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems Robert Maher, Founder and Cheif Technology Officer, Netrake Choon Shim, CTO, Qovia, Inc. |
Just in time service delivery: the personal touch Katherine Bagin, IP Telephony VP, Product Marketing & Distribution, AT&T Chris Celiberti, VP, Business Development & Carrier Relations, LibreTel Ken Epps, President & CEO, BayPackets Kevin Farrell, VP Product Mgmt. & Mktg., TeleGea Carl Ford, VP Content & Community Development, pulver.com Stephen Laufer, Global Solutions Executive, IBM Paul Shaneck, VP Sales and Marekiting, Leapstone Systems |
Internet 2 Update Dennis Baron, Director, M.I.T. Jeremy George, Director, Yale University Walter Magnusson, Associate Director for Telecommunications, Texas A&M University Ben Teitelbaum, Program Mgr, Voice & Integrated Communications, Internet2 |
VoIP for SMEs Paul Cheng, CEO, Asylum Telecom Steve Johnson, President, Ingate Systems Iain Milnes, President, Zultys Technologies Mark Mathias, Consultant & Author Chris Vuillaume, VP, Marketing, Alcatel |
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2:30pm 2:45pm |
Afternoon Break |
2:45pm 4:00pm |
Breakout Sessions |
What’s in the Device: Silicon Voice over IP Majid Foodeei, Principal Engineer, Systems Engineering, Centillium Communications Irvind Ghai, Director, VOP Asia-Pacific, Broadband Communications, Texas Instruments Perry He, Manager of Voice Enchancement, Freescale Semiconductor Jonathan Peace, CTO, Mindspeed Technologies Chip Stearns, COO, HelloSoft, Inc David Young, Director, Technology Policy, Verizon |
Testing to Standards Jay Batson, Chairman, SIP Forum Tom Pincince, President & CEO, Brix Networks Asher Shiratzky, TBU CTO, RADVISION Jay Stewart, VP, IP Service Assurance Solutions, Acterna Ari Takanen, CEO, Codenomicon Ltd. |
Data, Video and Voice; How to Deliver the Triple Play Keith Bhatia, Senior VP - Business Development, IP Unity Ken Cavanaugh, Director of Business Development, General Bandwidth Alain Fernando-Santana, CEO, NetCentrex Darek Smyk, Telcordia Fellow, Telcordia Technologies Kevin Wiant, Managing Director, HarborWay |
NextGen Signal: Presence Martin Barclay, Sr. Product Manager, Lightbridge Ronald Gruia, Program Leader, Enterprise Solutions, Frost & Sullivan Jason Katz, Founder and CEO, PalTalk.com David Mccall, Consulting Engineer, Groove Networks Scott Petrack, Senior Vice President, eDial Doug Tucker, CTO, Ubiquity |
VoIP in Europe Richard Elliott, Chairman, BAND-X Espen Fjogstad, CEO, Telio Eli Katz, Co-Founder, ITSPA Joe Mcgarvey, Sr. Analyst, Current Analysis Nick Turner, General Manager, EMEA, NexTone Communications Olof Tenghoff, Product Manager, TeliaSonera |
VoIP Network Management Eric Bear, VP Product Management, Qovia, Inc. Donna Bastien, Worldwide Outbound Mktg. Mgr., Agilent Technologies Alan Clark, President and CEO, Telchemy, Inc. Carl Ford, VP Content & Community Development, pulver.com Rajeev Tankha, VP Product Management, MetaSolv Wilhelm Wimmreuter, Siemens AG |
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4:00pm 4:15pm |
Break |
4:15pm 5:30pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Update on 911 VoIP Solutions Bernard Gutnick, VP Product Marketing, Sylantro Systems Monica Martino, CTO, Accudata Technologies Monica Marics, VP, Wireline Products, Intrado John Morgan, VP, VoIP Development & Delivery, Level 3 Communications Matt Noah, CEO, NetSuds.com |
ENUM Update Bob Bownes, Managing Director, Seiri Michael Haberler, Chairman, Internet Foundation Austria Tom Kershaw, Vice President, VeriSign Doug Ranalli, Founder, Chief Strategy Ofiicer, NetNumber, Inc. Richard Shockey, Strategic Technologies Initiatives, NeuStar Richard Stastny, Senior Analyst, OeFEG |
Controlling the Session Carl Ford, VP Content & Community Development, pulver.com Micaela Giuhat, AVP, Global Alliances, Netrake Jim Hourihan, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Acme Packet Alan Hawrylyshen, CTO, Jasomi Networks Kaushik Patel, Director of Marketing, Technology Div., MediaRing Itzik Parnafes, Co-Founder & VP, Products, Kagoor Networks Sridhar Ramachandran, CTO, NexTone Communications |
SIGTRAN Update Terrence Blaise, Technical Mktg. Engineer, Intel Corporation Robert Delaney, Product Manager, Tekelec Normand Glaude, Managing Director, Signaling, Performance Technologies Evan Kirstel, Area Manager, Hughes Software Systems Neeraj Patel, Trillium Project, Marketing Manager, Continuous Computing Manuel Vexler, Director of Marketing, IPCC |
Service Creation Steve Bakke, Founder & CTO, VocalData,Inc Neil Baimel, President & CEO, NewStep Networks Daniel Berninger, VP, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research Len Castelli, VP, Business Development, Atreus Systems Hugh Kelly, CEO and Founder, West Ridge Networks John Weald, CTO, Sylantro Systems |
How to Measure Voice Quality Will Brouwer, Buisness Development Engineer, Agilent Technologies Stephen Griffith, Sr. Mktg. Mgr., Voice Quality Enhancement Solutions, Tellabs David Houck, Technical Manager, QoS Management and Assessment, Lucent Technologies Greg Osterhout, Nortel Networks Christine Perey, President/Consultant, PEREY Research & Consulting John Winchester, CEO, Psytechnics |
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| Exhibit Hours: |
- Monday, October 18, 2004, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 10:00am - 4:00pm
- Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 10:00am - 4:00pm
- Thursday, October 21, 2004, 10:00am - 2:00pm
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