What makes voice compeling as a service for WiFi networks. This group explores what they have learned in enabling VoWiFi.

James Body is responsible for the Truphone network infrastructure. A founding member of the UK Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony systems for past four years. He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system and was also co-founder of Gossiptel, a leading consumer based VoIP offering. He spent 20 years as a an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals before retiring from the British Army to focus on implementing VoIP based telephony systems.

Graham has 15 years of high tech experience, joining Azimuth after a 13-year career focused on data networking. Starting in product support with LANNET, a switching startup later acquired by Lucent, Graham lead the international support and services group based in Tel Aviv, Israel. After moving to the USA, he was director of technical marketing, where he managed senior-level technical experts to deliver strategic sales support to the worldwide sales team. Subsequent to Avaya’s spin off from Lucent, he became vice president of solutions management, responsible for the products of Avaya’s MultiService Networking group. Graham was responsible for the definition and development of Avaya’s data solutions strategy for enterprises’ converged IP networks. Graham received a BSc in Electrical Engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Ram Fish was recently appointed the General Manager of VoIP Products for Trolltech after Trolltech acquired his company, FONAV. Ram led FONAV as its CEO and founder.



His previous roles include Vice President, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile (creator of AT&T OGO) and Chief Product Strategist for the Client Group at Openwave Systems. He started his career as a product marketing manager at PCSI, where he worked on the world's first mobile phone with Internet access.



He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Yale University.



His blog is at pelp.wordpress.com.

Jim Grams is Chief Technology Officer of Azaire Networks with 25 years experience in software, networks, and technology development and executive management. Before joining Azaire, Jim was Senior Vice President and CTO for Multimedia Services at Cingular Wireless where he focused on the identification and evaluation of emerging technologies for a new generation of services that capitalize on modern mobility networks, such as GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WiFi, HSDPA and Wideband CDMA.

He has a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Sciences from The Ohio State University and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.

Aziare Networks

Azaire Networks, the leading provider of broadband mobility solutions, has the largest number of installed platforms worldwide, with implementations in Europe, North America and Asia. Customers include SingTel Optus, Chunghwa Telecom, T-Mobile, Rogers Wireless, Mobilkom Austria, GoMobile with additional operators currently testing the IP-CNP. Azaire Networks' flagship IP-CNP is the first 3GPP-compliant solution that enables operators to deploy hybrid networks to complement 2.5G/3G rollouts and services with unlicensed spectrum technologies quickly and cost effectively. Azaire Networks’ hybrid network approach enables business users and consumers to receive the broadband mobility and new services they desire on the best available network.

Mr. Pejman Roshan is the co-founder of Agito Networks. In his current role, Mr. Roshan leads the company’s marketing and product management efforts.

Mr. Roshan brings more than 16 years of wireless expertise and an extensive track record to his role at Agito Networks. Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Roshan was a product line manager in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for software, security, voice and WLAN management. Prior to his role in Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit, Mr. Roshan spent eight years as a network engineer and architect. Mr. Roshan designed and deployed large-scale networks for companies such as Cisco and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Mr. Roshan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University.

Akshay Sharma has an extensive background in telecom with pioneering Softswitch companies and managed teams contributing to two Cablelabs standards. He has over 17 years experience in telecom where he has held multiple leading vendor and carrier positions. Mr. Sharma was instrumental in Siemens putting together the UMTS, IMS solution with Cingular. Sharma has held a CTO position for a firm with Fixed Mobile Convergence technology: prototype dual mode GSM/WiFi phones, SIP App Servers, and the patent on seamless session continuity for Voice, Video, and Data from Macro-Cellular Networks to WiFi and back.