OS can be deployed across multiple network types – PSTN, wireless, broadband – and it’s not just for Enterprise use. As with VoIP, OS must be carrier-grade to gain acceptance by large carriers as well as with large Enterprises. This is another important market for OS, especially as carriers seek reduce to Opex and quickly develop new services to remain competitive.
•Will carriers use OS to develop free, sticky services, or will they use it for more mission-critical revenue generating services?
•What is the role of free services such as directories (like e164.org) in supporting the development of new products?
•What regions on a global basis are making the most progress with carrier-grade OS?

Raised in Ottawa, ON, Canada, Colin began working at Nortel Networks at the age of 15. During the school year he worked part-time and, in the summer, assumed a role as a full-time employee.  After 4 years he then
shifted to working at Siemen's Telecom Innovation before entering into a BMath Computer Science degree at the University of Waterloo.  Colin has also spent time working at March Networks and NewHeights software and is now forming a freelance network/co-operative under the techknowlogic.net banner.  He has long been an Open Source advocate and hopes to develop a flexible business model that allows more companies to leverage the power
of FOSS.

Sherman Chu is a Director with the Technology Licensing Group of Cisco Systems. He’s been with Cisco for seven years, and during that time has overseen just about every legal issue involving the use of open source, from writing Cisco’s original open source usage guidelines to developing its automated approval process tool to managing conflicts with third parties. He is also responsible for overseeing open source due diligence for Cisco’s acquisitions. Prior to joining Cisco, Sherman was an attorney at a number of law firms, including Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Rogers & Wells.

Alan Duric is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Telio, the fastest-growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP and brings almost a decade of experience in VoIP and active contribution through his development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI, and ITU standards). Beside his standardization work, as a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Mr. Duric was involved in the early deployment and development of some of the world's largest VoIP networks such as deltathree. At Global IP Sound (suppliers of voice components for Skype), Mr. Duric worked as Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP.

Jason Fischl is the CTO of Xten Networks - a leading provider of SIP softphones. Previously, Mr. Fischl was the co-founder and CTO of PurpleComm/TelTel. Before PurpleComm, he was a founder and CTO of Cathay Networks, which developed a SIP-based IP Centrex system. Mr. Fischl is one of the founding members of the Board of Directors of both SIPfoundry and Vovida.org. In 2002, he helped found the reSIProcate open source SIP stack project and has been one of its key contributors. Currently, he is focusing his open source development
efforts on a carrier-grade open source SIP proxy called repro.

Adrian Georgescu is founder of AG Projects where he focuses on implementing systems for the convergence of the Internet and Telecom. He is an active member of the Open Source community and member of ENUM special task force committee that has been established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Prior starting of his own enterprise, Mr. Georgescu had accumulated experience in Telecom with Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, Global Tele Systems (GTS) and Internet with Ebone and KPNQwest. Adrian's expertise spans DNS and ENUM, signaling protocols, provisioning systems, CDR mediation solutions and implementation of disaster recovery plans for large infrastructures. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrotechnics at the Polytechnics University of Bucharest.