Jon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent telecom consultancy with a focus on IP communications. Previously, he was the VoIP Program Leader at Frost & Sullivan, where he was responsible for managing their subscription service for Global VoIP Equipment Markets. Jon is a frequent speaker at VoIP and telecom conferences, and has been a regular at VON since 2001. He leads the IPCC's Working Group on industry research, and is a contributing editor to the IP Telephony Dictionary. Jon is frequently quoted in the business and trade press, and television, including BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, NYT, WSJ, Financial Times, and CNET News.

At pulver.com, Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulver.com conferences and is a highly interactive program moderator. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. Mr. Ford's professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.

Ed Guy is the Chief Scientist for pulvermedia and is a seasoned Computer Systems Architect and Systems Engineer with broad experience in network-based, large-scale, and highly available voice and data systems. In this role, he was responsible for scaling the Free World Dialup into a system that supports hundreds of thousands of subscribers and designing and deploying a VoIP system for a major, well established, telephony carrier. He also has the lead role in the fwdOUT project which allows people to share their phone lines around the world, and the BlueLava Software which delivers Open Source Systems. Dr. Guy has been working in the VoIP field for over seven years and with Internet technology for over 20 years.