The Incumbents are in the fight for their lives right now, with Wireless and Cable taking market share and making it hard for the traditional carrier to find growth strategies. This panel of service providers shares their vision on how they will utilize VoIP technologies, to reduce costs and increase revenue with new services.

Katherine Bagin is AT&T's Vice President of Telephony, responsible for introducing new leading-edge technology into the residential marketplace. Specifically, she leads efforts for AT&T's CallVantagesm Product Management, Marketing Sales and Distribution. Previously, in her role as New Services Development VP, Ms. Bagin created an Innovations Growth Platform introducing New Services to sell to AT&T's base of 40M consumers. The role was a forward-facing position requiring strong collaborative leadership to build and lead a dynamic cross-functional team that continues to undertake the implementation of multiple trials in a disciplined yet entrepreneurial fashion. Ms. Bagin holds an Executive MBA from Harvard University. She earned her undergraduate degree from Rutgers College, and a Master's degree in Information Sciences from the same university.

Alan Duric is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Telio AS, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider.

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, Alan was involved in the early deployment and development of some of the worlds largest VoIP networks such as deltathree.

At Global IP Sound (suppliers of voice components for Skype), 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.

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.

Bryan R. Martin is Chairman & CEO of 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) and has served as CEO and as a director since February 2002. From February 2001 to February 2002 he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. He served as 8x8’s Chief Technical Officer from August 1995 to August 2000. In addition, Mr. Martin served in various technical roles for 8x8 from April 1990 to August 1995. Mr. Martin is an inventor on 31 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Simon McIver is the Senior Director of Net Phone's Enterprise Products, with responsibility for the development of the overall Net2Phone enterprise market strategy, and corresponding product management, sales and marketing programs. With more than fifteen years of global telecommunications and information technology industry sales and marketing experience, Simon brings a unique global perspective to the business challenges of offering telecommunication and technology solutions to small and medium enterprises.

Michael Tribolet oversees operations at Vonage managing system operations, system applications, carrier relations, customer care, network operations, logistics and quality assurance.

Mr. Tribolet has more than 12 years experience in multi-national operations management. Most recently, Mr. Tribolet served as Vice President of Operations at Dialpad Communications overseeing the engineering, operations, IT and telecommunications divisions in American, Korean and Japanese operations. Prior to Dialpad, Mr. Tribolet spent nearly ten years at Data Products International where he created CyberVault and oversaw the build-out of several Internet telephony services. Mr. Tribolet holds a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University.