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Spring 2004 VON Conference Speakers
Lorne Abugov is a partner in the Ottawa office of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and heads up the firm’s Communications Law Specialty Group in the Business Law Department.
Ray Adensamer is the Marketing Manager at Convedia Corporation, a leading supplier of IP Media Servers. Ray has over 20 years of achievements in the data and telecommunications industries in the areas of product marketing and business development with Redback Networks and Nortel, along with OSS consulting experience while working with Deloitte Consulting and Accenture.
As President and CEO of Sonus Networks, Hassan Ahmed is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. Prior to joining Sonus in 1998, Dr. Ahmed was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Ascend Communications’ Core Systems Division. Before Ascend’s acquisition of Cascade Communications, he served as Cascade’s CTO. Previously, Dr. Ahmed was President and Founder of WaveAccess. Additionally, he has held engineering positions at Analog Devices and Motorola Codex. He was also an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Boston University.
Joe Aibinder is product marketing director for AT&T Voice over IP Business Services with responsibility for product marketing worldwide. His team introduced AT&T Voice over IP Services for enterprise customers in January 2001.
Jon Arnold is the Program Leader for Frost & Sullivan's voice over packet equipment service. His coverage focuses on nextgen infrastructure for service provider networks, which he complements with other Frost analyst coverage in the areas of packet voice services, and enterprise IP telephony. He's currently working on a softswitch market analysis, and will then be focusing on the IP cable telephony market. Jon is based in Frost & Sullivan's Toronto office, and is attending his third VON event. Prior to joining Frost, Jon operated a market research consultancy for 15 years, covering many B2B sectors, including telecom and technology.
Dr. Atai is Telica's Lead Scientist performing research related to the convergence of broadband and the PSTN. Prior to Telica, he was the Chief Scientist & Executive Director of Network Performance at Telcordia where he consulted on network planning and performance for new/emerging technologies to major carriers. Dr. Atai has been at the forefront of developing generic requirements for SS7, AIN, Internet Offload architecture, and voice/data integration. He served as ITESF chairman from 1999-2001 and has published numerous white papers/articles on the impact of Internet traffic on the PSTN. Dr. Atai received both a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Florida and a Ph. D. in EE from Rutgers University.
RJ drives Voxeo's significant technology leadership in the internet and voice solution industries, and also leads the research, evaluation, and design of Voxeo's carrier class Voice Centers.
As a founder of Webmessenger, Inc., Val Babajov brings to the company 24 years of extensive experience in software development. Webmessenger Mobile Platform (WMP)is one of the most advanced mobile messaging solution for J2ME Blackberries running on GPRS, CDMA or iDEN networks: T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Nextel. WMP includes also a Palm OS clients for i705, Treo and Tungsten and Pocket PC. WMP server, J2ME and BREW phone clients are compliant with OMA/Wireless Village protocol. WMP is interoperable with Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft LCS, SIP/SIMPLE, Jabber. Webmessenger's business model is based on ASP/Hosting for the consumer market and licensing/OEM of its WMP server and gateways to enterprise customers.
Jeff is responsible for the profitability and enhancement of existing features on ITXC.net as well as the development, rollout, and marketing of new network capabilities. He is accountable for driving ITXC to a market leadership position in VoIP Internetworking. He's also been instrumental in the continued enhancement of ITXC's patented BestValue Routing(tm) technology - enabling ITXC to deliver retail-grade quality at market-leading prices. Mr. Bakke is VocalData's founder and technical visionary as its Chief Technology Officer. Prior to VocalData, Mr. Bakke founded and was CEO of CrossTies Software. Previous to CrossTies, Mr. Bakke founded and was CEO of Omation, Inc., the developer of the first low-cost schematic drawing application for the PC. Previous to Omation, Mr. Bakke was involved in PBX development at several technology companies. Mr. Bakke has an MS from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BS degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Al Balasco, Director of Business Development at Spectel, has over 12 years of product management and marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Spectel in March of 2002, Mr. Balasco was Director of Marketing for Sonexis Inc., a provider of network appliances for conferencing applications. He also served as Director of Product Management at Brooktrout Software, a provider of voice application development tools and applications. Mr. Balasco has an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.
Donna Bastien is Agilent Technologies’ Marcom Manager for its Operations Support System business. She is responsible for worldwide outbound marketing efforts across Agilent’s OSS solutions for wireless, wireline and IP networks. Donna has a wealth of experience at Agilent, HP, Telcordia, and Bell Laboratories, including business strategy, marketing, business development, systems engineering and software development.
Mr. Beckemeyer joined EarthLink in 1995. He established and led the team that essentially rebuilt EarthLink's network and systems infrastructure from the ground up. As CTO he oversaw significant growth of the company, incorporating changes that greatly improved its security and efficiency, and scaling the company's Internet services.
Joseph Bennett has extensive experience in the areas of technical marketing, product marketing and management, and he has successfully build and deployed telecommunications technologies from large and small telecom equipment companies. Prior to joining Taqua in 2002, Mr. Bennett spent nearly four years with Santera Systems defining, building and implementing Santera's product and marketing strategy. Mr. Bennett also spent 14 years at Nortel Networks where he held a variety of senior management positions in marketing and product management, responsibilities for global marketing activities targeted toward Tier 1 carriers such as WorldCom and Sprint.
Robb Berger has over 20 years of Sales Management, Sales, Marketing and Technical experience in the communications industry. Prior to joining Natural Convergence, he held several leadership positions at Nortel Networks including Founder and Managing Director of the Service Provider Vertical Sales organization and National Director of Sales in the distributor sales organization.
Sanjay Bhatia has over 17 years of experience in the telecommunicatons industry and has held varied roles within product development, product management and product marketing . He is currently responsible for product marketing and international product management of softswitching solutions within Tekelec's switching division. Before joining Tekelec, Sanjay held management positions at Nortel Networks. Sanjay holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Michelle is a guerilla marketing master with over 20 years experience commercializing new technologies. Michelle excels in assessing market dynamics, technology trends and carving out market leadership positions for companies in competitive emerging markets. Prior to working at Arel, Michelle was President of Radvision’s US subsidiary, responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and business development in North America. She then played a key role in the company’s IPO as Senior VP of marketing, developing and implementing worldwide marketing programs. Michelle has worked for several technology startups, facilitating strong strategic partnerships with key industry leaders. Michelle has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Richard Brennan has over 30 years of telecommunications industry experience, and has spent the last decade promoting interoperability and global VoIP standards.
As Principal Analyst for the Internet Services at Current Analysis, Counse is responsible for tracking industry events and offerings in this space. He and his team look at areas of content support and IP delivery including Application Services, Managed Hosting, Managed Storage, Managed Security, CDN services, Streaming Media and VoIP services. He has been with Current Analysis since 2000.
Kathryn C. Brown directs public policy development and international government relations for Verizon. She also manages Verizon’s relationships with think tanks and consumer, industry and trade groups important to shaping public policy.
Alan Bugos, Vice President of Engineering, iBasis, is responsible for overseeing the engineering design, testing/evaluation, systems integration, and global deployment of iBasis' International Internet telephony network, including enhanced VoIP services and applications. Mr. Bugos has more than 13 years of handson experience in telecommunications, optical networking, data networking, and communications systems integration and has been
Mr. Burger is CTO of SnowShore Networks, Inc. Prior to SnowShore, Eric was the Chief Scientist of ADC/Centigram; the VP of Engineering for The Telephone Connection, Inc.; and held engineering management positions at Cable & Wireless and MCI. He is active in the W3C Voice Browser and Call Control work groups.
Career spanning over 24 years dedicated to adoption and growth of packet and voice telecommunications technologies. Over the previous nine years he has built and operated packet based carrier class businesses for both voice and data applications. His experience includes all aspects of developing and operating carrier network businesses including product development, engineering, marketing, sales and executive management. Prior to his current position he served as COO & Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Bazillion, Inc a consumer VoIP Company. Previously he held the position of Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations with ELI (Electric Lightwave, Inc.) a leading CLEC in the Western U.S.
Ed has 15 years of experience in product marketing, product management, and engineering in the communications industry. Over the past five years in his current position at Veraz and previously as Director of Product Marketing at NexVerse Networks and ipVerse, Ed has been instrumental in all marketing functions to leverage the companies’ leadership positioning. During his five years at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Lucent) he held positions focused on the 5ESS local/toll applications for international markets. Ed also has extensive marketing experience in the areas of video telephony, home networking, call centers, and billing mediation. He holds a BA in engineering from Harvard and an MSEE and MBA from Stanford University.
Paul is the product marketing manager at Agilent’s Telecommunications Systems Division (TSD) and possesses more than 21 years of experience in data and telecommunications.
Christopher Celiberti is the president and founder of bill me up consulting, A consulting practice that specializes in billing and operational support systems for the telecommunication and health care industries. Mr. Celiberti has seven years of Telecom expertise. Prior to founding bill me up consulting Mr. Celiberti held technical and non-technical positions for several fortune 500 companies. Mr. Celiberti holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Chadwick University and an International degree in Computer Information Systems from University of California Berkeley.
Sanjeev Chawla is CTO of BayPackets. Chawla has more
Anthony D. Christie oversees the marketing organization, joining Global Crossing as senior vice president for business integration and strategic planning in November 2001. Three months later, he moved to lead the offer and product management organization.
David Cork has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to co-founding Natural Convergence, he served in a variety of leadership and executive roles with Bell Northern Research, Mitel Corporation, ObjecTime and Nortel.
John Curran is the XO™ Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for overseeing the successful development of the XO™ IP network.
Governor Jeb Bush appointed Davidson to the Florida Public Service Commission for a term ending January 2007. Davidson relocated to Florida in 2000 to serve as the Executive Director of the Governor’s IT Taskforce. In 2001, Davidson was recruited by the Florida House to launch the state’s first Committee on Information Technology. Prior to joining the Bush team, Davidson was resident in the New York offices of Baker & McKenzie and Duane Morris. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Davidson holds a Masters of Law in Trade Regulation from NYU and a Masters in International Business from Columbia. He received his baccalaureate and law degrees from the University of Florida.
Dan Dearing is Vice President of Marketing for NexTone Communications. With over 15 years of industry experience, Dan has held a number of technical and business positions for both service providers and solution suppliers including Ciena, Hughes Network Systems, Sprint International and GE Information Services. Dan earned his Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Applications from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Francis deSouza is a respected veteran of Instant Messaging with a history of successfully bringing products to market in startups and large organizations. Prior to founding IMlogic, Francis ran Microsoft's Real-time
Following graduation from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1973, Dick Dickinson served 12 years in the US Air Force. He subsequently spent several years as a call center manager at the University of Washington. There, he became familiar with wireless technology and subsequently went to work building the first cellular network in Colombia, South America. Since then, he has completed thousands of wireless E911 deployments and has dealt with all of the many technical challenges that have come and gone as E911 wireless technology has evolved. Most recently, Dick has taken his wireless experience and applied it to VoIP issues as they apply to Public Safety.
Jack Douglass is the Technical Marketing Manager for Spirent Communications and Chairman of the TIA TR-30.3 subcommittee for Data Communication Equipment Evaluation. TR30.3 is currently working on a standard/recommendation for a Network Model for Evaluating Multimedia Transmission Performance Over Internet Protocol. He is a DSL Forum Technical Committee Formal Liaison Officer and an active member of the ITU-T and ETSI. He has authored numerous magazine articles, a book on data communications, and has taught courses on data communications and electro-optics at Athens State College and the University of Alabama. Douglass received his B.S.E.E. from the University of Alabama.
Jonathan Draluck is responsible for promoting iBasis’s business interests through industry, regulatory and government channels, developing agreements with partners and customers, and providing other legal advice. Formerly with Swidler Berlin in Washington D.C., Draluck represented major competitive telecommunications carriers and network providers, executing foreign and domestic market entry strategies on their behalf and advocating procompetitive positions to regulators around the world. Previously, Draluck litigated antitrust matters at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where he served as attorney advisor to the Director of the Bureau of Competition. Here, he also worked in Bucharest as an advisor to the Romanian Ministry of Finance on the implementation of that country's first competition law.
John Drolet brings over 19 years of telecommunications hardware and services experience to his role as vice president of worldwide sales for Citel Technologies. John's current focus has been with the emerging market of IP telephony. He is recognized as a leading PBX systems, telecommunications, and channel issues speaker. His passionate approach to IP PBX technologies has helped to create a new inflection point in the market for business telephone systems worldwide. An original NBX Corporation employee and later with 3Com, he was instrumental in helping the 3Com NBX IP telephony product line succeed in the marketplace.
Mr. Drori is the former CEO and founder of MeetU Inc. Before co-founding MeetU, Mr. Drori was VP of Wireless Access at BreezeCOM. He created strategic relationships with major wireless market leaders such as Cisco, Ericsson and Tele2. From 1995 to 1998, he was founder and CEO of NetXchange, establishing the company's leadership in the VoIP market. He formed strategic partnerships with Dialogic, KDD, and others. From 1990 to 1995, as VP of Corporate Development for LanOptics he helped found the company and position it as a leader in the LAN Switch/HUB market. Alan Duric is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Telio AS, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider.
As Vice President, Strategic Marketing, at Sonus Networks, Bob Dye is responsible for ensuring that Sonus' voice infrastructure solutions meet market and customer requirements. Mr. Dye brings to Sonus twenty years of experience in high-tech product management. Prior to joining Sonus, Mr. Dye held Director-level Product Management positions at Polycom, Compression Labs, and BBN Communications. He holds a BS from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Phil Edholm is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Network Architecture for Nortel Networks Enterprise Networks. Phil focuses on the enterprise portfolio and drives enterprise edge solutions to service providers and enterprise customers, and he is responsible for defining the vision and architecture in the enterprise and next generation edge networks.
Hossein Eslambolchi is President of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services, CTO and CIO. He is responsible for the corporation's strategic technology direction, network operations, research and development, information technology systems and processes, and advises the chairman and senior leaders on technology issues. Hossein is a member of AT&T's Executive Committee led by AT&T Chairman and CEO David W. Dorman.
Tom Evslin founded ITXC in 1997 and is ITXC's Chairman and CEO. ITXC is the global market segment share leader in VoIP international calling and one of the largest international voice carriers of any kind. ITXC built and operates ITXC.net®, the largest international VoIP-based network in the world and one of the largest international networks of any kind based on minutes of traffic carried. From 1994-1997, Mr. Evslin worked at AT&T, where his primary responsibilities involved developing and implementing the company's initial Internet strategy and launching and managing AT&T's WorldNet(SM) ISP Service.
Jan Fandrianto is the president and CEO of Sipura Technology. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Fandrianto led the core development of media processing technology used in multimedia chips for voice, video and data applications. This important work has been the basis for a host of successful telecommunications and consumer electronics products including analog telephony adapters, videoconferencing systems and DVD players. Mr. Fandrianto's innovations in this area are the foundation for the majority of the principal low-density IP telephony gateway products on the market today.
Kevin Farrell has a proven track record in innovatively utilizing new technologies and capitalizing on new market opportunities. Prior to his current role at TeleGea, Kevin served as Portfolio Director at Nortel Networks where he built and led an IP mediation business with solutions for wireless, optical, VPN, VoIP, access and core networking. At Bay Networks Kevin spearheaded the company's expansion into the service provider marketplace. He has also served as a Member of Technical Staff for both Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kevin currently holds several patents in service management.
Alain Fernando-Santana, Chief Executive Officer, NetCentrex, Inc., leads the overall market strategy and operations for the Americas. Mr. Fernando-Santana was previously the Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel of Thomson Software Product, a software development company, before becoming Vice-President and Chief Legal Counsel at Syseca Inc., a leading provider of supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Mr. Fernando-Santana has over 12 years of experience in executive management for U.S. and
Christopher Fine is a Vice President in the Global Investment Research Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., specializing in the Communications Technology sector. Prior to joining Investment Research, Chris worked as an Investment Banker and IT Professional at Goldman Sachs and, prior to that, as a software developer and data communications engineer at other firms. Chris received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
As Product Manager for Sonus Networks, Michael Finn is responsible for Sonus Insight DataStream Integrator (DSI), the software product that links network usage data from Sonus' market leading voice infrastructure products to the carrier's back office.
Dr. Majid Foodeei has more than 11 years of experience in speech and video signal processing and telecommunication R&D. He is a system architect with the gateway wireline and wireless VoP Entropia product family. Majid previous work at N.E.T., focused on the architectural design for a new media server card. Prior to N.E.T., Majid was a Member of Scientific Staff at the Wireless R&D group, Nortel Networks, Canada. His work included development of new echo cancellation and compression techniques for wireless networks including AMR. He is an active participant in international standards and has been awarded four patents and has over 12 publications. Majid holds a Ph.D. in EE and Telecommunication from McGill University, Canada.
David Fraley is a principal analyst in Gartner Research, where his research focuses on convergence communications, signaling, security, and cyber warfare and terrorism. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Fraley worked at leading companies, including Nortel, Siemens, TRW, as well as multiple Silicon Valley startups. Mr. Fraley is a Major in the United States Army Reserve with qualifications in engineering, communications, and public affairs, and he has served in multiple leadership and staff positions. Mr. Fraley has a B.S. in economics, an M.S. in telecommunications and an M.B.A. in finance. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army combined arms and services staff school and multiple military communications and engineering schools.
Dan Freedman is CEO of Jasomi Networks, a cash-flow positive VoIP solution provider addressing boundary traversal and session control issues for carriers and enterprises. Previously, Freedman has capitalized, grown, and governed companies in the security, networking, and VoIP sectors. He became an executive officer of McAfee upon acquisition of his network security company, FSA. He served as a director or financier for Guest-Tek (TSE:GTK), Valicert (NASDAQ:VLCT), and Imergent, and developed products now owned by Symantec and IBM. Freedman’s specialty is to create companies suitable for merger into channel-rich technology vendors. Freedman also co-founded Launchworks, a merchant bank specializing in early technology investment. Freedman holds a Master’s degree in distributed computation.
David Fuller is Product Marketing Director for Interactive Intelligence (NASDAQ: ININ), a leading communications and contact center solutions provider. With over 1,250 customers worldwide, Interactive Intelligence helps organizations significantly improve their voice, fax, e-mail and web contact management.
Sam Galler is a telephony expert with 18 years of professional telecom experience that has brought him into contact with all major U.S. wire line, wireless, and next generation telephony carriers, as well as over 70 international carriers.
As Director for VOP Asia-Pacific, Irvind S. Ghai identifies market trends and opportunities to deploy IP solutions, extending across the entire spectrum from Carrier boxes, Enterprise/Residential Gateways to IP Phones. Prior to this, as Texas Instruments’ worldwide High Density Voice manager, Ghai provided the vision and strategic direction for TI’s product portfolio in the infrastructure market. Ghai is responsible for driving product definition and development in order to launch and sustain innovative platforms for this market.
Micaela Giuhat, Assistant Vice President of Product Management, Netrake, is responsible for developing strategic planning, business development and market requirements for Netrake’s nCite Session Controller systems. She brings with her more than 17 years of experience designing and developing technology for voice and data networks in the telecommunications industry.
Brian Glinsman has been the Executive Director, Product Management at TI’s Voice over Packet business unit since 2000. Prior to that, he served for three years as the Director, Field Application Engineering for Telogy Networks, A Texas Instruments Company.
Bob Gojanovich was responsible for the negotiations, implementation and ongoing management of the New Jersey Enhanced 9-1-1 Network from 1989 until 2003. The statewide network serves 7.5 million access lines, 340 PSAPs and 30 telephone companies.
Lee currently heads IP Telephony Consulting (www.ConsultLee.com) and is a frequent VON speaker and moderator. Recently, Lee was the "Voice over IP" industry expert and project lead within Qwest / U S WEST Advanced Technologies where he led teams in new product development, customer application trials and deployment, forward-looking technologies, and merging core public telephony networks with Internet facilities for Mass Markets and Business applications. Lee also contributed to sales for strategic large customers and managed new product trials and customer product evaluations around the nation. He previously held positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Amdahl Open Systems. Lee earned his Ph.D degree at the University of Notre Dame.
Art Gould is the Community Manager of the Linux Community on java.net. Mr. Gould has been in the software industry for over 20 years and has worked for Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles over the last seven
Frank has been an telecom analyst for nearly 20 years, having joined Kidder, Peabody in April 1984, right after the original AT&T divestiture. At that time there were few telecom analysts as telecom was covered by utility analysts, so Frank's experience handling telecom company accounts at Chase Manhattan as a lending officer, gave him a platform for getting onto Wall Street.
Mr. Guillaume has spent 14 years in the telecommunications industry and is currently Vice President of (3)Tone Business VoIP Services at Level 3 Communications. As part of the Level 3 VoIP team, he created and launched the first high quality, wholesale VoIP service in 1999.
David Gurle is currently Executive Vice President, Global Head of Collaboration Services where he leads a worldwide team responsible for the business and technical aspects of collaboration services including Reuters Messaging product development, deployment and service initiatives. David previously worked at Microsoft as Product Unit Manager and Director of Program Management, Real Time Communication where he was responsible for Greenwich, Microsoft's upcoming instant messaging solution and real-time communications platform. He also oversaw Exchange Instant Messaging, Windows Messenger, Exchange Conferencing Server, NetMeeting and TAPI. While at Microsoft, David led the product team that delivered the technology which is the foundation of Reuters Messaging service.
Roar Hagen has 11 years R&D experience within speech processing and coding, including AT&T Bell Labs and Ericsson Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and an M.Sc. in Physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway. Roar Hagen has filed more than 10 patents.
Bob Hagerty is President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Polycom, Inc., the world's leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated web collaboration solutions.
Bob Harvey is responsible for MetaSwitch sales and business development within the Central Region of the United States and is based out of the Dallas, TX area.
Teresa D. Hastings is director of Product Engineering, MCI’s Global Network Engineering organization. Hastings is responsible for the development of multimedia services for the MCI network, including the engineering of IP communication services for WorldCom’s enterprise customers. Zoltan Herzegh has, since the middle of the nineties, been engaged in the development of VoIP and integrated IP communications services. 1998-2000 he was the CTO of Telia Light, then a subsidiary of Telia in Sweden, focusing on IP communications services. Since 2001 he has been engaged in the broadband services area. Now he works as a senior IP communications specialist at TeliaSonera, the leading telecommunications group in the Nordic and Baltic regions.
Scott is currently Director of Marketing in Microsoft's Embedded Devices Group. He has previously managed teams of program managers and product managers in Microsoft and worked on numerous desktop and embedded tool products. He has also developed software professionally on a number of embedded and computing platforms in the telecommunications industry. He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
With more than 20 years experience in executive management, marketing, business development, and product management, Jim was the VP of marketing for internetworking leader Wellfleet and, after its merger with Synoptics, at Bay Networks (now Nortel) for nearly seven years. During his tenure, revenue grew from $10m to $2b and Wellfleet was recognized as "America's Fastest Growing Company" by Inc. magazine. Jim also served as VP of marketing for Pingtel (the leader in SIP phones) as well as for Bright Tiger (now Macromedia). The co-author of several internetworking guidebooks, Jim has held management positions at Data General and MASSCOMP, holds an AB degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Babson College.
Andy Huckridge is Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Abacus Product Line at Spirent Communications, where he leads Spirent's strategy for the VoIP market. His responsibilities include business planning, market development, and product management. Andy has worked in the communications industry for 10 years including roles at Centile, Inc., and 8x8, Inc., where he was Director of Product Marketing, and has a broad background in defining and marketing products in the Semiconductor and IP Telephony space. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Surrey, England. Andy is active in the SIP Forum and Multi-Switching Forum, where he is Vice-Chairman of the Interoperability Working Group.
Henry Hudson, Distinguished Member Technical Staff - Packet Telephony, Verizon - Hank has 25 years experience in the Engineering and Technology
Jack Jachner is currently with Alcatel Research and Innovation as Senior Director leading the IT-Coms initiative, focused on Convergence of IT applications and Communications. While at Alcatel, Jack has served as CTO for North America for enterprise Communication Servers, responsible for engineering groups supporting the OmniPCX enterprise IP telephony product in North America.
Dr. Cullen Jennings is a Distinguished Engineer in the Voice Technology Group at Cisco. Cullen came to Cisco from Vovida Networks which developed an open-source toolkit for Voice-over-IP. He is also an author of O'Reilly's title "Practical VoIP" and the co-chair of the IETF IPTEL Working Group. Currently Cullen is focusing on conferencing, security, and firewall and NAT traversal. Still active in the SIP and open source communities,
Monty Johnson, president and general manager of Tekelec's Network Signaling Division, joined Tekelec in January 2003 as vice president of product management and strategy for the division. He has extensive experience in delivering enhanced network services to many of the world's largest wireless and wireline carriers. Johnson's background includes the launch of advanced intelligent network (AIN) solutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia; the introduction of wireless and voice-mail solutions in the U.S. and Japan; and the delivery of leading-edge wireless and wireline access solutions.
As President of Ingate Systems Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ingate Systems A.B., Johnson is responsible for building market recognition and developing multiple sales channels for Ingate products within the United States. Johnson most recently served as CEO of Abrena, Inc., a business development consulting firm that assists European and North American firms to expand in the United States. Prior to that, Johnson was President and CEO of Transcept, Inc., a telecommunications infrastructure company. Johnson also served as Division General Manager for Lockheed Martin, and held a number of senior management positions at Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Corporation and Sanders Associates, Inc.
Dr. Alan Johnston is a Distinguished Technical Member at MCI in the Engineering Department. Alan is a co-author of the SIP specification and editor of a number of other IETF documents relating to SIP. He is the design team lead of the SIPPING conferencing design team. He has co-authored two books on SIP. Alan has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Rick Jones is Operations Issues Director for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA). As part of his staff responsibilities, he actively participates in various telecommunications industry standards development organizations and other related groups. He also assists regarding identifying issues and providing staff support for the NENA Operations leadership (various operational committee chairs). He has spent 25 years in public safety/emergency communications, including 12 years as a 9-1-1 call center supervisor/manager in northern Illinois. He has been actively involved, representing 9-1-1 and public safety, in development work for several telecom technical issues, such as number portability/pooling, since 1996.
Bob Jordan is a co-founder and vice president of Strix
Opher Kahane, co-founder and chief executive officer of Kagoor Networks, is a true industry leader in voice over IP with more than 14 years of direct industry experience. Kahane was an early developer in the voice over IP industry as the author of multiple patents, a key contributor to the H.323 standard and a founding member of the VoIP Forum. Before co-founding Kagoor in early 2000, Kahane served as vice president, strategic planning and global alliances at VocalTec Communications, where he was responsible for establishing key partnerships with industry leaders including, Cisco Systems. Kahane holds a B.S. with honors, in Computer Science & Mathematics, from Tel Aviv University.
Scott Keagy is President of Emergicom Inc, which creates VoIP and IP Communications systems for the public safety industry. He serves as Chairman of the VoIP Operations Committee in the National Emergency Number Association, shaping VoIP/E9-1-1 requirements, processes, and
Mr. Michael Keefe is the Vice President of Engineering for Cognitronics Corporation. Michael has designed and developed telecommunication systems for over 20 years. He currently manages the design and development of Media Servers for next generation networks, as well as the design of software and systems for circuit networks and intelligent networks.
Co-founder of ETphones.com, Ed was previously Head of Business Development at Indigo Software. There, he was responsible for putting the company on the Voice over IP map, in both Europe and North America, through partnerships and strategic alliances with the world's leading Carriers, Operators, OEMs, and ISVs, and a highly successful corporate and product branding campaign. His 15 years of industry experience includes tenures at Mediatext and with Primarydata, where he was EMEA Director of Sales and Marketing. Ed is Chairman of the SIP Forum's Marketing Working Group.
Jim sells to the largest CLEC and ILEC companies diversifying offerings as new technology evolves. Since 1994 he contributed to the growth and development of Telecommunications and Information Technology in the Denver area. As National Sales VP for ICG Communications, Keenan drove their managed-modem dial up service to over $300M annually. Jim set up and established the BORN Information Services office in Denver and developed their consulting practice of $13.5 million increasing gross profits by 10% and overall revenue by 400%. He created a corporate outplacement and personal marketing firm, applying innovative solutions-selling principles within the career search environment. Keenan majored in PolySci at the University of Colorado.
Michael Kende is a Principal Consultant at Analysys Consulting. Prior to joining Analysys, Michael was at the Federal Communications Commission, where he worked on a wide range of policy analyses and regulatory decisions concerning broadband deployment, Internet issues, and mergers. At Analysys, Michael has worked on regulatory projects around the globe, including Brazil, Mongolia, and Singapore. Recently Michael completed a wide-ranging study on major trends in the area of VoIP for the European Commission. In the study, Analysys identified the regulatory issues and potential implications arising from VoIP in the context of the new European regulatory framework.
As director of architecture/technology, Sean Kent brings more than 14 years of experience in telecommunications product development to SS8 Networks. His duties include overseeing SS8's product strategy initiatives and focusing on Enhanced Unified Communication applications.
Michael Keyhl has been a pioneer of perceptual measurement since he started his professional career in 1990.
Khaw is the CEO of MediaRing Ltd since November 2002. MediaRing is a leading provider of VoIP products and services world wide. Prior to joining MediaRing, Khaw spent majority of his career at Hewlett-Packard. His last assignment at Hewlett-Packard was the General Manager of the Pocket PC Division, which pioneered the Window CE OS as well as wireless communication for PDA. Khaw holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Oregon State university, Oregon and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University, California.
Mahshad Koohgoli has spent most of his career in the telecommunications field. Starting with a lecturing stint in the University Of Exeter, England, Mahshad joined Bell Northern Research in Ottawa in 1982. In what later became Nortel Networks, Mahshad held various technical, marketing and executive posts for fourteen years, before moving on to sample the challenges posed by smaller companies. Mahshad is a co-founder of SpaceBridge Networks, a satellite communications company, and the founder of Lantern Communications Canada, an optical networking company. In 2002, Mahshad co-founded Nimcat Networks, an enterprise communications company that develops server-less peer-to-peer communications solutions.
As President, Enterprise Networks at Siemens AG’s Information and Communication Networks (ICN) Group, Bernd Kuhlin is responsible for driving the product development, strategy and vision for the HiPath Product Family. This includes general management of all worldwide activities related to HiPath product development and maintenance as well as coordination with worldwide sales and marketing efforts. He was named to this position in January, 2001.
As a founder of Webley and the principal software architect, he is responsible for driving Webley's leading edge technology. An expert in the speech technology, user interface, unified communications, Alex has over 20 years of experience as a software architect and developer. In 1990 he built a UNIX-based computer telephony system for Dytel Corporation and went on to design advanced software systems for Motorola, Interactive UNIX, Ardis and Vail Systems. Alex led the development of Webley's Unified Communications technology while serving as CTO of Vail Systems, a leader in the IVR/Internet Enhanced Telephony industry. Alex received 3 patents in the area of speech-based communications. He has BS in EE and MS in CS.
Jiri Kuthan is founder and technical leader of iptel.org. He has been responsible for engineering architecture of iptel's SIP services and underlying infrastructure. Prior to founding iptel.org, Jiri was working with GMD Fokus, and MCI Worldcom. Jiri has been actively participating in IETF standardization and serves on TPC of iptel workshop and International SIP.
Jim Lane is Telica's vice president of marketing. Prior to joining Telica,
Martine Lapierre graduated as an Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecom, plus a master from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees. She worked 10 years with France Telecom in switching, networking, data and services including an exchange program at SBC/Pacific Telesys then 11 years with Alcatel. She worked for Metropolitan Area, later as the Director of the Alcatel Corporate research center IT Department, and then as VP responsible of the Switching A1000E10 Business Unit ; she is now Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel Carrier Networking Group.
Ms. Leckie began her tenure with Inter-Tel, Incorporated in 1994. In 1995, Jeanne left inside sales to become product manager for CTI
Bill Leslie is a 22-year veteran of the telecommunications industry and is the chief architect of the LongBoard product line. Prior to joining LongBoard, Leslie was CTO for Magellan Network Systems, a provider of enhanced service switching solutions. He has also held a variety of technical and management positions with ITT, Motorola, ROLM, NEC, StrataCom and SynOptics. During his tenure at ROLM, Leslie was the primary architect and led much of the software development for the IBM 8750 PBX. For his efforts there he received IBM's Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the VON Developers Conference, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Hatfield Polytechnic in the UK.
Blair Levin joined Legg Mason in January 2001 as a Managing Director and the firm's principal regulatory strategy analyst.
As a Senior Consulting Engineer for the Enterprise Multimedia Systems group. Mark's responsibilities include working with product development
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Caerus, Inc., Shawn M. Lewis oversees all activities of the company and its three subsidiaries, Volo Communications, Caerus Networks, Inc., and Caerus Billing & Mediation, Inc., as they implement his vision for a truly open and convergent telecom marketplace, enabling the rapid development and deployment of profitable advanced services.
Before founding Grandstream, David was a co-founder of CBI, an Internet software company and prior to this, founder of Synex, a software consulting business which was acquired by an IT service firm. Still prior to these, David was a software engineer with 2 venture capital backed network startups FiberNet and later Agile Networks which was acquired by Lucent. David has a MSCS from University of Massachusetts and a MSEE from Tsinghua University, China.
Kelli Lowery Vice President of Business Development for Clarisys, has 20 years experience in manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment areas of industry-specific products and solutions to the marketplace.
Graeme is VP responsible for the Internet Applications Group of Data Connection Ltd (DCL), a UK software development company. His
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.
Cathy Martine is currently Senior Vice President, Internet Telephony. Ms. Martine's responsibilities include accelerating AT&T’s entry into the local and DSL markets, new product development, unit cost management, and monitoring investments to improve the portfolio. She was recently appointed to lead all of AT&T’s VoIP initiatives across the corporation.
Mike laid the foundation and vision for Tellme's business in February 1999 when he co-founded the company. He is responsible for overall company operations.
Paul Miller, vice president, Network Switching Division, is responsible for directing all technical, operational, and marketing strategy associated with Tekelec's packet telephony technology. Mr. Miller has over 20 years of experience developing telecom and data networking products in the telecommunications industry.
Iain drives the vision for setting a new standard of integrated communications. Iain graduated from Brunel University in the United Kingdom with honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Iain has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has held positions in design engineering, engineering management, marketing management, and executive management. His career includes successful management roles with market leaders like Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent), Packet Technologies (now Cisco), and DSC Communications (now Alcatel). Iain founded Zarak Systems in 1994 and led the company to become a market leader in voice and data testing systems. Under his management, Zarak became highly profitable and was sold to Spirent Communications in November 2000.
Kevin specializes in vendor and service provider trends, product offerings, and strategies. He covers MPLS, IP, and ATM from the service provider edge through the core; routers and multiservice switches; VoIP and circuit to packet technologies; and carrier adoption plans, capex, and revenue. As a consultant, he advises on market opportunities, positioning, product development, and business plans. He graduated summa cum laude from Boston College in 1997 with a BS in marketing and philosophy.
Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Inc.
Christine Moe has been part of the communications industry for over 30 years, initially in big business/banking and ultimately at Stanford University. Her experience ranges from work on pre-Ethernet networks thru systems programming at the operating system and device level to managing the voice infrastructure, services, and growth for the Stanford campus. She is currently leading Stanford's VoIP installation. Ms. Moe received her bachelors in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz, with graduate work at University of California, Berkeley.
Shoaib leads the Strategic and Tactical Marketing teams at Legerity, he is also responsible for initiating and growing strategic relationships with key technology partners and extending the company’s market reach through technology licensing and technology integration.
Farshid Mohammadi John B. Morris, Jr. is a Staff Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology, and the Director of CDT's "Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project." In that Project, Morris has actively participated in the work of the Internet Engineering Task Force, including the "GeoPriv" group working on location privacy in wireless and voice over IP contexts. Prior to CDT, Morris was a partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block, where he litigated groundbreaking cases in Internet and First Amendment law. Morris received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Michel is responsible for the integration of the company's products into the carrier's network environment. Mr. Mouttham is a veteran CEO with experience spanning multi-domain software solutions for the Carrier and Enterprise markets. He was Co-founder and CEO of imGenie, a wireless Internet application vendor, which developed a dynamic personalization platform using intelligent agent technology. At Nortel Networks, he was responsible for the network and service management solutions market strategy for wireless Internet, IP Telephony and Optical
John Murray is a researcher with AT&T Labs currently involved in Access systems and applications. In his twenty years of technical work experience, he has covered several communication technologies, such as satellite systems, cellular systems, Cable, DSL, and Wireless 802.11 systems. He has held a wide range of positions from hardware and software developer, to product manager, to systems engineer and eventually researching next generation systems. His current focus is new service creation for access technologies. Current activities include 802.11 voice and Voice over Broadband services. Mr. Murray holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Technology Management form Stevens Institute of Technology.
Chris Nicoll is Vice President of the Telecom Infrastructure Analysis Modules at Current Analysis and is responsible for managing the coverage of significant technology, product and market developments impacting the broadband, carrier and optical infrastructure markets. Prior to Current Analysis, he spent 16 years operating, designing and marketing both public and private networks for companies such as TYMNET & Netrix Corporation (now NX Networks) and Visual Networks. Chris is frequently quoted by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, San Jose Mercury News, Washington Post, and USA Today for his industry expertise and has conducted seminars worldwide.
At Sylantro, Eric provides direction for implementing security, network, and other architectural issues. Eric came to Sylantro Systems from Sprint Technology Planning and Integration where he was Chief Services Architect. Prior to Sprint Eric spent 7 years researching secure, large scale distributed software as well as helping large financial, manufacturing and telecommunications enterprises deploy these kinds of applications using many different technologies. Eric received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Nir is responsible for driving new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) related test and measurement products and features including the VoIP Performer family of analysis, simulation and monitoring solutions as well as the Omni-Q, voice quality management system.
Alan Nunn has worked in BT for 17 years and currently works in BT Group CTO as Chief Voice Architect, responsible for setting the future direction of BT's voice networks. He deals primarily with technology and strategic issues around Voice and Broadband. Prior to this he was responsible for end to end design of BT's 0800 platform and migration of service to it. He was previously the designer for Geographic Number Portability in BT. He has a first class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Frank is the author of "Softswitch: Architecture for VoIP" and co-author of "Wi-FI Handbook: Building 802.11b Wireless Networks" both of which have made the USTA Best Seller list in recent months. He is finishing a third book "Voice over 802.11" for Artech House publsihers. Frank has over seven years of telecommunications experience and is a subject matter expert on both 802.11 and VoIP technologies. He has worked for technology companies that have included Lucent, Netrix and Vsys. He is currently the Chief Network Architect for NuCall Communications, a voice over 802.11 startup.
Andy brings over 15 years of telecommunications industry experience to his role as president and CEO. Prior to founding Acme Packet, Andy was the founder, CEO, and chairman of Priority Call Management which developed prepaid calling, enhanced messaging, and one number services. During his nearly ten year tenure, Andy raised $15 million, built a management team, and oversaw company operations. PCM was ranked 5th on Deloitte & Touche’s list of fastest growing high technology companies in New England and 21st in the nation for high technology growth. In 1999, Andy managed the acquisition of PCM by the LHS Group for $162 million. Andy holds a BA degree from Harvard University.
Kenneth Osowski, has over 20 years experience working for in the telecommunications and computer industries. Ken’s most recent experience in the enhanced services market was at IPeria as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Before IPeria, Osowski was Regional Director at Boston Technology, where he was responsible for sales to Tier 1/2 carriers. In a senior product management role at Boston Technology, he managed the successful introduction of the company's CO ACCESS 500/600, Access NP platform, and AccessMAX SCE. Osowski holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Jason Oxman is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Covad Communications Company in its Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining Covad, Oxman served as Counsel for Advanced Communications in the Office of Plans and Policy at the Federal Communications Commission. Oxman holds a Masters of Science (M.S.) in Mass Communications and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Boston University. He holds a B.A. cum laude from Amherst College.
Jeff has over 20 years of marketing, BD and management experience in the communications infrastructure industry. Currently running a boutique telecom consultancy called Area 51 Networks, Jeff has spent the last six years in the next-gen IP services market. Most recently he served as VP of marketing and BD at Syndeo, a successful Class 5 softswitch company now in VoIP network deployments in Japan and the US.
Steve Parsons is Director of Product Management with NMS Communications. In this position he is responsible for delivering telephony systems and system building blocks for innovative speech-enabled applications.
Mr. Kaushik Patel brings extensive and diverse product marketing, product management and technical marketing experience to MediaRing. At MediaRing, Kaushik is responsible for global marketing and product marketing activities for the VoizBridge product line.
Dr. Pathak is responsible for championing TELUS’ customer strategy, managing strategic marketing and communications, and supporting sales with innovative and integrated solutions consisting of voice, data, and video applications.
Over 15 years of expereince in Networking industry. Have been responsbile for architecture, design and development of products like ATM Switch, Protocol Stacks [MPLS, VoIP (SIP, MGCP, SCTP, IUA)]. Have been responsible for development of test solutions and testing of the above products and other products.
Robert Pepper was appointed Chief of Policy Development at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 2003. In this capacity, Pepper serves as a direct advisor to the Chairman of the FCC on long-term policy planning including formulating and evaluating long-range policy options. Before being named to this new position, Pepper was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) beginning in December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP was responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies as well as the intersection of regulation and changing market economics. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the deployment of broadband technologies; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; developing the framework for digital television; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures.
Scott is responsible for the overall architecture and technical vision of eDial. He was an early pioneer of Internet Telephony technology, as founding co-chair and/or co-editor of groups such as the VoIP Forum and the ETSI TIPHON project, and the IETF PINT and ENUM working groups within. He is co-author of RFCs 2833 and 2848. Previously, Scott was Principal Technologist and Group Manager at VocalTec Communications, Ltd. Prior to that; Scott was a Research Staff Member for IBM Research. He holds several patents in Internet Telephony and packet voice technologies, along with publications in various areas of mathematics and Internet-based technologies. Scott has a Doctorate in Mathematics from Oxford University.
Daniel Petrie has been building distributed computing solutions for large scale, complex problems for over twenty years. During his six years at Pingtel, Dan has been architecting distributed, disaggregated, peer-to-peer SIP based communications solutions for carrier and enterprise customers. An active participant in the development of the SIP protocol at the IETF, Dan has been a significant contributor in work such as: multiparty call control, transfer and configuration. Dan has also been involved in the SIP Forum's SIPit interoperability events since its inception in 1999. In the 90s he served as Systems Architect at Logica, building consultancies for Interactive Television Systems, Multimedia, Telecom and Cable Network operations at Logica. During his tenure at Logica, Dan architected systems for Ameritech, ATT, PacBell, SNET, Time Warner and others. Dan spent the early part of his career building server/client-based solutions for 3D curve, surface and solids geometry and 3D
Having spent a decade with Agilent Technologies and Hewlett Packard, Stefan Pracht is
Don Price is CTO, Service Provider Solutions at Avaya Inc. A seasoned IT software manager, Don has extensive experience in emerging technologies in the US and international markets within Product Business Development/Product Management, Applications Development, Technical Sales and Technical Operations. Don has demonstrated senior leadership experience in deploying IT technology solutions, as well as leading the adoption of new wireless and travel products and ASP services by customers. Jeff Pulver, President and CEO of pulver.com, Inc., is a globally respected visionary with more than a decade of experience in Internet and IP communications and is a "parallel entrepreneur". He is the publisher of Internet technology related research such as The Pulver Report and the creator of Voice on the Net (VON), and Presemnce and Instant Messaging (PIM) conferences. Mr. Pulver is the co-founder of the VON Coalition, Vonage and WHP Wireless and is one of the true pioneers in Internet Telephony whose expertise is widely utilized inside the telecommunications industry.
Ari oversees strategic planning, market analysis and business development for VocalTec. Previously Mr. Rabban served as president of Surf&Call Solutions, a voice-enhanced e-commerce solutions start up group within the company. He joined VocalTec from Lucent Technologies where he served as manager of strategic planning and business development at the Communication Software Business Unit. Rabban has been frequently quoted in various trade publications. A member of the Advisory Board for the Association of Interactive Marketing (AIM) and member of the Israel Bar, Rabban worked as practicing attorney in Tel Aviv. Rabban received MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and bachelors in economics and LL.b. in law, both from Tel Aviv University.
James Rafferty is the Senior Product Manager for IP Telephony at Brooktrout Technology. James is responsible for Brooktrout’s IP and carrier voice product lines. James is also active in the IP Telephony standards process through his work with the MEGACO working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force and related contributions to ITU-T Study Group 16. James holds a B.S. and a Master of Engineering degrees in Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Sridhar Ramachandran co-founded NexTone Communications in February of 1998, bringing to NexTone more than 15 years of technical and business background
As Director Product Management at Alcatel Fixed Network Division, Dieter Rebholz is primarily responsible for new and strategic product definition in the area of next generation voice network solutions, focusing on IP Media Gateway platforms. Since joining Alcatel in 1991 Mr. Rebholz has held various senior positions in engineering, product strategy and product management of public, carrier-grade telephony infrastructure products.
Guy Redmill is a senior market development manager at Brooktrout Technology, with specific responsibility for Voice over Packet and Data business segments. In this role, he manages the strategic direction and business investments for Brooktrout in these segments. Formerly, he was senior SS7 product manager at Brooktrout, providing specialist product knowledge to the sales, marketing and support teams. Glenn Richards is a partner in Shaw Pittman's communications group. Mr. Richards represents long distance carriers, satellite licensees, competitive local exchange carriers, telecommunications trade associations, a powerline communications company, information service providers, and users of telecommunications services in transactional and litigation matters, and before the Federal Communications Commission and state public utility commissions. Mr. Richards received his B.S. degree, cum laude, in Journalism from West Virginia University in 1982 and his J.D., cum laude, from New York Law School in 1985. He is admitted to practice in New York and in the District of Columbia.
Robert Richardson has more than two decades experience in the communications industry with companies such as Lucent Technologies, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Tellabs. He's acquired extensive experience in the development of global switching systems, broadband modems, ATM systems and has published a number of papers. Joining AudioCodes in 2000 he holds the position of director of business development for wireline products in AudioCodes' Systems Group. His responsibilities include market development strategies, product/roadmap management, marketing and sales support. Mr. Richardson holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from North Central College and a MSCS from the University of Southern California
Joe holds a BS with High Honor from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1999 Joe was given the Pulver Voice On the Net Pioneer award.
Originally from Northern Ireland, with a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from Edinburgh University, Michael started his 15-year telecommunications career as a software designer for Nortel Networks.
Eugene Roman is Group President, Bell Canada Systems & Technology. Eugene is leading the effort to deliver current and next generation services by harnessing the power of Bell Canada's network.
Brian Rosen is currently Vice President of Technology Introduction in the Office of the CTO at Marconi Communications, Inc, Broadband Routing and Switching. The ViPr Virtual Presence system now available from Marconi was Mr. Rosen's concept, and he led the research and development team that produced this breakthrough video communications tool. Brian is very active in the evolution of the SIP protocol, and until recently was co-chair of the SIP working group.
Jonathan Rosenberg is co-author of the original SIP specification, the call control standard for 3G networks. A leader within the IETF, Jonathan currently chairs the IP Telephony working group and is former co-chair of the SIP working group. Jonathan is the inventor of SIP for presence (SIMPLE) and is co-creator of SigComp, a key SIP compression enhancement that will speed deployment of SIP in mobile networks. He has authored more than 20 patents and publications ranging from SIP to multimedia conferencing and IM. In June 2002, Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, recognized Jonathan as one of the world's 100 top young innovators whose work in technology has had a profound impact on today's world.
Arjun is the architect of the HSS SIP product line and has been instrumental in building and deploying the HSS solutions very successfully across a wide customer base. In addition he is key contributor to the evolution of the Next Generation VoIP products line including Softswitch and SIP server and is responsible for predicting/analyzing key technology trends and ensuring the evolution of the HSS products according to market/customer needs.
Al Balasco, Vice President of Business Development at Spectel, has over 12 years of product management and marketing experience in the
Chuck has 15 years of experience in the communications industry. He has held positions in marketing, business development, product management and engineering. As Vice President of Wholesale Marketing at Vialog, he established programs for distributing conferencing and collaboration services through indirect channels and as a wholesale offering. As Director of Marketing at Madge Networks, he established a new business unit to market video and ISDN equipment to carriers. As Business Development Director at AT&T, he worked with telephone, cable and power companies to establish relationships for the deployment and marketing of a variety of communications services. Chuck has a BS in Electronic Engineering, a MBA and a Juris Doctor.
Al Safarikas has responsibility for leading Nortel Networks service provider global marketing efforts for the Wireline business unit. Al also leads innovative carrier co-marketing programs initiatives. Since coming to Nortel in 1993, Al has held management positions in business development, sales, channel, product management, communications and marketing.
Ravi Sakaria is a veteran technologist with over 15 years experience in the Information Technology field. An expert in the area of network engineering, his vision that Voice over IP is the catalyst for a revolution in the telecommunications industry drives VoicePulse's every day thinking. Prior to co-founding VoicePulse, Sakaria headed a successful IT consulting company, The Aiko Group. The Aiko Group focused on network engineering, Voice over IP quality of service engineering, and network security. Before heading The Aiko Group, Sakaria was Manager of Network Engineering for First Union National Bank.
Mr. Salm has over 22 years of extensive technical and product marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. Frank's knowledge of the legacy telecommunications network is a natural fit with the next-generation broadband products and applications being introduced by companies like Sylantro Systems. Frank was previously a lead developer on a leading Class 5 switching product, and also worked on the Intelligent Network (IN), prototyping the capabilities on the Class 5 switch, specifying the commercial implementations of IN on the switch, and working with T1S1 to standardize IN in the US and at ITU-T.
Brooke Schulz heads the communications department at Vonage overseeing public relations, regulatory affairs, marketing communications and internal communications programs. Prior to joining Vonage, Ms. Schulz was a Senior Account Executive at Weber Shandwick Worldwide, the world's largest public relations firm. During her time there, Ms. Schulz worked with technology companies in the telecommunications and consumer electronics space including having overseen telecommunications, consumer electronics and consumer brand accounts for the New York office. These included Broadwing Communications, 360 Networks, Sharp Electronics, American Airlines and 'all' detergent. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Ms. Schulz was with Ruder Finn Public relations in their healthcare group working with pharmaceutical products from Schering Plough and Novartis.
Prof. Henning Schulzrinne received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill and an associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University, New York. He is currently chair of the Department of Computer Science.
Mr. Seto brings with him over twenty years of marketing and product management experience to the Communications Industry. He is responsible for product management of Polycom Voice Division products, including its market leading audio conference phones for traditional and IP networks and VoIP handsets . Previously, he held positions as vice president of marketing for Brooktrout Technologys' Voice Division and Lucent Technologies Computer Telephony Products business unit, Vice President of marketing at Voysys Corp., and senior marketing and product management positions in computer and data networking companies.
In 1998 Raj Sharma co-founded NexTone bringing years of experience in the networking and communications industry to the company. Sharma has held high-level technical positions throughout his career with a broad range of experience in marketing and delivering products and services in fast-paced environments.
Garland Sharratt is responsible for defining and managing Convedia's overall product architecture as well as for Convedia's strategic partnering initiatives. Garland brings to Convedia over 15 years of experience in telecommunication systems as well as in-depth expertise in Advanced Intelligent Network architectures, service management, IP telephony, networking protocols and multimedia communications systems.
As Executive Vice President, Mr. Shiffman is Chief Architect and is
Richard Shockey is Senior Manager -Strategic Technology Initiatives for NeuStar, Inc. based in Washington DC.
Brett Shockley is CEO of Spanlink Communications, a leading provider of IP Communications solutions. Shockley, who founded Spanlink in 1988, pioneered the concept of Web-enabled call centers and released the industry’s first product, WebCall®, in 1995. From 2000 through 2002, Shockley was vice president and general manager of the Cisco Systems, Inc. Customer Contact Business Unit – chartered with bringing to market the world’s leading software platform for multi-media customer contact. Shockley has also held senior-level management positions in international product management at ADC Telecommunications.
Ed Simnett plays a key role in developing the marketing strategies for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, Microsoft Corp’s enterprise-grade instant-messaging (IM) solution and real-time communications platform that provides presence awareness within the Microsoft Office System, and desktop and line-of-business applications. As lead product manager for the Live Communications Group in the Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit, Simnett is responsible for defining how Live Communications Server is positioned for industry analysts, media and customers, and what the customer and industry requirements will be for the next generation of the product. He also is responsible for developing strategic industry partnerships that will foster a robust ecosystem of service providers and hardware and software vendors around the product.
Ingrid Simunic is marketing director at VocalTec Communications. She has led marketing operations for telecom companies in both developed markets, such as the US, as well as emerging markets in Europe. Her international experience at equipment vendors and service providers includes work at startups and established companies. She writes for and has been quoted in many business and trade journals. Ingrid holds a doctorate in marketing science.
Dr. Henry Sinnreich is Distinguished Member of Engineering at MCI. Operating in more than 65 countries, the company is a premier provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance, international and Internet services. Dr. Sinnreich has been at MCI Communications since 1981 where he has held various engineering and executive positions working on lightwave systems, digital crossconnects, lab testing and vendor product evaluation/integration and in telephony switch systems engineering. Dr. Sinnreich has worked on Internet and web services since 1993 and has initiated multimedia and voice projects based on standards developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he is an active contributor, having authored several IETF drafts.
Dr. Arun Sobti, Chairman and CEO of IP Unity, is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of technical and management leadership experience in the communications infrastructure industry. Prior to joining IP Unity, Arun was Senior Vice President of ADC and President of ADC's Broadband Access and Transport Group. Before ADC, Arun was at Motorola for 24 years, where he ran a number of their global businesses and led Motorola's efforts towards participation in the third generation of wireless. Arun earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas and his B.S. in Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in India.
Ray Solnik is Strategic Markets Vice President in the AT&T Consumer Marketing and Sales organization. He has marketing responsibility for a portfolio of businesses including Voice over IP (VoIP), AT&T Internet and Consumer Broadband Services.
Mr. Walter Sousa joined the Board of Directors of MediaRing Ltd., a leading VoIP telephony company listed on the Singapore exchange, in 1999. He was appointed Executive Chairman of the Board of MediaRing in September 2001.
Mark Spencer is President and founder of Digium, formerly Linux Support Services, Inc., a Huntsville, AL based company focused on the development and support of low-cost, innovative telecommunications hardware and open source software. Mark, originally from Auburn, AL, graduated in 1999 from Auburn University with a BS in Computer Engineering and founded his company in 2000. Mr. Spencer is the original author of GAIM, the widely popular, multi-protocol instant messanging program for Linux, BSD, and Windows. Mark is also responsible for Asterisk, the Open Source PBX for Linux, BSD, and MacOS.
Karl Erik Ståhl, being the President of Intertex Data AB and Chairman and Ingate Systems AB, has founded these companies that are known for their development of the world’s first SIP capable firewalls, including a SIP proxy and registrar dynamically controlling the Firewall. These Swedish companies have 20 years experience of telecommunications and development of high-quality communication and security products, combining real-time programming with analogue and digital hardware design skills. Karl Erik Ståhl and the companies hold several patents in various fields and have won several awards, the latest being the European IST Prize.
Richard has over 25 years of experience in computing, switching, signalling, numbering and networking. He was involved in the adaption of digital switching systems (DMS-100 and EWSD) for the Austrian market and also in the introduction of OAM and billing systems within Telekom Austria. He is participating actively in various international standard bodies, e.g. ETSI SMG, TMN, SPAN and TIPHON, VISIONng, ITU-T SG2 and IETF. In the last years he was responsible in OeFEG for the convergence of NGN networks, the migration to IP based networks, VoIP and ENUM. In this role he was involved in the latest developments in ITU-T regarding the +878 country code for UPT and the recent ENUM related recommendations.
Richard Sweatt is Amity System’s VP of Sales and Marketing. Sweatt has 24 years of experience in the communications field and 12 years in executive management. He leads the groups responsible for developing and driving strategy, roadmap, markets, and forecasts. He last served as CloudShield’s Vice President of Product Management.
Michelle Minus Swittenberg is a Director in Verizon Communication’s Retail Markets group responsible for developing and implementing the strategy and product offer for Verizon’s Voice Over IP solution for consumers.
Ari Takanen, founder and CEO of Codenomicon has for years already been studying information security issues in next generation networks and security critical environments. The work of Codenomicon and University of Oulu aims at ensuring that new technologies are accepted by the general public by providing means of measuring and ensuring quality in networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research that studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. SIP implementations.
Ben manages Internet2's voice and integrated communications initiatives, working with technology leaders in academia and industry to promote large-scale exploration of new peer-to-peer communications applications, while simultaneously studying the technical and business requirements of next-generation personal communications. Interests currently include: SIP middleware, enterprise-enabled rich presence, and voice disaster recovery. Ben was formerly at Advanced Network & Services, where he chaired the Internet2 QoS working group and was active in systems design and protocol standardization for one-way delay measurement. Ben holds degrees in mathematics from MIT and in computer science from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Brad Templeton founded ClariNet Communications Corp (the world's first "dot-com.") He also created and publishes rec.humor.funny, the most widely read USENET newsgroup and its web site, www.netfunny.com. He is currently chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading cyberspace civil rights foundation.
Peter has been providing consulting in the area of information security
Peter Thompson was one of the founders of Degree2 Innovations Ltd, a company established to commercialize research into network QoS performed at the Partnership in Advanced Computing Technology (PACT) at the Science Research Foundation in Bristol, England. This company became U4EA Technologies Ltd., where is now Director of Commercial Technology. From 1996 until June 2000, he was Senior Research Fellow of PACT in Bristol. Since 1996 he has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol, and from then until 1999 he was Chairman of The 1355 Association, a scientific trade association that promotes the use of the IEEE 1355-1995 Standard for Heterogeneous Interconnect, a standard that he helped to define.
Ronald Thomson is Vice President of Engineering at Centra. He is part of the senior team responsible for product development and strategy, and is one of the original architects of Centra's real-time online collaboration products. Thomson brings more than 15 years of experience in high tech engineering and management, with expertise in distributed systems design and telephony systems. Previously, Thomson was a product architect at Cadre Technologies and worked at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon) as a senior member of technical staff advising GTE business units on approaches to software processes. Thomson has a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.
Lee Tien is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit, public-interest group based in San Francisco, specializing in free speech and surveillance law. Since September 11, he has focused on the expansion of government surveillance and "dataveillance" powers. Before joining EFF, he litigated Freedom of Information Act and other cases involving privacy and encryption technology. Mr. Tien received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Michael Tribolet oversees operations at Vonage managing system operations, system applications, carrier relations, customer care, network operations, logistics and quality assurance.
Brough Turner is SVP, CTO and co-founder of NMS Communications, where he oversees the evolution of NMS's technology and product architectures and works on business strategy and new market development. Mr. Turner has broad business experience, but his principal focus remains on engineering and technology. His current interests include mobile video, multimodal applications, and wireless infrastructure.
Mike Twomey is the Vice President of Product Planning for Excel Switching Corporation. In this role, Mike is responsible for the product definition, market positioning and product launch of Excel’s Converged Services Platform (CSP).
As a founder of Webley and the principal software architect, he is responsible for driving Webley's leading edge technology. An expert in the speech technology arena, Alex has over 20 years of experience as a software system architect and developer. In 1990 he built the UNIX-based computer telephony system for Dytel Corporation and went on to design advanced software systems for Motorola, Interactive UNIX Corporation and Ardis. Alex led the development of Webley's Unified Communications technology while serving as CTO of Vail Systems. He co-founded Vail in 1991 and architected and developed its platform and major applications. Alex has a BS in Electrical Engineering, a MS in Computer Science and has 3 patents in the area of Unified Communications.
Tom VandeWater is MetaSwitch’s regional manager with responsibility for developing and supporting strategic accounts in the Southwestern United States and Latin America.
Atul Varshneya works as Principal Architect at Baypackets, Inc. He leads the software technology and architecture development efforts for Baypackets suite of products. He has a total of 18 years of experience in the industry, in the areas of telecom, data networks and software development. He has a doctorate in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Thomas Vasen is responsible Real-Time services (Voice and Video) offered over the existing ETTH and DSL network infrastructure that B2 deployed throughout Sweden. Services include Video on Demand, PC-TV and a 1st line telephony service with more than 40.000 customers based on SIP.
Julie Veach is Assistant Chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau, Competition Policy Division. She manages teams of economists and lawyers focusing on policy issues related to new technologies, CALEA, mergers, and implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Anand Venugopal has been working in the Wireless and VOIP industry for about 8 1/2 years in
As Group Vice President of Emerging Opportunities, Ron and his team scout new technology and business models that may impact Level 3 globally over the next 2-5 years including wireless, optical networking and other advanced communications technologies.
Currently executive news editor for Telephony, Vince came to the magazine in September 1997 as New Media editor, specializing in the Internet access and video communication marketplaces. From early 1998 through September 2000, Vittore worked as news editor, refocusing the section towards weekly analysis while launching News Now, Telephony’s daily news operation on the web.
Jamie Warter is vice president of marketing and business development at Brix Networks, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based firm focused on providing real-time service assurance and performance management solutions that verify the quality of advanced, IP-based services -- with a particular emphasis on VoIP. During his 19-year telecom and datacom career, Warter has held various senior-level marketing, product management, business development, and engineering positions at Quarry Technologies, Nortel/Bay Networks, 3Com, Penril-Datability, Chipcom, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds
Mr. Waters is a Group Vice President and President of Softswitch Services for Level 3 Communications, Inc. His responsibilities include the improvement of Level 3's ability to develop and deploy its proprietary Softswitch-based services to leverage our significant technical and organizational advantages in this business unit, which encompasses managed modem and voice products.
With more than 20 years of software development and management experience Mr. Weald is responsible for software architecture and design for Sylantro. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering at Worldtalk, a supplier of Internet security and e-mail connectivity products. Prior to Worldtalk, he was Software Development Manager at Touch Communications, a leading provider of networking software. Mr. Weald's experience also includes engineering and management roles at Austec, AGS Computers, ITT, and Bell Labs. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Data Processing from Loughborough University, England.
Keith Weiner is the founder, visionary, and CEO of DiamondWare. He has architected
Eric Weiss is responsible for managing all aspects of ITXC's operations, network architecture, customer service, and back office systems, as well as further development of the company's patented BestValue Routing(tm) technology. He was one of ITXC's co-founders and has been with the company since October 1997.
Olle Westerberg’s presence in the technology sector dates back to 1980. His more than twenty years of experience with telecommunications, networks and product development include a range of roles, from hands-on software development to company leadership. Westerberg held senior management positions with Ericsson, DSC Communications and Alcatel with a focus on international sales and marketing activities, serving as Vice President, Private Operators at Ericsson Switzerland and Vice President, Sales, EMEA at DSC. Westerberg gained first-hand experience with small business needs as the CEO of Sweden’s first dedicated e-service company, Buybridge. Westerberg holds an MSc in Engineering from The Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) and an Master of Business Administration from London Business School.
Greg Wetzel is Chief Network Architect at Covad Communications which he joined in June 1998. He is responsible for overall network and service architectures, new network service development, and the design of both the broadband access network and the IP services infrastructure. His goal is to ensure Covad's network sets the industry standard for Broadband Access Networks. Greg is active in ACM SIGCOMM. He has been ACM's representative on the steering committee of the jointly published journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He is also a member of the IEEE.
As BroadSoft’s Vice President of Marketing, Scott leads the company’s marketing strategy, product marketing, and corporate marketing initiatives. During Scott’s 3 years with the company, he has helped create an emerging industry definition of the next-generation applications layer and established BroadSoft’s leadership in the voice applications and server market.
With 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Tom White is the Vice President of Marketing for Comcast Digital Phone service, a full suite of local and long distance services with more than 1.2M customers Tom joined Comcast after spending more than four years at Cox Communications, growing their phone business to more than 600K customers in 9 markets.
Mark Whittier is VocalData's Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Prior to VocalData, Mr. Whittier served in several marketing leadership positions with Nortel Networks across its product and service lines including enterprise applications, carrier products, broadband and optical products, wireless products, professional services, consulting and marketing services. He has held a wide range of management positions including strategic marketing, corporate and marketing communication, product marketing, documentation and training. Mr. Whittier has a history as an educator at the secondary, college and university levels, and holds B.S. degrees in Education and Chemistry and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin.
Bryan Wiener has full responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and P&L management of all business units. Mr. Wiener was General Manager of Net2Phone's International division from November 2001 until July 2003, increasing Net2Phone's core growth business by over 30% in revenue and operating margin. Before assuming leadership of ICS, Mr. Wiener managed the company's value-added product offerings, including: voice hosting, voice activated dialing and the company's flagship PC-to-phone service. Before joining Net2Phone in early 2000, Mr. Wiener held management positions at Standard and Poor's and theglobe.com. Mr. Wiener holds an M.B.A. from Stern School of Business at NYU and a B.A. in History from Syracuse University in finance.
Jim Wilburn has more than 20 years experience in the VOIP and wireline telephony and broadband industries. As an independent industry consultant, his consulting aides companies in writing requirements, reviewing and evaluating RFP responses and implementing BSS, CRM and OSS systems, along with regulatory requirements. Previously in positions with DST Innovis and EUR Systems, he evaluated the VOIP and wireline telephony and broadband marketplace segments for their BSS, CRM and OSS products. He has bee a participating member of several key industry organizations including: IPDRä (Internet Protocol Detail Record), PacketCableä and the OBFä (Ordering and Billing Forum).
Nathan Wilcox is the Systems Administrator for the Vermont Enhanced 9-1-1 program. This program oversees a multi-Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) system that was recently named the best statewide 9-1-1 system in the Nation. The technologies used in Vermont for 9-1-1 are among the most advanced in the world. Nathan also chairs the VoIP/Packet Technical Committee at the National Emergency Number Association and has contributed to several documents regarding the use of VoIP for 9-1-1 and Advanced 9-1-1 technologies. Nathan¹s experience with emergency communications spans approximately 20 years and incorporates not only public safety but tactical military environments as well.
Alistair Woodman is Senior Director for the Voice Technology Group at Cisco Systems, where he leads Cisco strategy for the service provider packet voice market. His responsibilities include business planning, market development, and product management. Woodman has worked in the communications industry for more than 10 years, and he has a broad background in defining and marketing products in the data and telephony protocols space.
As Voyant’s chief technology officer, Ed Yackey drives the company’s groundbreaking product strategy. He is responsible for monitoring and evaluating the latest voice conferencing and collaboration trends to ensure Voyant and its products maintain their innovative, cutting-edge perspective.
John Yoakum is champion of emerging opportunities and disruptive technologies at Nortel Networks. As a Director of Business Development, he serves as an evangelist for keeping the ‘future in focus’ and promoting the potential of disruptive technologies. John concentrates on building collaborative relationships with customers and partners. He is a proponent of emerging technologies that enable people to efficiently manage their personal time while adding enjoyment to their lives.
Sr. Vice President, Fixed Solutions Division and Voice Networks Division for Alcatel North America.
David E. Young is Director of Internet & Technology Policy in Verizon's Public Policy & External Affairs department. Before joining External Affairs, he spent six years working in research & development on many advanced technologies including Internet telephony, data network architectures, and audio, video & image compression and holds seven US patents. David began his career in telecommunications with New Jersey Bell where he worked in a variety of operations and staff positions. David holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Amir Zmora is Director of Product Marketing for the RADVISION Technology Business Unit specifically focusing on RADVISION SIP related product family. In his current role, Zmora is responsible for both product definition and marketing activities. As part of his role Zmora takes part in SIPit events and IETF meetings. Additionally he is a known speaker at different VoIP events such as VON and SIP conferences and publishes articles in well known magazines such as EE Times ComDesign.
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