Schedule Under Development and Subject to Change Last Updated: April 1, 2004 |
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
4:00pm 8:00pm |
Pre-registration for VON Pkg. & Workshop Attendees |
5:00pm 6:00pm |
VON Orientation Carl Ford, Community Developer, pulver.com Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com |
6:00pm 7:30pm |
Town Hall Meeting Robert Pepper, Chief of Policy Development, FCC |
7:30pm 8:30pm |
VON Reception |
Monday, March 29, 2004
8:00am 8:55am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
8:55am 5:15pm |
PSTN/IP Gateways and Softswitches |
8:55am 4:45pm |
SIP Tutorial |
9:00am 5:15pm |
Enterprise VoIP Solutions |
9:00am 4:45pm |
Telecom Policy Summit |
3:00pm 4:00pm |
General Session: Border Transversal Dan Freedman, CEO, Jasomi Networks David Fraley, Analyst, Gartner Dataquest Bruce Hill, CEO, Netrake Opher Kahane, President / CEO, Kagoor Networks Khaw Kheng Joo, CEO, MediaRing Andy Ory, President & CEO, Acme Packet Karl Erik Stahl, President, Intertex Data Raj Sharma, Co-founder & President, NexTone Communications Olle Westerberg, CEO, Ingate Systems AB |
4:05pm 5:05pm |
General Session: IP Communications Roundtable Anthony Christie, CMO, Global Crossing John Curran, CTO, XO Communications Frank Governali, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Jason Oxman, Assistant General Counsel, Covad Communications Girish Pathak, Chief Customer Strategist, TELUS Communications Jack Waters, Group VP & President, Softswitch Services, Level(3) Communications Eric Weiss, Co-founder, ITXC Corporation |
5:00pm 7:00pm |
SIMPLE Tutorial Rick Ringel, Dir. of Engineering, Media Applications Grp., Inter-Tel |
5:15pm 5:45pm |
Keynote Bernd Kuhlin, President, Enterprise Networks, Siemens |
5:45pm 6:15pm |
Keynote Hossein Eslambolchi, President, Global Networking Tech. Svc. / AT&T CTO & CIO, AT&T |
6:30pm 8:30pm |
Exhibit Floor Opens with Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

7:15am 8:15am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
8:15am 8:45am |
Industry Perspective Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com |
8:45am 9:15am |
Industry Perspective Eugene Roman, Group President, Bell Systems & Technology, Bell Canada |
9:15am 9:45am |
Industry Perspective Cathy Martine, Senior Vice President, Internet Telephony, AT&T |
9:45am 10:15am |
Industry Perspective Robert Pepper, Chief of Policy Development, FCC |
10:15am 10:30am |
Morning Break - Exhibit Floor Opens |
10:30am 11:00am |
Industry Perspective Joe Glynn, VP IP Product Innovations, Qwest |
11:00am 11:30am |
Industry Perspective David Gurle, Executive Vice President, Reuters |
11:30am 12:00 |
Industry Perspective Christopher Fine, Vice President, Goldman Sachs |
12:00 2:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00pm 1:30pm |
Keynote Michael Tribolet, Vice President of Operations, Vonage |
1:30pm 2:00pm |
Keynote Monty Johnson, President/GM of NSD, Tekelec |
| Business Issues & Updates |
Disruption & Technology |
Enterprise Technologies |
IP Communication Providers |
Voice & the Application Layer |
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2:00pm 3:15pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Updates from IP Communications Broadband Operators Counse Broders, Principal Analyst, Current Analysis Rick Cimerman, Senior Director, Natl Cable & Telecomm Assoc. Jason Oxman, Assistant General Counsel, Covad Communications Tom White, VP, Telphony Marketing, Comcast |
Regulatory Update Brooke Schulz, VP Corp Comm, Vonage David Svanda, Michigan PSC Commissioner David Young, Sr. Director, Technology Policy, Verizon |
Enterprise Communication Solutions Val Babajov, President & CEO, Webmessenger Jeanne Leckie, VP Marketing, Inter-Tel Ed Simnett, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft Tal Shalom, Manager, SE & PM Team - Americas, VocalTec Communications |
"Voice Inside" Mike Borsetti, President & CEO, Borsetti & Co. Brad Templeton, Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation Anand Venugopal, Director, Product Management, Ind-Telesoft Pvt. Keith Weiner, CEO, DiamondWare |
WiFi Voice over IP Israel Drori, EVP and Founder, Legra Systems Bob Jordan, Co-Founder and VP Marketing, Strix Systems Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Founder & Chairman, Meru Networks Alain Mouttham, CEO, SIPquest Kevin Mitchell, Directing Analyst, Service Provider Networks & Next Gen Voice, Infonetics Research |
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3:15pm 3:30pm |
Afternoon Break |
3:30pm 4:45pm |
Breakout Sessions |
Updates from IP Communications ILEC Operators Counse Broders, Principal Analyst, Current Analysis Joe Glynn, VP IP Product Innovations, Qwest Nancy Lambros, Principal MTS, SBC Technology Resources Michelle Swittenberg, VoIP Team, Retail Markets, Verizon Tony Thakur, VP Engineering & Technologies, Time Warner Telecom |
Securing VoIP Networks Steve Bakke, CTO, VocalData Eric Nielsen, Director, Security Solutions, Sylantro Systems Peter Thermos, Principal Information Security Consultant, Telcordia Technologies Ari Takanen, CEO, Codenomicon Ltd. |
Developing Applications in the Enterprise John Drolet, VP Worldwide Sales, Citel Technologies Kevin Farrell, VP Product Mgmt. & Mktg., TeleGea, Inc. Jack Jachner, Senior Director, Alcatel Iain Milnes, President, Zultys Technologies Vince Vittore, Executive Editor, Telephony |
Disaggregating of the PBX Paul Mockapetris, Chief Scientist & Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Nominum Henry Sinnreich, Distiguished Member of Engineering, MCI Richard Shockey, Sr, Manager, Strategic Technologies, NeuStar John Weald, Vice President of Product Development, Sylantro Systems |
Linux for IP Communications Chris Celiberti, VP, Business Development & Carrier Relations, LibreTel Jason Fischl, CTO, Purple Comm, Inc. Arthur Gould, Community Manager, linux.java.net, Sun Microsystems Jiri Kuthan, Director of Engineering, Iptel.org Dan Petrie, Chief Architect, Pingtel Mark Spencer, President, Digium |
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4:45pm 5:00pm |
Break |
5:00pm 5:30pm |
Keynote Vickie Yohe, Sr. V.P., Fixed Solutions Div. & Voice Networks Div., Alcatel |
5:30pm 6:00pm |
Keynote Brian Forbes, VP of Business Development, Netrake |
8:00pm 0:00am |
Jeff's "All Conference" Party |
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
7:30am 8:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
8:15am 9:00am |
Keynote Tom Adams, General Manager, Embedded Devices Group, Microsoft Scott Horn, Director, Embedded Devices Group, Microsoft Akira Uchino, Account Executive/Device Solution Sales, Microsoft |
9:00am 9:30am |
Keynote Al Safarikas, VP, Service Provider Mktg., Wireline Networks, Nortel Networks |
9:30am 10:00am |
Keynote Tom Evslin, Chairman & CEO, ITXC Corp. |
9:30am 10:00am |
Morning Break |
10:00am 11:15am |
Breakout Sessions |
IP Communications in Europe Zoltan Herzegh, TeliaSonera Alan Law, General Manager, pulver.com Alan Nunn, Chief Voice Architect, BT Richard Stastny, Project Manager, Telekom Austria Thomas Vasen, Manager Real-Time Service Platforms, B2 Bredband AB |
WiFi and 3G working together Amir Atai, Lead Scientist, Telica Bob Dye, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Sonus Networks, Inc. Hisham Khartabil, Senior Speicialist, Nokia Martine Lapierre, Chief Technology Officer/Vice President Mobile Communications Group, Alcatel CIT James Rafferty, Sr. Product Manager, Brooktrout Technology |
Rich Presence & Location with Instant Messenger Steve Bakke, CTO, VocalData Richard Brennan, Founder, Telxxis Francis Desouza, President and CEO, IMlogic, Inc. Junien Labrousse, Sr. VP & General Manager, Logitech Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University |
SIP & the Media Server Rj Auburn, CTO, Voxeo Eric Burger, CTO, SnowShore Networks Mike Keefe, VP Engineering, Cognitronics Jeff Liebl, Vice President, Product Management, Ubiquity Software Jonathan Rosenberg, CTO, dynamicsoft Garland Sharratt, VP, Business Development, Convedia |
Advanced Consumer Devices for IP Communication Jan Fandrianto, CEO, Sipura Technology Roar Hagen, CTO, Global IP Sound David Li, Chairman, CEO, Grandstream Networks Kelli Lowery, VP Business Development, CommuniTech Stu Millberg, pulver Innovations |
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11:15am 11:30am |
Break |
11:30am 12:45 |
Breakout Sessions |
Updates form IP Communication IXC / LD Operators Joe Aibinder, Director, VoIP Bus. Services, AT&T Alan Bugos, Vice President, Engineer, iBasis Jeff Bak, Director of Product Management, ITXC Corp. Teresa Hastings, Director, Product Engineering, MCI Marcelo Rodriguez, Editor & Publisher, Voxilla.com Dorene Weiland, Director, Voice & Contact Center Solutions, Sprint |
VoIP Service Creation David Cork, COO, Natural Convergence Edward Keegan, Director, Lukas Technologies Ranjith Mukundan, Lead Architect - Voice/NGN Solutions, Wipro Technologies Ken Osowski, VP, Mkt. & Product Mgmt., Pactolus Communication Software Atul Varshneya, Principal Architect, BayPackets |
AD HOC conferencing Al Balasco, Global Dir. of Bus. Dev., Spectel Grant Henderson, EVP Marekting and Strategy, Convedia Frank Ohrtman, Director, Softswitch Consulting Ronald Thomson, VP, Engineering, Centra Software Ed Yackey, CTO, Voyant Technologies |
SIP & the Enterprise Jon Arnold, VoIP Equipment Program Leader, Frost & Sullivan David Fuller, Product marketing Director, Interactive Intelligence Mahshad Koohgoli, CEO, Nimcat Networks Inc Erik Papir, Manager, Solutions Architect, 3Com Olle Westerberg, CEO, Ingate Systems AB |
Silicon Voice over IP Bob Emmerson, VON Magazine Irvind Ghai, Director, VOP Asia-Pacific, Broadband Communications, Texas Instruments Shoaib Mohammad, Director Business Development, Legerity John Murray, Technical Consultant, AT&T |
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12:45 2:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm 2:00pm |
Keynote Hassan Ahmed, President & CEO, Sonus Networks |
2:00pm 2:30pm |
Keynote Robert Hagerty, Chairman & CEO, Polycom |
2:30pm 2:45pm |
Afternoon Break |
2:45pm 3:15pm |
Industry Perspective Alistair Woodman, Senior Director, Marketing, Cisco Systems |
3:15pm 3:45pm |
Industry Perspective Mike Mccue, President & CEO, Tellme Networks |
3:45pm 4:15pm |
Industry Perspective John Yoakum, Emerging Opportunities, Nortel Networks |
4:15pm 4:30pm |
Break |
4:30pm 5:00pm |
Industry Perspective Walter Sousa, Chairman, MediaRing |
5:00pm 5:30pm |
Industry Perspective Rick Jones, Operations Issues Director, NENA |
5:30pm 6:00pm |
Industry Perspective Joe Rinde, President, Rinde Associates |
6:00pm 8:00pm |
Breakout Sessions |
BoF: Internet2 & the Enterprise Daniel Hague, Technologist, University of Michigan Christine Moe, Engineering Systems Manager, Stanford University Brad Noblet, Dartmouth Pradip Patel, Manager, Transmission Systems, University of Michigan Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University Ben Teitelbaum, Program Mgr, Voice & Integrated Communications, Internet2 |
BoF: Emergency Services Richard Dickinson, Manager, Public Safety, Telecommunication Systems Jim Keenan, V.P. of Wireline Sales, Intrado Mark Lewis, Senior Consulting Engineer, Nortel Networks Brian Rosen, VP, Technology Introduction, Marconi Communications, Inc. Nate Wilcox, Systems Administrator, Vermont Enhanced 9-1-1 |
| Free World Dialup User Group Meeting |
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Thursday, April 1, 2004
8:00am 9:00am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00am 10:00am |
General Session: The Road Ahead 2004 Jonathan Rosenberg, CTO, dynamicsoft Brian Rosen, VP, Technology Introduction, Marconi Communications, Inc. |
10:00am 10:30am |
Industry Perspective Henry Sinnreich, Distiguished Member of Engineering, MCI |
10:30am 11:00am |
Industry Perspective David Beckemeyer, Distinguished Research Engineer, EarthLink, Inc. |
11:00am 11:30am |
Morning Break |
11:30am 12:45 |
Breakout Sessions |
Consumer Voice over Broadband Services Alan Duric, CTO, Telio Lee Goldberg, Sr. Editor, analogZONE Bryan Martin, President & CEO, 8x8, Inc. Ravi Sakaria, President/Co-Founder, VoicePulse Ray Solnik, Strategic Markets Vice President, AT&T Bryan Wiener, President, Global Services, Net2Phone |
VoIP Technologies in Rural Areas Joseph Bennett, VP of Marketing, Taqua Dan Dearing, VP Marketing, NexTone Communications Bob Harvey, Regional Manager, MetaSwitch Paul Miller, Vice President, Tekelec Jeff Paine, Area 51 Networks |
Collaborative Software and conferencing Michelle Blank, Chief Marketing Officer, Arel Comunications & Software Alexander Kurganov, CTO, Webley Systems Steve Parsons, Director of Product Management, NMS Communications Staci Ples, Volvo Communications Thomas Valovic, Program Director, IP Telephony, IDC |
SIP Peering Strategies Richard Grigonis, Editor in Chief, VON Magazine Kaushik Patel, Director of Marketing, Technology Div., MediaRing Itzik Parnafes, VP Business Development, Kagoor Networks Sridhar Ramachandran, CTO, NexTone Communications |
VOIP NOCs! Whats required inside to manage whats outside! Paul Capozolli, Business Development Manager, Agilent Technologies Janardhanan Pathangi, Group Project Manager, HCL Technologies Frank Salm, Director, Product Management, Sylantro Systems Jim Wilburn, Industry Consultant |
What is VoIP's Lifecycle? How do Telco's adjust to Moore's Law David Cork, COO, Natural Convergence Majid Foodeei, System Architect, Centillium Communications Joe Glynn, VP IP Product Innovations, Qwest Ken Kalb, CEO, Continuous Computing |
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12:45 2:00pm |
Lunch |
2:00pm 3:15pm |
Breakout Sessions |
SIP Forum Eric Burger, CTO, SnowShore Networks Trefor Davies, ETphones.com Andy Huckridge, Product Marketing, Spirent Communications Edward Keegan, Director, Lukas Technologies Robert Sparks, Software Engineer, dynamicsoft Amir Zmora, Director, Product Marketing, RADVISION |
Dolby VoIP? How close are we to better than PSTN sound? Jack Douglass, Technical Marketing Manager, Spirent Brian Glinsman, Executive Director, Product Management, Texas Instruments Michael Keyhl, CEO, Opticom GmbH Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications |
Protecting your VoIP investment Olivier Hersent, CEO, NetCentrex SA Nancy Lambros, Principal MTS, SBC Technology Resources Michel Moubarak, Director, System Architecture & Engineering, Natural Convergence Pat Rudolph, Strategic Technologies, 3Com Corporation Ari Rabban, VP , Corporate Development & Marketing, VocalTec Communications |
Beyond Session Border Control Micaela Giuhat, AVP Product Management, Netrake Jim Hourihan, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Acme Packet Hank Hudson, Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Verizon Kaushik Patel, Director of Marketing, Technology Div., MediaRing Guy Redmill, Senior Market Development Manager, Brooktrout |
Multimodal Messaging: Blending the voice with the rest of IP Communications Sean Kent, Director of Architecture Tech., SS8 Networks Alan Law, General Manager, pulver.com Graeme Macarthur, VP Internet Applications Group, Data Connection Scott Petrack, Senior Vice President, eDial Arun Sobti, CEO and Chairman, IP Unity |
Managing Voice Traffic on a Packet Network Jerry Cady, President, PingTone Communications Sam Galler, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Tekno Telecom, LLC Ed Guy, Free World Dialup Stefan Pracht, Product Manager, Agilent Peter Thompson, Director, Commercial Technology, U4EA Technologies Ltd. |
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| Exhibit Hours: |
- Monday, March 29, 2004, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 10:00am - 6:00pm
- Wednesday, March 31, 2004, 10:00am - 4:00pm
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