Schedule Under Development and Subject to Change
Last Updated: March 10, 2005
 


Sunday, March 6, 2005
4:00pm
7:00pm
Registration and Pre-Registered Badge Pick-Up
(pre-registration for VON Package, Monday/Tuesday Combo, Workshop Only)


Monday, March 7, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am
4:15pm
Building the VoIP Central Office
9:00am
4:15pm
Enterprise VoIP Solutions
9:00am
5:00pm
Telecom Policy Summit
9:00am
4:15pm
Wi-Fi VoIP Summit
9:00am
4:15pm
Business Strategies for the Independent Operating Companies: The Quadruple Play?
12:45
1:15pm
Industry Perspective
Evolution and Impact of VoIP for Business: A Carrier's View
 • Mark Fishler, Vice President, Product Management, Voice, and Data Business Services, SBC Communications
4:30pm
5:00pm
Keynote
NextGen Networks: IP Service Velocity with PSTN Reliability and Performance
 • Raj Sharma, President, NexTone Communications
5:00pm
5:30pm
Keynote
Redefining the VoIP Experience
 • Kevin Kealy, Security Scientist, AT&T
5:30pm
6:00pm
Keynote
 • Jeffrey Citron, CEO, Vonage
6:00pm
8:00pm
Exhibit Hall Opens / Welcome Reception
7:30pm
9:00pm
General Session: Town Hall Meeting
 • Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC
 • Robert Pepper, Chief of Policy Development, FCC


Tuesday, March 8, 2005
7:30am
8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am
9:00am
Industry Perspective
 • Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com
9:00am
9:30am
Industry Perspective
Building the VoIP Market: Follow the Consumer
 • Jonathan Miller, CEO, America Online, Inc.
9:30am
10:00am
Industry Perspective
The New Virtual Telephone Company
 • Hossein Eslambolchi, CTO, CIO, President GNTs, AT&T
10:00am
10:30am
Industry Perspective
 • Chairman Powell, FCC
10:30am
11:00am
Morning Break
11:00am
11:30am
Industry Perspective
View from the engine room on what is happening in the VoIP space
 • Alistair Woodman, Senior Director, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
11:30am
12:00
Industry Perspective
VoIP: What Matters Now
 • James Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications
12:00
12:30
Industry Perspective
The VoIP Buzz on Wall Street
 • Christopher Fine, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
12:30
1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
2:00pm
Keynote
Powering the Voice in VoIP
 • Chalan Aras, VP, Marketing, Ditech Communications
2:00pm
2:30pm
Keynote
netvona
 • Andy Ory, CEO, President & CoFounder, Acme Packet
2:30pm
3:00pm
Keynote
Changing the VoIP Paradigm: Delivering Value over IP
 • Stef Van Aarle, VP, Marketing Strategy, Lucent Technologies
3:00pm
3:30pm
Keynote
Harnessing New VoIP Opportunities: What’s Ahead for Next Generation Networks
 • Hassan Ahmed, Chairman & CEO, Sonus Networks
3:30pm
3:45pm
Break
Business Issues Competitive Landscape Service Provider Technology VON Enterprise
3:45pm
5:00pm
Breakout Sessions
The (Cable) Empire Strikes Back
 • Michael Harris, President, Kinetic Strategies
 • Michael S. Jablon, Senior Director, Marketing, Time Warner Cable
 • Michael Pacifico, Director of Marketing, Cox Communications
 • Tom White, VP, Marketing, Comcast
Open Source Communications
 • Peter Badovinatz, Sr. Technical Staff Member, IBM
 • Bill Rich, Co-Founder, SIP Foundry
 • Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk
Analyst Roundtable
 • Daniel Berninger, VP, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research
 • Ronald Gruia, Program Leader, Enterprise Solutions, Frost & Sullivan
 • Ken Osowski, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Pactolus Communication Software
 • Steven Raab, Director, IP Telephony Research, Dell'Oro Group
Regulatory Update: North America
 • Dorothy Attwood, Sr. VP, Regulatory Policy, SBC
 • Earl Comstock, Partner, Sher & Blackwell LLP
 • Christopher Libertelli, Sr. Legal Advisor to Chairman Powell, FCC
 • Howard Symons, Partner, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
 • Richard Whitt, VP, Federal Law and Policy, MCI
IP Call Center Update
 • Mathew Frazer, Vice President, Genesys Telecom/Alcatel
 • Tony Rybczynski, Director, Nortel
 • Sridhar Ramachandran, CTO, NexTone Communications
 • Kelly Still, Product Manager, Lucent Technologies
 • Catherine Spence, Computing Director, Intel
Partnering with Internet2 to Develop Next-Generation Campus Services
 • Dennis Baron, Director, M.I.T.
 • Jeremy George, Director, Yale University
 • Tyler Johnson, Director of Telecommunications R&D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 • Walt Magnussen, Director for Telecommunications, Texas A&M University
 • Ben Teitelbaum, Program Mgr, Voice & Integrated Communications, Internet2
5:00pm
5:15pm
Break
5:15pm
6:30pm
General Session: Ten Years Back, Ten Years Forward
 • Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC
 • Tom Evslin, Principal, Evslin Consulting
 • Rubin Gruber, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Sonus Networks
 • Ofer Gneezy, President & CEO, iBasis
 • Elon Ganor, Chairman & CEO, VocalTec Communications Inc
 • Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com
 • Robert Pepper, Chief of Policy Development, FCC
6:45pm
8:00pm
Breakout Sessions
Birds of a Feather: SIP Trunking
 • Richard Brennan, Sr. Vice President, telloCorp Inc.
 • Teresa Hastings, Director, MCI
 • Andy Huckridge, Senior Product Marketing, Spirent Communications
 • Ben Jenkins, Sr. Product Manager, Avaya
 • Steve Levy, Product Manager, Cisco Systems
Birds of a Feather: Purple Apps
 • Michael S. Jablon, Senior Director, Marketing, Time Warner Cable
 • Timothy Kay, Founder and CTO, New Online Technology
 • Jeff Liebl, VP, Marketing, Ubiquity Software
 • Ken Osowski, VP, Marketing & Product Mgmt., Pactolus Communication Software
 • Richard Sweatt, VP Marketing and Sales, Amity Systems
Birds of a Feather: Podcasting
 • Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress
 • Scott Rafer, CEO, Feedster
 • Eric Rice, Founder, Audioblog.com
VoIP Testing
 • Gordon Beith, Sr. Product Manager, Empirix
 • Hans Gierlich, Head of Telecom Division, HEAD acoustics
 • Yoram Stettiner, VP, Advanced Technologies, AudioCodes
Birds of a Feather: Global IP Alliance
 • Jonathan Askin, General Counsel, Pulver Enterprises
 • Marilyn Cade, CEO, mCADE LLC
 • Julie Hedlund, Managing Director, Hedlund Global Consulting


Wednesday, March 9, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am
9:30am
Industry Perspective
The Impact on the Enterprise
 • Micky Tsui, VP & GM, Communication Systems Division, Avaya
9:30am
10:00am
Industry Perspective
Following the Money: What Makes VoIP Compelling
 • Stewart Alsop, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
10:00am
10:15am
Morning Break
10:15am
10:45am
Industry Perspective
The Administration's Perspective on IP Communications
 • Michael Gallagher, Assistant Secretary, US Dept of Commerce
10:45am
11:15am
Industry Perspective
Transitioning to an IP-Centric World
11:15am
11:30am
Break
11:30am
12:00
Keynote
Communications @ the Speed of Life - Transforming How We Communicate with SIP-based Multimedia Services
 • Jim Dondero, VP, Wireline/Optical Marketing, Nortel
12:00
12:30
Keynote
The Next Phase of Collaborative Communications: Integration Everywhere
 • Phil Keenan, SVP & General Manager, Network Systems, Polycom
12:30
1:00pm
Keynote
VoIP Peering and Interconnection: Lessons from the Field
 • Tom Kershaw, Vice President, VeriSign
1:00pm
2:00pm
Lunch
1:30pm
2:00pm
Keynote
Enterprise IP Comunications - A strategic building block for mission critical adoption
 • John Sculley, Venture Partner, Rho Capital Partners
2:00pm
2:30pm
Keynote
Waiting for the “Next Generation” to Grow Up: Profitable Network Transformation Strategies for Today and Tomorrow
 • Mark Whittier, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Tekelec
2:30pm
2:45pm
Break
2:45pm
4:00pm
Breakout Sessions
Voice over Broadband Service Providers
 • Noam Bardin, Chairman of the Board, Deltathree
 • Alan Duric, CTO, Telio AS
 • Jeremy George, Director, Yale University
 • Bryan Martin, Chairman & CEO, 8x8
 • Matt Stein, VP, New Technology and Services, Primus Canada
VoIP Bloggers Speak Out
 • Andy Abramson, Editor, VoIPWatch
 • Dan Brekke, ipInferno
 • Tom Keating, CTO, Executive Technology Editor, TMC
 • Om Malik, BUSINESS2.0 & GIGAOM.com
 • Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com
 • Aswath Rao
 • James Seng, Assistant Director, IDA Singapore
Venture Capital Update
 • Rubin Gruber, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Sonus Networks
 • Deepak Kamra, General Partner, Canaan Partners
 • Mark Lydon, Sr. Manager, Strategic Investments, Intel
 • Gary Rubinoff, Managing Director, BCE Capital
Things That SIP, Things That Don't
 • Bruce Gray, Business Development Manager, Xten Networks
 • Amnon Gavish, VP, Bus. Dev. & Product Mgmt., RADVISION
 • William Jahsman, Principal, Park City Consulting Group
 • Davin Miyoshi, Corporate Business Development, 3Com
IAX2 Simpler than SIP
 • Chris Celiberti, Sr. Technology Liason, NeuStar
 • Jerry Doty, Director, Proxy7/OAS, sentitO Networks
 • Sven Fischer, Senior Software Engineer, snom technology
 • Patrick Reilly, Sr. Product Development Mgr., Global Crossing
 • Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk
Developing a VoIP RFP
 • Steve Baechle, AVP, Technical Operations, Newport Networks
 • Jay Brandstadter, Professional Advisor, Computer Sciences
 • Laurie Donahue, Director VoIP Solutions, Lucent Technologies
 • Rick Dell, VP, Managed Services, Inter-Tel Technologies
 • Bob Wise, Principal Architect, Continuous Computing
4:00pm
4:15pm
Afternoon Break
4:15pm
5:30pm
Breakout Sessions
ILEC Strategies
 • Sharolyn Farmer, Research Director, BellSouth Telecommunications
 • Daniel Jaycox, Sr. Staff Engineer, Qwest Communications
 • Nancy Lambros, Principal MTS, SBC Laboratories Inc.
 • Kevin Mitchell, Directing Analyst, Service Provider Voice & Data, Infonetics Research
 • Paul Perry, Executive Director, Verizon
Stanford University VoIP Case Study
 • Robert Burgelman, Stanford Graduate School of Business
 • Philip Meza, Research Associate/Consultant, Stanford Graduate School of Business
 • Les Vadasz
Roaming between Broadband and Wireless Networks
 • Steve Blumenthal, CTO & SVP, Engineering, BridgePort Networks
 • Tom Howe, CTO, Versatel Networks
 • Steven Shaw, Director of Marketing, Kineto Wireless
 • Chris Smith, Sr. Director, Gartner
 • Gary Tauss, President & CEO, LongBoard
Future of VoIP Silicon
 • Debby Hindus, VP Product Marketing, Rapport Inc.
 • Michel Laurence, CEO, Octasic
 • Danny Petkevich, Dir. of Mktg., Infrastructure DSPs, Freescale Semiconductor
 • Sandeep Pombra, CTO, Ditech Communications
 • Kevin Wiant, Managing Director, HarborWay
Working VoIP for the Vertical Markets
 • Niraj Jain, Director, Business Development, Vocera Communications
 • Yoran Raps, VoIP Practice Lead, BusinessEdge Solutions
 • Ken Workun, Director, Business Development, Atreus Systems
Killer App: Using Presence and Instant Messaging
 • Jonathan Christensen, CTO and VP of Products, FaceTime Communications
 • Jeremy George, Director, Yale University
 • Jack Jachner, Sr. Director, Alcatel
 • David Leach, Presence Solutions Evangelist, Siemens Communications
 • Vish Raju, VP, PLM, SIPquest
 • Ed Simnett, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft
5:30pm
5:45pm
Break
5:45pm
6:15pm
Industry Perspective
Consumers, Carriers, and Commissions
 • Susan Kennedy, Commissioner, California PUC
6:15pm
6:45pm
Industry Perspective
VoIP: Is the Past Prologue?
 • Stephan Beckert, Director of Research, TeleGeography Research Grp.
8:00pm
0:00am
Jeff's All Conference Party


Thursday, March 10, 2005
8:00am
9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am
9:00am
Industry Perspective
UMTS TDD and VoIP: The Future of Mobile Broadband
 • Chris Gilbert, President & CEO, IPWireless
9:00am
9:30am
Industry Perspective
 • John Yoakum, Emerging Opportunities, Nortel
9:30am
10:00am
Live Telecast from IETF
Update from the IETF
 • Henry Sinnreich, MCI Fellow, MCI
 • Richard Shockey, Strategic Technologies Initiatives, NeuStar
10:00am
10:30am
Industry Perspective
Advancing Real Time Communication on Campus
 • Douglas Van Houweling, President & CEO, Internet2
10:30am
11:00am
Industry Perspective
The Open Source Revolution in the Enterprise
 • Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk
11:00am
11:15am
Morning Break
11:15am
12:30
Breakout Sessions
Rural VoIP
 • Greg Haledjian, Associate, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald
 • Dave Jarzemsky, Rural Market Product Management, Nortel
 • Peggy Kilburn, Director of Conference Programs, pulver.com
 • Andrew Randall, VP, Marketing, MetaSwitch
 • Fred Radford, Director, Customer Solutions, KoolSpan, Inc.
 • Ingrid Simunic, Marketing Director, VocalTec Communications
CALEA Update
 • Daniel Berninger, VP, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research
 • Micaela Giuhat, AVP, Global Alliances, Netrake
 • Sophia Scoggins, System Engineering, Texas Instruments
 • Patricia Streilein, Director, Product Management, Acme Packet
 • David Young, Director, Technology Policy, Verizon
Applying Presence in the Consumer Space
 • Piotr Boni, Distinguished MTS, Verizon
 • Dan Coole, VP, Device Applications, Oz Communications
 • Amnon Gavish, VP, Bus. Dev. & Product Mgmt., RADVISION
 • Jack Jachner, Sr. Director, Alcatel
 • Michael Levit, CMO, Paltalk
 • Stu Milberg, VP Business Development, FWD Communications
Voice, Video & Silicon
 • Geeta Chaudhary, Director, IP Video Solutions, Lucent Technologies
 • Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom
 • Terry West, Infrastructure Products Division, Intel
 • Amir Zmora, VP Marketing & Product Mgmt., Surf Communication Solutions
After the Smoke Clears: Living with an IP PBX
 • Ed Basart, CTO, ShoreTel, Inc.
 • Lynn Garrick, Director, Systems Engineering, Nortel
 • William Jahsman, Principal, Park City Consulting Group
 • Tony Jenkins, VP, Strategic Marketing, Mitel Networks
 • Don Price, CTO, Technical Director, Avaya
VoWiFi for Enterprise
 • David Fridley, Sr. Product Manager, IP Telephony Solutions, Toshiba America Information Systems
 • Matt Holdrege, Director of Business Development, Strix Systems
 • Niraj Jain, Director, Business Development, Vocera Communications
 • Alain Mouttham, CEO, SIPquest
12:30
1:45pm
Lunch
1:45pm
3:00pm
Breakout Sessions
VoIP in Latin America
 • Alan Bugos, Vice President, Engineer, iBasis
 • Alfredo Bellagamba, CEO, VoIP Group Inc.
 • Jose Colagrossi, SVP & GM, Intl, Net2Phone
 • Gregory Keough, CEO, DigiLinea
 • Lee Quintanar, FVP, IT Telecom Operations, Country Wide Financial Corporation
A Look at text in the wireless world
 • Val Babajov, CEO, Webmessenger
 • Tony Bamonti, President, Jabber, Inc.
 • Sanjeev Chawla, Founder & CTO, BayPackets
 • David Svanda, Principal, Svanda Consulting
 • Jd Vaughn, General Manager, RADVISION
Peripheral Visionaries
 • Dmitry Goroshevsky, CEO, Founder, Popular Telephony
 • Timothy Jasionowski, CTO, Streamdoor
 • Opher Kahane, Co Founder and CEO, Kagoor Networks
 • Chuck Rutledge, VP of Marketing, Quintum Technologies
 • Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications
VoIP Performance Management
 • Alan Clark, President and CEO, Telchemy, Inc.
 • Hans Gierlich, Head of Telecom Division, HEAD acoustics
 • Michael Keyhl, CEO, Opticom GmbH
 • Ofir Michael, Director of VoIP Solutions, RADCOM
 • Sandy Orlando, General Manager, Nortel
Utilizing MPLS and QoS to Deliver Voice, Video, and Data
 • Joe Aibinder, Director, Services over IP Offer Mgmt., AT&T
 • Jeff Phillips, Vice President, Marketing, Virtela Communications
 • Azi Ronen, Executive VP of Marketing and Technology, Allot Communications
 • David Siegel, Director of Data Services, Product Development, Global Crossing
 • Mike Twomey, VP, Marketing, Excel Switching Corporation
IP Centrex, New and Improved
 • Ahal Besorai, CEO & President, Inclarity
 • Paul Brown, Marketing & Product Management, Voxpath
 • David Illing, Senior Vice President, Sylantro Systems
 • Nancy Lambros, Principal MTS, SBC Laboratories Inc.
 • Matt Noah, CEO, NetSuds.com
 • Scott Wharton, Vice President, Marketing, BroadSoft
3:00pm
3:15pm
Break
3:15pm
4:30pm
Breakout Sessions
The Future of Facilities-Based Service Providers
 • Bob Bownes, Managing Director, Seiri
 • Hank Carabelli, CEO, Pac-West Telecomm
 • Ron Dobes, VP & General Manager - Network Products & Services, Savvis Communications
 • Rich Grange, President & CEO, New Global Telecom
 • Ann Mahoney, VP, Data and IP Products, Time Warner Telecom
VoIP Security
 • Akif Arsoy, Product Manager, VoIP, VeriSign
 • Brian Allain, President, Ranch Networks
 • John Egli, Wireline Marketing, Nortel Networks
 • Brian Forbes, VP of Business Development, Netrake
 • Samuel Guenette, CTO, M5T
 • Dale Rogers, Principal, DTR Associates
Triple Play Solutions: Video-Voice-Data Scoreboard
 • Yoram Arbel, President, Comox Inc.
 • Alain Fernando-Santana, CEO, NetCentrex
 • Peter Linder, Technical Director Wireline Networks, Ericsson
 • Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom
 • Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications
 • Stef Van Aarle, VP, Marketing Strategy, Lucent Technologies
NG E9-1-1: News from NENA
 • Monica Marics, VP, Wireline & Notification, Intrado
 • Nate Wilcox, Systems Administrator, Vermont Enhanced 9-1-1
Immediate ROI VoIP Solutions
 • Diana Caporale, pulver Innovations
 • Ralf Ebbinghaus, Managing Director, Swyx
 • Lesley Hansen, Group Marketing Director, TeleWare
 • David Wong, President, D2 Technologies
 • Steve Zola, President & CEO, CrystalVoice Communications
NAT Traversal Solutions
 • Mike Borsetti, President & CEO, Borsetti & Co.
 • Dan Freedman, CEO, Jasomi Networks
 • Jan Fandrianto, CEO, Sipura Technology
 • Steve Johnson, President, Ingate Systems
 • Karl Erik Stahl, President, Intertex Data AB

Exhibit Hours:
  • Monday, March 7, 2005, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:00am - 5:00pm
  • Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 10:00am - 5:00pm
  • Thursday, March 10, 2005, 10:00am - 2:00pm