Last Updated: October 31, 2007  


Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10:00am
10:30am
What is UC? UC Strategies
 • (M) Jim Burton, CEO, UC Strategies.com
 • Blair Pleasant, President & Principal Analyst , COMMfusion
 • Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
 • Don Van Doren, Prinicpal, UniComm Consulting
10:30am
11:00am
UC Market Overview
 • (M) Blair Pleasant, President & Principal Analyst , COMMfusion
11:00am
11:30am
Industry Perspective - Siemens
 • Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.
11:30am
12:00
Industry Perspective : Voice-Enabling Enterprise Business Applications
 • David Jodoin, CEO, Iperia
12:00
1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
2:45pm
Applications Drive Unified Communications
 • Marco Casalaina, Product Manager, salesforce.com Call Center, salesforce.com
 • Anandan Jayaraman, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Communications Industries, SAP
 • Neil Lieberman, Vice President of Product, Interwise
 • (M) Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
The Future of Endpoints in a UC World
 • (M) Jim Burton, CEO, UC Strategies.com
 • Patrick Ferriter, Senior Director of Product Mgmt., Polycom
 • David Hattey, President & CEO, FirstHand Technologies
 • David Wong, Chairman and CEO, D2 Technologies, Inc.
2:45pm
3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm
4:30pm
Mobile Information Portals: Delivering Information to the Mobile User
 • Sean Mcmanus, Manager Wi-Fi and Enterprise Voice Solutions, Research In Motion
 • (M) Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
 • Shawne Robinson, Product Manager, IBM
 • Dan Tortorici, Director of Product Marketing, BEA Systems
Presence and Interoperability
 • David Brown, CTO, Trinity Convergence
 • Robert Boxall, Director of Wireless Software Development, PCTEL
 • Dan Casey, Director, Windows Live VoIP and Messenger Product Management, Microsoft
 • (M) Jeff Dworkin, MTS, Dialogic Corporation
 • Adrian Georgescu, --, AG Projects
 • Eric Young, Director, Technical Services, FaceTime Communications
4:45pm
6:00pm
Unified Communication Enabled Call Centers
 • Mike Ely, Director of System Architecture, Aspect Software, Inc.
 • Steve Kowarsky, EVP, CosmoCom
 • Prem Uppaluru, President and CEO, Transera
 • (M) Don Van Doren, Prinicpal, UniComm Consulting
 • Ernie Wallerstein, President, Zeacom
Real World Enterprise Deployments
 • (M) Micaela Giuhat, Consultant, Nortel
 • Edwin Mier, CEO, MierConsulting, LLC
 • Greg Royal, CTO & EVP, Cistera Networks
 • Karen Webb Bailey, VP - Director of Voice and Communication Services, Wachovia Corporation
8:00pm
0:00am
Jeff's All Conference Party
with special musical guests The Herding Cats


Wednesday, October 31, 2007
11:00am
12:00
Unified Communication and The Media Server
 • Jamie Warter, Vice President, Platform Solutions, NMS Communications
 • Bud Walder, Enterprise Marketing Manager, Dialogic Corporation
 • (M) David Yedwab, Founding Partner, Market Strategy and Analytics Partners LLC.
Visual Conferencing Capabilities
 • (M) Jim Burton, CEO, UC Strategies.com
 • Warren Baxley, Senior Director of Product Management & Development, Intercall Conferencing
 • Matt Collier, Senior VP, Corporate Development, Lifesize Communications
 • Joan Vandermate, Vice President of Product Marketing, Network Systems Division, Polycom
12:00
1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
2:45pm
Hosted Services: Unified Communications for the SMB - Inside Your Enterprise
 • Helene Joncas, Director, Carrier Unified Communications, Nortel
 • Thomas Marsh, President, Dataflow Management LLC
 • (M) Marc Norman, Principal Consultant, Advanced Telecommunications Marketing
 • Dirk Verlinde, CTO, Artilium
IBM as a Communications Solution
 • Dave Marshak, Program Director Unified Communications & Collaboration, IBM
 • Akiba Saeedi, Director Product Management, Unified Communications and Collaboration Software, IBM
 • (M) Don Van Doren, Prinicpal, UniComm Consulting
2:45pm
3:00pm
Afternoon Break
3:00pm
4:15pm
OCS as a Communications Solution
 • (M) Jim Burton, CEO, UC Strategies.com
 • Russell Bennett, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corporation
Transforming Enterprise Communication
 • Warren Baxley, Senior Director of Product Management & Development, Intercall Conferencing
 • Simon Gwatkin, VP, Strategic Marketing, Mitel
 • (M) Matthias Machowinski, Directing Analyst, Enterprise Voice & Data, Infonetics Research
 • Ross Sedgewick, Director, Product Marketing, Siemens Communications
4:15pm
4:30pm
Afternoon Break
4:30pm
5:00pm
Wrap-Up
 • Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia