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VONCamp Agenda Bash All Welcome
Date & Time:Wednesday, January 30, 2008
10:00 AM New York ET
7:00 AM Los Angeles PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
The "Unconference" at Spring VON is about to get busy, by way of the virtual experience on www.voncamp.net. Last year at Fall VON we held our first "Unconference" and this time promises to be bigger and better. Combined with the Innovators Forum there is no better place for Web 2.0 and Telco 2.0 types to meet and look for the business models that make both sides of the equation happy.
To put a framework around the "Unconference" is hard after all, the rules start off with rule #1 being; there are no rules. However, there are participants and they have the floor, the agenda, the lessons, and the network to bring opportunties out where they can grow.
Want to be part of the excitement? Come join the discussion as Tom Howe, Alec Saunders and Brough Turner share their expectations and what they want to address at the unconference.
Discussants on this call include:
Tom Howe; CEO, Thomas Howe Company
Thomas McCarthy-Howe has nineteen years of experience in telecommunications product development. He is currently an independent consultant to service providers, enterprises and equipment vendors in the design and development of next generation communications equipment and services. Thomas has held senior management and engineering positions at industry leaders such as Comverse, Versatel Networks, PictureTel and Aware. As a member of the PictureTel engineering team, Mr. Howe designed audio and video software of the first PC-based video conferencing system, as well as software for the original version of NetMeeting, and as Aware Inc.'s software architect for the first commercially available ADSL chipset. In 2007, Thomas won the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Mashup Contest. In addition to his writing and teaching, he currently serves on several technical advisory boards and boards of directors.
Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum
Alec Saunders is a visionary technology evangelist with 15 years of leadership in technology marketing and product management. During nine years at Microsoft Corporation Alec launched Internet Explorer, and the Microsoft Plus! Windows companion. As Microsoft’s Director of Marketing for Home Networks, Alec also launched Universal Plug and Play and recruited more than 300 vendors to the UPnP industry working group. Before Iotum, Alec was Marketing VP for Versatel Networks, the developer of intelligent, easy-to-operate media gateways, and voice applications. Alec was also Marketing VP at QNX Software Systems where he spearheaded the creation and launch of the critically acclaimed QNX Momentics development suite. Alec is a graduate of the University of Waterloo Mathematics Faculty.
Brough Turner, SVP & CTO, NMS Communications
Brough Turner is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of NMS Communications, where he oversees the evolution of NMS's technology and product architectures. Mr. Turner has a broad business background, and contributes to business strategy and market development at NMS, but his principal focus remains on engineering and technology. His current interests include wireless video, multimodal applications, and 3G wireless infrastructure. Mr. Turner writes and speaks widely on telecommunications topics. He holds a BSEE from MIT.
Moderated by:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, Pulvermedia Inc.
Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for Pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
Bill Kelly, VP of Business Development, Pulvermedia Inc.
Bill Kelly is an accomplished telecommunications marketing professional with nearly two decades of experience in the industry. Bill recently joined the Pulvermedia team as Vice President of Business Development where he helps to shape conference strategy and content, recruit and recommend conference speakers, and work closely with members of the Pulvermedia Community. Prior to joining Pulvermedia, Bill held senior marketing and business development positions at Cantata Technology, Excel Switching, Lucent Technologies, Rockwell International, GTE, Fibronics Inc. and Alfa, Inc.
Posted at January 28, 2008 10:30 AM
