VoiceCon Orlando 2008 Conference

March 17–20, 2008
Orlando, Florida

The deadline for receiving proposals was July 31, 2007. You may still submit proposals through the form linked below; however, submissions received before the deadline receive priority over those received after.

The VoiceCon conference is the industry’s premier event for technologies, products and services for enterprise voice, IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications. Now in its 18th year, VoiceCon attracts an audience consisting primarily of telecom, network and IS/IT managers from large, end-user organizations, as well as the equipment manufacturers, service providers, VARs, system integrators and consultants that serve the enterprise communications and networking marketplace.

This is your opportunity to submit a brief written proposal for a conference presentation at the VoiceCon Orlando 2008 conference. Please note: No marketing/sales presentations will be accepted.

VoiceCon is seeking presentations on topics including, but not limited to, those listed below.

• IP Telephony Products and Services
• Unified Communications
• VOIP Endpoints
• VOIP Security
• SIP
• VOIP Application Development (e.g., VXML, Open Source)
• VOIP and Web technologies (e.g., Web Services)
• IM, Presence and Collaboration
• VoWLAN: Business and Technology Issues
• Peer-to-Peer VOIP
• IP Contact Centers
• Organizational Impacts of Migrating to IP Telephony/convergence
• Open Source Convergence Software
• Preparing the Data Network for Voice and Real-Time Traffic
• Deployment and Management of Quality of Service (QoS) tools and systems
• Connecting Remote Sites and Teleworkers
• Network-Based Voice Services
• Multi-Vendor Interoperability
• Speech Recognition/Synthesis Technology
• Video Strategies
• Network Management/Monitoring
• Enterprise Implications from Fixed-Mobile Convergence (IMS, 802.11/cellular)

Please send a short abstract, as well as a speaker biography.

Proposals will be evaluated in terms of:

1. Importance/relevance to users and suppliers of enterprise voice, IP-telephony, Unified Communications and converged network systems, products and services.
2. Originality.
3. Knowledge and experience of the speaker.

The following kinds of proposals are preferred:

• A high-profile executive who can present a compelling vision of converged voice/data enterprise networks.
• A knowledgeable expert describing an important new technology, product or premises network architecture (no marketing/sales presentations accepted).
• Best of all, a telecom/network/IS executive from an end-user organization describing the evolution of their enterprise network—what they’re doing, how it’s working and plans for the future—as well as what they would like to see from their suppliers.

Please use our online form

The deadline for receiving proposals was July 31, 2007. Note: You may still submit proposals; however, submissions received before the deadline receive priority over those received after.

If you have any questions, please contact Jon Osing, manager of conference operations, at 630-986-1432 x503, or via email at . (Note: the email address is for questions only; to be considered, proposals must be submitted using the online form.)

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CMP Technology
999 Oakmont Plaza Drive
Suite 100
Westmont, IL 60559
TEL +1-630/986-1432