VoiceCon Orlando 2010 Conference Program

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Monday, March 22
9:00 AM–9:45 AM
Coffee Talk
Moderator - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc

9:00 AM–10:45 AM
Deep Dive
Speaker - Lisa Pierce, President, Strategic Networks Group
Reactor Panelist - Alan Percy, Director Market Development, AudioCodes
Reactor Panelist - Seamus Hourihan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Acme Packet
Reactor Panelist - Kevin Isacks, Product Marketing for Voice and Mobility, NET
Reactor Panelist - Rupesh Chokshi, General Manager, Product Management, AT&T
Reactor Panelist - Dan Jacobson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Converged Voice Services, Sprint Nextel
Reactor Panelist - Greg Zweig, Director of Access Product Management, Sonus Networks
Reactor Panelist - Thomas Dalrymple, Director, Global Voice Services Product Management, Verizon

Speaker/Moderator - Sheila McGee-Smith, President/Principal Analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics
Panelist - Chris Botting, Director Product Management, Cisco
Panelist - Tim Passios, Director, Solutions Marketing, Interactive Intelligence
Panelist - Kyle Christensen, Director, Product Marketing, Salesforce.com
Panelist - Nicolas De Kouchkovsky, CMO, Enterprise Applications, Alcatel-Lucent
Panelist - Andy Bezaitis, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Aspect
Panelist - Jorge Blanco, Vice President, Product Marketing, Contact Center Solutions, Avaya

Speaker/Moderator - Marty Parker, Principal Consultant, UniComm Consulting

10:00 AM–10:45 AM
Breakout Session
Speaker/Moderator - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Reactor Panelist - John Cash, Enteprise Voice Advocate, RIM

11:00 AM–12:00 PM
General Session
Panelist - Warren Barkley, Director of Partner Engineering, Microsoft
Panelist - Manfred Arndt, HP Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard
Panelist - Mike Seto, VP, Business Development and Applications, Polycom
Panelist - Shantanu Sarkar, Director, Engineering, VTG CTO, Cisco
Panelist - Jack Jachner, Vice President, Cloud Communication Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
Panelist - Phil Edholm, Vice President, Innovation and Technology Strategy, Avaya
Panelist - Pat Galvin, CTO Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, VoiceCon
Moderator - Zeus Kerravala, SVP, Enterprise Research, The Yankee Group

1:00 PM–1:45 PM
General Session
Panelist - Brian Dal Bello, Senior Director of Systems & Solutions, Voice Technology Group, Cisco
Panelist - Moz Hussain, Director of Product Management, Microsoft
Panelist - Peter Greco, Director, Strategic Solutions, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
Panelist - Tim Passios, Director, Solutions Marketing, Interactive Intelligence
Panelist - David Downing, Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Avaya
Panelist - Bruce Morse, VP Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Moderator - Fred Knight, GM/Co-Chair, VoiceCon, Publisher, NoJitter.com
Moderator - Jim Burton, CXO, CT Link/UCStrategies

2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Breakout Session
Speaker - Jeronimo Romero, Managing Partner, EUS Networks
Speaker - Steve Sokol, Director of Product Marketing, Custom Telephony Solutions, Digium
Moderator - John Malone, President and CEO, The Eastern Management Group

Speaker - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group

Spotlight on Video
Moderator - Scott Wharton, Vidtel Inc., CEO

2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Workshop
Instructor - Gary Audin, President, Delphi Inc.

Instructor - Marty Parker, Principal Consultant, UniComm Consulting

Instructor - Sorell Slaymaker, Communications Architect, Unified IT Systems
Instructor - Jim Allen, Global Unified Communications Architect, Medtronic

3:15 PM–4:00 PM
Breakout Session
Speaker - Blair Pleasant, President & Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC

Speaker/Moderator - Mark Collier, CTO & Vice President of Engineering, Securelogix
Speaker - Irwin Lazar, Vice President Communications Research, Nemertes Research
Speaker - Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo
Speaker - Mark Cortner, Senior Analyst, Burton Group/Gartner

3:15 PM–5:00 PM
Spotlight on Video
Moderator - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC

Tuesday, March 23
8:00 AM–8:45 AM
Breakout Session
Speaker/Moderator - Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Reactor Panelist - Bernard Gutnick, Sr. Dir. Product Marketing, ShoreTel
Reactor Panelist - Gary Gordon, Portfolio Manager for Core Solutions, NEC
Reactor Panelist - Chris Thompson, Senior Product Manager, ADTRAN Inc.
Reactor Panelist - Stephen Brown, VP US Systems Engineering, Mitel

Speaker - Nicholas Maier, Senior Vice President, RedSky Technologies
Speaker - Lev Deich, Director, 911 Enable
Moderator - Gary Audin, President, Delphi Inc.

Coffee Talk
Moderator - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc

Moderator - Sheila McGee-Smith, President/Principal Analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics

Spotlight on Video
Moderator - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC

9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Keynote
Keynote Presentation: Avaya
Speaker - Kevin Kennedy, President & CEO, Avaya

10:00 AM–10:45 AM
Keynote
Keynote Presentation: Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
Speaker - Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Voice & Applications Solutions, Siemens Enterprise Communications

11:15 AM–12:00 PM
Keynote
Keynote Presentation: Cisco
Speaker - Tony Bates, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business Group, Cisco

1:00 PM–1:45 PM
General Session
Panelist - Bassam Khan, Director, Product Manager, PostPath Engineering Adm
Panelist - Roberta Mackintosh, Director of Global Unified Communications and Collaboration Marketing, Verizon
Panelist - Mike Rulf, Executive Director Product Development, AT&T
Panelist - Chris Moore, Senior Product Manager, Skype
Panelist - Steven Hardy, Director of Product Marketing, Avaya
Panelist - David Marshak, Senior Product Manager, Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC2), IBM
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, VoiceCon
Moderator - Dave Michels, Blogger, Pindropsoup.com

2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Spotlight on Video
Speaker/Moderator - Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research

2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Workshop
Moderator - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc

Instructor - Irwin Lazar, Vice President Communications Research, Nemertes Research
Instructor - Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research

Instructor - Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo

3:00 PM–3:45 PM
Breakout Session
Speaker - Christopher May, VP, North America, VOSS Solutions
Speaker - Phil Moen, President and CEO, Unimax Systems Corporation
Moderator - David Yedwab, Partner, Strategy and Analytics Partners

3:15 PM–4:00 PM
Spotlight on Video
Moderator - Scott Wharton, Vidtel Inc., CEO

4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Spotlight on Video
Moderator - Scott Wharton, Vidtel Inc., CEO

Coffee Talk
Moderator - Gary Audin, President, Delphi Inc.

Wednesday, March 24
8:00 AM–8:45 AM
Breakout Session
Speaker/Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc.
Reactor Panelist - Steven Guthrie, Senior Principal, Product Marketing, CA
Reactor Panelist - Pierre Semaan, General Manager, Product Management and Marketing, Integrated Research
Reactor Panelist - Loki Jorgenson, Cheif Scientist, Apparent Networks

Speaker - Melanie Turek, Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
Reactor Panelist - John DelPizzo, Senior Offering Manager, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Reactor Panelist - Eric Schoch, Senior Director of Product Management, Cisco
Reactor Panelist - Ross Sedgewick, Senior Director, Large Enterprise Solutions, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
Reactor Panelist - Steve Schilling, CEO, Cypress Communications

Coffee Talk
Moderator - Sorell Slaymaker, Communications Architect, Unified IT Systems

Breakout Session
Speaker/Moderator - Blair Pleasant, President & Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC
Speaker/Moderator - Marty Parker, Principal Consultant, UniComm Consulting
Reactor Panelist - Albert Kooiman, Director Product Management, Microsoft Corporation
Reactor Panelist - Andrew Allison, Messaging Portfolio Product Management Lead, Avaya
Reactor Panelist - Tom Minifie, Chief Technology Officer, AVST
Reactor Panelist - Todd Tatum, Manager, Unified Communications Product Management, Cisco

9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Keynote
Keynote Presentation: IBM
Speaker - Alistair Rennie, General Manager Collaboration Software, IBM Software

10:00 AM–10:45 AM
General Session
Panelist - Darrius Jones, Executive Director Channel Management - Technical Fellow, USAA
Panelist - Geoff Calhoun, Director of Information Technology, AccuQuote
Panelist - Donna Zett, Chief Innovation Officer, Serta International
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, VoiceCon
Moderator - Zeus Kerravala, SVP, Enterprise Research, The Yankee Group

11:15 AM–12:00 PM
Keynote
Keynote Presentation: Microsoft
Speaker - Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft Corporation

1:00 PM–1:45 PM
Breakout Session
Speaker - Todd Vinciguerra, Telecom Analyst 3 SIP/VoIP Engineer, Riverside Bank
Speaker - Steve Blair, Senior Network Engineer, The University of Pennsylvania
Speaker - Larry Riba, Senior Voice Engineer, Alpine Access
Moderator - Sorell Slaymaker, Communications Architect, Unified IT Systems

Panelist - Bryan Tantzen, Senior Director, Cisco
Panelist - Holger Stotz, Director of Global Product Management, Siemens Enterprise Communication Group
Panelist - Moz Hussain, Director of Product Management, Microsoft
Panelist - Pat Narendra Ph.D., Director, Product Management, Converged Enterprise Communications, Motorola
Panelist - Stephen Beamish, Vice President Business Development and Marketing, Mitel
Panelist - Steven Hardy, Director of Product Marketing, Avaya
Panelist - John DelPizzo, Senior Offering Manager, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Moderator - Jim Burton, CXO, CT Link/UCStrategies

Speaker/Moderator - Melanie Turek, Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
Speaker - Jamie Stark, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Speaker - Becky Davis, Director of Technical Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
Speaker - Bruce Craig M.D., Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Alcatel Lucent
Speaker - Robert Ingram, Senior Product Manager, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM, IBM

Speaker/Moderator - Stephen Leaden, President, Leaden Associates
Reactor Panelist - Jay Krauser, General Manager, Sales Support and Engineering, NEC
Reactor Panelist - Patrick Ferriter, Senior Director of Product Management, Polycom
Reactor Panelist - Brad Herrington, Senior Manager - Solutions Marketing, Interactive Intelligence
Reactor Panelist - Mario DiPrizio, Senior Director Engineering and Architecture Converged Enterprise Communications, Motorola
Reactor Panelist - Mike Storella, Director of Business Development, snom

2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Workshop
Instructor - Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research

Instructor - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group

Speaker/Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc.
Panelist - Terry Slattery, Principal Consultant, Chesapeake Netcraftsmen
Panelist - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Panelist - Mike Hollier, CTO, Psytechnics
Reactor Panelist - Paul Liesenberg, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager, Cisco
Reactor Panelist - Manfred Arndt, HP Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard
Reactor Panelist - Harpreet Chadha, Senior Director, Product Management, Extreme Networks

3:00 PM–3:45 PM
Breakout Session
Speaker - Doug Carolus, Director, Consulting Operations, N'compass

Speaker/Moderator - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting
Reactor Panelist - Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo
Reactor Panelist - Albert Kooiman, Director Product Management, Microsoft Corporation
Reactor Panelist - Pat Galvin, CTO Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Reactor Panelist - Lawrence Byrd, Director Unified Communications Architecture, Avaya

4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Coffee Talk
Moderator - Irwin Lazar, Vice President Communications Research, Nemertes Research

Thursday, March 25
8:00 AM–9:45 AM
Deep Dive
Instructor - Terry Slattery, Principal Consultant, Chesapeake Netcraftsmen

Instructor - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Panelist - Stephen Leaden, President, Leaden Associates

10:00 AM–11:00 AM
General Session
Speaker - Stephen Leaden, President, Leaden Associates
Speaker - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Panelist - Dave Michels, Blogger, Pindropsoup.com
Panelist - Mark Zerbe, VP OF Converged Communications, Dimension Data
Moderator - Fred Knight, GM/Co-Chair, VoiceCon, Publisher, NoJitter.com

11:00 AM–12:00 PM
General Session
Panelist - Dave Michels, Blogger, Pindropsoup.com
Panelist - Gary Audin, President, Delphi Inc.
Panelist - Zeus Kerravala, SVP, Enterprise Research, The Yankee Group

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