Arnold is a Senior Information Technology Architect for Southern Company. In this capacity he identifies new technology and assesses its business value. Currently Arnold is focused on Voice over IP technology with an emphasis on telephony applications and enhancements. He is a graduate of SUNY College at Oswego and a TIA certified Convergence Technologies Professional. He also holds contractor?s licenses in Electrical Power, Telecommunications and Outside Plant. Arnold has developed many ingenious migration and support strategies for enterprise PBX and voicemail networks. He used his background in educational design to author and instruct in-house classes on PBX service and data communications. Arnold?s innovative telecommunications ideas have been published in Teleconnect Magazine.

Kevin P. Fleming has been programming computers for over two decades in every major programming language, and many minor ones. He has worked in fields such as traditional client/server database applications, opensource messaging and networking, mainframe operating system and warehouse automation. Kevin's primary skills are problem analysis and solution design, and producing optimal solutions that use resources efficiently and effectively. Kevin has been an active member of the worldwide open source community for over five years, and has made contributions to many projects, including the Linux kernel, the Exim SMTP MTA and the OpenVPN network tunneling package. He fervently believes that open source software is the 'right' way to do things and strives to use open source solutions whenever possible. In June of 2005, Kevin became a full time employee of Digium, and began managing the 'bug tracker' and the community interaction related to it. Over the remainder of the year, the amount of work involved increased substantially as the Asterisk community continued to grow and more users became contributors to the open source project. At Astricon 2005, Mark Spencer officially announced that Kevin is the 'co-maintainer' of the Asterisk development tree (along with Mark himself) and since that time they have produced the Asterisk 1.2 release and are working to increase Asterisk's power, flexibility and performance.

Jeff Ridley has over 17 years of marketing and engineering experience in IP Telephony, Contact Center, and Embedded Systems. Previously he served as an associate for ViaSphere Ventures, a strategic advisory group focused on corporate consulting as well as start-up ?incubation.? Jeff was also was strategic marketing manager for Eclipse International, and a senior engineer at Intel, responsible for traffic and capacity engineering, telephony features, and air link design support. He also managed strategic initiatives for NorTel Networks. He holds a BSEE, Cum Laude, from Vanderbilt University.

Zerbib brings more than ten years of product management experience in networking and telecommunications to his role as Director of Product Management, Network Solutions at InfoVista. In this capacity he is responsible for developing and bringing to market network-centric solutions for service providers and global enterprises in the areas of managed IP services, IP VPN backbone and IP telephony. Zerbib joined InfoVista in January 2003 from Ciena where he was the senior product line manager responsible for the optical switching product line as well as modeling and capacity software solutions. Prior to that, at Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, he was the product manager for application performance and billing/accounting solutions for enterprise customers. Zerbib began his career in Paris, France with Nortel and then joined Banque National de Paris (BNP) where he was the project manager for the first European VPN solution. He graduated in 1995 with a Masters from the University of Paris, Jussieu and a second Masters from The National Institute of Telecommunications in Paris.

Ken Agress provides consulting services as a part of PlanNet Consulting after over fifteen years working in a wide variety of networking roles. Over the course of his career, he has worked as a consultant, network manager, product manager, and technical specialist,. This breadth of experience provides excellent coverage of many operation and technical issues, generally focusing on designing network environments to support critical applications such as IP Telephony, ERP, and CRM. Mr. Agress?s experience spans a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 100 corporations and large government institutions. His client list includes Qualcomm, California State University Office of the Chancellor, Clark County Nevada, AmerisourceBergen, and Washington Mutual Bank. These engagements have addressed numerous issues, including: ? Developing strategic plans to support Voice over IP, IP Telephony, and similar critical applications. ? Providing a full range of procurement support for network electronics and services capable of supporting IP Telephony, ERP, CRM, and other high-priority applications. ? Assessing network capabilities and defining activities required to address critical application requirements. ? Predicting application performance prior to deployment through network modeling. ? Analyzing the behavior of specific applications and transactions to assist in problem identification and resolution. ? Providing business decision support for technology issues using both quantitative and qualitative data. ? Assisting clients in identifying and remedying operational issues and concerns Mr. Agress holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, bringing a common-sense, results-oriented approach to solution identification and deployment. This approach has provided his clients with cost-effective, useful solutions designed to provide appropriate performance for current and new applications over an extended period of time.

John Bartlett is Vice President at NetForecast, where he focuses on application performance, supporting real-time traffic, and Quality of Service (QoS) implementations. NetForecast provides consulting to enterprises and networking equipment vendors on application performance issues and convergence of voice and video conferencing on the IP network. John has 27 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and telecommunications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products, and has been consulting since 1996.

Christopher Lappi, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, ResMAE Mortgage Corporation. Mr. Lappi has been in residential lending for over 18 years, joining ResMAE as its first employee in 2002. He is responsible for enterprise technology strategies supporting over 1,000 users at 9 locations throughout the United States. He is also accountable for imaging, loan vault and facilities. His professional career includes 10 years with Long Beach Mortgage Company, where he was a member of the management team that led the wholesale lending division through a successful IPO in 1996, and subsequent sale to Washington Mutual in 1999. While at LBMC, Mr. Lappi held various operational and technical management positions in such areas as underwriting, risk management, operations and information technology. He has also been an independent consultant to various financial services firms providing management, technical and process re-engineering expertise.

Arnold is a Senior Information Technology Architect for Southern Company. In this capacity he identifies new technology and assesses its business value. Currently Arnold is focused on Voice over IP technology with an emphasis on telephony applications and enhancements. He is a graduate of SUNY College at Oswego and a TIA certified Convergence Technologies Professional. He also holds contractor?s licenses in Electrical Power, Telecommunications and Outside Plant. Arnold has developed many ingenious migration and support strategies for enterprise PBX and voicemail networks. He used his background in educational design to author and instruct in-house classes on PBX service and data communications. Arnold?s innovative telecommunications ideas have been published in Teleconnect Magazine.

Mike DeDecker has been working at Warner Pacific Insurance Services since 2000 where he works as a Network Administrator. In his role as Network Administrator at Warner Pacific Mike has designed, implemented and maintains Cisco Call Managers, Cisco Unified Messaging, Cisco Meeting Place, Video Integrations and Mobility Managers. In addition he designed, implemented and maintains dynamic multi-point VPN?s for Office home users and branch offices. Mike also designed and maintains the Cisco 6500 Catalyst switches 3745, 3725, 3845 and 2821 routers for use at Warner Pacific. He is responsible for configuring adding and modifying users, rights permissions, E-mail accounts and setting system policy. Certifications include: ? Cisco Certified Network Professional ? Cisco Certified Voice Professional ? Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer+ Internet for Windows 2000, Windows 2000 NT 4.0 Prior to his career in computer engineering Mike had a ten year career in law enforcement with the Santa Paula Police Department in Santa Paula California.

Biography of John Hendrickson John is currently the Director of Information Services for Laurel Grocery, Inc., a leading supplier of merchandise and business services to over 400 grocery stores in the south. John joined Laurel over 9 years ago and has created the IT and communications functions within the company. He has developed programs which increase the efficiency, communications and customer service of the company. The implimentation of the Linktivity System by John has provided the company with a substantial trouble shooting, training and support tool. It has reduced the cost of operations and cut travel time for staff.

Todd Landry Bio Todd Landry is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Sphere Communications where he oversees the company?s product strategies and go-to-market activities, including alliances and channel development. An accomplished speaker Landry can be seen in numerous forums, panels and keynotes that include topics such as market changes and impacts, business applications for technology, case studies, industry direction and others. He has joined many industry experts from top analysts, technology vendors and end users of existing and new technologies and has focused on the real value in leveraging technology for business. Previously a vice president at CommWorks Corporate, a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation, Landry oversaw multiple business lines of network access systems and software. He directed a team of Product Management, Marketing, Applications Engineering, Customer Proposals and Technical Publications organizations to provide the delivery tools for product life cycle management, market delivery, sales and customer & industry interaction. Landry has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years including over 7 years in senior positions with U.S. Robotics Network Systems, where he was responsible for the award winning Total Control product line of carrier Internet access, voice over IP, and 3G wireless data product lines. Landry?s background in engineering, marketing, and business, combined with knowledge of software & system architectures and a strong customer emphasis create a unique foundation of knowledge. Landry has served on numerous industry standards bodies and was selected to serve on the board of directors for the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. He?s earned numerous awards, including multiple new product achievement awards, product of the year awards, advertising achievement awards, and holds two patents in the area of communications and wireless systems.

Fergal Glynn is BlueNote Networks architect and plays a principal role in the architecture, design, and product strategy of the SessionSuite products. Glynn is responsible for the company's technical roadmap and plays an active part in day-to-day design and development of future products. He is also involved in sales and marketing support for all aspects of the product line's specification and positioning. Prior to BlueNote Networks, Glynn was a network architect at Fidelity Investments. In this role, he was responsible for the creation of Fidelity's long-term technical vision and the development of innovative solutions for improving Fidelity's global network. His primary areas of focus were Instant Messaging and Collaboration; SIP Telephony; Pervasive Network Security; Internet/Extranet Perimeter Security; Firewall Design and evaluation; and Unified Messaging. While at Fidelity, Glynn worked on cutting edge VoIP technologies that became the origins of BlueNote Networks. Glynn started his career with Oracle in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Glynn graduated with honors from the University of Limerick, Ireland with a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering.

Lawrence Byrd Director, IP Telephony and Mobility Avaya Lawrence Byrd is Director of IP Telephony and Mobility and helps drive the definition and communication of Avaya?s intelligent communications strategy. Lawrence has over fifteen years of telephony, CRM and contact center experience and over twenty-five years of advanced software and Internet experience. Lawrence was co-founder of Quintus Corporation in 1984, a provider of multimedia contact center software, which was acquired by Avaya in 2001. Lawrence has a BA in Philosophy from Durham, England, was a research associate in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and now lives with his family in California.