The VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 call for presentations is now open.
November 10–13, 2008
San Francisco, CA
The deadline for receiving proposals is
April 14, 2008.
VoiceCon is the industry’s premier event for technologies, products and
services for enterprise communications—IP Telephony, Unified Communications
and Converged Networks. Now in its 18th
year and the fourth year since we expanded to the West Coast, VoiceCon attracts
an audience consisting primarily of IT/IS, telecom and network decision-makers
from large enterprises, as well as the equipment manufacturers, service
providers, VARs, system integrators and consultants that serve the enterprise
marketplace.
This is your opportunity to
submit a brief written proposal for a conference presentation at the VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 conference. Please note: No
marketing/sales presentations will be accepted.
The VoiceCon Program addresses these seven key overarching topics:
Planning and Implementing IP Telephony
Managing Staff, Technology & Costs
Unified Communications
Communications Applications and Application Development
Next-Gen Contact Centers
Mobility/Wireless Communications
Next-Gen Communications Technologies
Within those seven categories, VoiceCon is seeking presentations
on topics including, but not limited to, those listed below.
IP-PBX System Architectures
IP Telephony/Converged Network ROI Case Studies/Analysis
Software-Based Architectures for Enterprise Communications
Unified Communications
VOIP/Communications Security for the Enterprise
SIP Technologies, Services and Management Systems
Network-Based Services for Enterprise Communications—Managed/Hosted
Organizational Impacts of Migrating to IP-Telephony/convergence
Peer-to-Peer VOIP
VOIP Application Development (e.g., VXML, Open Source, etc.)
VOIP and Service-Oriented Architectures
IM, Presence and Collaboration
Multi-Vendor Interoperability
Wireless/Mobility Technologies/Services
Speech Recognition/Synthesis Technology
Text-to-Speech/Speech-to-Text Technologies
Readying Enterprise Data Networks for Voice and Video
Effective QOS deployment and management
Connecting Remote Sites and Teleworkers
Next-Gen Contact Centers
Enterprise Uses of Video
Network Management/Monitoring
Enterprise Implications from Fixed-Mobile Convergence (IMS,
802.11/cellular).
Go Green: The effects of VOIP/IPT on physical plant/powering
requirements
Case Studies: Deploying IP Telephony, UC and Converged Networks in
specific vertical markets—e.g., Finance, Health, Government, Manufacturing,
Higher Education, etc.
Please send a short abstract, as well as a speaker biography.
Proposals will be evaluated in terms of their:
Importance/relevance to users and suppliers of enterprise voice,
IP-telephony and converged network systems, products and services.
Originality.
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, an IS, telecom or network 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.
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.) Notice of final acceptance or rejection of all submissions will be made when VoiceCon San Francisco program development is complete, in September 2008.
Presented by:
CMP Technology
999 Oakmont Plaza Drive
Suite 100
Westmont, IL 60559
TEL +1-630/986-1432
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