VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 Program

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Monday, November 10
9:00 am–12:00 pm
Tutorials
 Preparing Your Next IP Telephony System RFP
Instructor - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group
 SIP Fundamentals and Prospects
Instructor - David Bryan, Founder and CEO, SIPeerior Technologies
 Building Business Cases for IP Telephony and Unified Communications
Instructor - Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President & Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Instructor - Irwin Lazar, Principal Research Analyst and Program Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Nemertes Research
 Choices in Unified Communications Solutions: Comparing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to IBM Lotus Sametime 8
Instructor - Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research
 Cutting the Corporate Energy Bill: Part 1 - Reducing the IT Power Bill; Desktop to Data Center
Instructor - Gary Audin, President, Delphi, Inc.
1:30 pm–4:30 pm
Tutorials
 VoIP and IPT: Basics to Best Practices
Instructor - Gary Audin, President, Delphi, Inc.
 SIP Security
Instructor - Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
 Unified Communications: Who's Offering What?
Instructor - Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
 Organizing for IP Telephony, UC and Converged Networks
Instructor - Mark Berg, Senior Consultant, PlanNet Consulting
Instructor - David Stein, Principal, PlanNet Consulting
 Cutting the Corporate Energy Bill: Part 2 - Video, Teleworking and Collaboration
Instructor - John Bartlett, Principal, NetForecast
Tuesday, November 11
8:00 am–8:45 am
Early Bird Session
 Infrastructure and Security Planning for WLANs
Speaker - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates, Inc
 QOS and QOE: Voice Quality Across Distributed Networks
Speaker - John Bartlett, Principal, NetForecast
Panelist - Mike Hollier, CTO, Psytechnics
Panelist - Jim McQuaid, Director of Product Management, NetQoS, Inc.
 UC Market Update & Forecast
Speaker - Blair Pleasant, Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC
 Contact Center Market Update
Speaker - Sheila McGee-Smith, President, McGee-Smith Analytics
 UC - Which User Interface Will You Choose?
Speaker - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group
Panelist - Lawrence Byrd, Director - UC Architecture, Avaya
9:00 am–10:00 am
Keynotes
Keynote Presentation: Avaya
Speaker - Karyn Mashima, Senior VP, Strategy & Technology, Avaya
Moderator - Fred Knight, GM/Co-chair, VoiceCon, Publisher, No Jitter
10:30 am–11:30 am
Keynotes
Keynote Presentation: Microsoft
Speaker - Kim Akers, General Manager, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft
Moderator - Fred Knight, GM/Co-chair, VoiceCon, Publisher, No Jitter
1:00 pm–2:15 pm
Concurrent Session
 Fixed Mobile Convergence: The Hows and Whys
Speaker - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates, Inc
Panelist - Vivek Khuller, President and CEO, DiVitas Networks
Panelist - Pejman Roshan, VP of Marketing and Co-Founder , Agito Networks
 Enterprise Communications: The New Market Order
Speaker - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group
 Building the New IT Organization: Taking on Converged Networks
Speaker - Mark McMath, VP/CIO, Bloomington Hospital
Speaker - Steven Schafer, Director Global IS, Global Crossing
Speaker - Jamie Libow, Engineering Director, Travelers
Moderator - Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
 UC: How Far Have we Come? What's Next?
Panelist - Peter Greco, Director, Solution Management, Siemens Enterprise Communications
Panelist - Dilshad Simons, VP, UC, Avaya
Panelist - Ross Daniels, Director of Solutions Marketing for Unified Communications, Cisco
Panelist - Eric Swift, Senior Director, Microsoft
Moderator - Jim Burton, CXO, CT Link/UCStrategies.com
 Open Source: What's its Role in Enterprise Voice?
Speaker - Irwin Lazar, Principal Research Analyst and Program Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Nemertes Research
Panelist - Martin Steinmann, Leader, Next Generation SMB , Nortel
Panelist - Kerry Garrison, trixbox Community Director, Fonality
Panelist - Bill Miller, VP, Product Management, Digium
2:45 pm–3:45 pm
Concurrent Session
 Integrating Mobility with UC
Speaker - Ross Sedgewick, Director, Large Enterprise Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.
Speaker - Eran Shtiegman, Principal Group Manager, Office Communications Group, Microsoft
Speaker - Sean McManus, Manager, Voice Solutions, Software Product Management Group, Research In Motion
Moderator - Jim Burton, CXO, CT Link/UCStrategies.com
 Finding the Payoff from Communications-Enabling Applications
Speaker - Marty Parker, Principal, UniComm Consulting
 Hard Phones, Softphones and Next-Gen Systems
Speaker - Stephen Leaden, President, Leaden Associates
Panelist - Gary Mading, Senior Product Manager, Aastra
Panelist - Dieter Rencken, Senior Product Manager, Phones, ShoreTel
Panelist - Chalan Aras, Vice President, Marketing, Polycom
 Upgrading Your Data Nets for Voice and Video
Speaker - John Bartlett, Principal, NetForecast
Panelist - Manfred Arndt, Convergence Solutions Architect, HP ProCurve
Panelist - Paul Liesenberg, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager, Cisco
Panelist - Wassim Tawbi, Director Product Management, Network Management, Security and Application Intelligence, Nortel
Panelist - Gregory Heath, Director of Convergence Solutions, Extreme Networks
 Pricing and Budgeting for UC: Bang for the Buck and Investment Protection
Speaker - Doug Carolus, Director, N'compass
Speaker - Jason Wright, Director of Technology & Development, N'compass
4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Concurrent Session
 Managing Your Cellular Spend
Moderator - Stephen Leaden, President, Leaden Associates
 Unified Communications: Results from the Test Lab
Speaker - Rob Smithers, CEO, Miercom
 SIP Trunks: Where, WHEN and How Much?
Speaker - Alla Reznik, Director of VOIP Services, Verizon Business
 Enterprise Video: Finding the Right Investment Mix
Speaker - Joan Vandermate, Vice President of Marketing, Video Solutions, Polycom
Speaker - Warren Barkley, Director, Office Communications Group, Microsoft