Voice on the Net

Video on the Net

Wireless Mobility

Innovators Forum

Unified Communications

Monday, March 17

4:45 PM-
5:00 PM

Emergency Services and the Internet
General Session

Ron Bonneau, ENP
1st VP, Natl Emergency Number Assoc (NENA); Dir,
1st VP, NENA

5:00 PM-
6:00 PM

VON.x Town Hall Meeting: "Back to the Future"
General Session

Lowell Feldman
Chief Executive Officer
Feature Group IP
Link Hoewing
Assistant Vice President, Internet and Technology
Verizon
Larry Irving
Co-Chairman
Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA)
Rick Whitt
Washington Telecom and Media Counsel
Google
Moderator:
Jonathan Askin
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

Tuesday, March 18

8:00 AM-
9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by Polycom

9:00 AM-
9:30 AM

Keynote Address

Enabling The Best Internet Experience in Your Pocket

Anand Chandrasekher
Sr Vice President & GM, Ultra Mobility Group
Intel Corporation

9:30 AM-
10:00 AM

Keynote Address

Ben Vos
Vice President, Core Technologies
Sprint Nextel Corp

10:00 AM-
10:45 AM

The VON Expo™ Floor Open

10:45 AM-
11:10 AM

Industry Perspective

Jeff Pulver
Chairman and Founder
pulvermedia

11:10 AM-
11:35 AM

Industry Perspective

Looking Forward: A New World of Communication and Collaboration for Businesses and their Employees

Christopher Fine
Vice President, Global Technology Division
Goldman, Sachs & Company

11:35 AM-
12:00 PM

Industry Perspective

Carrier Network Evolution

Pieter Poll
Chief Technology Officer
Qwest Communications

12:00 PM-
1:00 PM

Networking Luncheon with the VCs

Deepak Kamra
General Partner
Canaan Partners
Fred Wang
General Partner
Trinity Ventures
Eric Zimits
Managing Director
Granite Ventures

1:00 PM-
2:00 PM

Visit the VON Expo Floor

2:00 PM-
2:25 PM

Industry Perspective

Telecommunications Needs of the Future: What They Are and How to Meet Them

Siroos Afshar
Asst VP, Services Core & Premises Architecture
AT&T

2:25 PM-
2:50 PM

Industry Perspective

Reed Hundt
Former Chairman
FCC

2:50 PM-
3:50 PM

Number Logistics: ENUM, LNP, IPv6 and E911

Tom Kershaw
Vice President, Next Generation Services
VeriSign, Inc.
Tom Moresco
Principal Product Mgr, Interconnection Solutions
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Richard Shockey
Director, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
NeuStar
Moderator:
Patrick Halley
Government Affairs Director
National Emergency Number Association (NENA)

Over the Top Video

Stephen Dennison
Director of CDN Solutions, Content Markets
Level 3 Communications
Maribel Lopez
Research Analyst
Lopez Research
Perry Wu
CEO
BitGravity
Moderator:
Kfir Pravda
IMTC Vice President of Marketing and CEO
Pravda Media

Content Delivery over Alternative Wireless Architectures

Chris Douglass
Wireless Next Gen Solution Executive
IBM
Dan Lieberman
Video Architect
Redback Networks
Brough Turner
SVP and CTO
NMS Communications
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

Telco 1-2-3

Micaela Giuhat
Consultant
Nortel Networks
Gary Iosbaker
HP OpenCall Chief Technologist - Americas
Hewlett-Packard
Martine Lapierre
Carriers Group / Executive Management Team & VP Co
Alcatel-Lucent
Moderator:
Ronald Gruia
Principal Analyst for Emerging Telecom
Frost & Sullivan

Mobile Unified Communications

Rachna Ahlawat
VP, International Sales & Corporate Strategy
Meru Networks
Saurav Chatterjee
Technical Leader
Cisco Systems
Marla Fibish
Converged Solutions Consultant
Sprint
Douglas Gisby
Director of Engineering
Ascendent
Moderator:
David Waite
Director
Altman Vilandrie & Company

4:00 PM-
5:15 PM

General Session: Real-Time Social Communications

Jonathan Christensen
General Manager for Video and Audio
Skype
Brad Hunstable
Founder
Ustream.tv
Loic Le Meur
CEO and Founder
Seesmic
Robert Scoble
Managing Director
Fast Company
Ramu Sunkara
CEO
Qik.com Moderator:
Jeff Pulver
Chairman and Founder
pulvermedia

5:00 PM-
7:00 PM

Welcome Reception on the VON Expo Floor

Join VON Magazine for the announcement of the VON Innovators Award winners - live in the VON Theater at 6:00pm.

8:00 PM-
12:00 AM

Jeff's All Conference Party

Wednesday, March 19

8:00 AM-
9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by AT&T Wholesale

9:00 AM-
9:30 AM

Keynote Address

Unified Communications and the Wireless Enterprise

Veli-Pekka Kivimaki
Senior Program Manager
Nokia

9:30 AM-
10:00 AM

Keynote Address

An Open Source VoIP Primer

Danny Windham
Chief Executive Officer
Digium

10:00 AM-
11:00 AM

Visit the VON Expo Floor - includes product demonstrations, expo keynotes, and additional content

11:00 AM-
12:15 PM

Peering Strategies

Jim Farmer
Senior Manager, Product Marketing
Switch and Data
Eli Katz
Founder & CEO
XConnect Global Networks
Cliff Radziewicz
Vice President - Business Development
Arbinet
Moderator:
Gary Kim
Editor-in-Chief
IP Business Magazine

Business Models for Web TV

Tad Davis
Vice President of Marketing
Tremor Media
Fred Seibert
Founder & Creative Director
Next New Networks
Jeff Sundheim
Senior Director, Motif
DoubleClick
Moderator:
Dan Chu
Principal
Altman Vilandrie & Company (AV&Co.)

Femtocells: Experiences in the Marketplace

Ted Fagenson
Exec VP, Corp Marketing & Business Development
2Wire
Mark Pugerude
Chief Marketing Officer
NextPoint Networks
Steve Shaw
Associate VP of Marketing
Kineto Wireless
Moderator:
Bob Emmerson
European Editor
VON Magazine

Social Networking: Keeping Everyone Together

Steven Goh
Co-Founder and CEO
mig33
Aswath Rao
Telecom Consultant
EnThinnai
Moderator:
Thomas Howe
CEO
Thomas Howe Company

Microsoft's New UC Strategy

Roger Bakos
VP, Sales & Marketing
Chinook Hosting Corp.
Alex Danyluk
Industry Director Global Telecom Business
Microsoft Corporation
Robert Grasby
ICA Voice PLM Leader
Nortel Networks
David Leach
Senior Public Consultant
Siemens Enterprise Communications
Moderator:
Alan Bugos
Vice President, Advanced Technology & Engineering
iBasis

12:15 PM-
1:15 PM

Networking Luncheon

Three Screen Strategies panel

Stuart Elby
Vice President, Network Architecture
Verizon
Dennis Huber
Senior VP, Corporate Strategy & Development
Embarq
Russ Sharer
Vice President of Marketing
Occam Networks
Karl Erik Stahl
President and CEO
Intertex Data

1:15 PM-
2:00 PM

Visit the VON Expo Floor

2:00 PM-
2:25 PM

Premier Sponsor Industry Perspective

Unified Communications in the Network – Plot Your Course for Delivery

Eric Sineath
Practice Dir, UC, Convergence & Contact Ctr Svcs
AT&T Consulting Solutions

2:25 PM-
2:50 PM

Premier Sponsor Industry Perspective

Last-Mile Chaos: Controlling QoE in an Uncontrollable Network

Charlie Baker
Director, Product Management
Brix Networks

2:50 PM-
3:15 PM

Premier Sponsor Industry Perspective

The Rise of HD Voice

Chalan Aras
Vice President of Marketing, Voice Communications
Polycom

3:15 PM-
4:00 PM

Visit the VON Expo Floor - includes product demonstrations, expo keynotes, and additional content

4:00 PM-
4:25 PM

IPv6

John Curran
CTO & COO of ServerVault; Chairman
American Registery of Internet Numbers (ARIN)

The New World of Video Delivery

Stuart Elby
Vice President, Network Architecture
Verizon

Wireless Mobility Trends

Brough Turner
SVP and CTO
NMS Communications

Programmable Web

Shai Berger
Co-Founder and CEO
FonCloud

Unified Communications – Getting it Right

Joda Schaumberg
Director, Unified Collaboration
Global Crossing

4:25 PM-
4:50 PM

Content-Driven Communications

Phal Nanda
Sr. Prod. Line Manager
Aruba Networks

Video Sesssion Management

David Simon
President
PBX.NET Corporation

Business Voice Services

Joe Varello
Vice President Digital Voice Products
Cablevision Systems Corp

Web-based Voice and Business Processes

Thomas Howe
CEO
Thomas Howe Company

Voice and Video Everywhere: Multimedia as our Next-Generation Language

Fred Zimmerman
Director of CPE VoIP Solutions
Communications Infrastructure & Voice Business, Texas Instruments

4:50 PM-
6:05 PM

Implementing the Next Generation of Internet Handsets

John Morgan
Nokia
Phal Nanda
Sr. Prod. Line Manager
Aruba Networks
Mike Rojas
CEO
Ayalogic

Using Advertising to Supplement Service

Lyle Paczkowski
Technology Strategist
Sprint Nextel
Jim Warner
Vice-Chairman and Chief Strategist
TM Forum
Moderator:
Grant Lenahan
Vice President and Strategist, Service Delivery So
Telcordia Technologies

Delivering on the Promise of Presence: What Do You Need?

Jean Marc Frangos
Senior Vice President, Technology and Innovation
BT
Joe Hildebrand
Chief Technology Officer
Jabber
Wade Vesey
Business Development, North America
Movial
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

Online Video and Social Media

Matt Gore
Vice President of Marketing
Paltalk
Kathryn Jones
Co-Founder
Synchronis.tv
Rex Wong
CEO
Dave Networks
Moderator:
Kfir Pravda
IMTC Vice President of Marketing and CEO
Pravda Media

Ensuring Success with Unified Communications, an IBM Perspective

Scott Sobers
Global Program Director, Service Provider Solution
Tivoli, Service Provider Industry, IBM
Gopal Soora
Global Services Product Manager, Converged Comm.
IBM Global Technology Services – Integrated Communications Services

Thursday, March 20

8:00 AM-
9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by Brix Networks

9:00 AM-
10:15 AM

Redefining Hosted Media

Peter Birkwood
Director of Product Management
Radisys Corporation
Michael Coffee
President & Chief Executive Officer
Commetrex
Brian Peebles
CTO
Dialogic Corporation
Jay Whitehurst
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Movius Interactive Corporation
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

Demystifying WiFi QoS for Voice and Data

Adam Conway
Vice President, Product Management
Aerohive Networks
Joe Epstein
Senior Director of Technology
Meru Networks
Geri Mitchell-Brown
Director, Technical Business Development
Polycom, Inc.
Peter Thornycroft
Product Marketing Director
Aruba Networks
Moderator:
Bob Emmerson
European Editor
VON Magazine

What makes Conference Services Compelling?

Lou Guercia
Director, Operations & Strategy, Lotus Software
IBM
Alec Saunders
CEO
iotum
Prem Uppaluru
President and CEO
Transera Inc
Moderator:
Bob Logan
Director
Dialogic® Media Labs

Web Application Servers Discover Voice

David Jodoin
CEO
Iperia
Doug Tait
Director of Worldwide Telecommunications Markets
BEA Systems
Bill Tiso
Market Development Manager, Embedded & Comms Grp
Intel Corporation

10:15 AM-
10:45 AM

Networking Break

10:45 AM-
12:00 PM

Designing High Availability VoIP Solutions

Jiri Kuthan
Assistant Vice President of Engineering
Tekelec
Asif Naseem
President of SA Forum; President & COO
GoAhead Software
Alan Percy
Director, Market Development
AudioCodes
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

Advances in Broadcast Video Quality

Loki Jorgenson
Chief Scientist
Apparent Networks
Adi Paz
Vice President of Products and Marketing
RADVISION
Lance Ware
CTO of Technicolor Electronic Distribution Svcs.
Thomson Technicolor
Moderator:
Jose Alvear
IPTV Analyst
Multimedia Research Group

WiMAX, WiFi and the Network Architectures

Prem Bhardwaj
Marketing/Biz Dev
CommScope
Mary Boyd
Vice President, Government/External Affairs
Intrado, Inc.
Jim Freeze
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Alliances
BelAir Networks

2.0 This! Rethinking the Service Creation Model

Shirish Andhare
Vice President, Product Marketing
Sylantro Systems
Gines Gómez
Co-Founder and Innovation & Development Director
VozTelecom
Thomas Howe
CEO
Thomas Howe Company
Tim Panton
Founder and CEO
PhoneFromHere.com
Moderator:
Alan Quayle
Owner
Business and Service Development

Collaboration & Conferencing

Hakon Dahle
CTO
Tandberg
Claude Florin
Strategic Marketing Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Ofer Shapiro
CEO
Vidyo
Joan Vandermate
Vice President, Marketing, Video Solutions
Polycom
Moderator:
Matt Collier
Senior VP, Corporate Development
Lifesize Communications

12:00 PM-
1:30 PM

Networking Luncheon

1:30 PM-
2:45 PM

OSS & Billing

Todd Benjamin
President & Chief Executive Officer
Rodopi Software
Chris Celiberti
Director; Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
NeuStar
Jim Dalton
CEO
TransNexus
Moderator:
Jim Wilburn
President
JFW CONSULTING, LLC.

Releasing the Power of HD Communications

Matt Collier
Senior VP, Corporate Development
Lifesize Communications
Amnon Gavish
Vice President of Business Development
RADVISION
Joe Mele
Vice President
Dialogic Media Labs
Moderator:
Jeff Paine
President
Area 51 Networks

VoIP Security: Threats, Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures

Ari Takanen
CTO
Codenomicon
Peter Thermos
CTO
Palindrome Technologies
Moderator:
Martyn Davies
Principal Consultant
Dialogic Corporation

Identity vs Presentity

Jörg Heuer
Sr Project Field Mgr Technology Exploration & AAA
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Jon Peterson
Sr. Technical Industry Liaison
NeuStar
Alec Saunders
CEO
iotum
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

The PBX Has UC Legs

Ralf Ebbinghaus
SVP Sales & Marketing
Swyx Solutions
Simon Gwatkin
Vice President of Strategic Marketing
Mitel Networks
Steve Timmerman
Vice President of Marketing
ShoreTel, Inc.

2:45 PM-
3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:00 PM-
4:15 PM

Security

Bob Bradley
Product Line Manager, Security Solutions
Sonus Networks
Martyn Davies
Principal Consultant
Dialogic Corporation
Shrikant Latkar
Senior Manager
Juniper Networks

Adding Syndicated Content to IPTV

Glenn Gaudet
Chief Marketing Officer
Treedia Labs
Chris MacDonald
Chairman, Assoc for Downloadable Media, EVP
LibsynPRO
Chia-Lin Simmons
Co-host
On Digital Media

Location, Communication, Opportunity

Pauline Alker
Co-Founder, CEO and President
a la Mobile, Inc.
Jon Metzler
Director of Business Development, Govt Affairs Dir
Rosum Corporation
Dave Reid
Director, Business Development, Wireless Segment
SiRF Technology, Inc.
Moderator:
Carl Ford
Community Developer and VP Content
pulvermedia

Tossing the Digits to Add Anonymity

Jeff Black
CEO and Founder
TalkPlus
Mahesh Lalwani
Founder & CEO
Ccube, Inc.
Frank Paterno
VP of Marketing
Intelliverse
Moderator:
Michael Cerda
Co-Founder and CEO
Jangl

Best Practices for Unified Communications

Jason Fischl
CTO
CounterPath
Greg Pisano
Director of Market Development
BlueNote Networks
Mike Valladao
Product Manager
NetScout Systems

4:15 PM-
5:30 PM

Conference Wrap Up