Press Release
November 28, 2005
The 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference: The Future Is Calling
Sebastopol, CA--Routing calls over the Internet is old news. Today's real
telecom stories are the applications built on top of IP telephony. Where
are these applications going, how can we manage them for the good of
consumers and the enterprise, and what tangible benefits can we get from
IP telephony applications today? To address these issues--and to bring
together the different perspectives of both the business and developer
communities who are directing the future of the industry--O'Reilly Media
is planning ETel, the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. ETel happens
January 24-26, 2006 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Registration is
now open, and early pricing is in effect until December 5.
"It's now as easy to create a voice application as it is to create a web
application, and many of the same technologies are used in both
application areas," observes Surj Patel, ETel program co-chair. "This
creates tremendous opportunities for enterprise users, carrier providers,
developers, and consumer-servicing entrepreneurs."
Adds co-chair Nathan Torkington: "We believe that the work of the 'alpha
geeks,' the innovators at the edge of what's possible, show us what's in
store for an industry. We've assembled technology showcases from R&D labs,
academia, open source, and startups, so attendees can see what's coming
and get that valuable first-mover advantage."
Pioneers who have made VoIP deployments, built voice applications, and
migrated to IP telephony platforms will discuss how they integrated new
technologies, what worked, and what didn't in their quest for better
service, more features, and lower prices. Notable speakers and topics at
ETel include:
Peter Cochrane, Former British Telecom Research futurologist and now an
executive at ConceptLabs
Norman Lewis, head of Wanadoo research, Europe's largest ISP, shares his
vision for where this industry is heading
Amritansh Raghav of Microsoft Voice Applications shows hot new lab
innovations and prototypes
Gary Clayton, chief creative officer of Tellme and a Grammy award
winning record producer, leads a master class on how to produce effective
phone applications for specific audiences that enrich the customers
experience on the phone
Tom Hale, senior SVP, Telecoms, outlines Macromedia's plan to empower
developers to create new communications apps
Srikanth Raju, senior evangelist of Forum Nokia Americas illustrates how
new technologies for handset development, together with things like SIP
support on handsets will create new opportunities for wireless products
David Beckenmeyer of Televolution and co-founder of Earthlink talks
about his new startup and platform for voice services and apps
Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire / Gizmo discusses his goal to promote
open directories for IM providers and open standards to make an
interoperable world
Mark Spencer, president of Digium and the "father of Asterisk"
Brian Capouch, St. Joseph's College
Joe Heitzeberg, "Ruby on Rails Meets Asterisk"
Scott Lawrence, Pingtel: "SipX as the Asterisk Challenger"
Kevin Lenzo of Cepstral and a voice recognition pioneer, "Voice
Recognition, Finally Ready for Prime Time"
Peter Nixon, Suntel: the victories and disappointments of building a
telco network in Baghdad using Open source software
Mark Summer, Inveneo: how a bicycle-powered, Linux-based VoIP system
helped bring a developing community into the 21st century
Brian K. West, open source developer:"What's Next After Asterisk?"
Jim Van Meggelen, Core Telecom Innovations, and author of "Asterisk: The
Future of Telephony" (O'Reilly)
Ted Wallingford, author of "Switching to VoIP" and "VoIP Hacks" (both
from O'Reilly)
Roberto Tagliabue, "Design as a Strategic Tool"
Brian McConnell, "Designing Multimodal Interfaces" (voice and text)
In addition to two days of rapid-fire plenary sessions from experts and
industry leaders, ETel will devote a full day to in-depth workshops where
attendees can get a comprehensive understanding of an underlying
technology, or get ahead of the curve with more advanced topics. In
addition to structured workshops, all attendees are welcome at the Hacker
Cafe, an informal space for meeting up and brainstorming. Since some of
the most innovative uses for a technology aren't from the big players, but
from garage inventors who have real problems to solve, an evening ETel
Fair is planned to showcase the below-the-radar excellence that heralds
the future of VoIP applications.
Come to the first O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference to hear the
latest word on the wire around voice applications. ETel is the only
conference that clearly and concisely shows what's really going on at the
tipping point where telephony merges with the Internet.
O'Reilly conferences include: ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference; the MySQL Users Conference, co-presented with MySQL AB; Where
2.0 Conference; OSCON; the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention; and
Web 2.0 (co-hosted by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle, and co-produced with
MediaLive International). O'Reilly conferences bring together
forward-thinking business and technology leaders, shaping ideas and
influencing industries around the globe. For over 25 years, O'Reilly has
facilitated the adoption of new and important technologies by the
enterprise, putting emerging technologies on the map.
Additional Information:
Other upcoming O'Reilly conferences:
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 6-9, 2006 in San Diego,
California
MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27 in Santa Clara, California
Where 2.0, June date to be announced in the San Francisco Bay Area
O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 24-28 in Portland, Oregon
O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, fall 2006
Web 2.0, fall 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area
About O'Reilly
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