The schedule below represents the ultimate who’s who list. Please download the PDF programme guide here.
Wednesday, March 12
8:45 AM
Introduction
Lee S Dryburgh, Emerging Communications Research & Events
8:45 - 9:00 AM, Grand Hall
9:00 AM
Keynote
Moving Up & Down The IP Telephony Stack: Ten Years of Internet Communications ('98-'08)
Jonathan Christensen, Skype
9:00 - 9:30 AM, Grand Hall
9:30 AM
Session
OpenMoko: Completely Open Mobile Computing Software Platform
Michael Shiloh, OpenMoko
9:30 - 9:45 AM, Grand Hall
9:45 AM
Keynote
Socially Opportunistic Devices: From Hyperlinks to Hyperties
Marc A Smith, ConnectedAction
9:45 - 10:05 AM, Grand Hall
10:05 AM
Session
Presence: The Dial Tone for Internet Communication
Peter Saint-Andre, Jabber, Inc.
10:05 - 10:15 AM, Grand Hall
10:15 AM
Break
Morning Break
11:00 AM
Session
11:15 AM
Session
Alphabet Soup: Sorting Out Emerging Telephony and Speech Specifications
Ken Rehor, VoiceXML Forum
11:15 - 11:30 AM, Grand Hall
11:30 AM
Session
Phone Mashups, Integrating Telephony and the Web
Irv Shapiro, IfByPhone
11:30 - 11:45 AM, Grand Hall
11:45 AM
Session
12:00 PM
Session
12:15 PM
Session
Roll your own Voice Apps - a view from the trenches
Sean O Sullivan, mySay and Dial2Do
12:15 - 12:30 PM, Grand Hall
12:30 PM
Break
Lunch Break
1:45 PM
Session
Voxgirl and Speech Recognition for Rough Conditions
Nitzan Shaer, Mobivox
1:45 - 2:00 PM, Grand Hall
2:00 PM
Session
2:15 PM
Session
Social Communications on Mobile Devices - Why it is Different from Mobile-VoIP
Boaz Zilberman, Fring
2:15 - 2:25 PM, Grand Hall
2:25 PM
Session
101 Things That You Never Knew You Could Do With Mobile Handsets
James Body, Truphone
2:25 - 2:40 PM, Grand Hall
2:40 PM
Session
Have You Got Something to Say? - Providing Online Social Networks With a Voice.
Tim Panton, PhoneFromHere.com
2:40 - 2:50 PM, Grand Hall
2:50 PM
Session
Ancestory.com Adds Voice to Family Histories
Kevin Nethercott, LignUp Corporation
2:50 - 3:00 PM, Grand Hall
3:00 PM
Session
Identity and Trust - Enabling Layers of the Future Communication Landscapes
Piotr Cofta, British Telecom
3:00 - 3:15 PM, Grand Hall
3:15 PM
Session
3:30 PM
Break
Afternoon Break
4:00 PM
Keynote
Personal infrastructure: Me to the power of Us
Norman Lewis, Open-Knowledge UK
4:00 - 4:30 PM, Grand Hall
4:30 PM
Lightning Talk
Integration Aspects of Mobile Internet Strategies
Stipe Tolj, Kannel Software Foundation
4:30 - 4:35 PM, Grand Hall
4:35 PM
Lightning Talk
Giving Voice to Enterprise 2.0 Web Services
Kevin Nethercott, LignUp Corporation
4:35 - 4:40 PM, Grand Hall
4:40 PM
Lightning Talk
Using Per-Caller Personalization to Create the Ultimate Next-Generation Telephony
Michael Codini, VoiceObjects, Inc.
4:40 - 4:45 PM, Grand Hall
4:45 PM
Lightning Talk
4:50 PM
Lightning Talk
4:55 PM
Lightning Talk
Video Micro Blogging and the Future of Online Conversation
Luca Filigheddu, abbeynet
4:55 - 5:00 PM, Grand Hall
5:00 PM
Lightning Talk
Consumer friendly IP-PBX's for the SOHO/Home Market
Shidan Gouran, Jazinga Inc.
5:00 - 5:05 PM, Grand Hall
5:05 PM
Keynote
5:25 PM
Session
Personalizing Devices with Open Source Hardware
Jeremy Toeman, Stage Two Consulting
5:25 - 5:40 PM, Grand Hall
5:40 PM
Session
5:50 PM
Session
Fixing Group Communication: Building the Social Phone
Sam Aparicio, Angel.com
5:50 - 6:05 PM, Grand Hall
6:05 PM
Session
6:30 PM
Event
Food & Drink (Open Museum Exhibits)
Thursday, March 13
8:45 AM
Introduction
9:00 AM
Keynote
9:30 AM
Keynote
Building the New Voiceware: A Silicon Valley Approach to Telephony Innovation
Crick Waters, Ribbit
9:30 - 9:50 AM, Grand Hall
9:50 AM
Session
10:05 AM
Session
Add GPS and Stir?: Some Context for Context Awareness
Dawn Nafus, Intel
10:05 - 10:20 AM, Grand Hall
10:20 AM
Session
Own the Network - A Radical New Approach to Internet Connectivity
Brough Turner, netBlazr Inc.
10:20 - 10:35 AM, Grand Hall
10:35 AM
Break
Morning Break
11:00 AM
Session
Fire Eagle - A Where are They now Platform.
Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath, Yahoo! Brickhouse
11:00 - 11:15 AM, Grand Hall
11:15 AM
Session
Mobile Oauth: An Merging Standard for Delegated Authentication
Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Yahoo! Inc.
11:15 - 11:30 AM, Grand Hall
11:30 AM
Session
11:45 AM
Session
12:00 PM
Session
12:15 PM
Session
Mapping Phonespace: Exposing the hidden structure of the PSTN
Shai Berger, Fōnolo
12:15 - 12:30 PM, Grand Hall
12:30 PM
Break
Lunch Break
Session
2:00 PM
Panel
Panel Introduction - Mobile Voice Mashups
Jon Arnold, J Arnold & Associates
2:00 - 2:05 PM, Grand Hall
2:05 PM
Panel
2:10 PM
Panel
2:15 PM
Panel
2:20 PM
Panel
2:25 PM
Panel
2:30 PM
Panel
3:00 PM
Session
RETHINK : The Complete Open Phone Story
Matthew S. Hamrick, Homebrew Mobile Phone Club
3:00 - 3:15 PM, Grand Hall
3:15 PM
Session
3:30 PM
Break
Afternoon Break
4:00 PM
Keynote
Who Controls Wireless Access? Carriers, Internet players or the End User?
Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis
4:00 - 4:30 PM, Grand Hall
4:30 PM
Session
4:40 PM
Lightning Talk
4:45 PM
Lightning Talk
Spoken Location Services: The Missing Link between Directory Assistance and Location-Based Services
Amit Desai, Dial Directions, Inc.
4:45 - 5:50 PM, Grand Hall
4:50 PM
Lightning Talk
The telco as an identity provider: the perfect match?
Johannes Ernst, NetMesh
4:50 - 4:55 PM, Grand Hall
4:55 PM
Lightning Talk
Is there a Role for the Big Boys in the eComm World?
Michael Roth, British Telecom
4:55 - 5:00 PM, Grand Hall
5:00 PM
Session
5:15 PM
Session
5:30 PM
Session
5:45 PM
Session
6:00 PM
Session
Friday, March 14
8:45 AM
Introduction
9:00 AM
Keynote
9:30 AM
Session
9:45 AM
Session
Inference in Complex Social Systems: Insights and Applications from the Behavior of the Aggregate
Nathan Eagle, MIT Design Laboratory
9:45 - 10:00 AM, Grand Hall
10:00 AM
Session
Introducing Human-friendly Computing through Natural Language Inferencing
Rocky Nevin, DataSea, Inc.
10:00 - 10:15 AM, Grand Hall
10:15 AM
Break
Morning Break
11:00 AM
Session
Wild & Crazy Things You Can Build with Asterisk & Open Source Telephony
David Troy, Distilabs, Inc.
11:00 - 11:15 AM, Grand Hall
11:15 AM
Session
11:30 AM
Session
Millicomputing: The Coolest CPUs and the Flashiest Storage
Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix
11:30 - 11:45 AM, Grand Hall
11:45 AM
Session
12:00 PM
Session
Thomas Huhn, Solution Media
12:00 - 12:15 PM, Grand Hall
12:15 PM
Session
12:30 PM
Break
Lunch Break
2:00 PM
Panel
Panel Introduction - What will drive wireless innovation?
Brough Turner, netBlazr Inc.
2:00 - 2:05 PM, Grand Hall
2:05 PM
Panel
2:10 PM
Panel
2:15 PM
Panel
2:20 PM
Panel
2:25 PM
Panel
2:30 PM
Panel
2:35 PM
Panel
Panel: What Will Drive Wireless Innovation? Chaired by Brough Turner
Brough Turner, netBlazr Inc.
2:35 - 3:30 PM, Grand Hall
3:30 PM
Session
Don't break the trillion dollar vault unlock it!
Shirish Andhare, Sylantro
3:30 - 3:45 PM, Grand Hall
Session
4:00 PM
Break
Afternoon Break
4:30 PM
Session
4:45 PM
Session
5:00 PM
Keynote
Infrastructure, Communities and Corporations: is There a Middle Way Between Open and Closed?
Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
5:00 - 5:30 PM, Grand Hall