Eric Burger

Eric Burger is the Chairman of the Board of the SIP Forum and was most recently AGM of the Communications Products Division and Deputy CTO of BEA Systems. He worked at MCI and Cable & Wireless, as well as SnowShore, Cantata, Brooktrout, TI, and Centigram. He sits on the advisory boards of Sigma Systems, Dexrex, PC-NG, Kanga Networks, Mobera Systems, and AGNITY. Eric is currently Vice Chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy as well as Vice Chair of the IEEE New Hampshire Section. He is Chair of the mobile e-mail, speech services control, and media control work groups in the IETF and was a Contributor to the VoiceXML and CCXML specifications in the W3C.

Currently, Eric is working on some interesting ideas at the intersection of Startup Accelerators, Web 2.0, SaaS, and Cloud Computing. However, it is so early-stage that it would be too embarrassing to put in the Debut Section of the conference.

Eric has published 11 RFCs, 12 patents, journal papers, and a book on SIP signalling, Ubiquitous Reach and Remote Control of Devices: Introducing KPML. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE, a Patron of the AAAS, and a Benefactor of the Internet Society. He has taught and done research at GMU and GWU and holds an SBEE, MBA, and PhD from IIT, Catholic Universtity Leuven, and MIT.