Alan Duric is co-founder and CTO at Telio ASA, the leading European access independent Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP with over a 12 years of active contribution in multi modal communcations, through his sw development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards).

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Alan has 18 years experience in the telecommunication industry, focused on creating profitable new businesses in service providers, suppliers and consultancies. He works on web/voice/telco 2.0, service/content delivery, and innovative broadband/converged services with operators such as AT&T, Etislat, M1, O2/Telefonica, Swisscom, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone; and suppliers such as Adobe, Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, Oracle, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sycamore; and many innovative start-ups. For more information check out www.alanquayle.com and www.alanquayle.com/blog.

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Passionately engaged with how technology can positively affect quality of life, Alec wants to see five-year plans on the market in one. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.

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Amir Zmora rejoined RADVISION in November 2008 as VP Marketing of the Technology Business Unit (TBU). Prior to rejoining RADVISION Zmora was VP Business Development and earlier VP Marketing and Product Management for Surf Communication Solutions. In this role Zmora was responsible for defining Surf's new markets and products, and played a strategic role in business development activities. Additionally, Zmora is a well-known speaker at various VoIP events, such as VON and SIP conferences, and has published articles in industry magazines, such as EE Times ComDesign.

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As Research Director at VisionMobile, Andreas oversees the research and industry mapping projects at VisionMobile. He has nine years experience in research, development and strategy in wireless, specialising in mobile handsets, software strategy and open source. Andreas has worked on several product and marketing strategy projects for clients including Sony Ericsson, France Telecom, T-Mobile, OMTP, Qualcomm, Red Bend, Abaxia, TAT and Trolltech, and authored numerous research reports for analyst firms Informa, Ovum and ARCchart. His interests include uncovering under-the-radar industry trends and pursuing human-centric design.

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Anup Murarka is director of technical marketing for Mobile and Devices at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this role, Murarka is responsible for defining strategy and direction for Adobe's mobile agenda. Murarka comes to Adobe from its acquisition of Macromedia, where he was responsible for marketing in the Mobile and Devices group. Prior to Macromedia, Murarka worked at OpenTV, where he was involved in all aspects of developing OpenTV's solution offering.

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Örjan Johansson was one of the founders of the Bluetooth SIG which is the foundation for the Bluetooth de facto standard invented by Ericsson. At Ericsson he was also the Director & General Manager for Bluetooth Technology & Products. Prior to the current position Mr. Johansson was Chairman of the Board of Anoto Group AB. Today Mr. Johansson, apart from working at Conveneer, is serving as board member in a number of Swedish companies.

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Benjamin Joffe (@benjaminjoffe) is a renowned expert on Asia’s digital scene and Founder & CEO of Asia-based digital strategy consultancy +8* | Plus Eight Star (www.plus8star.com). During the past 10 years, he has been part of Japan’s mobile revolution, Korea’s Internet boom, China’s mobile crash and web 2.0 revival. His research today covers trust networks, digital identity, virtual economies and social dynamics. Benjamin has been quoted in Forbes, CNN and The Economist, has been invited to keynote in 13 countries including at Stanford and Berkeley. He was selected among China’s Top 100 Mobile Industry Influencers in 2007 and 2008.

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Brad Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp., the first internet-based content company, then sold it to Newsedge Corporation in 1997. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world's most widely read computerized conference on that network, and today the world's longest running blog. He has been a software company founder, and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products. He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Brian is the Founder & President of Avot Media Inc, an innovative mobile video platform provider. At Avot, Brian’s mission is to drive strategy for its mobile video solutions with innovative products such as tipMotion. He lays down the vision, strategic direction, and leads product development for Avot Media. Brian Sathianathan has directed several engineering programs and managed product development in fast-paced environments for over ten years. Previously at Apple Inc., Brian was involved in the release of many revolutionary products such as the iPhone and Intel Mac systems. He also led new product development in the areas of real-time embedded systems applications, wireless communications, and security technologies.

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Brough Turner is a communications industry engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of netBlazr.com, a startup working to change the landscape for broadband Internet access in the US urban areas. Previously Brough was co-founder and CTO of Natural MicroSystems and NMS Communications and advisor to iSkoot, Stargen and several other tech start-ups. He writes and is quoted widely on telecommunications topics in trade and general business publications. Since 2001, Brough has focused on the wireless infrastructure and mobile applications. Brough blogs on the technology, economic and social issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet.

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Chris joined Data Connection as one of the founding team in 1981. Prior to joining Data Connection he acquired a degree in Computing from Cambridge University and worked for IBM on mainframe and communications systems software.

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Christopher Allen is one of the leaders of the iPhone developer community. He is one of the founders of iPhoneDevCamp and oversees its Hackathon, is co-author of "iPhone in Action:Introduction to Web and SDK Development", published by Manning. A longtime entrepreneur & technologist, Christopher is also a leader in social software and was one of the authors of TLS, the next-generation SSL protocol.

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Crick co-founded Ribbit on the simple premise that voice has value, and thatvalue is in the application of voice. The convergence of computers andtelephony has been ongoing for some years ­ the fusion of voice, computers,and web applications is the new ³value frontier² for telephony. Cricklead¹s Ribbit¹s strategy and business development in order to empowerdevelopers in this new frontier to bring the value of voice to theirindividual markets.

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Dr. Cullen Jennings is a distinguished engineer at Cisco and helps develop Cisco's strategy around communication applications. Cullen is also the co-director for the area of the IETF develops standards around real time interactive communication applications including voice, video, SIP, conferencing, and IM and presence. He is author of several standards around SIP systems and has helped design and build many communications systems including several open source projects.

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Dan York writes, speaks and teaches about emerging communication technology and has been doing so since the mid-1980s. Author of the popular "Disruptive Telephony" blog, Dan's recent books include "Migrating Applications to IPv6" and "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks". Dan serves as Director of Conversations at Voxeo heading up communication through social media. Previously, Dan served in Voxeo's Office of the CTO focused on analyzing emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. Outside of Voxeo, Dan serves as the Chair of the VoIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA). More info can be found at www.danyork.com or twitter.com/danyork

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Daniel Brusilovsky is a 16-year-old media producer, entrepreneur and student residing in Silicon Valley, CA. Daniel grew up with technology and pursued his passion for media content when he started blogging and podcasting in March 2007. In February, Daniel joined Qik, a company that provides a live and interactive mobile streaming service. Soon after joining Qik, Daniel had the idea of creating a community just for teenagers who wanted to start producing media content. This idea gave rise to Teens in Tech, a media platform and community for teens wanting to produce and distribute content over the internet. In August of 2008, Teens in Tech launched into private alpha and received coverage from various sites including TechCrunch, Techmeme, GigaOm, The Blog Herald, Ypulse, and other sites. Daniel also enjoys playing the drums and has a passion for music.

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Mr. Mylet has founded Spectru-Station, a start-up wireless spectrum administration and management solutions company and is currently working with several other Silicon Valley start-up companies in the wireless and mobile applications sector, specifically Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio. Mr. Mylet joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 2003 and left in Jan 2009. While at Cantor, Mr. Mylet worked to grow the firm’s unique trading technologies and business objectives relative to wireless. Prior to joining Cantor-Fitzgerald, Mr. Mylet was with Radiant Networks, a U.K. based pioneer in “physical mesh” broadband wireless equipment vendor, where he was VP Sales & Marketing-Americas from 2000-2003.

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David "Lefty" Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Co., Ltd., working principally on open source strategy and community relations and represents ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives. For LiMo Foundation, he is the chairman of the Open Source Committee and an elected member of the Architectural Steering Committee. He is vice-chair of the Architectural Working Group of the Linux Phone Standards Forum, Chair of the Linux Foundation’s Mobile Linux Working Group, and a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Mobile Initiative.

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Most of David's work has been in signals intelligence and radiolocation. This afforded him extensive experience with physical layer and protocol processing for cellular air interfaces (GSM, IS-95 and others) and in the design of high-performance software radios. Now he is applying that expertise to low-cost telecommunications systems through the OpenBTS project, a hybrid GSM/SIP basestation effort based on open-source hardware and software. The OpenBTS vision is a new kind of wireless service for underdeveloped rural areas that can be operated at a fraction of the cost of conventional cellular and leapfrog to simple, direct IP/mobile convergence.

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As founder and CEO of TelEvolution Inc., David sets corporate strategy and oversees all operations including developing the patent-pending PhoneGnome technology and business model. Most recently he helped lead the successful deployment of Phweet Alpha, the new service that makes it easy to speak with friends on twitter. Prior to founding TelEvolution, David engineered and established EarthLink's service in 1994 and served the company for ten years as Vice President Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. David has authored several papers on large-scale Internet services. David founded BDT.COM, an early pioneering Internet company in the San Francisco bay area, in 1985.

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David Troy is a serial technology entrepreneur and community builder based in Baltimore, Maryland. He founded a regional ISP and hosting provider in 1995 which he sold in 2004. From 2004 through 2008 he worked on developing and implementing open source voice-over-IP solutions for a number of companies in the United States, South America, and Europe. In 2008 he decided to return to his roots in Baltimore and help entrepreneurs get more connected. He founded Distilabs, inc. with former AOL executive Matt Koll in 2010. The company is developing a portfolio of Internet products, including Shortmail.com and Replyz.com.

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Founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm. An analyst with over 16 years’ experience, he primarily specialises in mobile, wireless, networking, and telecoms fields, with further expertise in certain aspects of the software and semiconductor sectors. His present focus is on wireless technology, especially the evolution of mobile device architecture & software, fixed-mobile convergence, IMS, wireless VoIP, shifts in service provider value chains, enterprise mobility, in-building technologies, femtocells, spectrum policy, wireless broadband, and the integration of cellular and WLAN technologies. He is also the author of the Disruptive Wireless blog, found at disruptivewireless.blogspot.com

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Doc Searls is a fellow at both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara. At the Berkman Center he heads ProjectVRM, which is at the center of a growing international community developing Vendor Relationship Management tools -- which will make customers both independent of vendors and better able to engage with them. In The World is Flat, author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America."

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Ed Fontana earned engineering degrees from the University of Tennessee and Stanford University. He is a product developer, systems engineer and a prolific inventor. He joined the Power Labs at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1985, one year after divestiture. Ed and his teams designed and delivered telecommunications products that dominated the market. During his tenure, Power Systems won the Shingo Prize and the Deming Prize for excellence in manufacturing. Ed's unique cross discipline talents have most recently focused on using Google Android to help ordinary people use feature phones to coordinate their lives. Ed holds 23 patents, all collaborative.

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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.

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Florent Stroppa is Director of Product Management at Voxmobili. He is responsible for product management, product marketing, competitive analysis and sales support. The mobile applications and services he manages are deployed at operators such as Orange, Vodafone UK, T-Mobile, Turkcell and Telstra. He was recently awarded at the Google Android Developer Challenge for the product "Phonebook 2.0".

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François joined the Broadcast Technologies research branch at the Communications Research Centre Canada in 1999 to lead its Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting team. Since then, he has contributed to numerous national and international standardization efforts and R&D projects. His recent work has focused on creating and developing software building blocks for next generation mobile broadcasting networks, devices and applications by leveraging free tools (as in beer and speech) such as GNU Radio and Openmoko. François holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Laval University, Québec, Canada.

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Ge Wang is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and is the CTO, Co-founder, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule. Ge's research interests include interactive software systems (of all sizes) for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, music information retrieval, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestra and mobile phone orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), visualization, interfaces for human-computer interaction, interactive audio over networks, and methodologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music.

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The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd one of the leading Media Futurists in the World. He is the Co-Author of the influential book ‘The Future of Music’ (2005, Berklee Press), as well as the Author of ‘Music2.0’ (January 2008 www.music20thebook.com), and ‘The End of Control’ (see the preview chapters at www.endofcontrol.com, publication date: early 2009).

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Graham Brierton is CTO and original designer for Voicesage, an innovator in the Communications Enabled Business Processes space. He has spent the last 16 years as a technologist, business process engineer, problem solver and entrepreneur. He is passionate about making technology simple, relevant with clear bottom line business benefit. He has a broad range of industry experience from saw mill management, to insurance, to internet banking, to gas turbine power plant manufacturing and beyond. His range of business knowledge and healthy disrespect for 'the way things should be done' brings viability to the Voicesage vision of the power of voice.

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Irv Shapiro, CEO/CTO of Ifbyphone has spent over 30 years driving technology innovation with a focus on data communications and networking. Irv began his career writing custom VAX/VMS device drivers for Digital Equipment Corporation, then founded Metamor Technologies, a two-time INC 500 award recipient, followed by Edventions, an elementary school infrastructure company. Following the sale of Edventions he founded Ifbyphone and developed its proprietary VoiceXML generation technology.

Irv is a member of the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, has a BS/CS from Washington University in St. Louis and is a regular speaker and writer on the application of technology.

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James Siminoff is a serial entrepreneur who has been building businesses for over a decade. In 2003 James was inspired by the archaic nature of voicemail to found the world's first voicemail-to-text company, PhoneTag. James drew from his experience of starting successful companies to develop a system to transcribe voicemail messages into text. In 2007 James received the Entrepreneur Award from Crain's Business New York in recognition for his accomplishments with PhoneTag.

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Jan Linden has been conducting research and development in media processing and communications for more than sixteen years. He is the Vice President of Engineering of Global IP Solutions and as such responsible for all research and development activity within the company. Prior to joining Global IP Solutions in 2000 he was with the University of California, Santa Barbara and SignalCom, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, has published more than 30 articles in various publications and has filed and been awarded several patents.

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Jay Phillips is an innovator in the spaces where sophisticated VoIP development falls apart and where modern programming languages rock. As the creator and project manager of Adhearsion, Jay brings new possibilities to these two technologies through his work on the open-source Adhearsion framework.

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Jeevan Kalanithi is a designer and technologist specializing in human-computer interaction. He is a principal of Taco Lab, a design/engineering firm specializing in physical-to-cloud interfaces. Jeevan and his collaborators' works have been shown at venues such as Villette Numerique, EYEBEAM, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Miami Art Museum. Jeevan has received awards including honors from ID Magazine's Student Design Review and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. His work has been featured in Gizmodo, Engadget, Wired Gadget Blog, PC Magazine, and The Boston Globe. Jeevan holds an SM from The MIT Media Lab and BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford.

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As the founder of Stage Two Consulting, Jeremy Toeman brings over ten years of experience designing, building and marketing numerous award-winning products in the "convergence" space of new media. An expert in digital media and consumer technology, he is a regular speaker and moderator at trade shows and conferences. Jeremy pioneered whats now called "social media marketing" as Sling Media's Vice President of Market Development where he built the first online community for a consumer electronics product, and achieved phenomenal awareness across consumers, bloggers, and traditional press. Jeremy holds a B.S. in Economics and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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John Forsyth has been with Symbian since its inception and has held a number of roles shaping the design and development of Symbian over the past ten years. In his role as VP Strategy, John is responsible for leading the development of Symbian’s business strategy, and the overall future for Symbian OS as an open mobile software platform. With the planned open sourcing of Symbian OS, John is leading Symbian’s efforts to create and nurture a community that will successfully deliver the innovations of thousands of individual developers into hundreds of millions of handsets worldwide.

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Jon Arnold is an independent telecom analyst and marketing consultancy with a focus on IP communications. Previously, he was the VoIP Program Leader at Frost & Sullivan, where he was responsible for managing their subscription service for Global VoIP Equipment Markets. He is a regular speaker at VoIP and telecom conferences, including eComm, VON, Nextcomm, Internet Telephony, Pacific Telecom Council, NYSSA, Enterprise Networks, IT360 and the Canadian Institute.

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Jonathan Christensen has more than 15 years of experience shaping strategy for the growth of IP communications in start-ups and world class organizations such as Skype, Microsoft, and Time Warner. In 2005, Jonathan co-founded Camino Networks where he was CEO. He is currently a senior member of the Skype team leading core technology development for audio and video, as well as initiatives for voice quality, network interconnect, and business adoption.

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Jonathan is half executive and half technologist with a dash of revolutionary thrown in for good measure.  Over the last 20 years he has started eight companies, drove one into the ground, grew six rapidly and profitably, and is growing the 8th rapidly but not yet profitably. He has also sold four companies and purchased and consolidated 17 more.  Jonathan and his co-founders recently sold Voxeo to Aspect software for $150 million. Jonathan is also the Chairman of Tropo, Inc.; Sighthound Labs; and Entrenext Ventures.  

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Karrie Karahalios is an assistant professor in computer science at UIUC where she heads the Social Spaces Group. Her work focuses on the interaction between people and the social cues they perceive in networked electronic spaces. Of particular interest are interfaces for pubic online and physical gathering spaces such as chatrooms, cafes, parks, etc. The goal is to create interfaces that enable users to perceive conversational patterns that are present, but not obvious, in traditional communication interfaces. Karrie completed a S.B. in electrical engineering, an M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science, and an S.M. and Ph.D in media arts and science at MIT.

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Larry Lisser ‘s 15 years in senior sales, marketing and business development positions in telecom span from the dark days of the lonely PBX through to the early days of Voice 2.0. Combining his passion for anything telecom with his constant focus on commercialization, Larry offers a hybrid perspective that includes an eye to the future, while still monetizing in the present. Larry leads the Marketing and Business Development efforts for Mobivox and previously served other early stage voice companies, including IfByPhone, GotVMail and Locus Dialog.

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Lee S Dryburgh is a communications engineer, technologist and futurist. He pours great passion and energy into self-directed projects. He takes coffee and network bandwidth as input and outputs training, consulting and conferences. His expertise is in two domains: First - the way telecoms operates today at the engineering level; specifically Signalling System #7 (SS7/SigTran/CAMEL/MAP) which powers virtually all telephone calls, all SMS, cellular mobility itself, and most pre-paid cellular solutions. Second - exceptional knowledge of the future of telecommunications, in particular telephony. He can provide a detailed view of the industry in 1, 2 or even 10 year’s time.

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Malcolm Matson is a successful entrepreneur and has been a pioneer of the broadband era since the early 1980s. He was the first person to understand and articulate the disruptive consequences of ‘abundant bandwidth’, and how infrastructure and ‘content’ would eventually become totally independent of each other. In the late 1980s he founded COLT Telecoms - Europe’s first all-fibre public network.

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Mark Roettgering leads the Corporate Strategy & Analysis Team at T-Mobile USA. There, he leverages his 17 years of industry and consulting experience to help the enterprise make smart decisions in the face of high uncertainty and high business complexity. A diverse, background in hardware development, manufacturing, finance, marketing, CRM, consumer research, and product development gives Mr. Roettgering a unique perspective on the multifaceted 'emerging communications' space. Mark earned a BSEE from the University of California at Davis and an MS in Management Science from Stanford University.

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An early UX design pioneer, Mark was founder of frog’s digital media group back in 1996 and now orchestrates strategists, technologists, designers and information architects to produce groundbreaking work for Fortune 500 companies. His work focuses on the intersection of product, digital, and strategic design. Just like a real frog, he can see in all directions.

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Mark Spencer founded Digium in 1999 as Linux Support Systems while still a student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX for the company, Spencer used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to develop his own PBX. This was the beginning of Asterisk. As Asterisk gained in popularity, Spencer renamed the company Digium and changed his focus from Linux support to opening up the telecom market. Today, as chairman and CTO of Digium, Spencer continues to drive the vision and technology direction of Digium and growth of the Asterisk Community.

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Martin Geddes is a thought leader on business models in the telecommunications industry. He is formerly Strategy Director at BT Innovate & Design. He started blogging about the collision of the IT and telecoms industries in 2003. This was inspired by his work on a pioneering project at Sprint to adopt an ‘open’platform business model. This led to a deep interest and new career uncovering the drivers of telecoms industry structure. He has a special expertise in the impact of multi-sided markets, Cloud communications, and the future of vertically integrated products like telephony and SMS.

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In a career of over twenty years, Martyn has taken in software engineering, support, sales and marketing, starting with data networking and leading to today's converging voice, messaging and data over IP. Today Martyn is Principal Consultant at Dialogic, working with third party software developers to create telephony applications with a wide variety of different tools, open and proprietary. Working on the edge of the old and the new with everything from SS7 to SIP, he tries to retain an open mind and a sense of curiosity.

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Mary Ann is the founder of Cooking Capsules, an app that introduces a new way to cook. It is among the Top 20 winners in the Android Developer Challenge.

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Matt is the co-founder and VP of Technology at RebelVox. He has been designing and optimizing data networks for over 15 years. For the past 5 years, Matt has been putting VoIP into challenging environments and trying to save everybody's time through clever application of technology.

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Maura Colleton Corbett brings nearly 20 years of communications, public affairs and coalition building experience to Qorvis Communications, leading the company’s technology public affairs practice. Corbett provides strategic counsel to clients faced with complicated issues affecting the high-technology industry, including competitive communications, wireless applications, unlicensed spectrum policy, broadband deployment, and content-related policy issues including privacy, security and copyright. She has represented clients before the US Congress, FCC and the US Department of Commerce/NTIA and extensively with members of the press. In addition, Corbett brings unique and deep-rooted experience in industry coalition building for a number of high-technology matters, most recently, white spaces, Internet radio, Net Neutrality and copyright reform for the digital age.

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Michael Calabrese is Vice President and Director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation, a non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C. He oversees the Foundation's efforts to modernize the management of the public airwaves and to promote ubiquitous and affordable wireless broadband access. Previously, Mr. Calabrese served as General Counsel of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and as a counsel at the national AFL-CIO. Calabrese is a graduate of Stanford Business and Law Schools, where he earned a JD/MBA degree; and a graduate of Harvard College, where he earned a B.A. in Economics and Government.

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Peter has over 20 years of experience in technology and telecommunications, management consulting and venture capital. Peter has played key leadership and executive roles at a number of notable firms, including Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks, McKinsey & Company, Bell Canada Enterprises, RBC Capital Partners, and Skypoint Capital. From 2006-08, Peter was President and CEO of TBayTel, Canada’s largest independently owned full-service telecommunications carrier and a member of the TBayTel Municipal Services Board. Peter is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario and holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Carleton University and a Master of Science in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Peter Ecclesine is the wireless technology analyst in Cisco's Corporate Development Technology Group, and serves as Chair and Technical Editor of IEEE 802.11y, 3650-3700 MHz Operation in the USA. He has been working on wireless investments and acquisitions at Cisco since 1996, and has an evolving interest in changing wireless laws, originally in the 5GHz radar bands, then 70/80/90 GHz bands, the shared 3.65 GHz band, now more generally to permit world radios to be used anywhere.

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Ram Fish was appointed the General Manager of VoIP Products for Trolltech after Trolltech acquired his company, FONAV. Ram led FONAV as its CEO and founder. In 2008, Nokia acquired Trolltech. His previous roles include Vice President, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile (creator of AT&T OGO) and Chief Product Strategist for the Client Group at Openwave Systems. He started his career as a product marketing manager at PCSI, where he worked on the world's first mobile phone with Internet access. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Yale University.

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Richard Bennett is a policy analyst, network architect, and inventor of Internet-oriented local area network protocols. As vice-chair the IEEE 802.31BASE5 task group, he devised the first Ethernet hub standard. He's contributed to the Wi-Fi standard from the early 90s to the present, and designed the Distributed Reservation Protocol for WiMedia's Ultra-Wideband system. He co-founded the Open Token Foundation and has testified before Congress and the FCC. He's a Research Fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, DC.

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Richard S. Whitt is the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel for Google Inc. In that capacity, Rick is responsible for Google’s strategy and advocacy on all wireline, wireless, and media matters before the Federal Communications Commission, other Federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. Most recently he has represented the company’s interests on a variety of broadband policy issues (such as network neutrality), spectrum policy matter (such as the 700 MHz auction and TV white spaces), and “unregulation” of VoIP and other Web-based applications.

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Ricky Yuen is currently employed at Qualcomm as Senior Staff Engineer/Manager and is responsible for all R&D activities relating to the adoption of sensor technology in mobile devices. Ricky Yuen has more than 14 years of experience in the wireless industry and has held a broad range of responsibilities including systems architecture, software engineering, project management, and product launch on a variety of cutting-edge technologies. Ricky Yuen earned his MS and BS Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds an Executive MBA degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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In addition to being the driving force behind Voxeo's technology innovation and integration, Auburn is also the editor and chair of the W3C Call Control XML (CCXML) standard, co-author and editor of the W3C's State Chart XML (SCXML) standard, and an active leader on a number of other standards, including VoiceXML, Media Control, and SIP. Auburn is an acknowledged expert in the fields of voice recognition, call control, and call center integration, and has been working with and on next-generation telephony projects and standards since the age of 15.

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Rodrigue Ullens is the co-founder & CEO of Voxbone. Previous to founding Voxbone, Rodrigue provided advice, trainings and seminars to European carriers such as Belgacom mobile, KPN, France Telecom, Orange, as well as to several European governments. He received a B.S of Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

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Russ McGuire is a leading strategist and visionary in the telecom industry. As vice president of strategy for Sprint, he is responsible for developing the strategic vision and strategic framework for the $40B+ telecommunications giant.

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Sascha Meinrath has been described as a "community Internet pioneer" and an "entrepreneurial visionary" and is a well-known expert on community wireless networks (CWNs) and municipal broadband. Leading news sources, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Nation, and National Public Radio, often cite Sascha's work in covering issues related to CWNs. Sascha is the Research Director for the New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program. Additionally, he coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition, a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementers and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless technologies.

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Shai is co-founder and CEO of Fonolo, a startup pushing the boundaries of web-telephony integration. Shai was previously at Keynote Systems (KEYN), where he lead the team responsible for Streaming Perspective, the industry standard for streaming performance measurement. Today, some of the world's largest companies (such as AOL, Akamai, BBC, CNN, and MTV) use that service to ensure that their content reach their audiences. Streaming Perspective is also the basis of Microsoft's certification program for Windows Media hosting companies. Formerly, Shai lead the Streamcheck team from its launch in August of 2000 until its acquisition by Keynote in July 2003.

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Stefan Agamanolis heads Distance Lab, a creative research institute bringing together technology, design and the arts to redefine and overcome distance. He has over 10 years of experience inside the MIT Media Lab, first as a student and later as one of the founding research directors at Media Lab Europe. Working with briefs from industry partners, Distance Lab generates ideas and builds prototypes that can lead to new innovative products.

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Stuart Henshall is Founder and CEO of Phweet which brings talk to any URL. Phweet eliminates phone numbers and lets users manage interruptions and present their own CallerID with call context. Stuart is a well known VoIP (henshall.com) blogging evangelist (founder Skype Journal). His research company Mosoci LLC has done extensive research in the mobile social space.

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Recognized as an expert in the integration of real-time communications and business processes as well as one of the most influential voices in VoIP, Thomas Howe leads the Jaduka team. Howe has over 20 years experience in the design and development of next-generation communications solutions, and has held senior management and technical positions at several public and private companies, including Comverse, PictureTel, Aware, Versatel and Tangerine. Through his own consulting business, he has focused on a Web-as-platform approach to enhancing business processes. A sought-after speaker, Thomas has keynoted several conferences. He publishes one of the telecom industry's most popular blogs.

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Todd Landry joined Sphere in 2003 to lead product management, marketing and business development. Prior to Sphere, Mr. Landry launched carrier-class IP Telephony SoftSwitch and Media Gateway solutions as Vice President of Product Management at CommWorks Corporation (a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation). At CommWorks, Mr. Landry also established several OEMs and conducted strategic acquisitions. Prior, he led the development and launch of the Total Control line of Internet access and wireless CDMA mobile data products as Vice President of Product Management at U.S. Robotics. Mr. Landry holds two U.S. patents related to IP telephony and mobile wireless data systems.

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Todd G. Simpson is President and CEO of Ditech Networks. With over 10 years of leadership experience in the technology industry, Todd has helped establish Ditech as the leader in voice quality solutions for the global telecom market. Todd joined Ditech Networks in June 2005 through its acquisition of Jasomi Networks, and became CEO in September 2007 after holding several senior level positions. At Jasomi, Todd worked to establish the corporation as a thought leader in IP communications, positioning the company to win several awards as the provider of VoIP session border controllers. He has also obtained several patents.

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Tony Jebara is associate professor of computer science at Columbia University as well as chief scientist and co-founder at Sense Networks. His research intersects computer science and statistics to develop algorithms that learn from spatio-temporal data, networks, images and text. Jebara’s work has been featured on TV (ABC, BBC, New York One, TechTV) as well as in the popular press (New York Times, Slash Dot, Wired, Scientific American, Newsweek). Recently, Esquire Magazine named him one of their Best and Brightest for 2008. Jebara obtained his PhD in 2002 from MIT.

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Trevor Baca is VP of Software Engineering at Jaduka, where he leads realtime systems engineering and telephony services development. Baca has ten years' experience in telephony and software development and has held senior leadersip roles in Software Development, Systems Engineering, and Human-Computer Interaction. Earlier in his career Baca worked at Simplified Development Corporation as Director of Systems Engineering and oversaw the development of Simplified Ventana, one of the first telephony provisioning systems developed through extensive user experience engineering. Baca holds patents US 6,292,554 in switching and protocol integration and US 6,914,967 in realtime QoS analysis and corrections.

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Trevor Healy is CEO at Jajah. A successful entrepreneur and Nasdaq 100 executive, Mr. Healy brings a blend of early stage skills, and public company knowledge to Jajah. He has participated in three M&A exits, completed an IPO and Secondary Offering, and ran business units of two large public entities. Prior, to joining Jajah, Mr. Healy was a Vice President at PayPal Inc., a division of eBay Inc. Formerly, as a Vice President at Verisign Inc., he spearheaded the move for consumers to shop online, being the GM of the eCommerce SAAS business.

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Wes Leonardo is a Sr. Flash Platform Engineer with the Ribbit Developer Platform team. Wes works closely with the Ribbit community to enable and inspire the use of Ribbit's technologies in their applications. He has worked with the Flash Platform and ColdFusion for the past 7 years. Prior to joining Ribbit, Wes has worked for companies such as Amcom, The Children's Internet, D2D Cars, and eBay. Wes is also an active member of the Silicon Valley Flex User Group and has presented at the 360|Flex conferences.

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Dr. Xuedong Huang is General Manager of Microsoft Communications Innovation Center in Redmond, WA. Dr. He joined Microsoft Research in 1993 to found Microsoft's Speech Technology Group. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was on faculty at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Sciences and directed the effort in developing CMU's Sphinx-II speech recognition system. Dr. Huang led the Carnegie Mellon University team achieving not only the best system in 1992's DARPA speech benchmarking, but also the most dramatic error reduction in the history of DARPA's speech evaluations.

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