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Program Agenda

2 Days. 24 Sessions. 60+ Speakers.

The Voice Peering Forum will feature lively cross-sectional keynote-level talks, issue-driven panels, short and high-impact presentations covering a wide range of topics while providing ample time for audience partcipiation and Q&A.

Preliminary Agenda for Monday, June 23 2008
07:30:00 - 09:30:00 Registration, Networking & Breakfast
08:45:00 - 09:15:00 Welcome Address
09:15:00 - 10:00:00 Keynote Address - Where are We?: What's Different? What Isn't?
10:00:00 - 10:15:00 Coffee & Tea Break
10:15:00 - 11:15:00 Telecoms in Uncertain Times
11:15:00 - 11:30:00 Coffee & Tea Break
11:30:00 - 12:15:00 The Anatomy of Session Border Controllers
  Update from Key International Carrier Hotels
  Regulatory Update: Intercarrier Compensation and its Impact on Peering
12:15:00 - 14:00:00 Luncheon, Networking and Sponsor Table-Tops
14:00:00 - 14:45:00 Software-based Telecoms
14:45:00 - 15:00:00 Coffee & Tea Break
15:00:00 - 15:45:00 VoIP Security Roundtable
  Bandwidth Demand: Increasing Faster than Moore's Law
  Telco 2.0 and Web 2.0: Making Money Together?
15:45:00 - 16:00:00 Coffee & Tea Break
16:00:00 - 16:45:00 International LD Trends and Traffic Volumes Q1 2008 Report
  Commercial Applications of Peer-to-peer
  Voice Mashups and their Business Models
17:00:00 - 19:30:00 Networking, Sponsor Table-Tops and Dinner Reception
Preliminary Agenda for Tuesday, June 24 2008
07:30:00 - 09:30:00 Registration, Networking & Breakfast
09:30:00 - 10:00:00 Voice Peering Fabric Update and Product Announcements
10:00:00 - 10:15:00 Coffee & Tea Break
10:15:00 - 11:15:00 Open Networks, Open Platforms
11:15:00 - 11:30:00 Coffee & Tea Break
11:30:00 - 12:15:00 To Couple or Decouple Routing Intelligence from SBC?
  Growth and Trends from Internet Exchange Point [IXP] Operators
  Federating Social Networks
12:15:00 - 14:00:00 Luncheon, Networking and Sponsor Table-Tops
14:00:00 - 14:45:00 The Drivers & Strategies Behind Voice Peering
  IPv6: Impact on Peering & Interconnection
  Global threat analysis on key interconnection points and systems
14:45:00 - 15:00:00 Coffee & Tea Break
15:00:00 - 15:45:00 Transitioning Carrier Routing Systems to ENUM
  Re-architecting the Internet for Sustainability: Photonic & Ethernet Core
  Service Delivery Platforms: The intersect of Web 2.0 and Telecom
15:45:00 - 16:00:00 Coffee & Tea Break
16:00:00 - 17:00:00 Closing Keynote - State of the Industry and What's Ahead


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Partial List of Confirmed Speakers:

Ty Wang
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Oracle Communications

Phillip Mobin
Co-Founder and CTO
jaxtr

Fabrizio Gelli
Wholesale Mobile Marketing Director
Telecom Italia Sparkle

Patrick Chanezon
OpenSocial Developer Advocate
Google

Paul A. Woelk
Sr Manager, Access Strategy
Sprint

Don Troshynski
Technical Director
Acme Packet

William B. Wilhelm, Jr.
Partner
Bingham McCutchen LLP

Francesco Fraccalvieri
Director Mobile Innovation & Trial
Telecom Italia

Claire Paponneau
Executive Vice President
France Telecom

Brent De Kay
VP Professional Services
BackFlip Software

Martin J. Levy
Dir IPv6 Strategy
Hurricane Electric

John Savageau
Managing Directory
CRG West

Glen Gerhard
VP Product Management
Sansay

Mauro Magrassi
Service Development Manager
MIX Milan

Irv Shapiro
CEO
Ifbyphone

Stefan Kuentz
VP, Business Development
Swisscom

Hunter Newby
Contributing Editor & Columnist
IP Business & Internet Telephony Magazine

Garry Galinsky
Director, Product Innovation
Call Genie

Rodrigue Ullens
Co-founder & CEO
Voxbone

Bill Binnig
Vice President, Marketing
jaduka

Asha Vellaikal
Research Manager
Orange Labs

Josh Snowhorn
Vice President
Terremark Worldwide

Eric Reiher
Founder & CTO
Mobivox

Michael King
President
Abacast

Cody Christman
Director of Product Engineering
NTT Communications

Rich Tehrani
President
TMCNet

Doug Dangremond
Vice President
Command Information

Anil Dharni
Director of Products
hi5 Networks

Shai Berger
CEO & Co-Founder
Fonolo

James Castagna
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Verizon Network & Technology

Ravi Gorur
VP, Product Management & Marketing for SBC
NextPoint Networks

Crick Waters
SVP Strategy and Business Devlopment
Ribbit

Doug Wilson
Sr. Network Architect
Microsoft

Patrick Christian
Senior Analyst
TeleGeography Research

Ken Kuenzel
Founder, VP Engineering and CTO
Covergence

Stephane Teral
Principal Analyst
Infonetics Research

James Taylor
Director Sustaining Engineering
Global Crossing

Shrihari Pandit
President & CEO
Stealth Communications

Daniel Mattes
Co-founder, Chairman
JAJAH

Trevor Baca
VP, Software Engineering
jaduka

Jim Dalton
Founder & CEO
TransNexus

Dave Rusin
Founder and CEO
American Fiber Systems

Gary Kim
Editor-in-Chief
IP Business

Aaron Blazar
Senior Analyst
ATLANTIC-ACM

Eric Gutshall
Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Hibernia Atlantic

Thomas Howe
CEO
The Thomas Howe Company

Alan Quayle
Consultant
Alan Quayle

Bob Bradley
Product Line Manager
Sonus Networks

Pete Pattullo
President and CEO
NetworkIP

Mike Lee
Chief Strategy Officer
Rogers Communications

Andrew Shikiar
Director of Global Marketing
LiMo Foundation

Julio Alvarez
International Business Director
Digicel

Steve Craycraft
Technical Director
Nominum

James Body
Director of Research
Truphone

Jereme Pitts
Senior Vice President and Co-founder
Accordent Technologies

Brian Swenson
Network Strategist
Microsoft

Carlos Da Silva
Americas Marketing Director
France Telecom

Charlene Li
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Forrester Research

Michael Boehlert
Director Technology & Consulting
ancotel GmbH

John McCrea
Vice President, Marketing
Plaxo

Bill Wishon
Director of Marketing
Kontiki

Eric Shepcaro
CEO
Telx

Robert J. Aamoth
Chairman, Telecommunications Practice Group
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

K.C. Halm
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

John Jason Brzozowski
Architect and Principal Engineer
Comcast

Pankaj Shroff
Chief Applications Architect
Sonus Networks

Fred Rogers
Manager, Next Generation IP
Sprint

Don MacNeil
VP, Carrier Services Operations
XO Communications

David L. Jones
Vice President of Global Marketing
Friendster

Tony Downes
Principal Technologist
Data Connection

Serge Melle
Vice-President, Technical Marketing
Infinera

Jaime Jimenez
Director Comm Services Product Engineering
Comcast