Technology Marketing Corporation has released the preliminary conference program and keynote schedule for its upcoming INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo West 2007. The conference and trade show is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif. September 10-12, 2007.
The entire program schedule can be viewed at the event’s Web site,
www.itexpo.com.
This year’s expansive program features specific tracks focusing on the needs of Service Providers, Enterprises, Government Agencies, SMBs, and Resellers. Each educational track was hand-selected from hundreds of proposals submitted by IP communications experts around the world.
Conference tracks at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2007 include:
- Unified Communications
- Enterprise Solutions
- VoIP for SMB
- Service Provider Solutions
- Essential Issues
- IMS Expo at INTERNET TELEPHONY
- FMC
- Call Center 2.0 at INTERNET TELEPHONY
- Open Source
- Wireless/Mobility
- SIP
- FierceMarkets’ IPTV Evolution
In addition, TMC announced that the following keynote speakers will appear at the event:
- Bryan Martin, Chairman & CEO, 8x8, Inc.
- Susan A. Johnson, Senior Vice President, Business Development, AT&T
- Nick Jensen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dialogic
- Mark Spencer, President, Digium, Inc.
- Donald E. Brown, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Intelligence
- Norman Stout, Chief Executive Officer, Inter-Tel, Incorporated
TMC also announced that they’ve added ‘Executive Showcase’ presentations to this year’s exhibit hall experience at INTERNET TELEPHONY. Open to all registered attendees, these presentations feature true IP communications industry pioneers giving their perspective on topics impacting adoption of next-gen communications solutions. Executive Showcase presenters committed to date include:
- Alan Percy, Director of Business Development, AudioCodes
- Chuck Rutledge, VP of Marketing, Quintum Technologies
- Todd Landry, Senior Vice President, Sphere Communications
- Mansour Salame, Chairman of the Board and CEO , Contactual, Inc.
“INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO is the best attended IP Communications event in the world,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and conference chairman. “The strength of this event and is, and always will be, the incredible opportunity to learn. Our team of editors at INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine spent months assembling the most relevant curriculum that will be taught by the highest caliber faculty. I honestly believe the conference’s educational content is the best available, and is the strength of this one of a kind event.”
The conference program features educational sessions, presented by foremost experts, on the most relevant topics like unified communications, IMS/FMC, IPTV/IP video, open source, mobile and wireless solutions, QoS, DSP resource boards, VoIP security, SOA, and more.
In addition to the nearly 100 breakout sessions in the conference program, there will be several workshops offered to all ITEXPO attendees. These workshops include:
- Voice Peering Fabric Workshop
- Ingate’s SIP Trunking Workshop
- Vocalocity’s Hosted VoIP Reseller Workshop
- Disaster Preparedness Forum Workshop
- ECA’s Reseller Live Workshop
Tehrani added, “The scope and depth of content at this event is so impressive to me. Every single important topic is covered under one roof by the core conference program, by the co-located IMS EXPO and Call Center 2.0 conferences, or by the workshops offered by our content partners.”
Registration for the conference is now open at
www.itexpo.com. For additional information regarding exhibit and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Dave Rodriguez at (203) 852-6800, ext. 146 or via e-mail at
drodriguez@tmcnet.com