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Conference Speakers

Rob Frederick
Rob Frederick

Snapvine Inc.
Mr Frederick brings over 10 years of technology expertise and management to Snapvine, a Seattle-based startup. Prior to Snapvine, Mr. Frederick was a Senior Technical Manager at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for ...more

Norman Lewis

Wireless Grids Corporation, USA
Dr Norman Lewis is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Wireless Grids Corporation, USA. Prior to joining WGC, he was the Director of Technology Research for Orange, UK. Prior to this Lewis was the ...more

Mark Spencer

Digium
Mark Spencer founded Linux Support Services in 1999 while still a computer engineering student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX, Spencer simply used his Linux PC and ...more

Surj Patel


Surj Patel is currently a freelance mobile and media technologist specializing in innovation. He most recently worked at the R+D lab for the wireless operator Orange in Boston. Previous to that, Patel was at the ...more

Brian Aker

MySQL AB
Brian Aker is the director of architecture for MySQL when he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunities to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and telephony. In ...more

Mike Liebhold

Institute for the Future
Mike Liebhold is currently a senior researcher for the Institute for the Future, IFTF, initially focusing on the implications and technologies of a geospatial web as a platform for pervasive and contextual computing. ...more

Kaliya Hamlin

Identity Woman
Identity Woman Kaliya Hamlin is a co-producer of the Internet Identity Workshops along with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. As a freelance evangelist for open standards in user-centric identity, she works tirelessly ...more

Moshe Yudkowsky

Disaggregate
Moshe Yudkowsky has twenty years of experience in product development in high-technology industries. He is president of Disaggregate, a consulting company that helps companies create, understand, and apply revolutionary technology. Yudkowsky specializes in consulting ...more

Rob FrederickNorman LewisMark SpencerSurj PatelBrian Aker
Mike LiebholdKaliya HamlinMoshe Yudkowsky Also Speaking:

ETel 2007 Topics

  • Open Source Software and Hardware / Open Telephony
  • Wireless Mobility and Mobile Telephony
  • Wifi Telephony, the Telephone Network as a Platform
  • Intersection of VoIP telephony and Web Services Infrastructure
  • Voice as Data
  • Ethnography, Culture, and People
  • Usability and Experience
  • Business Models
  • Early Warning Signals

Share your ideas about what you think are the most important issues in telephony. Want to suggest a particular speaker, project, or topic for ETel 2007? Send a note to the program committee at etelchair@oreilly.com, or post a note on the ETel 2007 wiki.