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ETel Schedule

Tuesday, February 27Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

8:30AM: Workshops

OpenMoko / FIC NEO 1973 Workshop Sean Moss-Pulz, Product Manager, OpenMoko Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM Location: Salon E

Communication Underload: A Contrarian Approach Stowe Boyd, the /Messenger of /Message, /Message Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM Location: Salon F

Freeswitch Bootcamp: The Open Softswitch Anthony Minnesale Brian West, System Administrator, Asterlink, Inc. Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM Location: Salon ABCD

Building A Telecom Business Without Selling Your Soul Brian McConnell, Founder, Open Communication Systems Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM Location: Bayside II & III

Break

Kitchen Table Alienware: Software Radio for the Hardware Hacker Matt Ettus, GNURadio Time: 10:30AM - 12:00PM Location: Salon E

Searching Calls: Indexing, Searching, and Retrieving Recorded Speech Sunil Vemuri, Chief Product Officer, QTECH, Inc. Drew Lanham, Nexidia Time: 10:30AM - 12:00PM Location: Salon F

Asterisk Hard Hat Session: Deep Hacks and Shortcuts Jim Van Meggelen, President & CTO, Core Telecom Innovations Brian Capouch, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Saint Joseph's College Nenad Corbic David Troy, President and CEO, Popvox, LLC Stephen Uhler, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Time: 10:30AM - 12:00PM Location: Salon ABCD

IMS Debate Lee S. Dryburgh, Doctorate Candidate, Protocol Engineer, University College London Johannes Ernst, CEO, NetMesh Inc. Martin Geddes, Chief Analyst, STL Jenny Zhou, France Telecom/Orange Labs Time: 10:30AM - 12:00PM Location: Bayside II & III

Lunch

Communication Product Design Workshop Mark Simpkins, Technical Consultant, Central St Martins School Of Art Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM Location: Salon E

Design and Prototyping of Telco Network APIs David Beckemeyer, Founder and CEO, TelEvolution, Inc. Rob Frederick, Technical Product and Program Manager, Snapvine Inc. Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM Location: Salon F

Prophecy, SIP and CCXML - Call Control as an Application RJ Auburn, CTO, Voxeo Corporation Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM Location: Salon ABCD

Blackbag VoIP Security Briefings Dan York, Best Practices Chair, Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) Shawn Merdinger, Security Researcher, VoIP Security Alliance Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM Location: Bayside II & III

Break

Open Source Hardware / Phoneware Matt Hamrick, Co-founder, Homebrew Mobile Phone Club Benoit Schillings, Trolltech Time: 3:15PM - 4:45PM Location: Salon E

Utility Computing and the LignUp Voice Application Platform Kevin Nethercott, Founder, President and COO, Lignup Time: 3:15PM - 4:45PM Location: Salon F

Rocking Ruby on Asterisk Using Adhearsion Jay Phillips, Owner and CEO, Codemecca LLC Time: 3:15PM - 4:45PM Location: Salon ABCD

XMPP and Voice: A New Way to Chat Greg Unrein, Product Manager, Jive Software Time: 3:15PM - 4:45PM Location: Bayside II & III

6:45PM: Keynotes

Welcome Surj Patel Brady Forrest, Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Time: 6:45PM - 7:00PM

7:00PM: Sessions

Launch Pad Om Malik, Founder and Executive Editor, GigaOM Time: 7:00PM - 8:30PM

8:45PM: Events

Launch Pad Reception Time: 8:45PM - 10:00PM

Wednesday, February 28Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

8:45AM: Keynotes

Welcome Brady Forrest, Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Surj Patel Time: 8:45AM - 9:00AM

Om Malik: The Business of VoIP Om Malik, Founder and Executive Editor, GigaOM Time: 9:00AM - 9:15AM

Putting the Internet in Your Pocket Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Time: 9:15AM - 9:45AM

MSR's SMS Server for Rural India Sean Blagsvedt, Head of Program Management and Advanced Prototyping, MSR India Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Associate Researcher, MSR India Time: 9:45AM - 10:00AM

Social Networks Need Social Networks Ndiata Kalonji, Director of Research, Network Architecture, France Telecom Time: 10:00AM - 10:15AM

Break

10:45AM: Sessions

Empowering People and the Coming Identity Layer of Everything Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman Time: 10:45AM - 11:00AM

Auto-Buddies: Connecting Relevant Strangers Lee S. Dryburgh, Doctorate Candidate, Protocol Engineer, University College London Time: 11:00AM - 11:15AM

FreeNum: Phone Numbers are Dead. Long Live the Phone Number! John Todd, CTO, TalkPlus Time: 11:15AM - 11:30AM

Voice 2.0 and Simplicity RJ Auburn, CTO, Voxeo Corporation Time: 11:30AM - 11:45AM

Unlicensed Spectrum Tales from the Lamppost Chris Sacca, Google Inc. Time: 11:45AM - 12:00PM

Telephony Mashup Contest David Nielsen, Director Partner Programs, StrikeIron, Inc. http://www.strikeiron.com Time: 12:00PM - 12:10PM

Lunch

Tapping in to the Open Source for Innovation Benoit Schillings, Trolltech Time: 1:30PM - 1:45PM

Mobile 2.0: Next Generation of Wi-Fi Handsets and Services Ram Fish, CEO and Founder, FONAV Time: 1:45PM - 2:00PM

Where Will Voice 3.0 Take Us? Jeff Bonforte, Sr. Director of Real Time Communication Product Management, Yahoo! Inc. Time: 2:00PM - 2:15PM

2:15PM: Panels

Panel: Telephone 2.0 for Real? Owen Linderholm, Editor, VoIP News Jeffery Black, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, TalkPlus Jeff Bonforte, Sr. Director of Real Time Communication Product Management, Yahoo! Inc. Michael Cerda, CEO and Co-founder, Jangl, Inc. Simon Gwatkin, Vice-President of Strategic Marketing, Mitel Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum Craig Walker, Founder and CEO, GrandCentral Communications Time: 2:15PM - 2:45PM

2:45PM: Sessions

Speaker Q&A Time: 2:45PM - 3:00PM

Break

New Opportunities from Socially Responsive Design in Mobile Communication Systems Mark Simpkins, Technical Consultant, Central St Martins School Of Art Time: 3:45PM - 4:00PM

Rice-dex: Commercial WiMax and Meaningful Phone Applications in Vietnam Kevin Nethercott, Founder, President and COO, Lignup Time: 4:00PM - 4:15PM

Voice and the Web: The New Terrain Trevor Baca, Vice President, Software Engineering, Jaduka Time: 4:15PM - 4:30PM

Lightning Talks Timothy B. Higginson, Neokeys Sean Brown, Product Manager, Mobile Solutions, Nuance Communications, Inc. Time: 4:30PM - 4:45PM

Ambient Storytelling: Social Communication Through Handset Presence Jyri Engestrom, Co-founder, Jaiku Time: 4:45PM - 5:00PM

MySpace Mobile: Portable Communities Empowering Users Jason Ling, Head of Mobile Products and Technology, MySpace.com Time: 5:00PM - 5:15PM

Lightning Talks Sean Moss-Pulz, Product Manager, OpenMoko Sunil Vemuri, Chief Product Officer, QTECH, Inc. Craig Walker, Founder and CEO, GrandCentral Communications Time: 5:15PM - 5:30PM

Corraleta Applet Phone: Enabling Any Browser to Call Any Phone, Anywhere in the World Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd Time: 5:30PM - 5:45PM

Speaker Q&A Mike Liebhold, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Future Time: 5:45PM - 6:00PM

6:00PM: Events

Sponsor Gallery Reception Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM Location: Salon F

ETel Fair Time: 7:30PM - 9:30PM Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday, March 1Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

8:45AM: Keynotes

Introductions Surj Patel Brady Forrest, Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Time: 8:45AM - 9:00AM

Wake-Up Call to Telcos Martin Geddes, Chief Analyst, STL Time: 9:00AM - 9:30AM

The Future of Voice Jerry Thompson, British Telcom Time: 9:30AM - 9:45AM

The View from the Edge: Human Interaction is Driving POTS to PANS^2 John Waclawsky, Chief Software Architect, Motorola Time: 9:45AM - 10:00AM Location: Salon ABCD

Mabel, White Mice, and Other Secrets: Dialectal Materialism for Emerging Telephony Moshe Yudkowsky, President, Disaggregate Time: 10:00AM - 10:15AM

Break

11:00AM: Sessions

The Black Bag Security Review Dan York, Best Practices Chair, Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) Time: 11:00AM - 11:15AM

Reversing the Paradigm James Body, Truphone Time: 11:15AM - 11:30AM

Ajax and Mobility Alex Russell, Project Lead, SitePen Time: 11:30AM - 11:45AM Location: Salon ABCD

You Ain't Seen Anything Yet Mate: Digital Children and the Future of Disruptive Innovation Norman Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer, Wireless Grids Corporation, USA Time: 11:45AM - 12:00PM

Myths and Promises of an Open Mobile Web Mike Liebhold, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Future Time: 12:00PM - 12:15PM

Lunch

Extending SMS and MMS Dorrian Porter, CEO, Mozes, Inc. Time: 1:30PM - 1:45PM

The Global Call for Health Joel D. Selanikio, MD, Co-founder, The Datadyne Group Time: 1:45PM - 2:00PM

Ndiyo: Towards sustainable IT for the world... Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Executive Director, Ndiyo Time: 2:00PM - 2:15PM

Making Video Telephony Work Aron Rosenberg, Founder and CTO, SightSpeed, Inc. Time: 2:15PM - 2:30PM

Built to Last: One Year on for Freeswitch Brian West, System Administrator, Asterlink, Inc. Time: 2:30PM - 2:45PM

Speaker Q&A Time: 2:45PM - 3:00PM

Break

The Future of Asterisk Mark Spencer, President, Digium Time: 3:45PM - 4:00PM Location: Salon ABCD

Mobile Devices: Past, Present, and Future Juergen Fey, Mobile Prototype Unit Nuremberg, Ericsson GmbH Time: 4:00PM - 4:15PM

How Consumer Identity Powers the Next Telecom Wave: Equals=2007 Ajay Madhok, Founder and CEO, Celiberate Networks Pvt Ltd | Equals Time: 4:15PM - 4:30PM Location: Salon ABCD

Trixbox: VoIP Hacking at Home Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB Time: 4:30PM - 4:45PM

Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday