We are elated to have a high level keynote from Intel at our upcoming VoIP Developer conference in South San Francisco August 2-4, 2005. I hope to see you there as Intel’s Michael Stanford graced the show with an amazing keynote last year and introduced the audience to the term “ambient telephony“ which I have been reiterating to the mainstream press any chance I get.

Here is Michael Stanford’s photo and a bio:

Michael Stanford
Director, VoIP Strategy,
Digital Enterprise Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Michael Stanford is an Intel Principal Engineer, and is Director of Voice over IP Strategy for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group.  In this role, Michael works with architects, engineers, and business managers inside and outside of Intel to design standards-based Intel® building blocks for VoIP.  Michael also works in a business development role, co-operating on several projects with the Intel Capital Group.

Prior to this role, Michael was Vice President of Engineering at Picazo Communications, a VoIP PBX company acquired by Intel in 2000 for its VoIP engineering expertise.  He joined Picazo in 1998 when Picazo acquired a computer-based communications software company that Michael had founded in 1993.
Michael is a serial entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in the software development and telecommunications industries.