A VoIP conference is one of the best ways to stay educated on VoIP. VoIP is hotter than ever. And I have to say, staying educated on the latest VoIP products, services, or VoIP standards is a full-time job (actually it is my job!) Fortunately, TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo, the leading VoIP conference, helps keep me educated.
2005 no doubt will be a banner year for VoIP. Many industry pundits are making predictions as such - everything from VoIP company mergers/buyouts to IPOs to some unknown killer VoIP-app will happen in 2005. This next big VoIP conference (February 22nd-25th) promises to be the largest VoIP conference ever. Rich Tehrani tells me the attendee pre-registration number for this VoIP conference are already setting record numbers. The conference track for Internet Telephony Conference & Expo is amazing this year with some really interesting topics. Check out some of the topics the speakers will be covering in the conference sessions:- VoIP Peering
- Regulation & Taxation
- E-911
- UNE-P to VoIP
- VoIP Security
- Open Source Telephony <--- Probably my favorite topic
- Triple Play
- Session Border Controllers
- WiFi Telephony
- SIP Workshop
- VoIP Conferencing
Update: I've been asked a few times to provide a list of other VoIP conferences, so here ya go:
VoIP Conferences
- SIPit conference event: SIPITs, or Session Initiation Protocol Interoperability Tests, are weeklong events where people bring their SIP implementations to ensure they work together.
March, 2005
Banff, Canada - Internet Telephony Conference & Expo Spring: This VoIP conference includes several conference tracks as well as hundreds of exhibitors
Feb 22-25th, 2005
Miami, FL, USA - International SIP Conference 2005: Learn all about SIP, the hottest VoIP protocol, at this conference
Jan 25th-28th, 2005
Paris, France - Next Gen Voice Conference:
Feb 7-8th, 2005
London, England - Internet Telephony Conference & Expo Fall: This VoIP conference includes several conference tracks as well as hundreds of exhibitors
Oct 24-27th, 2005
Los Angeles, CA - VON Conference & Expo Spring 2005:
March 7-10th, 2005
San Jose, CA - VoIP World conference & Strategy Summit:
April 26-28th, 2005
The Royal Garden Hotel, London, England - China VoIP Conference & Expo 2005:
May 18-20th, 2005
Beijing, China - Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2005: The convergence of WiFi and voice (voice over WiFi) or VoIP using WiFi will become huge in the near future
May 10-23th, 2005
Paris, France