ITEXPO East Features Impressive Vendor Participation

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ITEXPO East Features Impressive Vendor Participation

itexpo09.gifITEXPO East is just a few weeks away (February 2-4th) in sunny Miami, Florida. How is the show shaping up? Well, if ITEXPO West is any indication, ITEXPO East should be a great show. Vendor participation for ITEXPO West increased almost 50%, and 216 exhibitors issued almost 400 news announcements from the show floor, detailing new products, services and alliances that were announced at ITEXPO. Additionally, more than 215 exhibiting companies, 366 speakers, 5,800 conference and expo attendees, and almost 100 members of the media participated in the event.

TMC already has some great speakers lined up for ITEXPO which has several co-located shows, including 4GWE, SmartGrid, M2M Evolution, SocialCRM, Digium Asterisk World, Startup Camp, and more. Check out this partial list of speakers and conference session descriptions below:

ITEXPO
Gary Mading, Senior Product Manager, Aastra
• SIP Trunk-UC Summit

Mykola Konrad, Director of Enterprise Product Management, Sonus Networks
• CC-03  Bringing Your Contact Center into the IP Generation

Paul Baron, Vice President, North America for VideoMost, SPIRIT Technologies
• SP-03  Maintaining Service Quality while Introducing New Next Generation Services
• SCRM-04       Turning Social Media into a Business Asset

Max Schroeder, Sr. VP, FaxCore Inc.
• SIP Trunk-UC Summit

John Ayers, CPE Product, Qwest Communications
• SIP Trunk-UC Summit

Michael McAfee, Senior Project Manager, Qwest Communications
• SIP Trunk-UC Summit

Ken Osowski, Director of Product Marketing, Dialogic Corporation
• NGC-03 “Trends and the Future of VoIP/Telco 2.0 - The Emergence of Cloud Telephony”
• SP-03 “Maintaining Service Quality while Introducing New Next Generation Services”

Karim Toubba, VP of Product Marketing, Juniper Networks
• MW-06 “Securing Tablets and Smartphones in the Enterprise”

SMART GRID
Dr. Massoud Amin, Director, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
• SG-06   KEYNOTE - Smart Grid: Enable a Stronger and Smarter Energy Infrastructure        

Christopher Gorog, Applications Manager, Atmel Corp.
• SG-04   Personal Privacy - Who Left the Fridge Door Open?
• SG-07 “Transmission and Distribution - Building a Strong Foundation”        

Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
• SG-04   Personal Privacy - Who Left the Fridge Door Open?

Ward  Pyles, Senior Security Analyst, Southern Company
• SG-04   Personal Privacy - Who Left the Fridge Door Open?

Joy Rychlik, Country Director, Nokia Siemens Networks
• SG-12   Voice of the Customer - are Utilities Listening?     

George Gamble, Principal Consultant, Black & Veatch
• SG-16   The Rural Smart Grid Opportunity           

Henry Bailey, Vice President, Services Industries, SAP
• SG-17   Electric Vehicles - Got Yours Yet?

4GWE
Craig Miller, VP Marketing and BD, Sequans
• 4G-11 "Is 4G the most important trend in Device Development"

Hanna   Tong, Director of Business Development Convergence Solutions, Samsung Telecommunications America
• 4G-11 "Is 4G the most important trend in Device Development"

BUSINESS VIDEO
Eric Armstrong (Moderator), CEO, Kontiki
• BV-06 “Strategies for Boosting Enterprise Network Capacity to Manage Video Sprawl”

Josh Bruhin, Director of Business Development, ViewCast Media Server -ViewCast
• BV-09 “Enabling the On-Demand Universe: Best Practices for Managing Video Content for Time-Shifted Business Communications”

Barb DeHart, Vice President of Marketing, Telestream
• BV-03 “Capitalizing on the “Video Everywhere” Revolution”

Fabian Gordon, Chief Technology Officer, Ignite Technologies
• BV-02 “Business Video Thought Leaders”

Toby Holmes, VP Online Event Services, Worktank
• BV-04 “Live Video and the Changing Face of Business Communications”

Kevin La Chapelle, Principal Product Unit Manager, Expression Encoder, Microsoft
• BV-04 “Live Video and the Changing Face of Business Communications”

Darcy Lorincz, Chief Executive Officer, Origin Digital, an Accenture company
• BV-09 “Enabling the On-Demand Universe: Best Practices for Managing Video Content for Time-Shifted Business Communications”

Aaron McCormack, Chief Executive Officer, BT Conferencing
• BV-08 “Business Video Keynote”

Gregg Moss, VP- Enteprise Streaming Media Strategy and Delivery, Bank of America
• BV-02 “Business Video Thought Leaders”

Mike Newman, CEO, Accordent Technologies
• BV-02 “Business Video Thought Leaders”

Steve Pattison, SVP Strategic Alliances, Accordent Technologies
• BV-11 “Extending the Reach of Video with YouTube in the Enterprise:”

Greg Pulier, Chief Technology Officer, Media Platform
• BV-02 “Business Video Thought Leaders”

Scott Safe, Vice President Product Strategy and Marketing, Qumu
• BV-07 “Opportunities in Mobile Video”

Akshay Sharma (Moderator), Director, Gartner
• BV-07 “Opportunities in Mobile Video”

Ian Small, Chief Exeuctive Office, Microsoft
• BV-04 “Live Video and the Changing Face of Business Communications”

Jason Thirow, Ignite Technologies
• BV-07 “Opportunities in Mobile Video”

Steve Vonder Haar, Research Director, Interactive Media Strategies
• BV-01 “Opening Session: Key Trends in Business Video Adoption”

Wayne Wall, , Flimp Media
• BV-05 “Online Video and Marketing Innovation”    

SCRM
Cecilia Edwards, Head of Strategy - Telligent

Jay Hallberg, Co-Founder and Vice President - SpiceWorks