{"id":4157,"date":"2006-01-25T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/meeting-ron-insana.html"},"modified":"2006-01-25T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:33:03","slug":"meeting-ron-insana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/meeting-ron-insana.html","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Ron Insana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">I am really looking forward to meeting Ron Insana today. I have been an avid CNBC fan for years \u2013 perhaps a decade or so. I can\u2019t wait to hear what Insana has to say. I have noticed that many of the big-name keynoters at ITEXPO are really loose on stage and seem much less scripted than on TV. This is always great as you don\u2019t want scripted keynotes. I expect Ron and Insana and <place w:st=\"on\"><placename w:st=\"on\">Tom<\/placename> <placename w:st=\"on\">Ridge<\/placename><\/place> tomorrow to do amazing jobs. So far I have learned a great deal from the few keynotes that have taken place. I am looking forward to learning more this week at the show.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a slew of announcements this week from the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/-att-avaya-accelerate-business-voip-migration-\/2006\/01\/24\/1311288.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Avaya\/AT&amp;T<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> announcement to the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-upc-netherlands-casema-multikabel-essent-caiw-jointly-select-\/2006\/01\/25\/1313180.htm\"><font size=\"2\">XConnect VoIP peering news<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. The exhibit hall opens tonight so there should be even more excitement. I can\u2019t wait. So far the attendance at the show has far exceeded everyone\u2019s expectations. I hope you get a chance to come down to <place w:st=\"on\"><placetype w:st=\"on\">Ft.<\/placetype> <placename w:st=\"on\">Lauderdale<\/placename><\/place> this week and see VoIP 2.0 in action.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really looking forward to meeting Ron Insana today. I have been an avid CNBC fan for years \u2013 perhaps a decade or so. I can\u2019t wait to hear what Insana has to say. I have noticed that many of the big-name keynoters at ITEXPO are really loose on stage and seem much less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}