Voxeo Events

VoiceCon Orlando 2010 will be held March 22-25, 2010 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in sunny Orlando, Florida (where Voxeo headquarters is also located).  We will not be exhibiting, however several Voxeons including Dan York, Director of Conversations will be in attendance.  Dan will be participating in three sessions:

March 22, 2010 – 3:15 – 4:00 pm

Dan York: Securing Communications (breakout session)

(Location: Osceola 1)

The issue of security in communications has gone well beyond concerns over vulnerabilities in IP networks. The issues of securing your enterprise’s communications systems now extend into mobility, connections with other networks (public and other private networks), as well as the latest concern–issues around security and policy regarding social networking. In this wide-ranging session, we’ll briefly review the state of VOIP security, but will then move on to these new, more complex issues. The session will give you a foundation for understanding the universe of security challenges you face in the new communications environment. KEY QUESTIONS: * Is IP network security still the primary concern in converged communications networks? If so, what specific vulnerabilities are causing real-world issues? * What security challenges are added as mobility systems are integrated into IP telephony/Unified Communications? How do you protect against these challenges? * Can enterprises maintain security while connecting their “islands” of VOIP via SIP trunks? What about opening up their voice systems to business partners or to hosted providers that are delivering discrete elements of the enterprise’s voice system? * What are the biggest security concerns relating to users’ adoption of social networking? Are the major issues related to corporate policies, or are there ways in which the security of the communications system itself can be threatened when social networking is integrated with enterprise systems?

Speaker/Moderator – Mark Collier, CTO & Vice President of Engineering, Securelogix

Speaker – Irwin Lazar, Vice President Communications & Collaboration Research, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President for Communications Research at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars and advises clients. His background is in network operations, network engineering, voice-data convergence, and IP telephony. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, Web 2.0 initiatives, social networking, and collaboration.

Speaker – Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo

Dan York is Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation heading up the company’s communication through both traditional and new/social media. Previously, Dan served in Voxeo’s Office of the CTO focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues.  Since the mid-1980’s Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. Dan frequently presents at conferences, has authored multiple books on Linux and networking and has written numerous articles in print and online. His writing can be found at DisruptiveTelephony.com and Voxeo’s weblogs at blogs.voxeo.com

Speaker – Mark Cortner, Senior Analyst, Burton Group/Gartner

March 23, 2010 – 2:00 – 5:00 pm

Dan York: SIP Fundamentals and Prospects (workshop)

(Location: Osceola B)

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has become the dominant protocol for IP communications. This workshop explains SIP — how it works, the major issues impacting deployments and how SIP will evolve in the future.

The session focuses on the technical aspects of SIP and how it is used. It analyzes in detail the major components of SIP architecture, SIP addressing and registration, session establishment, SIP message routing and connecting SIP across the PSTN. You will learn about SIP extensions and how SIMPLE works for IM/presence. The workshop also examines some of the challenges SIP faces, including NAT traversal (and the tools developed to cope with it: STUN, TURN and ICE) and security. The tutorial concludes with an assessment of how SIP may evolve and its role in peer-to-peer environments. You will receive an inventory of SIP resources—books, papers and organizations.

Instructor – Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo

March 24, 2010 – 3:00 pm

Dan York (panelist): Challenges in Achieving the Promise of Presence

(Location: Sarasota)

Presence is the heart of next-generation enterprise communications by providing information about who is available and via what method.  There are, however, two challenges:  First, presence loses much of its value if it’s implemented within discrete systems that can’t exchange information – e.g., between different systems within an enterprise, between partner companies, with customers and between public and private networks.  Second, while Unified Communications capabilities open up many more possibilities to identify and reach the individual or skill needed, that openness threatens to bury us in too much, too easy contact.

Two capabilities are needed: An open but secure ability to exchange presence information between systems, and an efficient way to establish and maintain rules and policies about who can contact who, when, and how.  This session will explore these topics and examine progress on these important functionality issues.

KEY QUESTIONS: * What “rich presence” capabilities will we see, and how will they help Unified Communications applications deployment? * What are the issues in inter- and intra-enterprise presence aggregation and federation, and how far have we progressed in solving them? * How is the use of social networks affecting the concepts of presence? * Will setting presence status require less manual intervention in the future? * What is the role of rules and policy engines, and where are we in their development? * How should enterprises plan current deployments to be ready for future presence capabilities?

Speaker/Moderator – Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting

Reactor Panelist – Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo

Dan York is Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation heading up the company’s communication through both traditional and new/social media. Previously, Dan served in Voxeo’s Office of the CTO focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues.  Since the mid-1980’s Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. Dan frequently presents at conferences, has authored multiple books on Linux and networking and has written numerous articles in print and online. His writing can be found at DisruptiveTelephony.com and Voxeo’s weblogs at blogs.voxeo.com

Reactor Panelist – Albert Kooiman, Director Product Management, Microsoft Corporation

Reactor Panelist – Pat Galvin, Architect – Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM

Pat Galvin joined IBM in 1998 as part of the original Sametime team.  He is now the lead architect for Sametime, and has contributed to every release along the way.  He is also a leading evangelist for the use of SIP within IBM, and he lead the team that extended the WebSphere Application Server to support the development of SIP-based applications.  Most recently he headed up the team that built Sametime Unified Telephony, an add-on that seamlessly integrates Sametime with the enterprise telephone system.

Reactor Panelist – Lawrence Byrd, Director Unified Communications Architecture, Avaya

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