Voxeo Talks

Will you be out at VoiceCon San Francisco November 10-13th? If so, please do stop by one of the sessions I (Dan York) will be doing or drop me an email, as I’m always interested in meeting up with readers. Voxeo does not have a booth, but I’ll be there to be part of two sessions that both happen to be on Wednesday the 12th.

I’ll be starting off the day’s schedule bright and early doing an 8am Keynote Panel entitled “Morning Call: Building the New Collaborative Enterprise” where I’ll be joining VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf and industry analyst Irwin Lazar to talk about the new ways in which we are communicating. Here’s the abstract:

Call it Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 or call it ways in which we get to know one another, there are a whole new set of online tools and services like blogs, wikis and Facebook that are now part of the popular culture. This session will explore their role in a much different environment – within the enterprise. We start from the proposition that these new tools for accessing, collecting and storing information are already being used within the enterprise, but the question is how to maximize their value without compromising essential network security and corporate governance processes. This discussion will focus on what’s real today and what’s likely to happen in the future.

Irwin, Eric and I did a last-minute session (someone else cancelled) on this at VoiceCon Orlando earlier this year and we’re looking forward to having this discussion out in SF. It should be fun and interesting session. (I can almost guarantee corporate/enterprise microblogging will come up!

Later in the day, at 2:45pm, I’ll then be moderating a session titled “Developing Voice Applications Using Mashups and SOA ” which should be interesting because you have myself, Crick Waters, the co-founder of Ribbit, and then a person from Cisco’s Unified Communications group. Here’s the abstract:

One of the key opportunities as we move to software-based communications is the potential for application developers to readily and relatively simply build new voice applications and to combine functionalities of existing applications. This may take place in different ways?either via vendor-specific application programming interfaces (APIs), or via standard interfaces such as Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This session will examine the different ways of creating new types of voice applications and “mashups,” and will help you understand which technical approach may be right for a given situation.
* What are SOA’s technical elements? How mature are they and the standards?
* How widely deployed is SOA today? How extensively is it being used in conjunction with voice systems?
* How does SOA differ from an API-based approach? How is each approach likely to be best employed in creating new voice applications?
* What are the most important APIs for developers and IT professionals who are interested in voice mashups and communications-enabled applications?
* What are some real-world examples of voice mashups and/or communications-enabled apps that leverage APIs and SOA?

My goal will be to make it a very interactive discussion-oriented session that is more interesting for the attendees.

In any event, if you are out at VoiceCon, please do drop me a note or look for me at one of the sessions or other events going on out there.

Technorati Tags: voicecon, social media, social networking, dan york, irwin lazar, mashups, soa, voxeo, ribbit, voice mashups, voice, voip

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