Voxeo Talks

Are you a developer working with voice or communications applications in the San Francisco Bay area? Or will you be in SF next week for VoiceCon or Enterprise 2.0? Interested in learning more about “voice mashups”, cloud-based voice, “recombinant telephony” and other innovations?

We (Voxeo) are joining with Orange Labs for a special edition of Orange Spotlight focused on the coming “wave” of mashups involving cloud-based voice technology, innovations in messaging, and realtime web. On Wednesday evening, November 4th, we will be hosting a collection of developers and strategists working at the edge of the current art in hosted contact center, IVR, speech, and multimodal technologies who are all gathered for the purpose of sharing knowledge and inspiration. Some of the participants include:

• Thomas Howe of voice mashup fame
• Voxeo – Dan York and Jason Goecke
• Rebelvox – Tom Katis
• Ditech Networks – Jamie Siminoff
• LiveOps – Tony Simek

and many more. If you are a subject matter expert or have an active interest in the future of telephony, this will be an evening of interactive discussion on this exciting area. The event is from 5:30 – 8:00pm at Orange Labs’ facility in South San Francisco near the SFO airport.

Space is limited so please email me (Dan York) ASAP if you are interested.

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Next week is a bit of a marathon speaking schedule for me (Dan York) out in San Francisco. VoiceCon and Enterprise 2.0 are co-located at the Moscone Center in downtown SF and I’m actually speaking at both events. Full details of my talks can be found on our event pages at:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/voicecon-san-francisco/
http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/enterprise-2-0/

The overall schedule looks like this:

Monday, Nov 2 (VoiceCon)

3:15 – 4:15 pm – Presence – Current Progress and Future Trends

Tuesday, Nov 3 (Enterprise 2.0)

11:15 am–12:00 pm – Case Studies In Enterprise Micro-Blogging

4:15 – 5:00 pm – The Future of Social Messaging in the Enterprise

Wednesday, Nov 4 (VoiceCon)

3:15 – 4:15 pm – Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA

Thursday, Nov 5 (VoiceCon)

8:00 – 9:45 am – Web 2.0 and Enterprise Communications – Fad or the Future?

I’m very much looking forward to both events, both to participating in the sessions I’m in and also to seeing all the other great sessions at both events.

In the Presence session on Monday, moderator Don Van Doren will be getting the panel involved in a discussion around what we need for truly making presence be more useful in an enterprise environment. (As to my involvement there, do recall that Voxeo has a product, SIPoint, which provides a SIP-based presence server among other services.)

On Tuesday, the first session on microblogging should be a good tour inside different ideas of taking Twitter-like microblogging inside the company, something I wrote about at some length in the past. The second session is a reprise of the “reactor” panel at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston earlier this year – only with different panelists. Should be a fun and interactive session.

Wednesday brings a session on voice mashups where I will be demonstrating what can be done with our Tropo.com platform and then a gentleman from IBM will be demonstrating mashups on their platform. And finally Thursday wraps up my participation with a almost two-hour “deep dive” into the role of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise with my frequent co-presenter Irwin Lazar.

All in all it should be a great event. (And add in speaking at an event on Wednesday night (more on that in another post) and… well… I think I’ll be tired by the time Friday rolls around! )

If you are going to be out at either VoiceCon or Enterprise 2.0, please feel free to say hello or drop me a note in advance. You can also expect that I’ll be tweeting throughout the time at both my own @danyork account as well as the @voxeo Twitter account.

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Recently some of the team in Voxeo’s Beijing office took a trip to the Beijing Botanical Garden and uploaded a set of photos for all to see:

I’ve not yet traveled to Beijing myself, but based on these photos the Botanical Garden looks like a great place to visit when I do get there! (Thanks to Michael Zhang in our Beijing office for sharing them with us.)

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Would you like to know whether anyone from Voxeo will be at a certain conference or event? Would you like to know where we are speaking? Or who is speaking on what topic?

Because we often get those requests, we’ve opened up a new “Voxeo Events” area on this blog server. We’re still building it out and adding information, but you can see what we have so far at:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/

The plan is to list shows that are coming up and provide information in advance about who is speaking when. For example, we have pages up now for VON next week and for Astricon in October.

Once a show is over, we plan to also use these pages as a repository for links to presentations, news releases, audio or video from the show, etc. The SpeechTEK 2009 page is an example although given that it is the largest show we do each year, there is more information on that page that most others will have.

In the weeks ahead, we’ll be adding more information about upcoming events. We’re also probably going to add a RSS feed containing the individual presentations so that we can feed that into some various tools that are out there.

Are there any particular items you would like to see us add to a site like this? Any particular formats you would like to see the information displayed in? As I said, we’re still building out the site so we’re definitely interested in and open to feedback.

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For any of you attending the new VON Conference & Expo from September 21-23 in South Beach, Miami, Florida, both Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn and I (Dan York) will be there at the show speaking. We now have a page up with the abstracts of the talks we’ll be giving:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/von-conference-expo-2009/

The quick view is this:

Monday, September 21, 2009

10 – 11:15am, Beyond Boxes: The Future of the PBX (Dan York)

11:30 – 12:30pm, The Apps Race: Building a Developer Community in the New Telecom World (RJ Auburn)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

11 – 11:50am, Beyond Guys in Trucks: Mobilizing Enterprise Applications (RJ Auburn

This will be the very first VON show run by Virgo Publishing since they acquired the event through the demise of Pulvermedia. I personally attended and spoke a (and very much enjoyed) a number of the VON events in the past when Jeff Pulver and his team were running them – so it will be interesting to see what the event is like under different management.

In any case, if you are going to be down at VON, please drop either RJ or I an email or catch us on Twitter (zscgeek or danyork). Naturally we will be twittering on the Voxeo Twitter account from the show. See you there!

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Would you like to catch up with what we announced at SpeechTEK? Want to see some photos of the event or some videos of our booth? Want to know what sessions Voxeo folks spoke at? Or look at the slides from the talks? Want to learn about our very cool SpeechTEK411 multichannel demo?

All that and more is possible from the SpeechTEK 2009 page in our new Events section of the site. You can get there very simply:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/speechtek2009/

You can see links from that page over to our resources page, to a page about the Nugram integration with VoiceObjects, and much more.

From now on, we’re planning to create new pages for each of the events that we will be attending. The pages will serve two purposes:

• Before the event, the page will have information about the sessions we will be at, what we are doing at the show, etc.
• After the event, we will use it as a place to link to presentations we gave at the event, photos we’ve taken, etc.

We’re just starting to build out the section, so we don’t have information up yet about our talks at, for instance, Astricon or eComm Europe…. but we will soon.

Please do let us know what you think of this section. Is there specific information you’d like us to include that we don’t yet? How else can we help you connect with us at events?

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