Voxeo Talks

Are you in Austin, TX, this week (Sept 13-15, 2011) for ITEXPO, the Cloud Communications Summit or any of the other co-located events? If so, Voxeons Dan York, Johnny Diggz and Jose de Castro will be on hand speaking at a number of events. Our full schedule is here:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/itexpo-west-2011/

It’s probably no surprise, but we’ll be quite involved with the Cloud Communications Summit, in particular. It should be a great event and we’re definitely looking forward to meeting folks there.

If you are going to be in Austin for the shows and would like to connect, please let us know via email or meet up with us at one of our presentations.

See you there!

This week out at O’Reilly’s “OSCON 2011” (open source convention), in Portland, Oregon, Voxeo Labs’ Johnny Diggz and Adam Kalsey will be on-hand to speak and meet with developers. Full details can be found on our events page:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/oscon2011/

The three presentations are:

• Open Source Tools, Social Media and Crisis Response

  Johnny Diggz (Geeks Without Bounds)
  11:30am Thursday, 07/28/2011

• Managing Open Source Releases of a Cloud Platform

  Adam Kalsey (Tropo)
  11:00am Friday, 07/29/2011

• Why Should You Care about IPv6? And What Should You Do about It?

  Dan York Adam Kalsey (Voxeo Corporation)
  11:50am Friday, 07/29/2011

I (Dan York) was planning to attend but unfortunately am not able to do so because as my wife is still recovering from breast cancer surgery. Adam has very graciously agreed to cover my IPv6 talk.

If you are out at what looks to be a spectacular event this week, please do catch up with Adam and Diggz and learn all about the cool developer services they are rolling out!

Will you be at SpeechTEK Europe 2011 next week in London? If so, Voxeo’s Director of Speech Technologies Dan Burnett will be there attending sessions and meeting with people. As noted on our event page, Dan is speaking on Wednesday, May 25th, on the topic of “Getting to grips with speech application development languages” where he’ll focusing on what’s happening with VoiceXML3, CCXML and other languages from the W3C.

If you’d like to meet up with Dan at SpeechTEK Europe, please do drop him an email… and we do hope you enjoy the show!

Are you attending the Gartner Customer 360 Summit 2011 this week out in Los Angeles? If so, be sure to stop by our booth where Voxeons John McDaniel, Chris Matthieu and Ken Stephens will be on hand to talk about our services.

As we mentioned last week, our focus at this show is all around “Social CRM” and how you can connect with your customers over social channels. At our booth, you can:

• See how to use Twitter to proactively interact with customers, enhance loyalty and turn opportunities into revenue
• Learn how easy it is to integrate social CRM with other customer interaction channels such as speech-enabled IVR, click-to-call and text messaging
• See how real-time, cross-channel analytics can help you better understand customer behavior, identify areas for improvement in your applications, and take action to enhance the customer experience

We’ve got some fun demos to show and are looking forward to meeting with attendees!

Will you be down in South Beach, Miami, Feb 2-4, to attend ITEXPO, the Cloud Communications Summit, the SIP Trunking / UC Seminars or Digium/Asterisk World?

If so, Mark Headd and I (Dan York) will be on hand to speak in a number of different sessions, including:

• TOWN HALL MEETING: SIP, UC and Security
• Asterisk + Adhearsion + Tropo: Building AGI Applications in the Cloud
• TOWN HALL MEETING: Unified Communications
• Dark Clouds : Can you trust the cloud? Latency, Security and Availability
• Cloud Communications, State of the Art

Plus one other developer-focused talk Mark will be speaking in but for which we’re still waiting the final time and title.

We’re both looking forward to meeting up with a number of folks down there. If you’d like to meet with us at the show, please drop me an email or send one of us a message on Twitter: @danyork or @markheadd

P.S. And yes, I’m also looking forward to getting a chance to spend some time with Mark since we haven’t met face-to-face since he joined Voxeo in November…

Will you be out at the Mobile Voice Conference in San Jose, California, from January 24-26, 2010?

If so, please say hello to Voxeons Jason Goecke and Dan Burnett who will be attending on our behalf. Jason, our VP of Innovation in Voxeo Labs, will be speaking first on Monday as part of the “Demo Derby” demonstrating what you can build with Phono and Tropo. Dan, our Director of Speech Technologies and also our point person on industry standards, will speak Wednesday morning on the topic of “Trends in Speech Standard Development” (something we also write about over on our Speaking of Standards blog).

It should be a great show and if you are there, please do introduce yourself to Jason or Dan.

Interested in speaking at one of the premiere conferences related to emerging communications? Organizer Lee Dryburgh has just opened up the Call For Speakers for the Emerging Communications Conference and Awards – America 2011, being held in San Francisco March 22-24. We’ve long been a fan of the eComm events (and past sponsor) and always have looked forward to the amazing speakers and announcements at the show.

If you are interested in being considered as a speaker, Lee has posted info in his blog post. As to our involvement this year, you can watch our events page for eComm 2011 over the next few months. Stay tuned!

Are you heading out to ITEXPO West 2010 in Los Angeles on October 4-6? If so, several Voxeons will be there participating in the show. Dan York is speaking on communications security, Adam Kalsey will be part of the Cloud Communications Summit and another Voxeon may be joining the team there, too. Watch our event page for more info in the next few days:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/itexpo-west-2010/

You will of course be able to watch our @voxeo Twitter stream during the event… and feel free to drop us a note if you are going to be there.

We look forward to catching up with many folks from around the industry there at the event!

If you are attending the JavaOne conference next week in San Francisco, you can hear Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn speaking about media servers and the JSR 309 standard. His talk is Tuesday, September 21, 2010, at 8:00AM and has this description:

Media Servers for Mortals – The quick guide to JSR309 madness

JSR309 brings a standard API to accessing media services from IP communications applications. One problem with it however is that it can be very overwhelming to developers who are not accustomed to it’s unique style and nuances. This session will give developers an overview of the API and a roadmap of how and where to learn more about this powerful API and how not to get hung up on some of the concepts that both make this very useful and yet difficult to master.

This session is recommended for Java developers who would like to learn the basics of communications applications and how to develop them.

Topics will include:

• API Overview
• Basic Application Tutorial
• Frameworks to assist in development
• Resources on where to learn more

If you would like to connect with RJ out at JavaOne, please drop him a line. You can also follow him on Twitter

If you are out in San Francisco this week at the Splunk .conf 2010 Worldwide Users’ Conference, you can listen to Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn on Wednesday, August 11, from 9:15-10:15am Pacific talking about “Logging at the Terabyte Scale“:

What do you do if you generate over 1 terabyte of logging data each day? How do you begin to analyze that volume of data? And how do you make it so that 100,000+ developers can easily access their own individual logging data? Learn how Voxeo uses Splunk to analyze logging data and monitor network and security operations, prove compliance, and give external developers the data they need to be successful.

As the session abstract notes, we do use Splunk rather heavily and RJ is out there to talk all about it. If you are there and want to connect, you can find RJ at the conference or contact him via Twitter.