SAN FRANCISCO–Jan. 13, 2009—Registration is now open for the upcoming Emerging Communications Conference (eComm 2009) being held March 3-5 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel. eComm aims to top last year’s industry-stimulating debut event by attracting leading visionaries, influencers and entrepreneurs to push telecom, mobile and Internet communications toward new frontiers.
“Our inaugural conference drew more than 300 people and 80 speakers from 15 countries,” said Lee S. Dryburgh, eComm 2009 organizer and chair. “We’d like to exceed those numbers in 2009 as a result of buzz from last year’s attendees talking up the revitalization they experienced and the revolutionary ideas they shared.
“After all, it’s safe to say that the multi-trillion dollar global communications industry is on the brink of cataclysmic change,” he said. “That change means unprecedented opportunity for those ahead of the curve, and we intend eComm 2009 as a forum for defining and profiting from those opportunities.”
Registrants who sign up by Jan. 19 can save $500 off the onsite admission fee.
Dryburgh said developments causing waves of change across the global landscape include:
- Telecom is increasingly turning into a software business.
- “Phones” are becoming general-purpose computers.
- Applications innovation is being democratized.
- The cash cows of telephony and text messaging will dry up long term.
- The media industry is converging with personal communications.
- Search engines and computer manufacturers are encroaching into the space.
- The traditional telecom kingdom is becoming increasingly fragmented.
He said particular topics of interest for eComm 2009 include:
- Democratization of communications innovation;
- Innovations from the VoIP community;
- Restructuring, new business models or threats from traditional telecom providers;
- iPhone and Android applications;
- Social computing and the social Web;
- Mobile Social Software (MoSoSo) applications on any platform;
- Leveraging “cloud computing”;
- Network equipment providers’ plans for next 1-3 years;
- Facilitating business processes with voice; and
- 4G technologies.
Speakers for eComm 2009 include Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Alec Saunders, co-founder and CEO of Iotum; Benoit Schillings of Nokia; Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis; David Troy, founder of Popvox; Gerd Leonhard, media futurist; Cullen Jennings, distinguished engineer in Cisco Systems’ Voice Technology Group; John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, and many more. A full list of speakers can be viewed online at http://ecommconf.com/2009/speakers/.
Keynote speakers will be announced later.
Sponsors include Skype, MetaSwitch, Voxbone, Global IP Solutions, Voxeo, Jaduka, Ribbit and Broadsoft.
Full details about the conference are available at http://ecommconf.com/2009/. For online registration, visit http://www.amiando.com/ecomm2009.html.
The Advisory Board assisting Dryburgh in selecting content and speakers for eComm includes:
- Imran Ali, founding partner in Carbon Imagineering;
- Jon Arnold, principal, J. Arnold & Associates;
- Andy Chen, consultant;
- Jonathan Christensen, general manager for audio and video at Skype;
- Alan Duric, co-founder and chief technology officer at Telio;
- Malcolm Matson, entrepreneur and founder of the OPLAN Foundation;
- Sheldon Renan, principal in technology consultancy Vision + Strategy, LLC;
- Brough Turner, senior VP, chief technology officer and co-founder of NMS Communications;
- Phil Wolff, CEO of Reef9 Media and managing editor of Skype Journal; and
- Dan York, director of Emerging Communication Technology at Voxeo.
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