Tuesday, November 18
12:40pm
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Jim Machi is Vice President of Product Management for Dialogic, responsible for driving the overall roadmap and product strategy. Jim has been with Dialogic since 1998 when he joined as Director of Product Management, working to develop the companys IP telephony roadmap and strategy. Jim was recognized by Internet Telephony Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Voices of IP Communications" in October, 2006 and by VoIP-News as one of the "50 most influential people in VoIP" in November, 2006. Recently he was named a recipient of the WebRTC Pioneer Award for his work. Jim holds an MBA degree from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, November 18
4:20pm
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Geoff Hollingworth is Head of Product Marketing Cloud Systems for Ericsson. He is responsible for the global positioning, promotion and education around Ericsson’s next generation Cloud infrastructure - including network, compute and data services.
Most recently, Hollingworth was Head of Business Innovation for Ericsson in Silicon Valley. He has previously held positions as Head of IP Services Strategy for North America, oversaw the Ericsson brand in North America and also led Ericsson’s next generation multimedia initiative to drive the three-screen experience for the Volvo Ocean Race. He joined Ericsson more than 20 years ago and has held roles in software R&D, mobile network deployment and was director of Marketing for Ericsson in North America. Hollingworth has been based in London, Stockholm, Dallas and Palo Alto.
He holds a First Class Honors Bachelors degree in Computing Science and has won the Computing Science Prize of Excellence from Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Tuesday, November 18
4:20pm
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Adam Bergkvist is a senior researcher at Ericsson. His main areas include web technologies, prototyping new web platform features and web standardization. He is a committer in the WebKit open source project.Adam has been working with WebRTC since before it was called WebRTC, he was part of the team that published the first ever WebRTC capable browser on Ericsson Labs in 2011, as well as the recently open sourced OpenWebRTC project. He has also been involved in the WebRTC standardization from the very beginning and is one of the editors of the Media Capture and Streams and WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers WebRTC W3C specifications.
Tuesday, November 18
3:10pm
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Setting the telecommunications marketing strategy for Oracle and the industry, Mr Tait is defining and building out the Service/Application infrastructure for Next Generation Networks. As Global Director of Marketing for Oracle Communications, Mr Tait is driving the strategy and tactics for Service Delivery Platforms, Service Brokering, and WebRTC. Prior to Oracle, Mr Tait was the director for Global Telecom Markets at BEA and founded the JAIN initiative defining Javaâ„¢ technology for communications at Sun. He organized international standards, community, and user group meetings for creating standards and driving the communications market toward standard based interfaces, platforms, and protocols.
Wednesday , November 19
8:30am
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Sajeel Hussain is the chief marketing officer at CaféX Communications, having transitioned from his role as vice president of marketing and partner development at Thrupoint, Inc. in 2013. He brings deep market expertise, domain knowledge and experience in developing & executing go-to-market strategies.
Prior to joining CaféX and Thrupoint, Hussain served in a variety of global leadership roles within Nortel and Avaya spanning business development and marketing to product management. Hussain has Masters degrees in engineering and computer science from Purdue University and UT Dallas respectively. He also has an MBA from UT Austin. Hussain completed his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Wednesday , November 19
12:10pm
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Alex drives the technical vision and direction for Vidyo and also represents the company on standardization committees and technical advisory boards. He is an award-winning researcher, bringing over 24 years of research experience in video compression and communications to his role at Vidyo. Prior to Vidyo he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Alex has more than 100 publications, holds more than 80 patents (several of which are used in Blu-ray Disc, H.264/AVC, and ATSC digital television systems), and has served as the Editor of the MPEG-4 Systems specification, Co-Editor of the H.264 SVC Conformance specification, and Co-Editor of IETF's RTP Payload Format for SVC. He is a Member of the Board of IMTC and co-chairs the IMTC Scalable and Simulcast Video Activity Group.
Wednesday , November 19
3:30pm
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Al runs Product Marketing for Twilio's IP Communications offerings including Twilio's WebRTC and mobile SDKs, as well as Call Center solutions. Prior to Twilio Al was VP Product Management and Product Marketing at Metaswitch Networks, focused on delivering their Cloud PBX, UC and Call Center solutions. Al has also worked in both Engineering and Marketing roles, after starting his career as a consultant for Deloitte and Touche.
Al has lived and worked in the UK, Australia and California, and majored in Computer Science at Warwick University (UK). Al is based in San Francisco, CA.
Wednesday , November 19
4:00pm
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Krishna has over 20 years experience in Microprocessor, DSP and system architecture/design and was CEO of Hellosoft before it was acquired by Imagination Technologies in 2010. Krishna worked/was involved in several successful companies including Sun, ZSP, vEngines, SiliconSpice, Intoto, Chiplogic, and eSilicon in Silicon Valley. Krishna has been recognized as a "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Thursday, November 20
10:00am
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Craig Walker brings a broad background as an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist, executive and corporate attorney to UberConference, launched in 2012 with an initial $3 million investment from Google Ventures. The idea for UberConference was conceived during the time Craig was Entrepreneur-in-Residence there. After successfully launching the product, Craig raised another $15 million in Series B financing for UberConference from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures.
Prior to UberConference, Craig was CEO and co-founder of GrandCentral Communications. The company was acquired by Google in July 2007, and GrandCentral became Google Voice. While there, Craig ran Google's Real Time Communications Group (Google Voice, Google Talk and Google Talk Video).
Craig's career in telecommunications began in 2001 when he ran Dialpad Communications, which he sold to Yahoo! in 2005. He was also a technology venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital and TeleSoft Partners and a corporate attorney at top-tier law firms in Silicon Valley, where he represented companies ranging from early stage startups to Cisco Systems.
Craig is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA), Georgetown University (MBA) and Boalt Hall School of Law (JD). He received the 2014 Georgetown Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.
Thursday, November 20
10:30am
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