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Emerging Telephony: conference looking for ideas

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 26 January 2007

The O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference may only be a month away (Burlingame, California) but the organisers are still open to ideas, as well as registration.

The web site says: "Share your ideas about what you think are the most important issues in telephony. Want to suggest a particular speaker, project, or topic for ETel 2007? Send a note to the program committee at etelchair@oreilly.com, or post a note on the ETel 2007 wiki."

Subjects already marked down:-

Open Source Software and Hardware / Open Telephony

Wireless Mobility and Mobile Telephony

Wifi Telephony, the Telephone Network as a Platform

Intersection of VoIP telephony and Web Services Infrastructure

Voice as Data

Ethnography, Culture, and People

Usability and Experience

Business Models

Early Warning Signals

Speakers include Brian Aker, the director of architecture for MySQL "where he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunities to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and telephony," and Ram Fish, who is the CEO and founder of FONAV. "His previous roles include vice president, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile, (creator of AT&T OGO), and chief product strategist for the client group at Openwave Systems."