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  VoIP Sizzles Event Agenda

July 20 . Arrival Evening
6:00pm
8:00pm
Registration
8:00pm
9:30pm
Welcome Reception “SIP Margarita“ - Featuring an informal & lively panel discussion on the State of SIP and VoIP by a team of Industry and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) leaders.

July 21 . Day One
 8:30am  9:00am Continental Breakfast – ABP International
 8:00am  9:00am
Registration
 9:00am  9:20am
Welcome by ABP Technology
 9:20am 10:10am History in the Making - The future of Telephony
Keynote by Dr. Jack Bacon (Ph.D.,P.E)
- Futurist and Key member in the Systems Integration of the International Space Station. Dr. Jack Bacon will guide us in the art of forecasting the future, and will illustrate how VoIP and SIP have all the key elements when trying to identify the drivers of major societal shifts from among all the candidate innovations of an era. A dynamic worldwide speaker, and veteran practitioner in some of this generation's most famous emerging technologies (including artificial intelligence, factory automation, the electronic office, and the international conquest of space) Jack brings the big picture into focus.
10:10am 10:30am
Morning Break (Hosted and sponsored by snom technology AG)
10:30am 11:15am Keynote - Rich Tehrani - Editor in Chief of The Internet Telephony Magazine and President of TMC
11:15am 12:00am Manufacturer Panel – Open Standards Based and Vendor Independence as a Business Model for Integration of VoIP Systems - Panel of SIP Hardware Manufacturers
12:00pm  1:30pm Lunch (Hosted and Sponsored by AudioCodes and ABP Technology)
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
  Executive Track Tech Buyers Track
1:30pm 2:15pm E-911 - A panel discussion on solutions for Service Providers to comply with the latest FCC ruling.
Rick Peters Spatial-Data, 911.org, Mediatrix and Intertex [S01]
PBX-Migration to VoIP
How to protect customers investment in Legacy PBXs and offer VoIP benefits without proprietary IP cards? Panel - (Citel, Netfabric) [S02]
2:20pm 3:00pm
IP Success Stories - Practical experience from our resellers.
Peer to peer experience sharing (Workshop) [S04]
IPBX Options for Today I
Commercial ready to plug and play IPBX Appliances
(Panel session Allworx, Epygi ) [S05]
3:00pm- 3:15pm Afternoon Break  
3:20pm 4:00pm SIP (and VoIP) Security Issues. Communication over the Internet is subject to a new set of security threats. This session identifies those threats, and discusses the mechanisms built into SIP for mitigating them.(Robert Sparks) [S07] IPBX Options for Today II
Are Open Source Based solutions ready for primetime? A technology update. ( Panel Asterisk, Signate & Pingtel) [S08]
4:05pm 5:00pm Is Open Source becomming Mainstream?
How is Open Source impacting the market place and what effect does this have on legacy players?
(Panel with AudioCodes, Digium, Pingtel) [S10]
Advanced IP Solutions -The IP Conference Server - (Epygi) [S11]
  Exhibit Hall Tech Training Track
1:30pm 2:15pm VoIP Sizzles in Dallas - Exhibit
Presents Vendor Exhibit in the
"Open Standards Solutions Hall"
VoIP Fundamentals for Resellers
Highlevel fast track training for a jumpstart in VoIP
(ABP-SIP Train) [S03]
2:20pm 3:00pm
Exhibit Open Basics on VoIP Architecture IP Phones for resellers
SIP Proxy & Registrar
(ABP-SIP Train) [S06]
3:00pm 3:15 pm Afternoon Break  
3:20pm 4:00pm Exhibit Open
Gateway Training I (Analog)
Understanding and controlling the Media gateway is in the center of any VoIP deployment.
(ABP-SIP Train) [S09]
4:05pm 5:00pm Exhibit Open Gateway Training II (Digital)
Overview of Digital Gateway
For Resellers and ISPs
(ABP-SIP Train) [S12]
6:00pm 8:30pm Special Dinner Event – Outside of the Hotel
Bus leaves at 6:00 PM
Sponsored by all participants
July 22 • Day Two
8:00am
8:45am
Continental Breakfast in Solutions Hall (Hosted by ABP & AudioCodes)  
     
Breakout Sessions - Vendor/Reseller Discussion
  Executive Track Tech Buyers Track
9:00am 9:40am VoIP Services for Resellers
Resellers can generate recurring revenue by matching up the right service with their customers.This session will present a diversity of service providers in different fields: VoIP Dialtone, Ip Centrex/Virtual PBX, Virtual Call Center, etc. (Panel Intelemedia, Pandora Network and Vonage) [S13]
IP Phones in the real world
Advantages and Killer aps of IP Phones versus conventional phones.
(snom technology AG) [S14]
9:40 am 10:10am NAT Traversal for Enterprise
Can SIP operate safely behind NAT and corporate Firewalls? (Ingate)
[S16]
POE and WiFi the Infrastructure of tomorrow - Presentations (Red-Hawk & MeruNetworks) [S17]
10:15am 10:30am Break  
     
  Exhibit Hall Tech Training Track
9:00am 9:40am Exhibit Open Epygi Quick Install
Demo of IPBX Appliance Basic Setup
and configuration of phones. (Epygi) [S15]
9:40 am 10:15am Exhibit Open Asterisk Install
A quick technical demonstration on setting up a server based Asterisk system. [S18]
10:15am 10:30am Break  
10:30am 11:15am Keynote Mark Spencer President and Founder of Digium
and creator of the Asterisk Platform
"The Asterisk Revolution"
   
11:15am 11:50am Wrap up - Robert Messer
President and founder of ABP International, Inc.
Take away, Door Prizes and Wrap-Up
12:00 pm Shuttle to Airport

* There may still be changes to the final agenda as we try
to accommodate some additional speakers