[August 08, 2007] IP Communications Solutions for SMBs in Focus at TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2007 Tweet NORWALK, Conn. --(Business Wire)-- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has released an updated conference program for the upcoming INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2007 (ITEXPO) in Los Angeles. The conference features a series of sessions educating attendees from small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) about how to select and deploy IP communications solutions in their organizations. The conference and trade show is being held September 10-12, 2007 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The entire program schedule can be viewed at the event's Web site, http://www.itexpo.com. TMC president Rich Tehrani believes these sessions for SMBs are among the most important offered at the conference. "Small and medium-sized businesses have a bewildering array of products and services to choose from that can make them appear to the outside world as a large enterprise with a state of the art communications system. By attending the SMB track at ITEXPO, these companies will be able to choose the right solution from all the amazing choices available to them," explained Tehrani. "SMBs come to ITEXPO to see which vendors make most sense to work with. In an SMB, every dollar invested in infrastructure is even more valuable than at a large company. Choosing between hosted and premises-based systems is perhaps the biggest decision to make. SMBs can be confident that they are choosing wisely by learning what to do in these sessions," Tehrani continued. Conference sessions in the VoIP for SMB track at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2007 include: Selecting an Open Source VoIP Solution for the SMB Presented by: Chad Agate, Co-Founder & CEO, NeoPhonetics; Martin J. Steinmann, SVP Marketing, Pingtel; Kerry Garrison, Sr. Product Manager for trixbox, Fonality; Avery Glasser, Director of Product, Junction Networks VoIP Options for the SMB Presented by: Sandra Gault, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Allworx; Greg O. Welch, Chief Executive Officer, GlobalTouch Telecom IP Powered Applications for the SMB Presented by: Aron Aicard, Director of Product Marketing, Inter-Tel Performance and TCO Advantages of Hosted IP-PBX Phone Services for SMBs Presented by: Dave Immethun, Sr. Director of Sales, 8x8 Inc. Stay Connected to Your Customer Presenter TBA A Closer Look at Hosted VoIP Presented by: Ginny Hutchinson, Chief Marketing Officer, Speakeasy; Dave Immethun, Sr. Director of Sales, 8x8 Inc.; John Hendry, CTO, M5 Networks; David Cork, CEO, Natural Convergence; Art Rosenberg (Moderator), The Unified-View Selecting SMB VoIP: Cut Through the Confusion Presented by: Jim Heising, President and CEO, Telephony2; David Mandelstam, Founder/President/CEO, Sangoma; Jason Talley, CEO, Nuvio; Henry Kaestner, CEO, Bandwidth.com; Jay McCall (Moderator), Wireless and VoIP Editor, Business Solutions magazine Make Your Transition to VoIP a Success! Presented by: Sanjeev Sawai, Vice President of Research and Development, Envox Worldwide; Kerry Shih, Founder, SyncVoice Communications, Inc.; Vince Connors, Product Line Manager, Dialogic Corp. Decisions Decisions... Hosted Versus Premise based VoIP Deployment Presented by: Mohamed El-Mohri, Chief Technology Officer/President, Dialexia; Vijay Bhagavath, Senior Strategist in the Office of the CTO, Siemens Communications, Inc.; Frank Grillo, Executive Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing, Cypress Communications; David Willis (Moderator), Distinguished Analyst and Chief of Research, Gartner, Inc. Securing Enterprise VoIP Presented by: Roger Farnsworth, Sr. Systems Marketing Manager, IP Communications Security, Cisco; Sanjay Kalra, Director of Product Management, Juniper Networks; Patrick Young, CEO, Arlinx, Inc. Business Continuity and Disaster Planning Presented by: Shrikant Latkar, Product Manager, Juniper Networks; Jill Adams, President, SuiteCommute, LLC.; Emmitt R. Wells, Security & Communications Practice Director - NA Marketing, Getronics In addition to the sessions covering SMB solutions, the conference also features tracks covering these important topics: -- Enterprise Solutions -- Unified Communications -- Service Provider Solutions -- Essential Issues -- IMS Expo at INTERNET TELEPHONY -- FMC -- Call Center 2.0 at INTERNET TELEPHONY -- Open Source -- Wireless/Mobility -- SIP -- FierceMarkets' IPTV Evolution Workshop Registration for the conference is now open at www.itexpo.com. For additional information regarding exhibit and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Dave Rodriguez at (203) 852-6800, ext. 146 or via e-mail at [email protected] Press inquiries should be directed to Mostafa Razzak, 23-31 Communications: (646)442-3361 or [email protected]. About TMC(R) Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications and IMS Magazine. 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