Track: Conferencing & Collaboration Over IP Summit
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Converged Conferencing: The Time Is Now
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| Tuesday - 10/10/06, 12:15-1:00pm | Time doesn’t matter, country prefixes don’t matter, only availability and connections matter. Creating a seamless escalation from presence to voice to web to video, following the natural workflow and processes that people use daily, that’s what matters. The technology is here, the applications are available — it’s time to put it all together — create the ecosystem. Keep it simple, make it easy, and end users will come. In the office, on the road, at home or wherever workers find themselves, the natural workflow can be supported with seamless execution with today’s integrated technologies. This session will serve as an introduction to converged conferencing.
Presented by:
| Richard Pen
VP of Sales & Marketing
Forum Communications | | Lou Guercia
CEO
Web Dialogs |
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A Business Advantage: Moving to Unified Communications and Collaboration
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| Tuesday - 10/10/06, 1:15-2:00pm | More and more businesses are choosing IP-based voice systems over traditional phone lines. However, are enterprises capitalizing on the benefits that IP communications offers? Are they utilizing the advanced applications needed to be competitive today?
This session will elaborate on the most advanced functionality that is becoming part of IP communication’s future. Functionality gains will be made by incorporating applications like e-mail, IM, presence — even the call center — to further real-time communication and collaboration. These new IP applications will help companies better communicate and, in turn, elevate their business. Slowly, more and more companies will realize that in order to remain competitive, they need to make use of IP communication’s advanced benefits. By doing so, they will better service their clients and work more productively.
Session attendees will learn about the most recent advances in making IP communication a competitive advantage to streamline business processes, equip mobile workers and enable organizations to compete in a fast-moving economy.
Presented by:
| Mark Harris
Executive VP, Sales and Marketing
CallTower |
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Exploring Positional Voice
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| Tuesday - 10/10/06, 2:15-3:00pm | Of all the advances in conferencing technology, one of the most intriguing is positional voice. Positional voice enables one to subscribe to multiple workspaces simultaneously, which changes how people can accomplish work remotely in an enterprise which is globalizing, moving from functional silos to more of a matrix, or has employees who live great distances from the central headquarters. Come to this session to hear what all the fuss is about.
Presented by:
| David Waite (Moderator)
Director
Altman Vilandrie & Company (AV&Co.) |
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Conferencing & Enterprise ROI
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| Tuesday - 10/10/06, 3:15-4:00pm | Many businesses are aware of the productivity gains and cost benefits associated with IP-based collaboration tools, like conferencing, document sharing, calendaring, and so on. But how easy are these tools to access? And what should customers be aware of in terms of network availability, infrastructure, reliability, and costs?
This session will examine many of the issues businesses face when implementing collaboration tools, and discuss strategies and tactics customers should consider to ensure their applications are operating at optimal efficiency across their networks, that the end user experiences remain seamless, and that each business maximizes both productivity and efficiency by using these tools. This presentation will further address how IP-based enterprise conferencing can:
• Be integrated into an existing enterprise environment
• Raise the level of security for voice and Web conferencing
• Deliver incremental cost savings
• Extend the productivity benefits of voice, Web and video conferencing to a much larger group of employees.
Presented by:
| Randy Knaub
Director of Marketing
Interwise | | Jeff Ford
CTO
Inter-Tel |
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Contextual Collaboration – The Next Definitive Step for Real-Time Conferencing and Communication
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| Tuesday - 10/10/06, 4:15-5:00pm | | Contextual Collaboration is a new approach to conferencing that combines presence, real-time communication, and resource sharing to make online meetings as simple, natural, and productive as face-to-face encounters. By combining all relevant applications — Word, IM, calendars, conferencing software — into one easy-to-use interface, contextual collaboration allows corporations and individual users to launch a meeting, seminar or training session at any time from any document, and collaborate in real-time. Users can collaborate from a personal computer or laptop, PDA, mobile phone, or with a conventional or IP telephone. Presenters will address the following topics:
• How contextual collaboration is becoming the next definitive step for real-time conferencing and communication.
• Technological innovations that make this new type of collaboration possible.
• How companies are leveraging rich-media conferencing today for enhanced communication and productivity gains.
• What the future has in store for real-time communications and collaboration.
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