Roberto De La Mora marketing responsibilities include the solutions related to Unified Voice and Video Communications and Infrastructure, Unified Communications Endpoints, Cloud Collaboration and Collaboration-enabled Desktop Virtualization.

In this capacity Mr. De La Mora provides guidance and strategic direction for WW field marketing teams and business units, and supports the sales organization by defining the value proposition of the solutions under his charter, as well as the competitive and market positioning for them. His team develops the programs and initiatives required to successfully execute on the strategy, ensure the alignment of the channels, sales, technical operations and support teams, serves as a liaison between Cisco’s Business Units and customers and sales teams.

Frequently Mr. De La Mora participates in industry events and user forums as a speaker on business value of technologies such as Unified Communications, Collaboration, Conferencing, Desktop Virtualization, Video, Mobility and Cloud. He also interacts frequently with key customers as one of Cisco’s business technology experts.

Mr. De La Mora is an experienced international executive with a 22-year career distinguished by achievements in sales growth, channel management, business and market development, marketing and product management, with a track record of rapid promotion and delivery of measurable results. He worked for companies such as Siemens, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and he joined Cisco at the end of 2003 as the responsible for Unified Communications for Latin America.

Mr. De La Mora holds an MBA from the Instituto Mexico-Aleman de Capacitacion Industrial y Comercial in Mexico City, Mexico, with post-graduate diplomas in Production & Materials Management, Sales Management and Industrial Finance and Accounting. He graduated with honors as a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the UNIVA, in Guadalajara, Mexico

Angie Reed, Product Marketing Manager for Business Phone Systems with Digium, is a subject matter expert in VoIP and telecommunications, with more than 13 years of experience. She has a broad background in technical and business IT roles and has worked in Product Marketing, Channel Development Management, Applications Engineering, and Technical Training. She is the author of multiple technical articles and most recently completed the TCO Study: IP Buyers Guide, which compares the best value in IP telephony solutions. She has successfully completed the CCNP and CCNA certifications and has an MBA from the University of Alabama.

Bryan Johns is the Product Manager for Digium Network Services, a division of Digium, Inc. In this role, Bryan oversees design, development and operation of IP communications services based upon Digiums unified communications technologies. Bryan is responsible for all network service offerings including hosted communications platforms, VoIP services and cloud applications.Prior to joining Digium, Bryan spent nearly 20 years in and around the businesses of technology and telecommunications. He has started, grown and sold a handful of web application development and VoIP technology businesses and in 2004, found a home in the disruptive world of open standards and open source telecommunications platforms.

David works with the Worldwide Asterisk Community for Digium, and is an Asterisk enthusiast in addition to being a Chartered Engineer, globally experienced trainer and public speaker. His experience includes Air Traffic Control communications, Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Networks, Computer Telephony, Voice over IP and Asterisk specifically. In addition to many web articles, Davids publications include Asterisk 1.4: The Professionals Guide (Packt, co-author) and the contribution of a chapter (on Internationalisation) to Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (OReilly). David is a frequent speaker at Astricon (THE annual global Asterisk event, where David often runs an Asterisk-based contest), AsterConference Asia (David has also MCd at this event), IT Expo (East and West) and a number of corporate events. He has also spoken at numerous other conferences - VoIP Developer, Speech World, CT Expo and UC Expo to name a few. David has also delivered Presentation Skills training and coaches Executives on Public Speaking.

Steve has been causing a rucks in the communications industry since the mid 1990s. He discovered the power of Asterisk in 2003 while looking for a better way to build IVR systems. Within a year he had co-founded AstriCon, the annual Asterisk user and developer conference and had started a highly successful Asterisk training program.In 2007 Digium acquired Steves company and came aboard as the product manager for Asterisk and related technologies. In 2009 he was promoted to Marketing Director for Asterisk and Custom Communications Solutions. Today hes helping Digium take the Asterisk revolution to new markets, verticals and new heights.Steve lives in the Kansas City area with his wife and daughter.

With more than 20 years of experience with networking technologies, Dave Martin is a recognized expert in the session border controller, SIP Trunking and hosted PBX markets. He currently serves as Vice President of Marketing for Edgewater Networks, where he is responsible for strategic business planning, product management, product marketing, partnerships and marketing programs to support the companys ongoing growth. With more than 150,000 units deployed, Edgewater has an estimated 21% market share of the enterprise session border controller market.

Mr. Martin is a seasoned speaker and has presented at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo, Broadsoft Connections conferences, Polycom User Group, Metaswitch Partners conference and many public webinars.

Prior to joining Edgewater, Mr. Martin held a variety of technical and managerial roles at several network infrastructure and security companies including Andes Networks, Ipsilon, Nokia and Newbridge Networks.

Craig brings 15 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the communications space to Firespotter Labs, a start-up focused on making complex telephony products easy to use. Products in the Firespotter family include TechCrunch award-winning ÜberConference, Nosh, NoshList and Jotly. Firespotter is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. In past lives, Craig was CEO of Dialpad Communications, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 (now Yahoo! Voice), co-founder and CEO of GrandCentral Communications, acquired by Google in July 2007 (now Google Voice), and Entrepreneur in Residence at Google Ventures. 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 start-ups to Cisco Systems. Craig is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA), Georgetown University (MBA) and Boalt Hall School of Law (JD).

Lisa Pierce is the Managing Vice President in Gartner Research, where she leads the Unified Communications, Network Systems and Services team. Ms. Pierce’s team addresses all the major network-related infrastructure, applications and operations issues that confront enterprises across the world.

Prior to joining Gartner, Lisa was the President of Strategic Networks Group, a company dedicated to improving the quality of emerging telecommunications and IT services, and the service experience, that enterprise customers receive from key network suppliers.

She is an expert on emerging enterprise-class telecom/network services, including telecom cloud (IaaS, PaaS and select SaaS applications), next generation network and performance management, SIP Trunking and Unified Communications services (particularly hosted UC, collaboration/conferencing and FMC services), broadband access, 3G and 4G services, managed network services, switched Ethernet (VPLS) and MPLS services. In addition to strategic architectural considerations, her work has extended to sourcing, performance assurance, and customer satisfaction.

Previously, Lisa was the Vice President of Telecommunications Services Research at Forrester Research/Giga Information Group for over ten years, and served in several leadership capacities, including as a Technology Practice Director and as the first elected Chair of the Giga Research Fellows. During her tenure, she was twice named as one of the Top 10 most influential IT analysts. Prior experience includes four years’ consulting on network signaling protocols for a boutique network engineering firm.

Lisa’s career in network communications began at AT&T, where her work focused on developing and introducing entirely new classes of business services – in product development, product management, new services market research, statistical modeling and forecasting. Across the globe, these services still generate billions of dollars of revenue today. The development teams she led were awarded 6 patents.

A member of the IEEE, Ms. Pierce is a frequent industry speaker and media commentator. She has also served a Contributor to Saugatuck Technology, UC Strategies, GigaOM Pro, No Jitter/Enterprise Connect, and DM Radio. Lisa holds an MBA in marketing and statistical modeling from Willamette University, and a B.A. with Honors from Gordon College.

Ali Pey is a Sr. Software Engineer Architect with more than 20 years experience in Telephony, PBX and VoIP. He has an Electronics Engineering degree with a focus in telecommunication and software design. He has worked for companies such as Nortel and TalkSwitch and has been developing VoIP solutions since the start of the technology. He has developed software for Proxy Servers, Registrar Server and Clients, User Agents, and other VoIP components in both SIP and H.323 protocols. Ali currently works for j2 Global (j2.com), a global company for Cloud Services and has successfully used Asterisk and OpenSIPS open source projects to provide Global Telephony Cloud solutions for j2s customers.

Richard L. Hathaway: Mr. Hathaway has over 39 years of industry experience as a consultant, user and provider of telecommunications services. This includes duties as consulting practice director for two large consulting firms, Manager for MCI’s 800 Network Service Center and as the telecommunications manager for a national finance company. Ricks career also includes 21 years in the USAF including 14 years as the operations director for the White House Communications Agency transmission systems division. He is a frequent speaker at professional seminars/conferences. Rick has also been a member of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants (STC) since 2001 and an STC Past President (2008-2010).

David Tipping is the vice president and general manager of the SBC Business at Sonus Networks, Inc. Prior to this role, Tipping served as Sonus’ vice president of product marketing and product management. Tipping has served in several executive and management roles during his tenure with Sonus, including vice president of Sonus Worldwide Systems Engineering, vice president of Sonus’ Service Providers for the Americas division and as technical director of Sonus’ Eastern region. Previously, Tipping spent four years at Enterasys/Cabletron Systems – a Siemens enterprise communications company – as a senior systems engineer supporting customers in the Midwest and New England. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire.

Information Technology Consultant Dennis Little (KeyCruncher.com) is fascinated with all things engineering. In his 16-year career, he has driven multiple and diverse IT projects to quantifiable success with Fortune 500 and SMB corporations alike. Dennis enjoys spearheading successful entrepreneurial endeavors, hands-on learning and teaching others the value of correctly applied technology, with a special passion for securing communications. Dennis pleasure in life comes from reverse engineering anything he can get his hands on, making it better and then teaching others to do the same.

Corey McFadden is the founder and President of Voneto LLC, a communication solutions firm that ranks among the top national IP telephony integrators. He brings over seventeen years of industry experience to Voneto with a unique background that includes experience in call center operations, field-consulting, project management, IP telephony, and software development. Mr. McFadden has been a featured lecturer at numerous business conferences, published articles on business and technology, and been the subject of a television program profiling visionary businesspeople in Pennsylvania.

Peter Bernstein is a seasoned writer and professional with deep experience in the communications and IT industries. As a top-level industry analyst, Peter has keynoted major technology events and has been cited numerous times by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Communications Week, among other publications. Bernstein has authored or co-authored market research studies, CEO speeches, white papers, articles, and other content for major companies in the technology markets. His experience includes work with Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Equant, France Telecom, HP, Siemens, Verizon, Nortel, Wave Systems, and many more. He held the position of director of global marketing and communications at Telcordia. Having been on Advisory Boards for 15 technology start-up firms, Bernstein most recently worked as a consultant to C-level executives on all aspects of marketing communications strategy and tactics – from concept to cash, crisis management, brand stewardship, and helping establish metrics, manage processes and leadership practices.