TMC, Light and Electric Announce Program for Cloud Communications Summit at ITEXPO

 

Norwalk, CT, (December 1, 2009) — Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a leading global media company, and Light and Electric today announced that the complete agenda for the upcoming Cloud Communications Summit at ITEXPO has been released and is available on the event Web page.


The Cloud Communications Summit takes place Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Fla., during day one of the three-day ITEXPO, the leading conference and trade show covering IP communications technology.

Registration for the Cloud Communications Summit is also open now.

Combining TMC's powerhouse media with the award winning and practical experience of Light and Electric will deliver a truly rich and valuable experience for all attendees and participants.

The conference’s live sessions will address a growing need of businesses to integrate and leverage cloud based communications applications, process enhancement techniques, and network based communications interfaces and architectures.

Business professionals will learn the fundamentals of cloud based communications business models, market trends and current large efforts and deployments. Sales teams can benefit by learning real life cloud communications success stories and interacting with other ecosystem members. Sessions will explore how communications as a service drastically lowers capital expenditures, reduces project risks and increases service agility and value.

Thomas Howe (News - Alert), CEO, Light and Electric, will be moderating the sessions both online and at the training session at ITEXPO. Session titles with descriptions are as follows:

The Cloud Communications Show

Introduction to Voice Mashups:

An introduction to the concept and architecture of using voice as part of modern web-based applications. Concrete voice mashup examples will be demonstrated, along with the business cases that support them.

Confirmed Speaker: Jason Goecke, VP of Innovation, Voxeo (News - Alert)

Communications Enabled Business Process Fundamentals

This session provides an overview into using communications technology to improve business processes, and highlights the fundamental methods and techniques used to do so.

Confirmed Speaker: Jack Rynes, President, Jaduka

Vertical CEBP

This session presents CEBP techniques for the financial, logistics, debt collection and health care fields

Confirmed Speakers: Irv Shapiro, CEO, Ifbyphone; Vanessa Alvarez, Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert)

Cloud Telephony for the Enterprise

This session discusses tradeoffs in deploying communications applications behind the firewall, with a hosted partner or through elastic mechanisms such as Amazon’s EC2.

Confirmed Speakers: Troy Davis, CEO, Seven Scale; Dan York, Director of Emerging Communication Technology, Voxeo

Unified Communications (News - Alert) vs. CEBP: A lively debate?

Unified communications and CEBP stand in stark contrast. This session features a lively discussion between unified communications and CEBP experts, explaining the differences and similarities not obvious at the surface.

Confirmed Speakers: Dan Miller, Senior Analyst, Opus Research

“Thomas is a foremost expert on cloud communications and there is no one better suited to deliver the content than he,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and conference chairman for ITEXPO.

“As with the rest of the technology landscape, there is a definite need to have more cost-effective and powerful deployments of communications technology in the cloud. We are excited to offer educational opportunities that help businesses become increasingly efficient through the use of emerging technologies like cloud communications,” added Tehrani.

“No other organization has the reach into our industry like TMC,” said Thomas Howe. “I'm honored to work with them to introduce this exciting and fast growing field of cloud communications, CEBP and over the top applications to the millions of TMC visitors, subscribers and attendees. We've already signed up a dozen excellent speakers for the show, many of whom are new to the TMC family.  It's very exciting to be a part of the team.”

Vendors interested in sponsorship opportunities at Cloud Communications Summit should contact Joe Fabiano at 203-852-6800, ext. 132.

Press inquiries should be directed to Todd Keefe.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online.  TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines.  TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by as many as three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends.  TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,000 in Quantcast's (News - Alert) Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation’s top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference (in conjunction with Crossfire Media), Digium|Asterisk World and AstriCon (in conjunction with Digium), and Communications Developer Conference.

TMC Contact:
Todd Keefe
617-262-1968 x 101
[email protected]

Light and Electric Contact:
Pam Shapiro
Light and Electric
[email protected]