ETel 2007 Is Calling: for Proposals to Lead Sessions and Workshops Deadline is September 11, 2006
In 2006, ETel broke new ground, creating a vital forum for early stage innovators, alpha geeks, and telco researchers to share ideas, tools, and explore ways to drive the industry forward. This year, we’re back with a conference that will prove provocative, intelligent, and challenging. But we need your help.
If you have a stake in the future of telephony, this is your chance to speak out, share your ideas, and make a presentation to an audience that will include the leading technologists, scientists, researchers, programmers, hackers, business developers, and entrepreneurs in the industry. Passionate about what you do? Then we want to hear from you.
Topics we’re tracking for ETel 2007:
– Open Source/Open Telephony
Asterisk and Skype are just the beginning. What are the breakthroughs in Open Source platforms and hardware?
– Wireless Mobility and Mobile Telephony
What does the future hold for net connectivity? When you can SkypeOut from the local coffee shop, what’s next?
-Intersection of VoIP Telephony and Web Services
As costs head toward zero, where will businesses seek to provide value? The potential for innovation is huge.
– Infrastructure
What are the innovations we can expect to see from GSM, CDMA, POTS, wi-fi, wi-max, Mesh Networks, PicoCells, and usage of unlicensed spectrum?
– Voice as Data
How will demand for new services be balanced by privacy concerns, and compliance regulations?
– Culture and Connectivity
How are activists, community groups, and technology evangelists reaching out to underserved communities in the developing world? What can we learn from online gamers, flash mobs, and velvet revolutions?
-Usability and Experience
What happens to your business when your product is your interface?
– Business Models
Can the telco’s re-invent themselves? Will legislation protecting intellectual property become a barrier to innovation?
– Early Warning Signals
Rapidly emerging technologies can be embraced in a flash. What new technology, operating system or source code is about to emerge from a lab bench, a loft, or garage and go mainstream?
Sharpen Your Edge
Stay on the cutting edge of this rapidly evolving industry. New technologies emerge weekly that change the way we reach customers, exchange news, conduct business, share music and photos, and entertain ourselves. Immerse yourself in the projects, products, and the players who are changing the future of IP telephony. Who will be the winners and also-rans in the new telephony gold rush? Find out at ETel 2007.
Opportunity doesn’t always knock. This time it calls.
Hope to see you in Burlingame in 2007,
The O’Reilly Conference Team
ETel, the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference
February 27-March 1, 2007
San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etel
