TELEPHONY LIVE: THE 2008 TELECOM SUMMIT
Sept.
30 – Oct. 1, 2008 Chicago Embassy Suites Downtown Lakefront
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Daniel Kelly Daniel (Dan) P. Kelly, 46, is executive vice president of global products at Tellabs. In this role, Kelly has global responsibility for Tellabs’ products, including research and development, product line management and product-specific marketing. Previously, Kelly was executive vice president of transport products. He also served as executive vice president of core products at Tellabs. Kelly joined Tellabs in 1985 and has held a series of increasingly responsible positions in product engineering and research and development. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence. |
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Day One, Morning keynote |
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Hardik Bhatt Mr. Hardik Bhatt’s appointment as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) was announced by Mayor Richard M Daley in February 2006. Mr. Bhatt is also the Commissioner of the Department of Business and Information Services, the City's primary technology planning, implementation and maintenance organization. As the Chief Information Officer and the Commissioner of the Department of Business and Information Services (BIS), Mr. Bhatt’s role is protect City’s existing investment in Information Technology while identifying and implementing new and innovative technology solutions that deliver efficiencies in service to the citizens of the City of Chicago. Specifically, Mr. Bhatt strives to implement Mayor Daley's vision of a city government that benefits from an assimilation of best practices from both the public sector and the private industry by raising the level of service provided to citizens, businesses and tourists. As the CIO of the City of Chicago, Mr. Bhatt oversees several Technology Implementations, Mobile Solutions and Information Sharing projects. This primarily includes improvements in collection and sharing of information across various City agencies and dissemination within agencies and to the general public. Also of high priority are streamlining City's various business processes to attract qualified firms to partner with the City, integration of various enterprise systems such as for Revenue, Finance and Procurement, Human Resources, Inspection and Permitting, and Customer Service Requests. He is also responsible for implementing a Geographic Information Services (GIS) that provides digital maps, photographs and up-to-date data on all property City-wide. Furthermore, Mr. Bhatt ‘s objective will be to make as many services available as possible to the public via the City's web site, www.cityofchicago.org and continue to evaluate options for city-wide wireless broadband connectivity. |
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Day One, Afternoon keynote |
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Andrew
Lippman Andrew Lippman has spent his entire
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Day TWO, Afternoon keynote |
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Jeong Kim
Dr. Jeong Kim is President of Bell Labs at Alcatel-Lucent. Dr. Jeong Kim originally joined Lucent Technologies in May 1998 when Lucent acquired Yurie Systems, Inc., a high-tech communications equipment company, which he founded in 1992 and served as its Chairman and CEO. During his tenure at Lucent, Dr. Jeong Kim initially served as the President of Lucent's former Broadband Carrier Networks. In 1999 he was named Chief Operating Officer and later President of Lucent's Optical Network Group. He left Lucent in 2001 to join the University of Maryland faculty, with joint appointments in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He rejoined the company in April 2005 as President of Bell Labs. |
GENERAL SESSIONS
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THE SERVICE PROVIDER OF TOMORROW |
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Bin Shen
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Perry
LaForge Perry LaForge is the Founder, Executive Director and Chairman of the CDMA Development Group (CDG). The CDG is a trade association comprised of over 120 of the world’s leading wireless operators and manufacturers. At the CDG, Perry is responsible for overseeing the expansion of CDMA technology throughout the world and for leading the evolution of the technology through the CDG’s subcommittees. Currently, there are over 500 individuals working on CDG teams. Perry has led the development and worldwide commercialization of CDMA since the first proof of concept trials in 1988. He was instrumental in the introduction of CDMA as a second digital standard around the world and in its evolution to next generation digital technology. He has over 24 years of experience working with high-technology companies. As vice president and partner of the international management-consulting firm of Pittiglio Rabin Todd and McGrath (PRTM), Perry oversaw the company’s growth from twenty to over four hundred employees and led the firm’s expansion into various domestic and international markets. Perry has participated in many industry committees. He has been a speaker, provided keynote addresses, and moderated panels at conferences in over twenty countries and has worked with government officials throughout the world to develop telecommunications policies. He has also lectured in numerous educational forums. He is a frequent guest columnist for a number of publications and has appeared on broadcast interviews about the wireless industry, including CNN, CNBC, Chinese Television Network, Bloomberg Business News and Dow Jones. He is frequently quoted in a number of publications, including Forbes, Fortune, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, RCR and BusinessWeek. Perry has a Bachelor of Engineering degree (magna cum laude). He was awarded a Masters of Business Degree (MBA) from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. |
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Jeff
Thompson Jeff Thompson is the co-founder and the technology/operations leader of Towerstream. Thompson has created a new model for delivering reliable bandwidth to the commercial market. By leveraging second-generation multipoint fixed wireless technology, Towerstream has built an expandable network that is 99.99% reliable. Thompson represents Towerstream in the WiMAX Forum. He is frequently quoted in media because of his expertise in WiMAX, Fixed Wireless, and 802.16. Prior to founding Towerstream, Thompson was founder and Vice President of Operations of eFortress, a privately held ISP. In 1995, Thompson founded EdgeNet Inc., a privately held internet service provider, and was Vice President of Operations through 1999. EdgeNet Inc. was sold in 1997 to Citadel Broadcasting. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UMASS. |
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NAVIGATING THE ETHER |
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Shankar Narayanaswamy Shankar joined the company in May 2007 with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing new products and services. Prior to joining the company, Narayanaswamy held several technical management positions in network engineering and architecture, including the leadership of Covad Communications' network engineering and architecture group. He also served as director of network systems at Sapias, Inc. Narayanaswamy was founder and CTO of Telemesis, which delivered end-to-end services for wireless remote access and management. Prior to that, he spent five years at Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent). |
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John Sauer John Sauer is director technical marketing at Tellabs’ global marketing group. In this role, he is responsible for network evolution, with a concentration on Carrier Ethernet. Previously, Sauer worked on packet product strategy for the Tellabs® 7100 optical transport system. Prior to joining Tellabs, Sauer held variety of managerial and engineering positions at Motorola and Bell Laboratories. Sauer is active in the Metro Ethernet Forum and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Sauer has more than twenty years of technical and strategy management experience in the computer and communications industry. He holds five wireless packet networking related patents and has one patent pending. Sauer holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University.
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Tom
Bechly Thomas Bechly is director of enterprise network engineering for Verizon Business. In this role, Bechly is responsible for engineering key Verizon Business data networks, including the Verizon Business Converged Packet Architecture (CPA) network. The CPA network supports Ethernet access, Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL), and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). Bechly also has engineering responsibility for the Verizon Business enterprise network. This is both the administrative network for Verizon Business internal systems and the command and control network for management access to equipment deployed in support of Verizon Business products and services. Before assuming his current position, Bechly was responsible for network architecture and engineering for the company’s global packet network as well as the domestic transaction transport network. Bechly also was responsible for dial access engineering and MAE® services engineering. MAE is a registered trademark of Verizon for Internet exchange services, a key component of the Internet infrastructure where data is exchanged among Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Prior to joining Verizon Business, Bechly held software development and network engineering positions with British Telecom and Tymnet where he was responsible for communications protocol and operating system kernel development. Bechly holds a bachelor of arts in English literature from the University of Illinois and a master of fine arts in music from Mills College in Oakland, Calif. |
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Michael
Kennedy Michael Kennedy, Managing Partner of Network Strategy Partners, LLC, helps leading companies create and implement network industry strategies. Recently, he helped incumbent and new entrant service providers improve the profitability of their service offerings. Michael helps systems vendors create business cases in support of their marketing efforts, and service providers and enterprises develop network architectures. He also is a widely quoted authority on the dynamics of the communications industry. Dr. Kennedy holds a Ph.D. from New York University where his research involved stochastic models of telecommunications demand. |
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Fred
Ellefson As Vice President, Global Marketing, Fred Ellefson works to position ADVA Optical Networking’s innovative Optical+Ethernet portfolio of products in the global marketplace. He is responsible for expanding the visibility of the company through all traditional and emerging marketing platforms. Fred joined ADVA Optical Networking upon the company’s October 2005 acquisition of Covaro Networks. There, he served as Vice President of Marketing and developed and trademarked that company’s “Etherjack” brand. He also defined the Ethernet demarcation product category through trade-publication articles, speaking engagements, customer presentations and outreach to industry analysts and journalists. Fred has more than 25 years’ experience in marketing and planning next-gen products for converged voice and data networks. Before joining ADVA Optical Networking and Covaro, he served as Vice President of Marketing with Rapid5 Networks. Prior to that, he spent 14 years with Alcatel in increasingly responsible roles, including positions in product-line and research-and- development management, followed by Vice President of Transport Marketing and then Vice President of Portfolio Planning. Fred began his career at Bell Northern Research, where he held development roles in the transmission-products division. Fred holds a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta at Edmonton in Canada. |
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THE NEW SERVICE EQUATION |
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Martin Taylor Martin Taylor has spent over 20 years in the telecom and network equipment industries, in product marketing, engineering, technology planning and business development. Since joining MetaSwitch in 2004, he has been responsible for developing the company's IMS technology strategy and led key technology initiatives in hosted VoIP services, Web Services interfaces and Web portal evolution. Martin's prior experience includes the role of founding CTO at CopperCom, where he was widely recognized as an early pioneer in Voice Over Broadband for his leadership of the ATM Forum standards work on Loop Emulation. In previous roles at Madge Networks and at Marconi, he was instrumental in significant business successes in areas such as Token Ring switching and passive optical networking. Martin is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England with a degree in Engineering. |
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Thomas
Howe Thomas McCarthy-Howe has twenty years of experience in telecommunications product development. He is currently an independent consultant to service providers, enterprises and equipment vendors in the design and development of next generation communications equipment and services. Thomas has held senior management and engineering positions at industry leaders such as Comverse, Versatel Networks, PictureTel and Aware. As a member of the PictureTel engineering team, Mr. Howe designed audio and video software of the first PC-based video conferencing system, as well as software for the original version of NetMeeting, and as Aware Inc.'s software architect for the first commercially available ADSL chipset. In 2007, Thomas won the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Mashup Contest, and in 2008 received an VON Innovator's Editor's Top Ten Pick. In addition to his writing and teaching, he currently serves on several technical advisory boards and boards of directors. |
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Brian Kracik As director of worldwide telecommunications markets for Oracle Communications, Brian Kracik is responsible for establishing and executing industry and solution strategy. He serves as the team lead for strategic initiatives focused on emerging operator opportunities. With more than 16 years of telecommunications experience, Kracik is a frequent speaker on the subject of service delivery platforms and next-generation network technologies and is well-versed in the business and network aspects of global operators. Prior to joining Oracle, Kracik spent three years with BEA Systems and five years with Sun Microsystems where he drove solution-selling initiatives directly into key accounts and served as an industry expert providing sales support for the carrier account teams worldwide. While leading 3G account planning efforts for North American and Asia Pacific regions, Kracik evaluated and created standards-based solutions with independent software vendors and network equipment providers to meet the carriers' needs. Previously, Kracik held various roles with wireless and wireline service providers including McLeod USA, Sprint Cellular, 360 Communications and Alltel. He managed a team of engineers in the financial planning, design, build-out and optimization of wireless markets in Virginia and North Carolina, and he also led the implementation of facilities-based wireline markets across an eight state region in the Northwest. Kracik holds an MBA from DePaul University, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of Illinois and a Bachelor of General Studies from Armstrong State College. |
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Kumar
Rajan Kumar Rajan has over 18 years of experience in information technology, mostly in telecom. Dr. Rajan has been with Verizon for the last nine years and has led various OSS integration initiatives for Verizon. He is currently an Executive Director at Verizon Business and is responsible for Strategic Infrastructure and Common Platforms. He has a PH.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and an Executive MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Marco
Limena Marco joined Sylantro as president and chief executive officer in 2006 with extensive international communications and business management experience. As the former vice president of Hewlett Packard’s multi-billion dollar Network and Service Provider Solution business, Marco focused on serving key telecom operators, equipment manufacturers and media companies. He was responsible for all strategic initiatives, industry solutions and partner relationships for the communications group throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and contributed to the HP office of strategy and technology for key corporate initiatives including mobility and digital media. Marco serves as a board director and advisor in public and private companies and in key industry organizations like the TeleManagement Forum. He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padua and has attended business management programs at INSEAD, Fontainebleau and MIT’s Sloan School of Business. |
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HAULING VIDEO |
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Stephen
Trainor Stephen Trainor is currently responsible for strategy within Level 3's Content Markets Group. He has been with the company for three years in a variety of positions, most recently as Director of Voice Services, Europe, and before that as Director, Corporate Strategy and Development, Europe. Prior to Level 3, Stephen was a director of Stage Technologies, a UK firm providing computer-controlled automation solutions for live entertainment venues internationally, and prior to that occupied roles in the advertising, theater and recording industries. He is based in Colorado and holds a Masters degree from Oxford University and a Masters in Business Administration from London Business School. |
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Doug
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Alan
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It's all I-T |
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Kevin
Hart Kevin T. Hart has been Chief Information officer since January 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Hart was Group Vice President Global Systems Development and Chief Information Officer from January 2005 to 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Hart was Vice President of Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment at Capgemini (formerly Ernst & Young), a management consulting firms in Dallas, Texas, for over nine years. In that role, he was responsible for the overall growth and direction of the organization's Communications Operations Support Systems, Billing/Business Support Systems and the Network Management Systems service offerings and delivery. Prior to joining Capgemini's management consulting practice, he held the positions of Director of Strategic Planning at International Paper and Manager of Operations at SBC Communications. |
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Vercie
Lark Vercie Lark is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of EMBARQ. This NYSE-listed company has approximately 18,000 employees and operates in 18 states offering voice, data, high-speed internet, wireless, and entertainment services to more than 5 million customers. Lark is responsible for strategy, planning and operations of internal IT systems, applications and communication services. Prior to becoming CIO, Lark was vice president of IT Infrastructure Services at EMBARQ, where he led teams responsible for IT data centers, voice and data communication services and computing platforms. Lark began work at EMBARQ during November 2005. Prior to joining EMBARQ, Lark worked for four years at Hewlett Packard and approximately 12 years for Compaq Computer Corporation, where he held several executive leadership positions in IT and HP Managed Services. He currently serves on the technical advisory councils for Prairie View A&M and Florida A&M and is an active board member of the Boys Hope Girls Hope organization in Kansas City. Lark earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Systems Engineering from Wright State University of Ohio in 1985 and subsequently began his career in technology as an Electrical Systems engineer at Monsanto Research Corporation. |
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Nigel
Upton Nigel Upton manages the Business Intelligence, Data Retention and Active Mediation solutions for Hewlett-Packard. He has world-wide responsibility for Product Development, Marketing, Support, Business Development and Training for the solutions with P&L accountability. Prior to his current role, Upton has led various software businesses within HP. During the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger, he led the software integration, defining the new software focus areas for growth. He has over 20 years experience with Hewlett-Packard in Europe and the United States and has developed new software solutions within HP in both the enterprise and Telco markets as well as managed Global Alliances. Upton represents HP on the Board of Directors of the IMS Forum, www.IMSForum.org. |
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SERVICE GETS PERSONAL |
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Nancy
Kaplan Nancy Kaplan brings over 20 years experience working with the telecommunications, wireless, and satellite industries. Nancy’s focus is working with executives to develop and implement new strategies to enable profitable growth in rapidly changing market environments. Her deep experience encompasses strategic initiatives and major enterprise transformations, as well as Post Merger Integration. Her work includes issues of customer-centricity and customer experience management, customer segmentation, innovation and commercialization, channels, and business models. Nancy is a Partner with Secor Consulting, a leading international strategy boutique headquartered in Montreal, with offices in Paris, Toronto, and New York. Prior to joining SECOR, Nancy was a Senior Executive with Accenture and a Vice President with Adventis. Nancy holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale University. |
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Vivek
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Ken King Ken King is Director, Telco & Media Convergence at SAS. He has over twenty years of telecom industry experience in design, deployment, and support of voice and data networks for large corporations worldwide. He has extensive experience in migration of communication networks from circuit to packet switching. His background includes roles in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Testing, Training, and Technical Support. Ken works with SAS customers in the communications and media industries to leverage Business Intelligence and advanced Analytics for competitive advantage. As the market leader in analytics, SAS solutions are deployed in almost every large telecommunications and media company in the world. Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Florida and an MBA in Product Innovation Management from North Carolina State University. He has dual Australian and American citizenships. |
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David
Allred David Allred is senior vice president of marketing and product management at Sezmi. Allred brings Sezmi a unique blend of marketing and strategy consulting experience coupled with executive management experience in marketing, product management, and corporate development. Before joining Sezmi, formerly known as Building B, Allred was vice president of marketing and product management at Clearwire Wireless Broadband. While at Clearwire, Allred was instrumental in building the company into the leading wireless broadband service provider in the fast growing Wimax market. His responsibilities included developing and deploying the first national scale wireless broadband service offering, mobile broadband PC card and wireless VOIP service. Allred was also responsible for all aspects of the company’s marketing activities including building the brand and executing marketing programs across the company’s direct, retail, web and telesales channels as well as national retailers and dealers. |
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ALL ABOUT ACCESS |
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Vince
Vittore Vince Vittore is a program manager in Yankee Group’s Enabling Technologies Service Provider group with an expertise in broadband solutions. Vittore covers several areas within the broadband access market, tracking both fiber- and copper-based technologies. In the fiber space, Vittore examines topics ranging from the adoption of broadband passive optical network (BPON) and gigabit passive optical network (GPON) to the emergence of new business models created by high-bandwidth technologies. Vittore provides comprehensive coverage of DSL, including ADSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL2. He also has a heavy concentration on the IPTV segment. |
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Mark
Showalter Analyst Mark Showalter covers residential, business, and service provider broadband, including broadband and cable broadband aggregation hardware, broadband CPE, PON and FTTH equipment, and broadband subscribers. He authors quarterly market share and forecast reports and is a consultant to startups, service providers, and manufacturers, identifying new market opportunities and advising on positioning, product development, and business plans. With over 20 years of telecommunications experience, Mark has strong expertise in transforming new telecom products and services from concept to revenue. |
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Fellah Adlane Fellah, Eng. MBA is CEO and founder of Maravedis Inc. a world-leader and pioneer in Broadband Wireless and WiMAX market research and analysis. He is a leading industry analyst and authored various landmark reports on WiMAX, Broadband Wireless and Voice over IP (VoIP). Mr. Fellah is regularly asked to speak at leading wireless events and to contribute to various influential portals and magazines such as Telephony Magazine, WiMAX Trends, WiMAX.com, to name a few… Fellah is a member of the Program Advisory Board for the WiMAX World conference since 2004 and an active member of the World Communications Association International and the European Broadband Wireless Association. Prior to founding Maravedis, Fellah held various positions at Harris Corporation in charge of market intelligence and business development for several product lines. |
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HOW OPEN SHOULD I BE? |
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JP Rangaswami JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director, Service Design for BT Design – BT Group’s IT design and delivery business. It has total
responsibility for designing, building and implementing the IT and business processes, systems, networks (non-Openreach) and technologies. JP is responsible
for group operations as well as enterprise management platforms and web technologies. He has extensive international experience and is passionate about
delivering outstanding end-to-end customer experience. He has a record for innovation and collaboration that underpins his customer-focused delivery of major
global programmes. JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO demonstrating recognised market leadership in the use of
innovative tools and techniques. He is a compelling advocate for community-based "opensource" development methods and practices. He is fervent blogger
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Scott
Hoffpauir As Chief Technology Officer, Hoffpauir is responsible for guiding the technical vision and direction for BroadSoft as well as promoting continuous product innovation. Prior to co-founding BroadSoft and serving as Vice President, Engineering since 1998, Hoffpauir was Director of GSM Development at Celcore (DSC/Alcatel USA). In this role, he was responsible for all product development on the GSM switching product, including system architecture, product requirements, software development, hardware development, system test/integration and product/customer support. Hoffpauir played a key role in setting up customer trials and providing sales support and served as representative to the GSM SMG standards body. Before Celcore, Hoffpauir was senior architect for Nortel's GSM and Inter-Exchange Carrier switching systems. Hoffpauir holds multiple patents in the GSM, SIP, call processing and switching areas. He is a graduate of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. |
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Michael Temkin Mr. Temkin runs Hands-On's global operations. Prior to joining Hands-On, Mr. Temkin worked for Yahoo! where he was responsible for the Yahoo! Mobile platform and product engineering group. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Temkin managed Earthlink's portal platform group, which was responsible for building the mobile platform and products, in addition to the infrastructure for cross-platform personalization, content and single-sign-on. Mr. Temkin also managed the Excite Mobile team, which was responsible for building a suite of products that integrated with Excite@Home's desktop and set-top content. Mr. Temkin has an AB in Physics from Harvard. |
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Chris
Pearson Chris Pearson is the President of 3G Americas, LLC. In his role as the spokesperson and senior operating officer of the corporation, he is responsible for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas of technology, marketing, public relations, finance as well as public and regulatory affairs. As President of 3G Americas, Mr. Pearson represents 3G Americas Market Representation interests within the 3GPP organization. Mr. Pearson came to 3G Americas from the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) where he served as Executive Vice President in charge of the strategic management of the technology consortium. Prior to joining the UWCC, Mr. Pearson held the position of Strategic Alliance Manager for the Advanced Network Services Provider Program (ANSPP) at AT&T Wireless Services in Kirkland, Washington. Additionally, prior to AT&T Wireless, Mr. Pearson held several senior level technical marketing positions at GTE Telephone Operations. Throughout his twenty-year career in telecommunications, Mr. Pearson has provided lectures, technical marketing training, and speeches for technology audiences throughout the world. Mr. Pearson holds a Masters in Business Administration from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Finance from the school of Business at the University of Washington. |
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INNOVATION AWARDS PRESENTATION |
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Pat O’Brien Pat O'Brien was named President of ADC's Copper and Fiber Connectivity Business Unit in October 2002. He joined ADC in 1993 as a product manager for the company’s industry-leading DSX products. During the following eight years, he held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in the product management area. Most recently, O’Brien served as vice president and general manager of copper and fiber connectivity products. Previously, Mr. O'Brien spent six years with Contel Telephone (now GTE) in a network planning capacity. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and is completing an MBA at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. |
