Start

Tuesday 8-April-2008

Speaker

8:00 AM

Registration and coffee

9:00 AM

Welcome

Andrew Davis /
Wainhouse Research

9:10 AM

Visual communications: Turning today's hype into tomorrow's reality (details)

Andrew Davis /
Wainhouse Research

9:50 AM

Videoconferencing and the World of Professional AV (details)

Peter Lloyd / AV Magazine

10:30 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM

From Communications to Collaboration to Telepresence (details)

John-Erik Horn / Media-Saturn

11:30 AM

Experiences with Qimonda's Near Telepresence Video Communications Systems (details)

Robert Mayer-Klamm / Qimonda

12:00 PM

Workshop: Thinking Beyond Technology (details)
Sponsored by Aethra

12:00 PM

Workshop: Accelerating Business through Web 2.0 (details)
Sponsored by WebEx

Peer Stemmler / WebEx

12:45 PM

Lunch & Networking

2:00 PM

Workshop: Mobile Audio and Video Conferencing - Business Conferencing on the move (details)
Sponsored by disy

disy & Deutsche Telekom

2:00 PM

Workshop: Business Transformation (details)
Sponsored by Cisco

Erica Schroeder / Cisco

2:45 PM

Coffee break

3:00 PM

Network Design for Telepresence (details)

John Bartlett / Netforecast

3:30 PM

Panel discussion: The future of video and visual communications

Sven Damberger / MVC
TBD / EmblazeVCON
Ofer Shapiro / Vidyo
Ulrich Schwenn / Max Planck Society
Erica Schroeder / Cisco

4:15 PM

Exhibits open / refreshments / networking

6:15 PM

Exhibits close

Start

Wednesday 9-April-2008

8:00 AM

Registration and coffee

9:00 AM

Welcome

Marc Beattie /
Wainhouse Research

9:15 AM

Conferencing Services: Is this a new Peak, the Plateau, or just the Beginning? (details)

Marc Beattie /
Wainhouse Research

9:45 AM

Professional and Standards Videoconferencing: Using the Internet for an Outsourced Service (details)

Ernest Companys /
Techno Trends

10:15 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM

Video Applications and Services Driving the Video Industry (details)

Ray Alves / VisionsConnected

11:15 AM

Video Services over 3G networks (details)

Borja Pascual / Cestel

11:45 AM

Workshop: Putting Unified Communications into Contex (details)
Sponsored by Compunetix

11:45 AM

Workshop: It's All in Sight - and Sound:
Delivering the Premium User Experience (details)
Sponsored by Polycom

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM

Workshop: How Microsoft Unified Communications delivers a new collaboration experience for information workers (details)
Sponsored by Microsoft

Oliver Toffol / Microsoft

1:45 PM

Workshop: High definition at the desktop and next-gen web conferencing (details)
Sponsored by Emblaze-VCON

Sharon Viente / Emblaze-VCON

2:30 PM

Coffee break

2:45 PM

Social Networking: Ready or Not, It is Coming to the Enterprise (details)

David Dines /
Wainhouse Research

3:15 PM

Panel discussion: The future of collaboration services

Ralf Nikolai / disy
Tony Kula / meetyoo
TBD / Compunetix

4:00 PM

Exhibits open / refreshments / networking

Sponsored by Compunetix

6:00 PM

Exhibits close

7:30 PM

Banquet (by registration only)

Co-sponsored by Microsoft & MVC

Start

Thursday 10-April-2008

8:15 AM

Registration and coffee

9:00 AM

Welcome

Andrew Davis /
Wainhouse Research

9:15 AM

The Challenge of Implementing UC (details)

Jon Neville /
Wainhouse Research

9:45 AM

Real-time Collaboration in the Global Enterprise: Security in the New Age

Rolf Hansman / Sanofi Aventis

10:15 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM

Rich Media Communications and Telemedicine Reality (details)

Adrian Hall / Brandon Medical

11:15 AM

The Wisdom of Crowds: Computer-aided listening as a collaboration tool (details)

Joanne Celens / Synthetron

11:45 AM

Lunch

12:45 PM

A new IP videoconferencing approach to blended learning at UNED (details)

Covadonag Rodrigo / UNED

1:15 PM

From education to mobile workers: Opportunities for new products and services (details)

Alan Greenberg /
Wainhouse Research

1:45 PM

Visual Communications: How tomorrow's applications will differ from today's (details)

Stephan Karapetkov / Polycom

2:15 PM

Wrap up panel discussion: When and how will
Unified Communications take off?

John-Erik Horn / Media Saturn
Stefan Karapetkov / Polycom

3:00 PM

Adjourn