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The WR Collaboration Summit - Philadelphia 2011

19-Jul-2011 - Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia Center City

  • Enterprise IP Communications: The state of the state
  • What’s driving the industry today, and what are the likely bumps in the road ahead
  • Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research
  • Keynote: 30,000 Desktop video users in 30 days: business transformation with Microsoft Lync
  • In his electrifying case history, Ismayeel Syed will detail how Aviva, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, is deploying conferencing and visual collaborative applications across the enterprise in record time. From audio and video conferencing to streaming and internet TV, Aviva is transforming the way information workers conduct business
  • Ismayeel Syed, Technical Architect, Aviva
  • Visual Collaboration: An Interactive Demonstration
  • Magor Communications will present an interactive demonstration of Magor TeleCollaboration, an innovative form of visual collaboration that seamlessly integrates advanced data collaboration capabilities into a peer-to-peer, high definition video conferencing experience. Of particular interest to attendees will be a demonstration of how this technology extends its reach to smartphones and tablets (any device/any browser)
  • Ken Davison, VP of Global Sales & Marketing, Magor Communications
  • If Managed Services are the answer, what exactly is the question?
  • "Managed Services" mean different things to different people.  Providea's Professional Services team spent over a year studying very successful, highly pervasive video conferencing deployments and found there were common traits they all had in common. Some traits were obvious, other not so much.  We will share the top 10 traits we found they all have in common which will provide a context for how organizations can evaluate the use Managed Services to accelerate the success of their existing video deployment
  • John Price, EVP Managed & Professional Services, Providea
  • The Changing Face of Campus Technologies in Higher Education
  • Campus technologies are evolving at warp speed, as a result of the consumer-driven tech markets and new understanding of the value and impact of these technologies. A revolution is taking place in higher education and the many changes will affect vendors and users alike. This session will outline what’s hot on campus, how collaborative technologies are increasingly playing a role, and what the future looks like for using web conferencing, videoconferencing, lecture capture, and interactive whiteboards in education.
  • Alan Greenberg, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research
  • Multipoint Videoconferencing in the Case Connection Zone
  • The Case Connection Zone, a research project of Case Western Reserve University, is the nation’s first gigabit fiber-to-the-home community. Our research concerns how the in-home ultrahigh-speed broadband can be used to improve the quality of life or the residents in health and wellness, home energy management, public safety, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education at the high school level. The core technology underlying our work is RadVision’s Scopia Desktop. In this talk we will explain how we use multipoint videoconferencing to reestablish the people-to-people connections that our technology in general and our medical delivery system in particular have taken out of our society and to improve the residents’ quality of life, particularly in these four areas
  • Marv Schwartz, Chief Scientist - Case Connection Zone, Case Western University
  • Outside the box: How does collaboration change when bandwidth is plentiful?
  • Internet2 provides a networking environment of essentially unlimited bandwidth for the research and education community. This presents unique opportunities and challenges for real-time communications. This presentation will explore the lessons learned through experimentation with and deployment of high bandwidth real-time visual communications
  • Ben Fineman, Internet2
  • Bugs Welcome - moving videoconferencing out of the classroom and into the jungle
  • Videoconferencing has been a big promise for the education community, but until recently it was mostly a promise tied to expensive hardware with limited reach. New technology has removed the need for expensive hardware and support and allows videoconferencing to get out of the laboratory and classroom and into remote areas not thought to be possible. Currently the use of videoconferencing in the field is being tested as part of a five-year project between Arizona State University School of Life Sciences and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. New opportunities for education and research are now being explored and the walls of the traditional videoconferencing room are now being removed
  • Charles Kazilek, Director of Technology Integration and Outreach, Arizona State University
  • Developing a videoconferencing services strategy
  • With over ten years of experience using visual collaboration systems, Pfizer’s team is using this knowledge base to develop a services strategy that spans from telepresence at the high end to desktop video
  • Mirrill McMullen, Network Architecture & Strategy Team, Pfizer
  • Future Scenarios for Video Infrastructure
  • Mario Rimini, Global Sales & Marketing Manager, Compunetix
  • KEYNOTE: Driving Efficiencies and Court Transformation with Video Court Appearances and other IT Innovations
  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery will speak on cost savings, man-power and other economic cost savings, as well as increased court efficiency within the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania – benefits made possible by videoconferencing and other IT initiatives. Justice McCaffery is also involved in the process of creating a city-wide community court project whereby judges working from one central location are handling cases and working with social agencies in satellite courts throughout Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. 
  • The Honorable Justice Seamus McCaffery, The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
  • Unified Communications: The State of the Hosted UC Market
  • Hosted unified communications has attractive benefits for end user organizations and for the providers who offer these services, which can result in increased service ARPU. But with the myriad options out there, how can one decide how to proceed? This presentation reveals the four faces of the hosted UC market, discusses options, and shows the differences between single-cloud versus multi-cloud service architectures. The presentation will conclude with a hosted/managed UC market size and forecast for the North American hosted/managed UC market
  • E. Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research
  • Unified Communications: One Vendor's View
  • Roger Wallman, Director, Product Marketing, Radvision
  • From Telephony to Video and to the Network and Back: Global UC experiences at SAS
  • An overview of the globally deployed communications technologies at SAS, their UC vision, and the challenges that they have faced integrating our existing communications technologies into a Unified Communications solution suite
  • Russ Cary, Director of Communications Services, SAS
  • From Desktops to Tablets and Robots: Creating a video remote interpreting service that works across enterprise boundaries
  • Language interpretation and translation is a complex process that is integrated into business processes for companies that need to communicate with their customers, business partners and/or employees in more than one language. This presentation will examine how Language Services Associates (LSA) leveraged different technologies to create a B2B on-demand, real-time Video Remote Interpreting solution that is easy to deploy and use via a laptop computer or a cutting-edge telepresence robot. Mauricio will discuss some of the challenges LSA faced with this project, as well as lessons learned and future plans for the platform
  • Mauricio Vicente, Director of IT, Language Associates
  • Let your good deed go unpunished: legal issues in telecommuting
  • As technology develops and employees demand increasingly flexible work arrangements, more and more employers are establishing policies that allow their employees to work from home.  Mr. Davis's presentation will examine the legal issues that accompany telecommuting and offer advice for employers on avoiding legal snafus
  • Zachary Davis, Stevens & Lee LLP
  • Lights, Camera, Action: How social video is positioned to change the face of IT and corporate America
  • With the emergence of YouTube and Skype in the consumer market, social video communications are becoming more and more prevalent as a mainstream business communication tool.  Business Video within a social video context has now emerged in the corporate enterprise as a full featured way to collaborate and communicate. This session will explore the different forms of social video technologies, why organizations can benefit with social video, best practices of deploying social video, and future trends with video in light of its place in the overall unified communications technology space
  • Brian Buck, Manager Network Services & Enterprise IT, Cardinal Health
  • Pulling it all together: video, UC, streaming and the services environment
  • David Phillips, York Telecom
  • It's no longer just Web Conferencing
  • Can most web conferencing offerings be simply said to address the traditional 'big three' needs: meetings, training, or events?  It is time to think again.  Andy will build his case for how these three traditional categories have morphed into at least seven through the advent of new technologies, tight integration with web-based business processes, and a renegade business model.  Walk away from this session with a framework that will have both users and solution providers re-thinking what a web conferencing solution should provide
  • Andy Nilssen, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research

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