[enum-wg] Future of VoIP conference - The Hague March 15th 2007

Invitation The Future of VoIP II 
15 Maart 2007, Aula Koninklijke Bibliotheek 
The Hague/Den Haag (The Netherlands)


      Thomas Anglero (Nuclei Networks) * James Body (Truphone) * Michel
      de Boer (Twinklephone) * David Bryan (co-chair IETF P2PSIP WG,
      Sipeerior) * Adrian Georgescu (AG Projects) * Bert Hubert (Power
      DNS) * Ytsen Kooistra (YBK) * Olaf Kolkman (Internet Architecture
      Board) * Michiel Leenaars (Internet Society) * Dan Pascu (AG
      Projects) * Hendrik Rood (Stratix) * Antoin Verschuren (SIDN) 
              

                  The Hague/Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 6th 2007


The role of real-time communication via the internet is still
increasing. Currently over tens of millions of households in the
world are calling through VoIP, video telefony (both mobile and
fixed) is increasingly popular and of better quality, and the
increasing availability of User ENUM in the market is a clear
signal that the migration towards all-IP is definitely on its way. From
the user side, the vendor community and service providers expections are
sky high - yet nobody knows which business models, technologies and
services will be the ones to make it all the way to the end.

The various market forces that are developing in this field need to
position themselves on the basis of a good insight into technology and
in the way users want to interact with that technology. That,
in interaction with what the competition is doing will determine the
business opportunities. For users (and governments) it is vital that
the result is an open infrastructure where flexibility, stability,
usability, security and service go hand in hand.

On March 15th 2007 ISOC Netherlands organises the second edition of the
Future of VoIP conference. Learn more about upcoming IETF standards
around P2P SIP, ENUM, open source SIP clients, SIP on dual-mode
GSM/WiFi devices, the possible role of Fiber to the home and
interconnect issues between VoIP islands. Prominent (inter)nationale
speakers such as Thomas Anglero (Nuclei Networks), James Body
(Truphone), David Bryan (co-chair IETF P2PSIP WG, Sipeerior) and Olaf
Kolkman (director NLnet Labs, member of the Internet Architecture
Board) wil guide you along new insights from the different worlds
behind VoIP and SIP. Join us in the discussion on the business models
behind future communication patterns via internet, and determine your
own strategy on the basis of a broad spectre of opinions, visions and
experiences.

The Future of VoIP conference is organized by ISOC.nl SIP special
Interest Group on March 15th 2007. The conference will take place in the
aula of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5) in The
Hague, the Netherlands. Participation in 'The Future of VoIP II costs
99 euro, ISOC members pay only 50 euro. The conference will be held in
English.

All information, including the whole programme and a registration
form can be found both in English and in Dutch on:

                            http://isoc.nl/activ/2007-FoV-II

Kind regards,
on behalf of the organisers,

Michiel Leenaars,              Adrian Georgescu
director ISOC.nl              vice-chair SIPSIG



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About the speakers

THOMAS F. ANGLERO, NUCLEI NETWORKS

Thomas F. Anglero is the Founder and CEO of Nuclei Networks, the sole
certifier of VoIP solutions for the Leeuwarden "Break the Dyke" Global
Invitation. Mr. Anglero was recently a senior executive advisor with
Telenor AS where he was responsible for Telenor's FMC and Web Service
strategies. Prior, Mr. Anglero was also the CEO of Free World Dialup,
VP of Vocaltec Communications and CEO of TrulyGlobal. 

JAMES BODY, TRUPHONE

James Body is Director - Networks at Truphone, a UK based converged
operator who provide mobile services utilizing dual mode GSM/WiFi
handsets. James is responsible for all of the infrastructure between
the handset SIP interface and the rest of the world. Following
graduation from Queen Mary College, University of London and 20 years
as a Regular Officer in the Royal Corps of Signals (UK Army), James
'retired' to focus on implementing VoIP based 'New Telephony' systems.
He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system
and was co-founder of Gossiptel. A founder member of the UK Internet
Telephony Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved
with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony
systems for past five years. He is a fervent believer in the power of
disruptive communications technology and the role of open source
components in the shaping of future telecommunications architectures.

MICHEL DE BOER, TWINKLEPHONE

Michel de Boer is the lead developer of Twinkle. He has a degree in
computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His
professional background is in software development and technical
support of circuit and packet switched voice networks. His area of
expertise is in signalling protocols and TCP/IP. Other interests
include SIP, open source and Linux. 

DAVID BRYAN, FOUNDER OF SIPEERIOR 

David Bryan is a leading expert in the area of P2P SIP. He plays an
active role in IETF P2P SIP efforts, and has published numerous
academic papers and trade articles on the subject. David is active in
the SIP community, including heading up p2psip.org, the leading
community site for P2P SIP, and is involved with SIPFoundry, the
reSIProcate project, and Vovida.org. David was co-founder and CTO of
Jasomi Networks, and previously worked at Cisco Systems and Vovida
Networks. David holds a master's degree in Computer Science and is
completing a Ph.D. at William and Mary. 

ADRIAN GEORGESCU, FOUNDER OF AG PROJECTS 

Adrian Georgescu is Founder and CEO of AG Projects. Based in the
Netherlands, AG Projects is a leading European company supplying
service providers with turnkey SIP infrastructure systems. Adrian is an
advocate of IETF standards, member of OpenSER management board, founder
and co-chair of the Dutch ISOC SIP Special Interest Group. Prior to
starting of his own company, Adrian had accumulated experience with
Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, GTS, Ebone and KPNQwest.
Adrian's expertise is the design of high-availability infrastructures,
addressing and numbering systems, signaling protocols, provisioning and
mediation systems, implementation of disaster recovery plans. Adrian
has received in 1996 a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of
Electrotechnics at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest,
Romania.Founder of AG Projects 

BERT HUBERT, POWERDNS

Bert Hubert is founder of PowerDNS. PowerDNS is shipped with nearly
every Linux distribution and comes standard with many wireless routers.
Bert is also a long term open source contributor. Among other, he is
the author of the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO. As a
student he developed an application for monitoring large numbers of
cable modems and their network performance (using a modified 'pathchar'
algorithm), which was sold to several major cable companies. This
success caused Bert to drop out of university and concentrate on his
own company, PowerDNS. Netherlabs is a consulting company specialised
in networking, telephony, UNIX/Linux, system development and
requirement planning. 

YTSEN KOOISTRA, YBK

Ytsen is an independant consultant. He founded Rits tele.com, one of
the first VoIP providers in The Netherlands and sold the company to
BBned in 2005. Now he's working for telecommunications companies and
service providers in the area of regulatory affairs and (technical)
business development. Ytsen studied at the TU Delft.

OLAF KOLKMAN, NLNET LABS

Olaf Kolkman is director of NLnet Labs and a member of the Internet
Architecture Board. He was trained as an astronomer but his interest in
Internet technology took hold of his career path around 1996. He joined
the RIPE NCC around 1997 where he got involved in the test-traffic
project. That project brought him in contact with the IETF and he
attended his first meeting in Munich. After acting as operations
manager for a while he became systems architect, responsible for DNSSEC
deployment at the NCC, in 2000. From that time on he has been active in
the DNS community for instance as co-chair of the DNSEXT working group.
He joined NLnet Labs, a R&D foundation, as chief executive in 2005. He
is an IAB member since March 2006. 

DAN PASCU, CTO AG PROJECTS

Dan Pascu received a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and
Telecommunications from Bucharest Polytechnic University in 1995. Dan
has years of experience in design and implementation of complex
systems, software development and IP networking. Dan is a well-known
contributor to the Open Source community, he is co-author of
WindowMaker X-Window Manager and author of MediaProxy solution for SIP
Express Router.

HENDRIK ROOD, STRATIX

Hendrik Rood is a senior consultant at Stratix Consulting since 1995. He
was also a Senior Research Fellow at Economics of Infrastructures
section at Delft University of Technology from 1998 - 2006. He has
regularly published on the economics of names, numbers and other
identifiers on electronic networks and on interconnection issues in
scientific journals and conferences. At Stratix Hendrik specialised in
technical network architecture design and procurement, regulatory
advisory services and business plan due dilligence for financial sector
clients. He assists a broad range of clients in more informed decision
making in telecommunications, Internet and media questions. Hendrik has
a background in high bit-rate transmission systems engineering
(land-based and submarine systems) and public switching telephony
networks. Voice-over-IP and ENUM is an area where he is keen to use his
IP networking and classical telecoms background and his non-technical
experience in the industry to discuss development questions.

ANTOIN VERSCHUREN, SIDN/SEN

Antoin Verschuren works as a technical advisor for the Policy &
Business Development department of Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie
Nederland. SIDN governs the .nl-domain. Before that he was a member of
the advisory council of SIDN for several years. Prior functions include
Via Networks and Internet Access Eindhoven in several technical
functions. 

MICHIEL LEENAARS, INTERNET SOCIETY

Michiel Leenaars is director of Internet Society Netherlands since
2002. ISOC Netherlands is the largest ISOC-chapter in the world. He is
a member of the Strategic Committee of Eurid, the .eu registry, of the
Netherlands shadow committee of JTC 1/SC 34, the advisory committee of
Burger at overheid.nl. He is a a boardmember of stichting Petities.nl and
a founding board member of Gridforum Netherlands. He has a academic
background in Physics and Arts. Additionally Michiel Leenaars works for
the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as an
advisor on e-science, e-infrastructure and grid technology. He is
project leader deputy of e-IRGSP, an EU funded project delivering
policy support to the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) and
lead editor of the e-Infrastructures Roadmap publised by e-IRG.