2025 IMTC Virtual Conference: Last Call for Speakers

By Ilil Ben-Shalom | Published: February 9, 2010

CALL FOR SPEAKERS (Extended For 2 More Weeks)

The IMTC Forum, a meeting place for experts in video communication and collaboration, is conducting a virtual conference, April 7-8 2010.  This is the first of its kind event, taking place in the browser near you.  The theme of the event is 2025 -Technology, Standards, Work, Life.  We’ll discuss the ways online technologies will impact our lives and careers in the future.

We’re looking for additional speakers who wish to share their knowledge and professional standpoint of what our technological future will be.  If you’re interested, please send an email to kfir@pravdam.com.
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Social TV Trends – An Overview

By Ilil Ben-Shalom | Published: February 3, 2010
MLB TV Live Baseball Playoff Video and Twitter
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IMTC 2025 virtual conference will take place on 7th through 8th of April, and will cover a wide variety of subjects relating to the future of technology and communication in our lives. This will be  the first in a series of posts that will touch some of the subjects that will be discussed in the conference. We hope you will enjoy them.

For those of us not in the Social TV field, can you please give us a few words on who you are, and what you do?
My name is Dror Gill, and I’m the founder and CEO of Gamdala Ltd., a strategic consultancy in the fields of video, Internet and mobile.  I work with technology companies on their strategic directions, defining product roadmaps, performing market and competitive analysis, etc.  I also help VCs to perform due diligence on start-ups, and in my spare time I work on incubating my own ideas in these fields as an entrepreneur.

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Virtual Conference – A Lot of Questions, Not a lot of answers

By Kfir Pravda | Published: July 15, 2009
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How can you create an engaging, interactive, virtual conference, that will keep people interested, even though they are hundreds of miles away? This is the challenge that we at IMTC is facing this year, while planning its annual event.

IMTC’s Annual event is a meeting point of industry experts in the fields of video communication and interoperability. This year we decided to do a full day conference virtually, using available technologies. We are doing it because of three reasons:
1. This is the conference of the future: Though nothing can replace a handshake, virtual conferences are appealing from economic and efficiency perspective

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Is HD voice Really Here?

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 26, 2009
Communication
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Written By Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director, Product Management – Americas at RADVISION

To follow up on my previous post, I would like to continue talking about HD Voice. However, now I’m armed and dangerous – with the knowledge, that is. HD Communications Summit which took place on Thursday, May 21st, in New York City, brought together an outstanding line up of speakers with an amazing depth of knowledge on the subject. The event was organized by Jeff Pulver and Dan Berninger – both can be regarded as VoIP pioneers and experts on the subject. Read More »

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Can you hear me? HD Voice and Its Implications

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 20, 2009
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Written By Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director, Product Management – Americas at RADVISION

Who heard of High Definition Video? Oh yes, thank you, so silly of me, of course everybody did – walk into any electronics store, and admire – clear, bright, juicy picture, hundreds of HDTVs of all sizes smiling at you, all at the same time. We like it and want to use it daily..
But what about audio? We had High Definition audio (remember what Hi-Fi stands for?) way back – in the times when you needed a few close friends giving you a hand with 25” TV being brought in the house, High Definition sound was abundantly available, so we did experience and we do know what good sound quality is.

So let’s connect the dots. This blog is about Internet Communications, also widely known as VoIP. On cell phones, we are used to crappy voice quality and dropped calls – and we don’t even get irritated after so many years of training. Regular telephony, delivered over analog or PSTN, is almost an apogee of goodness – at least it was until few years ago. Yes, yes, nowadays VoIP is reliably deployable and we can enjoy the same voice quality as in PSTN.
But is it time for the new experience? Enters HD Communications Summit.


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