I’m taking advantage of the quiet moment on the plane on my way to IT Expo in Miami to compose my thoughts – what will be happening at this year’s conference? You know, as someone who spent past 14 years building the IP Communication industry on all possible levels (at RADVISION, at IMTC and other consortiums), I’m both enjoying these quite moments (plane is almost last frontier of “quiet experience”) and dreading the potential loss of this last frontier – I think VoIP is closing on the aviation industry and soon there will be no escape from talking and chatting folks, even in the air…
Oh well, scary thoughts aside, what are my expectations of IT Expo? It is interesting to see how IT Expo grew into an assemblage of IP communication conferences – for the long time it goes way beyond SIP trunking and hosted telephony services (even though those can be still bread and butter of the IT Expo itself). There is very substantial number of conferences coming together under the umbrella of IT Expo – 4GWE (which stands for 4G Wireless Evolution), covering all aspects of 4G migration, and M2M (Machine to Machine communication – the name says it all), both developed from scratch by industry veteran and visionary Carl Ford, Cloud computing, HTML5 and more, plus a number of very good workshops and education programs.
I expect that video will be a topic of many discussions and presentations (finally!), spanning from traditional enterprise video conferencing, going to consumers, and then into Mobile and 4G. 4G wars (mild or not) are also inevitable – not so much LTE versus WiMax, may be, but definitely 4G versus Super WiFi. If you are also interested in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) – there will be a number of discussions just for you (this was not a prediction or expectation, just a fact).
Oh well, I will report back to you on the highlights (probably on my way back, utilizing one of my quiet moments), but for now, let me tell you where you can find me in case you also plan to be in Miami:
“When Does 4G Take Over Voice: VoLTE Rollout” (4G-09)
WED 2/1, 1:30-2:15pm, ROOM #: A109
“The Case for Rich Communication Services: Maximizing Real Time Communications Revenue” (4G-11)
WED 2/1, 4:45-5:45pm, ROOM #: A109
“The Realities of Mobile Videoconferencing” (CC-08)
THU 2/2, 1:00-1:45pm, ROOM #: B211
Stop by and say “hi”, or may be even ask a difficult question – after all, conversation and a handshake are the best part of the conference, aren’t they?
