Conference Program - Monday, April 11
8:00am - 5:30pm Registration Open (Outside Eldorado)
9:00 - 4:00
Application Convergence
Global Knowledge Session. The morning session will take a look at Unified Communications and details of the different technologies involved with UC. This session wraps up with a discussion of some of the top vendors of UC solutions. The afternoon session will present the differences between Hosted, Managed, and Stand-Alone VOIP solutions along with the pros and cons of each strategy. Mixing strategies across the enterprise will be discussed as will some of the major vendors of these solutions.
Attendees receive a certificate of completion from Global Knowledge.
(Note: attendees are on their own for lunch)
Conference Program - Tuesday, April 12
7:30 - 5:00 Registration & Service Desk Open (Outside Eldorado)
7:15 - 8:00 Breakfast (Savoy)
8:00 - 8:05 Welcome & Opening Remarks (Savoy)
8:05 - 8:50 Keynote Address:
Lessons Learned from Global Deployments of VoIP and UC. Eric Sineath, AT&T, Platinum Sponsor (Savoy)
9:00 - 9:45 Plenary Session: Cloud Based Unified Communications and mobility for the Centrex user. GENBAND, Gold Sponsor (Savoy)
9:50 - 10:30 Plenary Session: Managing VoIP Quality Performance.
Telchemy (Savoy)
10:30 Exhibit Ribbon Cutting (Eldorado)
EXHIBIT AREA OPEN
10:30 - 10:50 Morning Break in Exhibit Area (Eldorado)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in Exhibit Area (Eldorado)
1:30 Exhibit Hall Closes (Eldorado)
1:40 - 2:25 Plenary Session: RFPs Contracts and Purchasing. General Services Administration, U.S. Federal Government (Savoy)
2:30 - 2:50 Afternoon Break
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:50 – 3:35
T1: Convergence Today, Gigabit to the Desk Top Tomorrow. Optimizing your LAN for Success. Avoiding costly Mistakes
Phybridge, Inc. (Savoy)
T2: Exhibitor Only Q&A with GSA (Carson City I)
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3:45 - 4:30 Plenary Session: Cloud Computing and Virtualization.
CRI (Savoy)
T3: TBD (Savoy)
T4: TBD (Carson City I)
6:00 - 7:30PM
Reception
Conference Program - Wednesday, April 13
7:30 - 5:00 Registration & Service Desk Open (Outside Eldorado)
7:30 - 8:15 AT&T Breakfast. (By invitation) – Attendees receive an update from their Service Sponsor. (Carson City I)
7:30 - 8:20 Breakfast (Savoy)
8:20 - 8:25 Morning Housekeeping (Savoy)
8:25 - 9:10 Plenary Session: Unified Communications for Alternative Work Arrangements & Disaster Preparedness & Recovery, Social Distancing & Federal Constituency.
Avaya (Savoy)
9:15 - 10:00 Plenary Session: Challenges of Deploying Hosted VoIP and UC in Government and Enterprise Environments.
8x8, Inc. (Savoy)
10:00 - 10:40 Plenary Session: Unified Communications Deployment at Georgia Military College: A Case Study. Georgia Military College
10:40 EXHIBIT AREA OPEN (Eldorado)
10:45 - Morning Break in Exhibit Area
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in Exhibit Area
1:30 - 2:00 Prize Draws at Exhibit Boots
2:00 Exhibit Hall Closes
2:00 - 2:50 Plenary Session: VoIP Migration: The KISS Principal in Action Citel (Savoy)
2:50 - 3:00 Afternoon Break (Savoy)
3:00 - 3:45 Plenary Session: Extending Centrex to IP Services. Examples of How Centrex can stretch into the VoIP World. AT&T (Savoy)
4:00 - 4:45 Plenary Session: The State of The Network Report: Predicting the Real Trends in IT. RISC Networks
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Conference Program - Thursday, April 14
7:30 - 12:00 Registration & Service Desk Open (Outside Eldorado)
7:30 - 8:45 Breakfast (Savoy)
8:45 - 9:00 Morning Housekeeping / Remarks (Savoy)
9:00 - 9:45 Plenary Session: Modernize Communications CPE to Cloud. AVST
9:45 - 10:00 Morning Break (Savoy)
10:00 - 10:45 Plenary Session: E 9-1-1. Where are We Going? Conveyant, Silver Sponsor. (Savoy)
10:50 - 11:45 Plenary Session: Can he PSTN be Shut Down? What are some of the challenges and insights?
AT&T, Platinum Sponsor (Savoy)
11:45 - 12:00 Remarks (Savoy)
12:30 - 3:00 Certificate Workshop Optimizing and Future Proofing your LAN. Note: Lunch will be provided. Attendees receive a Business of Technology Certificate of Completion. (Savoy)
(Note: Sessions are subject to change)
See you in 2012!
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