On October 16th, Ottawa will play host to Voice 2.0, a conference which bills itself as a “day long voyage of discovery” into the evolution of the communications industry. Genetically, this event will be a hybrid between a BarCamp style unconference and a more traditional panels and keynotes format. The conference will consist of keynotes, panel discussions and participant defined workshops in five key topic areas: open source telephony, lead platform technologies and architectures, new applications of voice technology (mashups), alternative networks, and the new user experience.Â
There are three tracks — a presentations / panels track, a workshop track, and a participant defined track (think BarCamp). There are also a number of slots set aside for demos of new products as well. The conference blog and wiki are already up as well, so if you’re interested in participating in or leading one of these sessions, zip over and check it out.
Between Voice 2.0, the Telco 2.0 brainstorm happening in London this fall, and next Spring’s ETel, it’s time that we collectively kickstart the future of communications. So, bring yourselves, bring your new products, bring your ideas and be prepared for a day of robust discussion, sharing and networking.Â
See you in Ottawa on October 16th.
Postscript: While this conference bears the same name as the Voice 2.0 manifesto I wrote about a year ago, it’s much more. Ross MacLeod approached me after BarCamp Ottawa, and wanted to run a conference around some of the Voice 2.0 ideas and, of course, I was enormously flattered, and only too happy to lend support. However, to give credit where it’s due, he’s taken it further and deeper. This event will go far beyond what I had originally proposed.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Bummer, this is the same week of the SIPit interop event in New Hampshire. I would luv to go to it but product development and testing takes precendence. Oh wait, this will be mainly a marketing event. I guess the marketdroids go to Ottawa and the engineers go to New Hampshire…
There will be some high level tech discussion too…. but much more about possibilities than implementation. Sorry you can't make it Frank.
alec,
so you've become a conference organizer as well?! welcome to the club. if there's anything i can do to help, let me knows. congrats!
Thanks Mark. I am trying to not let it distract me from my day job. Ross is the real force behind Voice 2.0.
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