Ken Confirmed for O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference 2007

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I finally got confirmation of my press registration for the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference 2007 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott from February 27th to March 1st today.

I'll be making hotel and flight reservations tonight or tomorrow. I'll be staying at the conference hotel. Here are some of the highlights I'm looking forward to:

Tuesday, February 27
Communication Overload and Peoples Patches

Stowe Boyd, CEO, Blue Whale Labs
Debi Jones
Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM

Blackbag VoIP Security Briefings
Dan York, Best Practices Chair, Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA)
Shawn Merdinger, Mitel
Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Grand Ballroom ABCD

Wednesday, February 28

Om Malik - The Business Of Voip
Om Malik, Senior Writer, Business 2.0
Time: 9:00AM - 9:15AM

Social Networks Need Social Networks
Ndiata Kalonji, Director of Research, Network Architecture, France Telecom
Time: 10:00AM - 10:15AM

Empowering People and the Coming Identity Layer of Everything
Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman
Time: 10:45AM - 11:00AM

FreeNum: Phone Numbers are Dead. Long Live the Phone Number!
John Todd, CTO, TalkPlus
Time: 11:15AM - 11:30AM

Linux Wi-Fi Telephony Handset - Fonav
Ram Fish, CEO and Founder, FONAV
Time: 1:45PM - 2:00PM

Where Will Voice 3.0 Take Us?

Jeff Bonforte, Sr. Director of Real Time Communication Product Management, Yahoo! Inc.
Time: 2:00PM - 2:15PM

Panel: Telephone 2.0 for Real?
Owen Linderholm, Editor, VOIP News
Jeff Bonforte, Sr. Director of Real Time Communication Product Management, Yahoo! Inc.
Alec Saunders, CEO, Iotum
Time: 2:15PM - 2:45PM

Thursday, March 1

Wake Up Call to Telcos
Martin Geddes, Chief Analyst, STL
Time: 9:00AM - 9:30AM

Making Video Telephony Work
Aron Rosenberg, Founder and CTO, SightSpeed, Inc.
Time: 2:15PM - 2:30PM

There are some time conflicts there where I'm going to have to make decisions on the fly. And I really want to get to some of the BOF Sessions during the conference once they start getting listed.

There are some familiar names on that list to be sure. And I note that Andy Abramson, Martin Geddes, Alec Saunders and I will all be there. I hope to pull of a live VoIP ThinkTank team podcast from the conference. I 'll be traveling with field podcasting gear and looking to get some good interviews along with any session highlights I can gather.

Now that I'm confirmed, I'll start working on schedule and plans and update you here.