The new age of Service Creation Minutes and MIPS are cheap making a service built in a totally virtual environment. The ability to host voice applications on the network has made application development a new experience. No Capital, lots of APIs and the ability to deliver a scalable system from a prototype, mean that the Internet's long tail has arrived for voice based applications. Not only is the system instantaneously scalable... It's ubiquitous! This is not your old service delivery model. Never mind IMS, this is where apps are being built and being built faster than you can say "Rapid". The system is scalable, and if the business model is replicable, the age of third party application has arrived!

As Vice President of Product Management for Sylantro’s end user applications, APIs, and developer program Shirish brings to bear over 12 years of experience in the area of communication applications to deliver value-added end-user applications leveraging the power of the Web and VoIP. Prior to Sylantro, Shirish was Group Product Manager at Tellme Networks Inc., where he led the creation of advanced speech-enabled services leveraging the Internet, speech-recognition, and the phone. Before Tellme, Shirish contributed to the development of voice mail networking, unified messaging, and directory applications at other pioneers in telecommunications applications including VMX (later Octel, Lucent, and now Avaya) and Vertical Networks.

Shirish received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Sciences from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (India), a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas, and a Masters in Management Sciences with a focus on high-tech strategy and marketing from Stanford University where he is a frequent guest speaker.

Thomas McCarthy-Howe has nineteen years of experience in telecommunications product development. He is currently an independent consultant to service providers, enterprises and equipment vendors in the design and development of next generation communications equipment and services.

Thomas has held senior management and engineering positions at industry leaders such as Comverse, Versatel Networks, PictureTel and Aware. As a member of the PictureTel engineering team, Mr. Howe designed audio and video software of the first PC-based video conferencing system, as well as software for the original version of NetMeeting, and as Aware Inc.'s software architect for the first commercially available ADSL chipset. In 2007, Thomas won the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Mashup Contest.

In addition to his writing and teaching, he currently serves on several technical advisory boards and boards of directors.

Jodoin has over 15 years of executive management expertise and a proven track record of substantial revenue growth in the hi-tech industry. In his role as CEO, he provides the drive and corporate leadership for the Iperia as it continues to expand its product portfolio and customer base. Prior to joining Iperia, Jodoin served as CEO for Alpha NetSolutions, Inc. and Cerepoint, Inc. In addition, he's held several senior level positions including executive vice president and general manager of the Vantive Corporation. Jodoin joined Vantive through the acquisition of Innovative Computer Concepts, a company he founded and served as CEO and CTO.

Kevin Nethercott brings over 15 years of experience in international sales and business development with more than 8 years of experience in the VoIP industry. In October 2005, LignUp joined with Level3, NexTone, Rodopi Software and others to form FastLign, an industry alliance formed to reduce interoperability risks and increase speed to market for service providers. In 2004, Nethercott founded LignUp Corporation to deliver next generation, Web services based VoIP communications solutions for service providers and enterprises. As founder and CTO of SkyWave, Inc., a Pulver 100 company, Kevin pioneered the deployment of VoIP technologies, established the first operational VoIP network in Japan and developed the first real-time VoIP billing engine. As a recognized leader in the VoIP industry, Kevin was also responsible for the creation of the VoIP Forum of Japan and is a member of its board of directors. Kevin is fluent in Japanese, is a regular speaker at VoIP conferences and holds a B.A. in Marketing from Utah State University in Logan, Utah.