This is a group of people who have gained our respect over the years by seeing not only what is there but what will be. This group of speakers have given us perspectives for years and, more often than not, have been able to predict trends that others have missed. This group spans the entire industry as they look at the future.

As co-founder, president, and CEO of global VoIP company iBasis, Mr. Gneezy is one of the true visionaries of the IP telephony industry and a recipient of Pulver.com's Industry Pioneer Award. Prior to founding iBasis, Mr. Gneezy pioneered the field of industrial automation. He was president of Acuity Imaging, Inc., a multinational leader in industrial automation technology and president and CEO of Automatix, which he merged with Itran, Inc., to form Acuity. Mr. Gneezy is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and has an M.S. in engineering from M.I.T.

Timothy D. Jasionowski is Senior Technologist, Voice and Rich Media Technologies for Nokia's Mobile Solution Unit. Timothy is responsible for research technology strategy for the company's Enterprise-class products in the real-time communication market, including Voice and Video over IP, Presence and Availability Management and Instant Messaging. Timothy also chairs the committee responsible for guiding Nokia's research in Peer-to-Peer and Proximity technologies.

Timothy has extensive experience in both service provider and enterprise communications product and services. Before joining Nokia, Timothy was Chief Technology Officer of Streamdoor (UK), an IP voice application services provider focused on Hosted IP Communication services, and Director of Product Incubation and Strategy at Qwest Communications, responsible for next generation product development.

Experienced IT and telecommunications CTO today Don is active in strategic planning and technology strategies at Avaya with concentration on communications based SOA adoption in the enterprise. Previous he has successfully founded multiple new technology based business ventures sponsored by Texaco, IBM, Amadeus, Lotus, and Avaya. He has also chaired numerous standards initiatives around electronic messaging, collaboration, and telecommunications infrastructure.

Brough Turner is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of NMS Communications, where he oversees the evolution of NMS's technology and product architectures. Mr. Turner has a broad business background, and contributes to business strategy and market development at NMS, but his principal focus remains on engineering and technology. His current interests include wireless video, multimodal applications, and 3G wireless infrastructure. Mr. Turner writes and speaks widely on telecommunications topics. He holds a BSEE from MIT.