As users generate content and it becomes possible to communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime, the two worlds of communications and content delivery are now merging into one. Traditionally telephones and television have had nothing in common, but in the Web 2.0 world, a mashup of telephones with television is not just possible, but is increasingly prevalent. Communication is now both synchronous and asynchronous - realtime communications, messaging, recording/playback and broadcast are now inter-related and flow into one another - this is the new age of communications.

David Boyer is a Chief Architect in the Unified Communications Soft Clients Department at Avaya. He is a founding member of the PAM(Presence and Availability Management) forum, and an active member of multiple IETF SIP presence related working groups. David has nineteen patents and more than 40 publications to his credit,including "Presence Awareness for Future Telecommunications Systems", published by Wiley books.
Prior to joining Avaya, David spent more than 17 years as a researcher and developer of presence-based systems and video object-based conferencing at AT&T, Bellcore (Telcordia), and Lucent Technologies. David holds a BS in biomedical engineering from Duke University and an MS in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Kfir Pravda is an independent consultant, facilitating cooperation between media and technology companies. He is also the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of the International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC), where he is responsible on the organization’s message, strategic processes and overall marketing activities. Kfir was involved in the formation and strategy of several joint ventures, such as the Star Map Alliance, headed sales efforts to European mobile operators, chiefly T-Mobile International, and formed several media ventures.

Mr. Roberts has been involved in the conferencing industry with a variety of companies since 1992. He has held a variety of management roles in sales and marketing with Intel, 3Com, Accord Networks and Polycom. Currently Mr. Roberts serves as the Vice President of Ecosystems for Polycom, developing industry leading programs to promote the expansion of the conferencing industry.

Mr. Roberts holds an MBA from Leicester University.

Shantanu Sarkar is involved with Technology Strategy and Business Development for Cisco’s Voice Technology Group. A 12-year Cisco veteran, Shantanu has been involved in Enterprise VoIP from its earliest days, including the first VoIP call from space. Shantanu’s contributions in voice include signaling, collaboration, endpoints and applications. Previously, Shantanu has led engineering teams at Hughes Network Systems, Motorola and Digital Equipment Corporation.



Shantanu holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Masters degree in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University. He is also the author of 21 patents in VoIP and associated areas.