WebRTC Paris 2015 Scientific Committee
Amir Zmora, Technology Committee Chairman, AudioCodes & Consultant at TheNewDialTone
For the last 15 years Amir Zmora held various product, technology, marketing and business positions focused mainly on voice and video communications. Amir works part time for AudioCodes as VP Alliances & Partnership. In his other hat, Amir is an independent consultant working with companies in the area of communications and WebRTC on planning and execution of product, marketing, strategy and Go to Market activities. Amir blogs regularly on TheNewDialTone. Among other positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for Radvision technology business unit, VP Marketing & Products and later VP BD for Surf Communication Solutions, Co-founder of a web based service creation and video communication startup and head of the H.323 R&D and Product Management groups in the early days of VoIP at Radvision.
Tsahi Levent Levi, Founder BlogGeek.Me
Tsahi Levent-Levi has 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, VoIP and 3G industry: as an engineer, manager, marketer and CTO. Tsahi works part time as a Product Manager at Amdocs. In the rest of his time, Tsahi is an independent consultant, assisting companies to bridge between technologies and business strategy in the domain of telecommunications.Tsahi is the author and editor of bloggeek.Dan Burnett, Tropo/Voxeo
Dan Burnett is best known these days for his work with WebRTC. As one of the official editors of the key WebRTC specifications and co-author of the longest-selling book on WebRTC, Dan has been a key driver in this area since its early days. With more than a decade of experience in web standards, Dan was a key leader in the development of VoiceXML and the related SRGS, SSML, and MRCP standards, used in the majority of today's interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Dan is Chief Scientist at Tropo and Director of Standards at Voxeo.Victor Pascual Avila, Technology, Innovation and Strategy, CSO, Quobis
Victor Pascual Avila is a Technology, Innovation and Strategy Consultant. He is involved in the standardization, development and first industry deployments of WebRTC; helping a number of operators, suppliers and start-ups to make WebRTC happen. Victor is active in several standardization bodies where has co-authored a number of contributions, he co-chairs the STRAW Working Group at the IETF, co-chairs the WebRTC Task Group at the SIP Forum and serves as Expert Reviewer for the European Commission and several industry boards. Victor previous experience includes Tekelec, where he was part of the Strategic Architecture team and, most recently, Acme Packet where he led the OTT and WebRTC strategy for EMEA and CALA regions. Last year he co-founded the WebRTCHacks.com project and was appointed Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Quobis. Stéphane Tuffin, Orange Expert on Future Networks
Stéphane Tuffin is currently the head of a research project at Orange Labs. He holds a Master’s degree (diplôme d’ingénieur) from ESITGETEL graduate engineering school. He has been working at Orange Labs since 1997 in various fields of IP communication infrastructures such as Intelligent Network APIs and IMS. From 2004 to 2012 he has been deeply involved in IMS deployments within the Orange Group from sourcing projects to country support with technical leadership in one of the very first worldwide large-scale IMS deployment. Since then Stéphane is leading the transformation of Orange’s communication infrastructure to the Web communication paradigm.Sebastian Schumann, Senior Designer, Slovak Telecom
Sebastian Schumann is a senior designer working in the application and platform innovation department in Slovak Telekom. His lead expertise is the evolution of communication services, focusing on IP based Telco platforms (incl. the evolution of legacy equipment) and their convergence within the ever-growing competitive service market. He works in the area of new service creation and implementation and advocates the vision of alternative architecture strategies for operators to better meet actual market needs. Sebastian coordinates the internal WebRTC activities of Slovak Telekom and is very keen on establishing competence in this area far beyond “browser telephony”.
Bodil Josefsson, Ericsson
Bodil has more than 25 years of experience from the telecommunications field, both from an operator and a vendor side. Bodil holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping Institute of Technology from 1987. Her professional life started with a few years at the Swedish operator Telia focusing on sales towards large accounts, followed by one year at the Swedish embassy in Paris, monitoring the development within telecommunication, IT and electronics in France. In 1991, Bodil joined Ericsson. The first positions were within product management for transmission, but in 1993 she moved into mobile communications. Bodil has held various positions within sales and business management, as well as been driving company-wide programs. Between 2005 and 2010, Bodil was stationed abroad, first in Portugal and later in South Africa as Key Account Manager for accounts in a number of African countries, such as Guinea, Madagascar and Lesotho. Since 2011, Bodil is based at Ericsson headquarters in Stockholm, holding a role within Customer Business Development. Main strategic discussions with customers center around the future for operators within Communication Services. Service Exposure and the role of web communication and webRTC are central topics within such discussions.
Mark Winther, Group VP & Consulting Partner, Telecom, IDC
Mark A. Winther is Group Vice President and Consulting Partner of Worldwide Telecommunications at IDC. In this role, Mr. Winther leads the Global Telecom Consulting practice at IDC. This helps clients meet their planning, business, and market intelligence needs. His global consulting team leverages the knowledge assets of more than 150 communications analysts worldwide to effectively develop solutions and services that global clients require. Projects delivered by the telecommunications consulting practice cover M2M and mobile enterprise applications, VOIP and Unified Communications, Asian mobile data demand, SDN, NFV and next generation infrastructures, global service provider benchmarking, small business churn causes, and data center sourcing models.
Prior to his role in consulting Mr. Winther managed IDC’s syndicated research services for telecommunications. This covered IP convergence, mobile broadband, mobility applications, advanced voice and converged services, residential broadband and fiber markets.
Mr. Winther is the founding producer of IDC’s GTI - Global Telecom Indicators, a continuously updated database of revenues, financials and operational statistics for over 550 telecom, cable TV and satellite TV operators worldwide. Enabling operator performance cross comparisons by geography, market segment, and product offers, IDC GTI is a one-stop-shop for understanding the $1.4 trillion telecommunications industry.
Mr. Winther is a frequent speaker at industry events worldwide such as Capacity Asia, Mobile World Congress, Oracle Open World, Policy Control Forum; and at private client events .
Mr. Winther joined the International Data Group family in 1984 when he joined LINK Resources Corp. LINK Resources was fully merged into IDC in 1993. Prior to joining IDG, Mr. Winther served as managing editor at QV Publishing Inc., a major publisher of newsletters and market research reports on new media markets.
Mr. Winther has a BA from Swathmore and attended the Masters Program at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sorell Slaymaker, Research Director, Gartner
Sorell Slaymaker is a Research Analyst at Gartner focused on enterprise networking and unified communications. His areas of expertise include SIP trunking, session management, contact centers, telemedicine, WANs, infrastructure security and communications architecture. In previous roles, Mr. Slaymaker was responsible for more than 10,000 VoIP/SIP contact centers, 75,000-plus VoIP telephony, Microsoft Lync and Cisco CUCM integration, 150-site international WANs, and data center design. Other roles include speaking at Enterprise Connect and blogging for NoJitter.
Chad Hart, Dialogic
Chad Hart is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Dialogic where he is responsible for strategy, messaging, and ecosystem development for Dialogic’s PowerMedia media processing and WebRTC portfolio. Chad was previously at Oracle/Acme Packet where he was most recently focused WebRTC, OTT communications, and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Chad has been at the leading edge of many of communications innovations including computer telephony integration (CTI), VoIP, IMS, OTT-communications, WebRTC, and NFV. His 14 years of experience in the communications industry includes business intelligence, product marketing, product management, analyst relations, and a syndicated industry analyst. Chad is also Chief Editor of webrtcHacks.com – a blog for WebRTC developers. Chad has a BSECE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Chris Koehncke, &yet
Chris Koehncke has been a longtime advocate of WebRTC via his blog chriskranky.com. Chris is currently responsible for business development at &yet, a 40-man development team focused on real time communications projects. &yet has been a leader in WebRTC development with their open source SimpleWebRTC JavaScript libraries and their free video conferencing service, talky.io. &yet is also a leading contributor to the WebRTC specifications. Prior to joining &yet, Chris was the co-founder of two VoIP service providers employing 200 and subsequently attracting USD$100m in investment.Dean Bubley, Consultant, Disruptive Analysis
Dean Bubley is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm. An analyst with over 20 years’ experience, he primarily specialises in wireless, mobile, and telecoms fields, with further expertise in certain aspects of the broader technology industry. His present focus is on wireless technology, especially the evolution of mobile broadband, service provider business models, mobile device architecture & software, applications ecosystems and enterprise mobility. He provides clients with advice and analytical opinion on topics such as business models validation, technology innovation and go-to-market strategies, "addressable market sizing", planning and due diligence. Luis Borges Quina, co-founder, Apidaze
Luis is an accomplished entrepreneur and co-founder of APIdaze, a leading WebRTC and Telecom API. Prior to co-founding APIdaze, Luis co-created start-ups in the call-center, big data and online marketing sectors. He loves disruption, people and football, and believes WebRTC is going to change the face of communications in the next years.Alan Quayle, Independent Engineer
Alan has for two decades working at the bleeding edge of IT and Telecoms; he is an independent Engineer (MEng, CEng, MIET, MIEEE) that focused on the commercialization of technology. Work experience includes: BT, Cambridge Technology Partners, founded Teltier (sold to Cisco) and 10 years as an independent focused on intersection of IT, Web and Telecoms. Customers range from global leaders like AT&T, Etisalat, M1, Telstra, Huawei, and Oracle; to innovative start-ups like Apigee, AppTrigger (sold to Metaswitch), Camiant (sold to Oracle), Guavus, Layer 7 (sold to CA), OpenCloud, and Tropo. He is on the advisory board of hSenid Mobile, Sigma Systems, and Telestax. He has worked with most of the leading Telcos, suppliers, industry bodies, and many developers on service innovation. His research on service innovation has been downloaded over 125,000 times on Slideshare in 2013 putting him in the 1% of most viewed users.
For more information check out his weblog,www.alanquayle.com/blog. One of his side projects is helping build the telecom application developer ecosystem; TADHack, www.tadhack.com, and TADSummit, www.tadsummit.com, are global events, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes.
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