Invitation The Future of VoIP II 15 Maart 2007, Aula Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague/Den Haag (The Netherlands) Thomas Anglero (Nuclei Networks) * James Body (Truphone) * Michel de Boer (Twinklephone) * David Bryan (co-chair IETF P2PSIP WG, Sipeerior) * Adrian Georgescu (AG Projects) * Bert Hubert (Power DNS) * Ytsen Kooistra (YBK) * Olaf Kolkman (Internet Architecture Board) * Michiel Leenaars (Internet Society) * Dan Pascu (AG Projects) * Hendrik Rood (Stratix) * Antoin Verschuren (SIDN) The Hague/Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 6th 2007 The role of real-time communication via the internet is still increasing. Currently over tens of millions of households in the world are calling through VoIP, video telefony (both mobile and fixed) is increasingly popular and of better quality, and the increasing availability of User ENUM in the market is a clear signal that the migration towards all-IP is definitely on its way. From the user side, the vendor community and service providers expections are sky high - yet nobody knows which business models, technologies and services will be the ones to make it all the way to the end. The various market forces that are developing in this field need to position themselves on the basis of a good insight into technology and in the way users want to interact with that technology. That, in interaction with what the competition is doing will determine the business opportunities. For users (and governments) it is vital that the result is an open infrastructure where flexibility, stability, usability, security and service go hand in hand. On March 15th 2007 ISOC Netherlands organises the second edition of the Future of VoIP conference. Learn more about upcoming IETF standards around P2P SIP, ENUM, open source SIP clients, SIP on dual-mode GSM/WiFi devices, the possible role of Fiber to the home and interconnect issues between VoIP islands. Prominent (inter)nationale speakers such as Thomas Anglero (Nuclei Networks), James Body (Truphone), David Bryan (co-chair IETF P2PSIP WG, Sipeerior) and Olaf Kolkman (director NLnet Labs, member of the Internet Architecture Board) wil guide you along new insights from the different worlds behind VoIP and SIP. Join us in the discussion on the business models behind future communication patterns via internet, and determine your own strategy on the basis of a broad spectre of opinions, visions and experiences. The Future of VoIP conference is organized by ISOC.nl SIP special Interest Group on March 15th 2007. The conference will take place in the aula of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5) in The Hague, the Netherlands. Participation in 'The Future of VoIP II costs 99 euro, ISOC members pay only 50 euro. The conference will be held in English. All information, including the whole programme and a registration form can be found both in English and in Dutch on: http://isoc.nl/activ/2007-FoV-II Kind regards, on behalf of the organisers, Michiel Leenaars, Adrian Georgescu director ISOC.nl vice-chair SIPSIG ===================================== About the speakers THOMAS F. ANGLERO, NUCLEI NETWORKS Thomas F. Anglero is the Founder and CEO of Nuclei Networks, the sole certifier of VoIP solutions for the Leeuwarden "Break the Dyke" Global Invitation. Mr. Anglero was recently a senior executive advisor with Telenor AS where he was responsible for Telenor's FMC and Web Service strategies. Prior, Mr. Anglero was also the CEO of Free World Dialup, VP of Vocaltec Communications and CEO of TrulyGlobal. JAMES BODY, TRUPHONE James Body is Director - Networks at Truphone, a UK based converged operator who provide mobile services utilizing dual mode GSM/WiFi handsets. James is responsible for all of the infrastructure between the handset SIP interface and the rest of the world. Following graduation from Queen Mary College, University of London and 20 years as a Regular Officer in the Royal Corps of Signals (UK Army), James 'retired' to focus on implementing VoIP based 'New Telephony' systems. He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system and was co-founder of Gossiptel. A founder member of the UK Internet Telephony Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony systems for past five years. He is a fervent believer in the power of disruptive communications technology and the role of open source components in the shaping of future telecommunications architectures. MICHEL DE BOER, TWINKLEPHONE Michel de Boer is the lead developer of Twinkle. He has a degree in computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His professional background is in software development and technical support of circuit and packet switched voice networks. His area of expertise is in signalling protocols and TCP/IP. Other interests include SIP, open source and Linux. DAVID BRYAN, FOUNDER OF SIPEERIOR David Bryan is a leading expert in the area of P2P SIP. He plays an active role in IETF P2P SIP efforts, and has published numerous academic papers and trade articles on the subject. David is active in the SIP community, including heading up p2psip.org, the leading community site for P2P SIP, and is involved with SIPFoundry, the reSIProcate project, and Vovida.org. David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, and previously worked at Cisco Systems and Vovida Networks. David holds a master's degree in Computer Science and is completing a Ph.D. at William and Mary. ADRIAN GEORGESCU, FOUNDER OF AG PROJECTS Adrian Georgescu is Founder and CEO of AG Projects. Based in the Netherlands, AG Projects is a leading European company supplying service providers with turnkey SIP infrastructure systems. Adrian is an advocate of IETF standards, member of OpenSER management board, founder and co-chair of the Dutch ISOC SIP Special Interest Group. Prior to starting of his own company, Adrian had accumulated experience with Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, GTS, Ebone and KPNQwest. Adrian's expertise is the design of high-availability infrastructures, addressing and numbering systems, signaling protocols, provisioning and mediation systems, implementation of disaster recovery plans. Adrian has received in 1996 a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrotechnics at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania.Founder of AG Projects BERT HUBERT, POWERDNS Bert Hubert is founder of PowerDNS. PowerDNS is shipped with nearly every Linux distribution and comes standard with many wireless routers. Bert is also a long term open source contributor. Among other, he is the author of the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO. As a student he developed an application for monitoring large numbers of cable modems and their network performance (using a modified 'pathchar' algorithm), which was sold to several major cable companies. This success caused Bert to drop out of university and concentrate on his own company, PowerDNS. Netherlabs is a consulting company specialised in networking, telephony, UNIX/Linux, system development and requirement planning. YTSEN KOOISTRA, YBK Ytsen is an independant consultant. He founded Rits tele.com, one of the first VoIP providers in The Netherlands and sold the company to BBned in 2005. Now he's working for telecommunications companies and service providers in the area of regulatory affairs and (technical) business development. Ytsen studied at the TU Delft. OLAF KOLKMAN, NLNET LABS Olaf Kolkman is director of NLnet Labs and a member of the Internet Architecture Board. He was trained as an astronomer but his interest in Internet technology took hold of his career path around 1996. He joined the RIPE NCC around 1997 where he got involved in the test-traffic project. That project brought him in contact with the IETF and he attended his first meeting in Munich. After acting as operations manager for a while he became systems architect, responsible for DNSSEC deployment at the NCC, in 2000. From that time on he has been active in the DNS community for instance as co-chair of the DNSEXT working group. He joined NLnet Labs, a R&D foundation, as chief executive in 2005. He is an IAB member since March 2006. DAN PASCU, CTO AG PROJECTS Dan Pascu received a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bucharest Polytechnic University in 1995. Dan has years of experience in design and implementation of complex systems, software development and IP networking. Dan is a well-known contributor to the Open Source community, he is co-author of WindowMaker X-Window Manager and author of MediaProxy solution for SIP Express Router. HENDRIK ROOD, STRATIX Hendrik Rood is a senior consultant at Stratix Consulting since 1995. He was also a Senior Research Fellow at Economics of Infrastructures section at Delft University of Technology from 1998 - 2006. He has regularly published on the economics of names, numbers and other identifiers on electronic networks and on interconnection issues in scientific journals and conferences. At Stratix Hendrik specialised in technical network architecture design and procurement, regulatory advisory services and business plan due dilligence for financial sector clients. He assists a broad range of clients in more informed decision making in telecommunications, Internet and media questions. Hendrik has a background in high bit-rate transmission systems engineering (land-based and submarine systems) and public switching telephony networks. Voice-over-IP and ENUM is an area where he is keen to use his IP networking and classical telecoms background and his non-technical experience in the industry to discuss development questions. ANTOIN VERSCHUREN, SIDN/SEN Antoin Verschuren works as a technical advisor for the Policy & Business Development department of Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland. SIDN governs the .nl-domain. Before that he was a member of the advisory council of SIDN for several years. Prior functions include Via Networks and Internet Access Eindhoven in several technical functions. MICHIEL LEENAARS, INTERNET SOCIETY Michiel Leenaars is director of Internet Society Netherlands since 2002. ISOC Netherlands is the largest ISOC-chapter in the world. He is a member of the Strategic Committee of Eurid, the .eu registry, of the Netherlands shadow committee of JTC 1/SC 34, the advisory committee of Burger@overheid.nl. He is a a boardmember of stichting Petities.nl and a founding board member of Gridforum Netherlands. He has a academic background in Physics and Arts. Additionally Michiel Leenaars works for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as an advisor on e-science, e-infrastructure and grid technology. He is project leader deputy of e-IRGSP, an EU funded project delivering policy support to the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) and lead editor of the e-Infrastructures Roadmap publised by e-IRG.