Speakers for ClueCon MMX are still being finalized. If you would like to speak on ClueCon , please email us at marketing@cluecon.com

Speaker Benefits

ClueCon gives you the opportunity to share your experiences with brilliant Open source Applications Developers and interact with the most influential Open source Telephony experts.  ClueCon carefully screens its speakers and because of the high-caliber presentations they provide, ClueCon publishes their bios on ClueCon website and sometimes in press releases.

1. Complimentary conference pass
2. One free "session pass" for a colleague

*We do not have speaker honorariums or expense reimbursements.

Speaker Tips

1. You have 30 minutes for your presentations.  Engage your audience by answering their questions after your presentation.
2. Spend about 3 minutes per slide (rule of thumb).
3. Practice at least 3 times before the actual presentation.
4. Make sure that your fonts are readable, nothing below 18pt type in powerpoint.

For conference schedule, click here.

Speakers

	Anthony Minessale II – is the lead developer and creator of FreeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch / application media server.   He has spent many years working with open source telephony and has made many contributions to the Asterisk Open Source PBX Anthony has been a developer for over 15 years with vast experience in systems architecture and design, database development, and enterprise scale platform design and implementation in the ISP and telecommunications industry and has worked on numerous consulting projects. Anthony is also the president of FreeSWITCH Solutions LLC, the parent company of the ClueCon conference.
	Philip R Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), which has grown from its origins in 1991 as a human rights tools to become the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is a Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. His latest project is Zfone, which provides secure telephony for the Internet. Zimmermann has received numerous technical and humanitarian awards for his pioneering work in cryptography. In 2008 PC World named him one of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries of the last 50 years. In 2003 he was included on the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Wall of Fame, and in 2001 he was inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame. In 2000 InfoWorld named him one of the Top 10 Innovators in E-business. In 1999 he received the Louis Brandeis Award from Privacy International, in 1998 a Lifetime Achievement Award from Secure Computing Magazine, and in 1996 the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for promoting the responsible use of technology. He also received the 1995 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the 1995 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 1995 Newsweek named Zimmermann one of the "Net 50", the 50 most influential people on the Internet. In 2006 eWeek ranked PGP 9th in the 25 Most Influential and Innovative Products introduced since the invention of the PC in 1981. Zimmermann received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in 1978. He is a member of the International Association of Cryptologic Research. He served on the Roundtable on Scientific Communication and National Security, a collaborative project of The National Research Council and The Center for Strategic and International Studies. He also served on the Board of Directors for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for Santa Clara University's Computer Engineering Department.
	Mathieu René is the co-founder and CTO of Avant-Garde Solutions, a canadian company which specializes in FreeSWITCH-based products and mobile applications. Strong believer in the open-source ethos, Mathieu often contributes to FreeSWITCH and he is always happy to lend a hand. Always interested to bring a new light to old ideas, Mathieu has spent his last 3 years learning FreeSWITCH. Excited by the possibilities this new platform brought, Mathieu decided to leave the corporate world after a friend offered him to launch a business. After 2 years and many plane rides, we can say that he pushed the boundaries of his vision and continues to do what he loves the most, learning about and imagining the technology of tomorrow.
	Kristian Kielhofneris VP, Systems Engineering at Star2Star Communications, the world's most reliable business grade VoIP service. Since creating AstLinux in 2004 Kristian has spent almost all of his time working with open source (and sometimes commercial) VoIP applications. From call quality analysis software to SIP DOS mitigation, Kristian enjoys using open source software to solve some of the interesting challenges posed by telephony applications in the 21st century.
	Nenad_Corbic – Chief Software Engineer of Sangoma Technologies, is a pioneer in connectivity hardware and software products for telephony, Wide Area Networks, and the Internet. Read more >>
	Douglas Hubler is one of the original architects of the sipXecs project when it debuted into the public domain in 2004 under the SIPfoundry organization. Douglas is also a recent board member of SIPfoundry. sipXecs is a free source project that includes SIP based services and libraries with over a decade of interop testing. sipXecs also integrates with best-of-breed free source libraries and projects like JAIN-SIP, FreeSWITCH, Openfire and OpenACD for a complete unified communications platform. Among Douglas's many roles in the sipXecs project, he led the development effort to manage a sipXecs system including a variety of endpoints (phones) and gateways from a single user interface and web service. Douglas currently works for eZuce, a new company (is it cooler to say "start-up"?) offering level-3 support and professional services for sipXecs.
	Jeff Dworkin - Enterprise Marketing Manager, Dialogic Corporation. Jeff is a recognized pioneer in the Voice Processing and Internet Telephony industries. He co-founded Interface Alternative (later renamed iFace.com) in 1992 and implemented some of the first commercial grade IVR systems that included Speech Recognition, Speaker Verification and Text-To-Speech systems for use in the banking, transportation, retail, health care services, and entertainment industries. Read more>>
	Arnie Goodstein - Arnie Goodstein is a successful entrepreneur with over 25 years of telecommunications industry experience. Currently he is CEO of WCGS, a switch and services hosting company. Prior to that he was President and CEO of RSLCOM’s (a NASDAQ listed company) Prepaid Subsidiary where he managed the growth of the business from its early inception to $200 million in revenue during his tenure. In addition to founding WCGS, Arnie also founded and ran two companies including Public Switch Corporation, the first U.S. Prepaid Calling Card company and Coin Op Telecom (subsidiary of Multiplex Services – a public company). Arnie is a frequent industry speaker with deep telecom and systems expertise in both TDM and SIP-based network and software components.
	Moshe Yudkowsky has twenty years of experience in product development in high-technology industries and consults in speech recognition, text-to-speech, and biometrics. Moshe is president of Disaggregate, and author of "The Pebble and the Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions," At Bell Labs, Dr. Yudkowsky worked on several large-scale deployments of speech recognition applications. He joined Dialogic Corp. in 1996 as a Senior System Architect. He left Dialogic/Intel in 2002 to found Disaggregate. Dr. Yudkowsky led the ECTF's Automatic Speech Recognition Task Group for over a decade and is the founding Chair of the Midwest Speech Technology Association.
	Derek Smithies – is the creator of SofaSWITCH private branch exchange. He will elaborate more on its developments and features after a year of its launch.
	Irv Shapiro - Ifbyphone founder and CEO Irv Shapiro has spent over 30 years driving technology innovation. Irv began his career writing custom VAX/VMS device drivers for Digital Equipment Corporation. He founded Metamor Technologies, a two-time INC 500 award recipient, and Edventions, an elementary school infrastructure company. Following the sale of Edventions Irv founded Ifbyphone and developed its proprietary VoiceXML generation technology. Irv is a member of the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, has a BS/CS from Washington University in St. Louis and is a regular speaker and writer on the application of technology.
	Darren Schreiber is the Founder of the 2600hz Project. He previously worked as the lead developer on the FreePBX v3 / Phonebooth project at Bandwidth.com, a next-generation open-source FreeSWITCH GUI. He initially started the TCAPI project, which later merged with other projects. Darren has 15 years of IT experience and has developed multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice and e-commerce services. He has been a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age and has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. Darren graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.
	Peter Steinbach is co-founder of Telefaks*, a company which is focussed on integration of VoIP solutions and voice applications. Before founding his own company he was director in leading IT service companies (Semagroup Telecoms, SchlumbergerSema, Atos Origin) and project director and consultant in a worldwide billing company for GSM and convergent billing. His company is located near Frankfurt, Germany and has a strong emphasis on integrating OpenSource solutions into exiting IT infrastructures.
	Moises Silva works as a Software Developer for Sangoma Technologies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from the Universidad de Guadalajara, México. He has been the maintainer of the chan_unicall driver for Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 and is the author of the MFC/R2 signaling library OpenR2. He is currently pushing to support MFC/R2 signaling in chan_dahdi, which is scheduled to be included in Asterisk 1.6.2. He also has made several other contributions to Asterisk like Asynchronous AGI and context tracing for channels. Recently he started working with FreeSWITCH and authored the mod_dahdi_codec module and some other minor contributions to the OpenZap project. He is currently working in a new OpenZap signaling module to support R2 signaling in FreeSWITCH.
	Bill Sandiford is the President and CTO of Telnet Communications, a growing CLEC and ISP operating in the Greater Toronto Area of Canada. Bill has over 15 years of experience in the ISP and telecommunications industry with expertise not only in technology but also regulatory and business processes. Bill has spent his entire career working for Telnet Communications since he founded the company in 1996 after attending Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. In his current role, Bill's responsibilities include the design, deployment, and operation of all aspects of Telnet's network and overseeing Telnet's application development department. Bill currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Internet Exchange (TorIX). In addition, Bill also serves on the ARIN Advisory Council, and is a member of the MetaSwitch User's Board which liaises between all MetaSwitch customers worldwide and MetaSwitch's engineering department and executives. Outside of work Bill enjoys hockey, rugby, scuba diving, and piloting his Cessna aircraft to exotic destinations around North America and the Caribbean.
	Bogdan-Andrei Iancu is co-founder of SER and OpenSER projects and founder of OpenSIPS project. With more than 8 years experience in the SIP/ VoIP field, he also the CEO of Voice System, a "know-how" VoIP company with the goal of designing, implementing and deploying VoIP platforms. Starting in 2001 as a researcher, Bogdan became an active player in the OpenSource Telephony world (being involved in ore than 6 OS VoIP projects). In the same time, via his company, he used these projects for delivering real-life VoIP solutions on the market, showing that Open Source is the answer even in the Telco world.
	Scott Burkett is a serial entrepreneur and Chief Operating Officer of StarPound Technologies, an open source company which provides a suite of products for business process management, contact centers, and voice applications. Prior to StarPound, Scott served as the CEO of PlayMotion, an interactive entertainment company which served such customers as Walt Disney, Cartoon Network, Red Bull, and Bravo TV. Scott also co-founded StartupLounge.com, a 501c6 non-profit organization aimed at promoting fast-growth entrepreneurship in underserved regions. Mr. Burkett holds a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from Thomas A. Edison State College, and is a veteran of the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division. Mr. Burkett is an advisor to more early-stage companies than he cares to admit. He maintains a blog at scottburkett.com, where he writes very actively on technology, venture capital, early-stage entrepreneurship, and the Atlanta startup scene.
	Robert Backie s co-owner and VP of Sales and Marketing at ChronosTelecom. He traces his telephony roots back to the original fax/phone switches of the late 1980’s. ChronosTelecom focuses on providing small businesses cost effective full featured PBX appliances and phones systems based on FreeSWITCH, including the unique “Switch From” platforms providing existing HostedPBX and Asterisk based PBX users a simple, low cost method to switch to FreeSWITCH.
	Michael Wallbaum is Director of Product Marketing at VOIPFUTURE , a German company providing a novel solution for VoIP SLA assurance and network performance optimization. VoipFuture and NACT Solutions have formed a partnership and NACT Solutions is the Exclusive Distributor of VoipFuture products in the United States and Canada. Michael has 15 years of telecommunications experience with a strong focus on VoIP and mobile communications. Before he joined VOIPFUTURE Michael was a senior consultant at ComConsult, a leading German IT consultancy. Here, he supported global enterprises and large public authorities in planning and deploying VoIP solutions. Prior to that Michael was senior researcher at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) where he received his PhD and actively participated in numerous European telecommunications R&D projects. Michael is author of many articles and books as well as a frequent speaker at conferences.
	James Rafferty is the Product Line Director for Integrated Media Gateways at Dialogic. In this role, he is responsible for VoIP Gateway products sold to carriers and related market strategies. James managed a variety of VoIP, SS7 and voice products as a Senior Product Manager for Cantata and Brooktrout Technology. Previously, he was President of Human Communications, a leading technology consulting firm for telecommunications companies. He was also one of the pioneers for computer based fax and related standards when working for Fujitsu Imaging Systems in a variety of R&D and Product Line Management roles. James is active in the standards process through his work with the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and was instrumental in the development of the T.37 and T.38 IP fax standards and the Megaco/H.248 standards. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and is a co-author of several IETF RFC standards. James holds B.S. and Masters degrees in Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is also listed in the current Who’s Who in America.
	Matt Florell has over twelve years experience in building and managing corporate IT systems specializing in Call Center systems, IP telephony, Customer Relationship Management(CRM) systems, databases, scalable applications and system optimization. Matt is currently the President of the ViciDial Group in St. Petersburg, Florida and is the creator of the Open Source ViciDial Call Center Suite.
	Mahesh Paolini-Subrmanya As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Aptela, Mr. Paolini-Subramanya is responsible for Aptela's vision and driving the development and implementation of Aptela’s cloud-based phone service. Drawing upon 20 years of accomplishments in Internet-related technology, Mr. Paolini-Subramanya is a recognized thought leader in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Cloud Computing. A true Internet pioneer, he developed the technological foundation for the e-commerce revolution by helping to create the world's first online commerce system. Mr. Paolini-Subramanya's innovations have re-shaped the landscape of online business. As Aptela's CTO, his integration of distributed computing with telecommunications services continues to revolutionize the VoIP industry. Prior to becoming Aptela’s CTO in 2001, Mr. Paolini-Subramanya served as V.P. of Development at Neoglyphics Media, Inc. and CTO of Proxicom, Inc. Mr. Paolini-Subramanya holds a B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Notre Dame.
	Michael Picher As an industry veteran with over 20 years in Information Technology consulting, Michael brings a network engineer’s perspective to the Telephony business. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Maine, Michael worked hard to build up a computer manufacturing business which he left in the mid ‘90s. Following the manufacturing endeavor Michael worked with two close friends to build what became one of Maine’s largest home-grown technology consulting and software development firms. After successfully selling the consulting business to a large out of state firm, Michael turned his attention to the growing IP Telephony space. Michael has helped successfully deploy some of the region’s largest IP based communications systems and the infrastructure required to support those systems. In 2009 Michael published the book for sipXecs entitled “Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0” which is available through Packt Publishing. Since releasing the book he has continued working with the sipXecs community and consulting on sipXecs deployments around the world.
	Daniel-Constantin Mierla is co-founder and core developer of Kamailio (formerly OpenSER) and SIP Express Router (SER) projects, involved in SIP based communications since 2002. Lately, as lead developer, Daniel brought Kamailio to The Best of Open Source Networking Software 2009 award and managed the convergence of Kamailio and SER during 2009, resulting in release 3.0.0 which is a complete integration of the two open source SIP servers. His work at Asipto.com focuses on SIP solutions, development, consultancy and professional trainings for Kamailio.
	Troy Davis co-founded and runs Cloudvox, a cloud-scale Asterisk hosting service. Cloudvox exposes native Asterisk access - AGI/AMI, SIP, and HTTP - to apps via the Internet. Sometimes called "Amazon EC2 for phone apps," Cloudvox was acquired by Ifbyphone in 2010. Davis turns back-of-the-napkin ideas into live, useful, sustainable Web services. He's a board member of the Seattle Internet Exchange peering point, and has held product management and software roles with Semaphore, Loudeye, and RealNetworks. A coffee fiend and pool player, Davis rarely writes about himself in the third person.
	Alex Feldman is founder and Director of Product Management of Amfeltec Corp. responsible for strategic product development. He previously worked at Sangoma Technologies as a Software Project Leader. Alex is one of the original architects of Wanpipe Abstracted Driver architecture for Sangoma AFT series product line and was responsible for design and development of Wanpipe/TDM driver for various Operation systems (Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris/SCO). He previously worked on compiler development for Philips XA microprocessors as a senior software engineer. Alex holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and he has been awarded several patents.
	Jason Goecke has over 20 years experience in computer telephony, voice solutions and open-source projects in engineering, product management, sales and general management roles. Jason is currently VP of Innovation for Voxeo Labs where he oversees development of key new initiatives for Voxeo. Most recently, Jason was a founder of Adhearsion, a widely used open-source voice development framework. Voxeo acquired Adhearsion in July, 2009 to create Voxeo Labs. Prior to Adhearsion, Jason served as VP of International at Presence Technology and served in a variety of technical and sales roles for Genesys, which was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in 2000.
	Yameen Rasul is a Research and Development engineer at the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently works with VoIP to investigate and develop proof of concept work for journalist contribution for broadcast. Additionally, he works in researching comoditiy hardware and possible uses in mobile production tools for the media industry. Previously to the BBC he has worked as a Business and IT consultant for Detica. He also spent some time with Hewlett Packard in Bristol UK as a software developer.
	Ben Klang has 10+ years experience in diverse technology disciplines such as telephony, system administration and networking. Klang is the founder and Chief Visionary of Verendus, an IT consultancy specializing in system architecture and telephony integration. As a user and developer of Asterisk since before it had version numbers, he has contributed testing and fixes to many open source telephony projects and related libraries and applications. Recently he has become a core team member of the Adhearsion project, responsible for the 0.8.4 release and onward. His interests include hacking competitions, information security, making phones do unexpected things, playing music loudly and asking lots of questions.
	Darrell L. Hensley, Jr. is President of GM Voices, the largest provider of professionally recorded voice prompts into the technology space. Darrell formerly served as Vice President of Sales at Teleco Inc. and has worked in telecommunications for 20 years. Most of that time has been spent building sales and management teams and developing distribution channels. GM Voices focuses on improving the customer experience in converging voice and data applications—humanizing call centers to keep customers contained, happy and buying. By partnering with GM Voices, Freeswitch developers will be able to step into the large enterprise space and address large multinational opportunities. Darrell will specifically speak to the tools offered by GM Voices to help Freeswitch developers pursue and capture these larger deployments. With a wealth of experience in hardware solutions, open source telephony and professional services, Darrell is uniquely positioned to speak to each piece of the communications puzzle. Darrell is also a restaurateur (visit Yahoola Creek Grill in North Georgia!), and enjoys cheering the Michigan State Spartans to their annual bowl games and Final Four appearances.