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.
	Jason Garland has been working with various VoIP applications for the last 6 years. In his spare time he runs tollfreetollfree.com, a free VoIP gateway for terminating SIP calls.
	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 >>
	Andrew Thompson – Andrew Thompson is a systems administrator and developer for Fused Solutions and its software development startup SpiceCSM. He co-developed the current Asterisk-based call center platform Fused Solutions uses for its business and is currently leading development of its successor using FreeSWITCH and Erlang with the goals of seamlessly supporting multiple locations and increasing scalability to meet the growing demands of Fused Solutions and other small- to medium-sized call centers. He has also worked on a softphone GUI for FreeSWITCH as well as being the author/maintainer of the mod_erlang_event module for FreeSWITCH.
	Giovanni Maruzzelli has 15 years of IT experience and 10 years’ experience as consultant and entrepreneur creating, managing and advising start-up Internet companies; it has also experience as chief technology officer, trainer, lecturer and journalist on Information Technology issues. Giovanni has deep knowledge and experience in Open Source Software Technology, and in creating, leading and motivating highly skilled technical teams. Since 1996 he has worked in strict relationship with Venture Capital Funds in the IT sector, both as manager of invested companies and as adviser/consultant of VC Funds . As a manager he was founder, member of the board and Chief Internet Director for Italia Online, the major Italian Internet portal and Internet Service Provider to consumer, now owned by Italian WIND Telecom Carrier. It has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the board in Matrice, email and unified messaging company, now absorbed by Italian Internet Carrier INET. It was also Chief Technical Officer and board member in Managed Service Provider (MSP) the company providing Web-Publishing, Messaging and Fault-Tolerant industrial grade Internet operations.
	Craig Southeren is a co-founder of the OPAL/OpenH323 and Woomera projects, and works full-time as consultant providing integration and development services to companies using Open Source VoIP software. He has a career in computer engineering and software development spanning more than 25 years in fields as diverse as video post-production, parallel computing, digital mapping, and military information systems. Craig continues to lead and coordinate OPAL/OpenH323 as well as develop new technologies such as Woomera from his base near Sydney, Australia. He is married with three children, and is a frequent speaker at Open Source VoIP conferences around the world.
	Dan York CISSP, is Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation heading up the company's communication through both traditional and new/social media. Previously, Dan served in Voxeo's Office of the CTO focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. Beyond his role with Voxeo, Dan is today the Best Practices Chair for the VOIP Security Alliance as well as the producer of "Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast" where since October 2005 he and co-host Jonathan Zar have discussed VOIP security news and interviewed people involved in the field. Since the mid-1980's Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. Dan frequently presents at conferences, has authored multiple books and writes extensively online at sites such as www.voipsa.org/blog and Voxeo's weblogs at blogs.voxeo.com
	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>>
	Brian Peebles is the Chief Technology officer of Dialogic. Peebles owns the long term vision of the company, including oversight of the advanced research efforts and industry interaction. Peebles has over 24 years of experience in communications architecture covering everything from silicon, boards, chassis, systems and networks, as well as hardware design and DSP, device driver and object oriented software design and implementation. Peebles rejoined Dialogic in 2007 after eight years at Intel leading several key initiatives dealing with MicroTCA, ATCA and WiMAX/Wireless infrastructure. Peebles originally joined Dialogic in 1994 as a Systems Architect focusing mainly on the service provider segment. Prior to this, Peebles worked on massively parallel signal processing super computer architectures at AT&T Bell Laboratories and RADAR and spread spectrum signal processing systems at Lockheed. A member of the IEEE, Peebles has 6 patents and graduated with a B.S.E.E. degree in 1984 from N.J.I.T. and an M.S.E.E. degree from N.J.I.T. in 1992.
	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.
	Marc Blanchet is President of Viagenie, a consulting and R&D firm in advanced IP networking. Since 10 years, he has been heavily involved in IPv6, as CTO of Hexago, contributor to IETF working groups and architect and co-implementor of the 6tap exchange point, normos, freenet6 and the Tunnel Setup Protocol. He has been a network security consultant for enterprises, governments and providers. Read more >>
	Stefan Wintermeyer- CEO and founder of AMOOMA. Author of an Asterisk book ( http://www.the-asterisk-book.com ). Before working with VoIP solutions he was CEO at OTRS which does open-source trouble-ticket-systems. Stefan started his open-source career as a vice president for SuSE Linux in 1998. He is a very open-source minded guy who even published his book under the FDL. AMOOMA is a German company which offers mainly VoIP consulting in Europe.
	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.
	Robert Jongbloed - Co-founder of OpenH323, the first Open Source H.323 stack, and its successor OPAL, a protocol agnostic VoIP library. A 25 year veteran in the computing industry, he has been a technical leader and principal architect of a number of systems, developed from concept to deployment.  He is now a consultant for VoIP and embedded systems, supporting and continuing development of the OPAL Open Source library and its derivatives.
	John Todd has been working with IP-based software for 20 years, and has been heavily involved in the Asterisk VoIP platform since 2003. At Digium, John is responsible for acting as a conduit between Digium and the large open-source developer ecosystem that surrounds Asterisk. John has served as CTO of several VoIP-related firms working in the service provider or mobile areas, as well as working as a consultant for dozens of firms building Enterprise or Service Provider platforms for voice delivery. John is one of the leaders of the http://freenum.org/ alternate telephony numbering system. In his spare time, he works on unreasonably heavy biodiesel, steam, and other alternate-energy implementations in his dangerously cramped machine shop/garage.
	Irv Shapiro, CEO/CTO of Ifbyphone, has spent over 30 years driving technology innovation with a focus on data communications and networking. Irv began his career writing custom VAX/VMS device drivers for Digital Equipment Corporation, then founded Metamor Technologies, a two-time INC 500 award recipient, followed by Edventions, an elementary school infrastructure company. Following the sale of Edventions he 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 Lead Developer at Bandwidth.com on 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 age 13 and has been working extensively with VoIP technologies for the past 5 years. Darren's educational background is in Computer Science and Business Management.
	Tim Behrsin As Voxbone's R&D Manager, Tim Behrsin leads the company's new technology projects. Amongst other responsibilities, Tim managed the design and implementation of Voxbone's resilient, modular and service-rich network, which boasts complete geographical redundancy. Utilizing a mixture of in-house development and a plethora of open-source software, Tim executes Voxbone's vision for deploying carrier-grade wholesale communication services.
	William Dale Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Utiliware, has a proven track record of leading the technology strategies of organizations during their early growth phase. His methods are based on established, proven techniques and procedures gained over his 15 years of experience that includes seven years in key executive roles such as CTO and CIO. Prior to founding Utiliware, Mr. Dale consulted, managed and invested in a variety of technology enterprises, including initiatives in the software, consumer products and energy sectors. He specialized in critical operational issues such as product development, marketing, fundraising and analysis for more than 8 years. Mr. Dale's experience includes: building data center systems for Easy Wireless, eCloser, Luth Research and Amdax; providing application and network security services to Peregrine Systems; developing enterprise-class applications for companies such as Boeing, Utilisys, Keystone Energy, and others. Mr. Dale holds a patent for clearing energy transactions over the Internet and has consulted with the USEA, aiding in the restructuring of the Eastern European energy markets. While at SAIC, Mr. Dale was a senior engineer for six years working on the ITER project. He also received two letters of outstanding achievement for his work in Digital Preassembly at Boeing. Mr. Dale is a licensed professional engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida.
	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.
	David Knell started his computing career with a spell developing image analysis software at IBM in 1985. Since then, he has worked in fields as diverse as the development of hardware and software for testing internal combustion engines, software QA for Acorn's RISC OS and training. He has worked in telephony since 1997, developing and selling an IVR platform before setting up a UK fixed line telco in 2000 from which he exited in 2006, and an IP Centrex business in 2005, which was sold to a listed UK company in early 2009. He has worked with IP telephony since 2000, and has developed and delivered products based on Asterisk, SER and FreeSWITCH. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
	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 CTO of Telnet Communications, a growing CLEC and ISP operating in the Greater Toronto Area of Canada. Bill has over 13 years of experience in the ISP and telecommunications business with expertise not only in technology but also regulatory and business processes. 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. In addition, Bill oversees Telnet's professional services department which assists other MetaSwitch customers in the day to day operation of their networks. Bill has spent his entire career working for Telnet Communications since he co-founded the company in 1996 after attending Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. 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.
	Nickolay Shmyrev is a co-founder and VP of Research at PC-NG, the company that provides accurate automated real-time transcription services. He is currently involved into the development of several open source projects related to speech technologies - VoxForge, Festival and CMU Sphinx, trying to expand them beyond the limits of academic research systems. He has 5 years experience in VoIP field, working on embedded systems, IVR platforms and codecs.
	David Knell started his computing career with a spell developing image analysis software at IBM in 1985. Since then, he has worked in fields as diverse as the development of hardware and software for testing internal combustion engines, software QA for Acorn's RISC OS and training. He has worked in telephony since 1997, developing and selling an IVR platform before setting up a UK fixed line telco in 2000 from which he exited in 2006, and an IP Centrex business in 2005, which was sold to a listed UK company in early 2009. He has worked with IP telephony since 2000, and has developed and delivered products based on Asterisk, SER and FreeSWITCH. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.