Speakers

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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 the ClueCon website and sometimes in press releases.

Those invited to speak at ClueCon receive a complimentary conference pass.

*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.

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ClueCon 2011 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.
Chad Phillips is CTO of Cardinal One Ventures, a Dallas-based telecommunications company. A long-time contributor to the Drupal CMS community, he was instrumental in laying the groundwork for integrating VoIP solutions with Drupal. In the VoIP world, his focus has been on development/deployment of high-availabilty voicemail systems, both on Asterisk and FreeSWITCH. Chad is the lead architect and developer of the Jester framework.
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 >>
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
Zac Wolfe began his professional life as a software developer at Acacia International, an inbound call center located in Eugene, OR. There he developed a number of back-end and customer facing telephony applications that were integral to the success of that company while also acting as the company's primary IT manager. He later created an outbound dialer and CRM system for US Bank that continues to be a critical piece of that company’s collection process. Zac went on to become a Sr Software Developer at Kaibridge Inc where he helped develop a video game called "Save The Dinos" (publisher: Aspyr). He is now lead architect and developer of the SafiServer and SafiWorkshop products for Safi Systems LLC.
Eric Erickson started out working in the telecommunications sector in 1999; installing CTI phone systems and networking hardware for multitude of companies in the northwest US and Canada. Later, he was picked up by Acacia International (a call center in Eugene, OR) where he worked on telephony related integrations, internal software applications, network infrastructure, database management, and project management on a number of software and infrastructure related ventures. Acacia was later purchased by Comspan USA (a CLEC located in southern Oregon) where Eric continued to provide support for systems he developed and later moved into a position managing the IPTV Headend at a GPON fiber deployment in Bandon, OR. Since then Eric has been contracted out for a variety of tasks including Head-end deployments and QA assessments for Ledcor Technical Services, IVR development work for EPIQ systems, and internal software development for the State of Oregon DHS.
Alex Kurganov has recently joined Phonologies as EVP of Business Development. Alex has more than 20 years of telecommunications and Internet industry experience as a software executive, inventor, system architect and developer building advanced software systems for such companies as Motorola, Kodak and Ardis.
In 1994, while serving as VP of Engineering, he built a multi-tenant telephony application platform for Vail Systems, a leader in the IVR/Internet Enhanced Telephony industry. The platform was used to successfully host many Fortune 500 client applications.
In 1997 Alex co-founded Webley Systems and, serving in the CTO role, led the development of the first in the industry speech enabled Unified Communications platform and applications. Webley raised over $50M of venture and strategic funding and achieved significant revenue and subscriber growth and later merged with EffectNet. Webley technology was licensed to major telecommunications carriers.
Kurganov holds 9 US Patents. He earned MS in Computer Science from the Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnical Institute in the former USSR.
Venky is the co-creater of the Open source Communication Framework, Plivo. He is also the founder of Miglu, a start-up working on solutions which integrate the web and the telephony worlds together. Venky has been using FreeSWITCH for about 2 years now, and has previously run a retail VoIP calling service around it. He has previously been involved with multinational telecom product companies of various sizes, namely Narus Networks, Subex Ltd, and Huawei Technologies.
Adrian Georgescu is Founder and CEO of AG Projects. Adrian received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bucharest Polytechnic University in 1996. He worked in Engineering for Tomrad Communications and Esprit Telecom. He subsequently held several positions in Operations and Management with Global Telesystems, Ebone and KPNQwest. In 2002, after several years of diversified and progressive experience within Telecom and Internet industries, he established AG Projects. Based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, AG Projects is a leading European company supplying service providers with real-time communication systems based on SIP protocol. Adrian Georgescu is an advocate of IETF standards, co-chairs the Dutch ISOC SIP Special Interest Group (SIPSIG) and is member of OpenSIPS management board.
Travis Cross Travis Cross is the lead architect of OfficeTone's cloud-based call platform, which delivers hosted VoIP and SIP trunking to businesses nationwide. He has deep experience in scalable high-availability distributed systems, VoIP security, call center solutions, and carrier-grade billing.

Travis is a sought-after expert on the VoIP industry — one of only a handful with direct experience integrating next-generation Tier-1 wholesale services — and has been quoted in Network World and other publications. A serial entrepreneur, in 2003 he built an early online learning system for the speaking & training industry. He then lead the development of core system components of FileEngine, an embedded Linux-based server product that went on to win the coveted CRN Product of the Year Award in 2006.

An expert on the Git version control system, Travis has migrated a number of open source projects to Git, including FreeSWITCH in 2010. In his spare time, he runs an ISP with a regional fiber network, and he's developing mod_guile, a new FreeSWITCH module that allows users to write call processing logic in the Scheme Programming Language.
James Aimonetti is the senior distributed systems engineer at 2600hz. What was a rather happenstance introduction to Erlang quickly developed into a huge passion that lasted for the past 5 years. Previously, he served as senior developer of insurance agency management software used by multiple independent insurance agents where he created a global address and social network service and an exemplary text-messaging service. James graduated from Principia College in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He is an avid country music fan.
Karl Anderson is CIO at 2600hz, a company that specializes in scalable open source telecom solutions for carriers and large communication service providers. Karl’s 12 years of experience in electrical engineering and computer science include developing an entire hosted carrier network from the ground up, managing a large fiber backbone, and leading several successful design teams. In his current role as CIO he serves as a core design engineer, developer for both Whistle and blue.box, OpenSIPs expert, and general problem solver. “I'm lucky that the work that I do is indistinguishable from the things I do for fun." As a robotics fanatic and a lover of all things technical Karl’s hobbies include building gadgets, taking things apart, and fiddling with expensive equipment.
Alexandr Dubovikov is employed as Senior Voice Engeneer for QSC AG, one of the major German voice and data providers. He holds a diploma in physics of Odessa State University. Dubovikov has nearly 20 years of experience in telecomunication techniques. He contributed to many OpenSource projects like FeeeSwitch, SER, Kamailio, SEMS, Asterisk, SIPP, Wireshark.
He is also founder of IRC RusNet Network, one of the biggest national IRC networks in the world.
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