Co-founder & CTO, Ecosmob Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Having good experience in VoIP and web development.
Expertise in application as well as system level development in Asterisk, FreeSwitch & OpenSIPS.
Like to work on open source solutions.
Specialties: Project management, Linux, VoIP, Asterisk, OpenSIPS, Kamailio, FreeSwitch, PHP, MySQL, Open source consulting, C/C++, high availability, performance optimization
How would you like your calls? On the rocks or STIR & SHAKEN?
It has become imperative to verify incoming calls to decipher the caller’s identity and verify that they are legitimate. In case the incoming calls are not verified for their credibility, scammers can camouflage their presence and prove a threat to the end-user. STIR/SHAKEN is a technology framework that assures that the identity of the user making call is trustworthy, earning the badge of reliability. In this session, learn more about how to incorporate STIR/SHAKEN in your strategy to emerge as a business winner and know how you can lower the risk of fraudsters.
Richa Daga is an international technical speaker, author, mentor and an engineer by heart. As a Software Lead at Cisco, she works in the development of products which pioneer the breakthroughs to build internet of the future. Prior to it, she worked at Ciena and has developed cutting-edge hardware supporting terabits of speed. She is a recognised IoT Thought Leader and talks about disruptive technologies at the global Internet of Things Community’s conferences, IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference and Women in Tech Global Conference. She spearheads Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and is passionate about technologies connecting the world.
Open Optical Networks to power the Internet of the future
What makes applications such as video streaming, conference call, online gaming possible?
How are we able to sustain the high bandwidth demands of today’s digital world of 5G and IoT? Most importantly, are we future-ready to face the exponential traffic growth in the network?
Join this session at ClueCon’22 to take an informative ride through the optical solutions which make it all possible. With the emergence of disruptive technology innovations and industry initiatives, it’s high time that we embrace the future with open networking for optical systems.
Alec Fenichel is the Chief Technology Officer of TransNexus in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined TransNexus in 2015 as a Software Architect. Alec has led the development of ClearIP, a cloud platform for STIR/SHAKEN, robocall prevention, toll fraud prevention, and least cost routing. He is a frequent technical speaker on STIR/SHAKEN topics. He is an active contributor to the ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force, PTSC Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force, and NANC Call Authentication and Trust Anchor Working Group. Alec is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology where he earned bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.
The In-Depth Guide to STIR/SHAKEN
In this presentation, Alec will provide a comprehensive guide to STIR/SHAKEN. Topics will include regulatory requirements, technical specifications, practical implementation details, and future enhancements to the standards.
Co-Founder and CEO at Inextrix Technologies Pvt. Ltd. having more than 14 years of experience in telecommunication. He is fond of agile software development methodologies, amply trained with end-to-end solution development. He is a gifted team leader with different skills, including managing teams, helping and motivate professionals to build innovative and futuristic software solutions based on open source technologies.
Build Telecom Business with OpenSource Platform
ASTPP – An OpenSource VoIP Telephony Platform based on FreeSWITCH
ASTPP has been empowering various VoIP businesses and service providers with its amazing open source VoIP solutions. It is regarded as one of the top VoIP billing solutions and the #1 open source FreeSWITCH-driven VoIP platform, which automates invoicing and billing processes completely.
ASTPP is one of few solutions that support the N-level reseller structure. It uses cutting edge technologies like FreeSWITCH and OpenSIPS as core technologies to provide the most robust, reliable, and scalable solutions.
16 years in the field.
Co-managing Zoiper – softphone app, and part of Banafo – speech recognition AI transcripts.
A meetings expert per se.
So You Think You Can Meet
Meetings are a huge part of our (business) life. I upped my meetings game and I cannot wait to share it with you!
Office meetings, partner meetings, VC meetings, customer meetings, social meetings.
Face to face, or over the web, meetings can suck big time.
Make your meetings work for you!
No BS. No condescension. No advertisement.
Your takeaway:
Meeting methods and techniques, no more feeling awkward, no extraordinary soft skills required
Time-saving actions that depend on you
Types of tools to meet better
Alex is currently the Community Relations Manager at SignalWire. With experience building communities at startups and managing communities around several of Microsoft’s largest brands, Alex’s passion is in helping products to meet the needs of the people using them. Her goal is to be a bridge between the developers using SignalWire technology and the teams working to design and build that technology.
Open Source Communities: When and How to Get Involved
Code contributions aren’t the only way to get involved with an Open Source project you believe in. Whether you’re writing documentation, reporting issues, creating learning materials, or something else entirely, learn how you can play a supporting role in your favorite Open Source projects.
ClueCon has a lot going on every day: educational presentations, workshops, hands-on hack-a-thon challenges. So each night of the conference, we’ve carved out time for networking and fun to unwind, relax, and get to know your peers.
After a long day of presentations or building engineering marvels, join the FreeSWITCH founders, the developers who maintain the project, the ClueCon team, and others in the community for some food, drinks, and games.
When you’re purchasing your ClueCon tickets and wondering whether to check ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on your sign up form for each evening event, this guide will give you some insight on what exactly those events are. Here’s a brief overview of the 2022 evening activities for you to consider when registering for this year’s conference.
Monday Night: Dinner at Melnick’s
We start the week off easy. After a day of hacking and building at the Coder Games, we’re off site from the hotel for a classic Chicago dinner at Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap. Join us for an evening of Chicago wings, barbecue, and drinks. We’ll spend a couple of hours enjoying some good food, good company, and relaxing before the week to come. Who knows? We might even keep the festivities going after dinner.
Tuesday Night: The Gigabit Reception
Every year, the Gigabit Reception is high energy and highly anticipated. This is our annual party where everyone has the chance to get together and mingle with all the other attendees, speakers, and sponsors, and we wouldn’t recommend missing it. With Halloween just around the corner, we even added a costume party to this year’s event! There will be food, there will be drinks, there will be games, and there will be music. Bring your favorite instrument, because the annual Jam Session always features Anthony Minessale on guitar and any other willing musicians who want to join. And if you aren’t a particularly skilled musician, don’t worry… ClueCon karaoke will feature the rest of us who just want to have a good time.
Wednesday Night: Poker Night
Last year we hosted our first ever ClueCon Poker Night, and it was such a success that we’re bringing it back around for a second time. The tournament will be sponsored by Prompt.io and World Poker Tour Champion Phil Gordon. Let your competitive side out a little! If you haven’t played much poker before, don’t worry – this event is beginner-friendly. Anybody could be the winner. Flex your poker skills or just enjoy some drinks and watch the drama unfold. If you win a game, you might even get some cool prizes.
Do you need to get your name or new idea out there? Have you been searching for the perfect opportunity to get brand recognition from a global audience? Maybe you want to do some networking with brilliant telecom professionals, you want to shape the future of communications technology, or you just want to support the FreeSWITCH project.
If any of these priorities resonate with you, consider sponsoring ClueCon 2022! ClueCon attracts some of the best and brightest innovators in the industry from around the world. Help us make it all happen and your brand will be recognized globally as supporting the future of the industry while you build lasting connections. Not to mention, all levels of sponsorship come with conference passes for your team to join the fun at ClueCon.
ClueCon will be taking place October 17th-21st at the Swissotel Chicago, and the sooner you sign up to sponsor, the more recognition you’ll receive! There are various levels of sponsorship available, so you’ll get the kind of exposure that suits your brand’s needs. Whether you want an exhibit booth to share your ideas, or you just want to see ads with your logo getting out to our broad social media audience, there’s something for everyone.
Thinking big? Opportunities are still available to host a branded evening event! Too big? We’ve got you covered: sponsor the snacks for our hack-a-thon, host a private meeting space, or have us air your company commercial during the conference. Six levels of sponsorship are available at varying prices, from 8bit all the way to 256bit. You can find out more about sponsorship opportunities or meet with us to discuss your ideas by reaching out to info@cluecon.com.
You can see a brief overview of the sponsorship benefits below:
Thank you to everyone who attended ClueCon TGI2021, our first hybrid ClueCon! Whether you attended in person or online, we appreciate you joining us for this hybrid event experiment. This new format allowed for those attending online to interact with those in person and vice versa, which was a ClueCon first. If you have any feedback about your experience, you can fill out this quick survey to share it with us so we can make ClueCon even better next year.
Though the format was a little different this year, ClueCon followed its traditional lineup of events throughout the week. Monday kicked off with the Coder Games, our annual hack-a-thon that includes several challenges for developers and non-developers alike. Attendees built boats, engineered bridges, and played trivia with virtual attendees to win an exciting array of prizes.
A beautiful boat styled as a chariot.
The presentations started on Tuesday after the release of FreeSWITCH v1.10.7! In FreeSWITCH founder Anthony Minessale’s keynote, he addressed how we made the hybrid event happen by using the video technology built over the years on the back of FreeSWITCH, and how we try to make life easier for developers, including the devotion to open source that fuels ClueCon each year. Videos of all the ClueCon presentations and workshops will be available soon – subscribe to the FreeSWITCH YouTube channel so you don’t miss out!
The annual Gigabit Reception took place Tuesday evening as well, but this year, with a spooky twist! After a long day of presentations, attendees put on their Halloween costumes, grabbed their favorite drinks, sang karaoke, and played games. Virtual attendees were able to pop in and hang out with us in the lounge too!
Playing Rock Band at the Gigabit Reception.
Wednesday included more presentations, a Kamailio workshop led by Daniel-Constantin Mierla, some seriously Dangerous Demos, and a FreeSWITCH roundtable until the evening, when attendees participated in a poker tournament thanks to the sponsorship of Phil Gordon and Prompt.io. The week wrapped up on Thursday with a few more presentations, a HOMER workshop led by Lorenzo Mangani, and our Grand Prize giveaway of a custom engraved MacBook Pro.
Giving away the MacBook Pro
We want to give a warm thank you to all our sponsors and speakers who made ClueCon possible in what was a difficult and uncertain year. With social distancing measures in place, like our bigger venue with spaced out seating, and the option to attend online, we hoped to keep everyone comfortable and safe as we reconnected with the FreeSWITCH community. Overall, this ClueCon was a successful first hybrid event and we had a ton of fun getting back together in person at last. If you miss ClueCon like we do, or you’re suffering from moderate to severe FOMO, consider joining us October 17th-20th in 2022!
Sharon White has been the main organizer of ClueCon for many years! This is a little behind the scenes look into ClueCon and all her favorite things about the conference.
Most conferences worth their salt have a reception – a chance for the attendees that make up the community to mingle. The Gigabit Reception is the annual party that happens on Tuesday evening during ClueCon. This is one of my favorite events. After a long day of absorbing the vast knowledge that the speakers will share, partaking in prize drawings (at least 3-4 each day!), stuffing yourself with a delicious Chicago lunch and visiting with our amazing sponsors, it’s always great to relax, listen to music, play video games, and unwind.
This year will be one of the most amazing receptions of all time. Equal to the Met Gala in grandeur, the who’s who of ClueCon and FreeSWITCH will dazzle you with their presence. With Halloween just around the corner, we even added a costume party to the event. There will be a little bit of something for everybody – board games, drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and more.
The most exciting parts of the Gigabit Reception are the Mario Kart tournament, karaoke, and Anthony Minessale’s annual guitar jam session. Whether you’re joining us in person or online this year, you can hang out with fellow community members, jam out, wear a costume, and have a blast at this highly-anticipated networking event!
3. Registration
The registration desk holds a special place in my heart. I first came to ClueCon to hang out with a friend, knowing nothing about open source telecom, and was asked to help out on the first day of the conference. It was love at first sight. The small area that was made up of a metric ton of cardboard boxes was transformed into the beautiful check-in setup that is the first impression for each attendee upon arrival.
Working at the registration desk is fast paced and busy those first couple days, but the best thing about it is meeting all of the attendees we will be spending time with that week, and revisiting with all of the attendees who come back year after year. ClueCon attendees are the glue that holds ClueCon together and they are the reason we have a conference every year. Without them there would be no ClueCon!
When you get off the elevator, you will immediately be surrounded by fellow community members, and have the chance to mingle at the meet and greet at registration. This year we will also have color-coded lanyards you can use to indicate your comfort level for social distancing practices. And of course, there will be plenty of masks and hand sanitizer available to keep everyone safe and healthy.
2. Meet the Creators of FreeSWITCH and the Founders of Cluecon
Anthony Minessale, Brian West, and Michael Jerris are the brilliant minds behind the FreeSWITCH open source project. I have grown very fond of these three. They saw a need in the world, and they set out to fill that need – while making it free to everyone. This mission that led to the creation of FreeSWITCH will always be at the heart of ClueCon.
The three of them met a few years before the first ClueCon, and it was the first ClueCon that would lead to the founding of FreeSWITCH itself. Unlike today’s videoconferencing-centric world, back then humans were drawn to meeting in person. In 2005, they hosted the very first ClueCon, and instead of a well-organized tech conference, it was more like inviting 50 friends to get together. Located at the Best Western near the airport in Chicago, it was not nearly as lavish as it is today. The traditional nightly activities were the same, although the parties included kegs they could not finish (but hey, bonus beer during the conference the next morning… I don’t know if it was a good idea. But I’m sure it was fun.)
Come to ClueCon and meet the founders! When you do, ask them about the SWAT team at the first ClueCon. Stories galore!
Brian West, Michael Jerris, and Anthony Minessale
1. A chance to see my Binders in person… You never even realized this was missing from your life.
I can go on for hours about all the details that go into planning a ClueCon. From all the logistical organizing with the hotel, to minutiae like labeling the raffle tickets, to drafting schedule after schedule, the almighty binder contains all the information we need to survive the week. Over the years we have learned that not all hotels have the immense capacity for internet that we need; that not all hotels can produce the audio and video levels that we need; that during a global pandemic it is important to have a great virtual platform to use to integrate those who can’t be with us in person. So we have used our own technology and resources to accomplish all of this and more.
These endless details cannot be kept in any one person’s head, so I have about 20 lovely binders that keep all of ClueCon safe in the hands of all the organizers. These binders are my brain and without them I dont think ClueCon would be as successful as it is. Yes, I said it: the binders are the single most important aspect of running a great conference. They help run the conference like a well-oiled machine.
I might have said it before about attendees… but binders are the glue holding ClueCon together.
