Peter is Technical Director at Acision. He graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science. After graduation Peter worked on a PSTN switch developing signalling stacks for SS7, ISDN and similar protocols and creating advanced routing and service applications. Since 2005 he has worked mainly with SIP first leading a team developing a PSTN gateway and then managing the development of a SIP Application Server. Peter joined Acision in September 2010 and has made numerous contributions to the Kamailio open source SIP Router project (particularly in the areas of presence, WebSocket, MSRP, and SIP Outbound) since then. Peter is one of the authors of the MSRP over WebSocket draft (draft-pd-dispatch-msrp-websocket) and is a contributor to several open-source projects.

Oleg Puzyreff serves as COO at ARTEZIO, LLC, a global software company with offices in US, Europe and Asia. His primary responsibilities are to develop and to manage ARTEZIOs US operations. ARTEZIO employs ~ 500 software engineers and is part of Lanit Group of companies from Europe with 8500 employees. ARTEZIO completed more than 100 project worldwide up to date. Oleg Puzyreff graduated from Kiev State University at Ukraine, with MS degree in Physics. After that he worked at Barnett Institute of Material Sciences at Northeastern University (NU) at Boston, MA, where he was a Visiting Scientist. He was involved with Los Alamos National Laboratory under SCADA agreement in area of High-Temperature Superconductivity. After finishing his work at NU, Oleg worked for 5 years as Software Engineer for a leading process control software company ICONICS, Inc, where he was involved in business relationship with Intel Telecom Group. In 2001 Oleg co-founded a telecom software startup Macrohard Corp. which he was leading as CEO until end of 2005, when company was sold. Macrohard Corp had developed a unique and first of its king web based call control technology for which it has filed patents and applied it to Telecom Carriers CO environment. During Macrohard times Oleg was playing active role in modern telecom research as Research Stuff Member at ECE Dept of College of Engineering at Boston University under direction of Distinguished Prof. Lev Levitin. After 2005 Oleg worked for Burst Media, Inc. as Director of AdConductor where he was introduced to a world of Digital Media and to a market of global Ad Networks. After that Oleg spent several years at ONE Communications, Inc. the biggest privately owned CLEC in US at that time, where he learned how large US carriers really operates. Since 2009, Oleg spent 5 years with qaSignature, a qa automation solutions company, where he managed company sales and marketing operations for 5 years. During the same period of time Oleg managed Newton Angels startup incubator in Newton Center, MA in partnership with MassChallenge. Number of software startups were clients of qaSignature and went via Newton Angels incubator process successfully. Oleg lives in Winchester, MA with his wife and three kids. He enjoys taking care of family, traveling and practicing yoga.

Sajeel Hussain is the chief marketing officer at CaféX Communications, having transitioned from his role as vice president of marketing and partner development at Thrupoint, Inc. in 2013. He brings deep market expertise, domain knowledge and experience in developing & executing go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining CaféX and Thrupoint, Hussain served in a variety of global leadership roles within Nortel and Avaya spanning business development and marketing to product management. Hussain has Masters degrees in engineering and computer science from Purdue University and UT Dallas respectively. He also has an MBA from UT Austin. Hussain completed his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Kris Hopkins serves as the chief strategy officer at CaféX. He is responsible for implementing the companys vision and delivering leading edge customer engagement, video interaction, and enterprise communications solutions to the marketplace.Previously a VP of strategic product management at Acme Packet, Inc. (Bedford, MA), Kris successfully sold the software business of Newfound Communications to Acme Packet (Nasdaq: APKT) and spun out the hosting business into Surgent Networks, LLC. Kris remains a board member of Surgent Networks.As CEO of Newfound Communications, Kris was responsible for the overall vision, leadership and direction of the company. An experienced technical leader, Kris is the driving force behind Newfounds technology and software. Prior to founding Newfound, Kris was a manager of business development for service providers at Lucent Technologies.Kris is a graduate from Cornell University where he was the recipient of the Dorman Family Award for Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Excellence.
Previously a VP of Strategic Product Management at Acme Packet, Inc. (Bedford, MA), Kris successfully sold the software business of Newfound Communications to Acme Packet (Nasdaq: APKT) and spun out the hosting business into Surgent Networks, LLC. Kris remains a board member of Surgent Networks.

As CEO of Newfound Communications, Kris was responsible for the overall vision, leadership and direction of the company. An experienced technical leader, Kris is the driving force behind Newfound’s technology and software. Prior to founding Newfound, Kris was a manager of business development for service providers at Lucent Technologies.

Kris is a graduate from Cornell University where he was the recipient of the Dorman Family Award for Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Excellence.

Chad Hart is senior director of product marketing for Dialogic where he is responsible for strategy, messaging, and ecosystem development for Dialogics PowerMedia media processing and WebRTC portfolio. Chad was previously at Oracle/Acme Packet where he most recently focused on WebRTC, OTT communications, and network function virtualization (NFV). His 14 years of experience in the communications industry includes business intelligence, product marketing, product management, analyst relations and as a syndicated industry analyst. Chad is also chief editor of webrtcHacks.com, a blog for WebRTC developers.

Joey runs Exhilent Mobile from Austin, Texas. Exhilents clients include Bosch, ESPN, Samsung and the Cleveland Clinic. Over the past 20 years, Joey has worked for startups in Austin, Dallas, Boston, San Antonio and New York City delivering app solutions. Raised in the culture of El Paso, Joey believes that HTML5 is the bridge that will unify development on all of our screens from watch to mobile to television.

Chris Vitek has been solving complex telecom problems for his clients for the last 32 years. Prior to his current assignment at GENBAND, he was an independent consultant for 18 years. He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Society of Telecommunications Consultants (STC) and a past member for the Society of Workforce Planning Professional (SWPP). He is a member of the Board of Directors of WebRTC Strategies, a member of the Board of Advisers for WebRTC Conference and Expo and The Illinois Institute of Technologys Real-Time Communications Conference. He is also the past Editor of www.stcblog.com.

Saraj Mudigonda is sr. business development manager for Imagination Technologies USA, which creates and licenses market-leading multimedia IP cores for graphics, video, and display processing, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP cores, and multi-standard communications and connectivity processors. He has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunication industry in Wireless LAN, V.VoIP, and Wireless Communications and started his career as a DSP (Digital Signal Processing) engineer developing, implementing, and optimizing the assembly code for several DSP architectures. Saraj Mudigonda has been a speaker at numerous industry events including WebRTC Atlanta in June 2014.

Krishna has over 20 years experience in Microprocessor, DSP and system architecture/design and was CEO of Hellosoft before it was acquired by Imagination Technologies in 2010. Krishna worked/was involved in several successful companies including Sun, ZSP, vEngines, SiliconSpice, Intoto, Chiplogic, and eSilicon in Silicon Valley. Krishna has been recognized as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Chris Cavigioli, Senior Strategy Planner at Intel Corp, is responsible for graphics and multimedia platform requirements for phones and tablets. He was instrumental in defining the Medfield platform, culminating in a deployment of 6 Intel-based smartphones around the world in 2012. Prior to being recruited by Intel in 2008, Chris ran strategic marketing for multimedia at MIPS Technologies, the #1 core in consumer electronics. Before that he headed product marketing at NemeriX, a fabless startup in Switzerland delivering the world’s lowest power GPS chipset. While at Synopsys, he evangelized SystemC with EDA/ESL tools that enable SoC design & verification at the C/C++ level. For over 12 years at Analog Devices, Chris was responsible for several system and application engineering roles for DSP chips, GSM chipsets (with TTPCom) and represented Analog Devices at 3GPP, ETSI, GSMA, MPEG, ITU, ECTEL TMS and GCF/PTCRB. Chris has an engineering degree from WPI in Massachusetts. He completed his junior year abroad at the ETH in Zurich.

Ali Pey is a Sr. Software Engineer Architect with more than 22 years experience in Telephony, Networking and VoIP. He has an Electronics Engineering degree with a focus in telecommunication and software design. He has worked for companies such as Nortel and TalkSwitch and has been developing VoIP solutions since the start of the technology. He has developed software for Proxy Servers, Registrar Servers/Clients, User Agents, and other VoIP components in both SIP and H.323 protocols. Ali currently works for j2 Global (j2.com), a global company for Cloud Services and has successfully used Open Source telephony platforms such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and OpenSIPS to provide Global Telephony Cloud solutions for j2.

As the Principal analyst at KelCor, Inc., Brent focuses on the intersection of business technologies comprising unified communications, social networking, video, cloud services and mobility. He provides strategy and counsel to key client types: Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, investment analysts, VCs, technology policy executives, sell side firms and technology buyers. Dr. Kelly has been an independent consultant and analyst since 2001, writing hundreds of articles and presenting at numerous public and private events.

Doris is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Winodws 8, Ajax, and Java).Doris has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, Java platform, .NET and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including HTML5 Dev Conference, O’Reilly, WebVisions, JavaOne, SD Forum, HTML5 and JavaScript meetups, and worldwide User Groups. Doris works very closely to create and foster the open source community around Java, NetBeans, Glassfish, and related technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. She loves to travel and she has visited 48 countries (out of 872) so far. In her spare time, she also enjoys music, movies and museums.

Will Mitchell has been with OnSIP since 2012 and now leads the development team in design, development, test, and deployment of core services on the elastic, geographically distributed OnSIP platform. Leading the development of SIP.js, a simple yet powerful open source JavaScript SIP stack, Will is on the forefront of WebRTC application development, especially in the area of mashups with new technologies. Will holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and currently resides in New York City.

Im a long term software developer, and a founder at RethinkDB – a software company that explores how databases can be intelligently designed to benefit from solid-state disks and flash storage. Im also a first year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stony Brook University (currently on leave). Specialties: My technical interests include programming languages (Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, Erlang, C++), compilers, web frameworks, non-relational database management systems (AllegroCache, future iterations of ReiserFS), user interface design, and many other areas of software development and computer science. Currently, Im primarily interested in software startups, and fascinated by the process of building a scalable business against the odds.

Currently Mikhail is enjoying problem-solving and leadership opportunities as a Sr. Director OPS Integrations in one of the Silicon Valley’s fastest growing companies RingCentral. In RingCentral Mikhail leads a team of bright individuals to help partners and customers integrate with core of RingCentral VoIP cloud. Prior to joining RingCentral Mikhail was a Director of Networks and Telephony Operations in Five9 (an innovative VoIP cloud contact/call center provider). Mikhail had several technology leadership positions in BEA (bought by ORACLE), UBIQUITY (bought by AVAYA) and 2 of his own companies. As an early pioneer of VoIP applications he was part of the team that released first ever SIP conferencing application built on SIP Servlet API. Mikhail was an author and a specification lead of java community JSR309 (Media Server Control API) implemented today by many leading companies. Mikhail has graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MS in Computer Science) and California State University (MBA in Management and Telecommunications). Mikhail Nekorystnov is an active mentor with years of experience in Career Planning, Business Leadership, Communication, Problem-Solving, Emotional Mastery and Personal Development.

Dr. Daniel C. Burnett has more than a dozen years of experience in computer standards work, having been author and editor of the W3C standards underlying the majority of todays automated Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. He has twice received the prestigious “Speech Luminary” award from Speech Tech Magazine for his contributions to standards in the Automated Speech Recognition (Voice Recognition) field. As an editor of the PeerConnection and getUserMedia W3C WEBRTC specifications and a participant in the IETF, Dan has been involved from the beginning in this exciting new field. When he can get away, Dan loves camping both with his family and with his son’s Boy Scout Troop.

A man of many interests with a wide-ranging career history, Alexandre Gouaillard is Chief Technical Officer and a co-founder of Temasys Communications Pte Ltd, an early-stage startup in the emerging Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC) technology sector. In browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera, WebRTC supports browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing without plugins.

Temasys is based in Singapore with an office in Mountain View, Calif. Temasys’s SkyWay™ developer tools and Real Time Communications infrastructure enable clients to build and deploy video, audio, and data sharing applications for web and mobile. Temasys enhances these solutions by providing a stable, scalable and secure infrastructure to help scale applications at web speed, to support millions of users.

Gouaillard is an entrepreneur and research scientist with expertise in theoretical signal and image processing, discrete geometry processing and complex systems modeling. He also counts management of multi-cultural teams on an international basis, and computer and web programming among his areas of career experience.

He is a participant in the RTC Web Working Group under the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and, is a representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

Prior to Temasys, Gouaillard founded and remains president of CoSMo Software Inc., a Boston-area startup that was incubated from the Photonics Center at Boston Universitys Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization.

He spent three years as a principal investigator for complex system modeling in two different areas at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), one for human immunology and one for urban planning.

Gouaillard was a senior R&D; software engineer and research associate in a project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health that spanned the California Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School.

Earlier, in France, he founded and served as chief technology officer of Animascope, a company devoted to medical pre-clinical imaging. Gouaillard also has worked as an R&D;

Chip Wilcox is Chief Executive Officer of Temasys Communications Pte Ltd, an early-stage startup in the emerging Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC) technology sector.

In browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, WebRTC supports browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing without plugins.

Temasys is based in Singapore, with an office in Mountain View, Calif. Temasys’s SkyWay™ developer tools and Real Time Communications infrastructure enable clients to build and deploy video, audio, and data sharing applications for web and mobile. Temasys enhances these solutions by providing a stable, scalable and secure infrastructure to help scale applications at web speed, to support millions of users.

Before transitioning to CEO in April, Wilcox joined Temasys in January 2014 as senior vice president for operations with responsibility for building and leading teams focused on product management, sales, marketing, business development and public relations, as well as assuring the deployment of essential business processes that support Temasys’ functions and operations.

With more than 25 years of business experience and an international track record in leadership, general management, planning, product and operations management, Wilcox was most recently head of business operations at AdzCentral, a digital media buying platform in Singapore.

Prior to his role at AdzCentral, he was the Asia Pacific general manager for the TRICARE Overseas Program at Singapore-headquartered International SOS, a provider of integrated medical, clinical and security services to organizations with international operations.

Earlier, Wilcox spent several years with Yahoo!, holding roles as Southeast Asia product manager for Yahoo! Mail and Messenger, pricing and yield management, product planning and analytics. Before relocating to Singapore, he was a senior internal consultant at Primera Blue Cross in Seattle, and earlier was a consultant for CapGemini LLC’s healthcare practice.

Wilcox received his bachelor’s degree from DePauw University and earned his MBA at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Scott recently joined the team at TokBox as Vice President of Marketing. Prior to TokBox Scott served as Vice President and GM of Cloud Services for LIfeSize Communications, a division of Logitech, where his team developed and operated a cloud-based business grade video conferencing service. While at Logitech Scott also served as VP and GM of the SightSpeed Product Group which developed the Logitech Vid HD consumer video calling service. Prior to Logitech, Scott was President and COO of SightSpeed Inc., an award-winning, venture-backed video communications company that was acquired by Logitech in 2008. Scotts earlier experience includes management positions at Ask Jeeves Business Solutions, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, and various roles in commercial banking. Scott holds a BS from the University of Dayton and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Al runs Product Marketing for Twilios IP Communications offerings including Twilios WebRTC and mobile SDKs, as well as Call Center solutions. Prior to Twilio Al was VP Product Management and Product Marketing at Metaswitch Networks, focused on delivering their Cloud PBX, UC and Call Center solutions. Al has also worked in both Engineering and Marketing roles, after starting his career as a consultant for Deloitte and Touche. Al has lived and worked in the UK, Australia and California, and majored in Computer Science at Warwick University (UK). Al is based in San Francisco, CA.

Gonzalo has more than 10 years experience in the unified communications market in Europe, US and S. America, working for Siemens Enterprise Communications in several business roles.As director for UC Applications Business Development, he managed relationships and field engagement with global partners across Europe, US and LAM regions, and successfully driven execution of UC go-to-market rollouts to more than 25 countries in 4 world regions.Gonzalo also created the Siemens Enterprise Communications Developer portal and community serving hundreds of partners worldwide.More recently Gonzalo leads a team incubating ideas into future products and strategies, bringing communications to the web (using webRTC and HTML5), creating future roadmaps and product growth strategies.

Alex drives the technical vision and direction for Vidyo and also represents the company on standardization committees and technical advisory boards. He is an award-winning researcher, bringing over 24 years of research experience in video compression and communications to his role at Vidyo. Prior to Vidyo he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Alex has more than 100 publications, holds more than 80 patents (several of which are used in Blu-ray Disc, H.264/AVC, and ATSC digital television systems), and has served as the Editor of the MPEG-4 Systems specification, Co-Editor of the H.264 SVC Conformance specification, and Co-Editor of IETF’s RTP Payload Format for SVC. He is a Member of the Board of IMTC and co-chairs the IMTC Scalable and Simulcast Video Activity Group.

Matt Bateman is a Senior Network Architect at XO Communications. With a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and more than 25 years of experience in IT, Engineering, and Networking, Matt is uniquely positioned to lead cross-functional teams to develop road maps for new technologies.In his current role, Matt is the team lead for technical architecture in the areas of NFV, SDN and Cloud. As an early champion for this new technology, Matt has used his diverse background to reach across traditional organizational boundaries to foster the cooperation and knowledge sharing that will be critical in the coming convergence of IT and Networking.

Dr. Daniel C. Burnett has more than a dozen years of experience in computer standards work, having been author and editor of the W3C standards underlying the majority of todays automated Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. He has twice received the prestigious “Speech Luminary” award from Speech Tech Magazine for his contributions to standards in the Automated Speech Recognition (Voice Recognition) field. As an editor of the PeerConnection and getUserMedia W3C WEBRTC specifications and a participant in the IETF, Dan has been involved from the beginning in this exciting new field. He is currently the Chief Scientist at Voxeo Labs and Director of Standards at Voxeo. When he can get away, Dan loves camping both with his family and with his son’s Boy Scout Troop.

Anatoli Levine is Director of Product Management for Developer Tools Business Unit (DTBU) at Spirent Communications, responsible for developing strategy and product roadmap for the new M2M and IoT segment for enabling products for developers. Anatoli is also responsible for the portfolio of enabling technology products (WebRTC, VoLTE/RCS, SIP, IMS and many others) for developers of Unified Communications solutions. Since 2006, Anatoli is a President of International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) – an organization facilitating interoperable implementations of multimedia communication technologies based on the open standards. Anatoli is a frequent speaker at various IoT and IP communication industry events and conferences, covering subjects of M2M, IoT, WebRTC, VoLTE, RCS, standards and interoperability. He contributes to the Spirent and IMTC blogs.Prior to Spirent Communications, Anatoli was Director of Product Management for Radvision, an Avaya company and prior to that, he lead the technical team providing engineering services and support for Radvision Technology products.