Subject: Update #11 New Speaker Talk Titles, New Interviews, Plus Vote on Panels Please

From: "Emerging Communications" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:07:22 -0500

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The Emerging Communications Conference is the World's Leading-Edge Telecom, Internet Communications and Mobile Innovation event, and attracts the World's Leading Futurists, and smartest, most forward thinking exec's that are exploring the future of communications. See http://eCommConf.com

New Talk Details
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* Alan Duric, Service Providers 2.0 - Leveraging The Heuristics of the "New Voice"

* Dan York, The Park Bench Manifesto: Why We Want To Kill Off The PSTN

* Peter Ecclesine, The Possibilities of White Space "Identifying Information"

* Chris Mairs, The Service Innovation Ecosystem

* Maura Corbett, The First Technology Administration - What Will Mean For the Future of Communications? (Keynote)

For full details please see http://eCommConf.com/2009/schedule

What's New?
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* Interview With Richard Whitt, Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel - see http://ecommconf.com/blog/2009/01/interview-with-richard-whitt.html

* Group call featuring Skype, IfByPhone, Voxbone and Voicesage on the topic of "Accelerating During a Depressed Economy" - see http://ecommconf.com/blog/2009/02/accelerating-during-a-depressed.html

* Sponsor - Voicesage (Lunch Sponsorship)

* Media Partner - IT Conversations. With an average of 10,000 downloads per talk, it promises to widely distribute the most interesting speakers from 09 over a course 12 month period following the conference.

Please Vote on Panel Topics
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On the schedule we have 2 panels of 45 minutes each. But we are yet to decide on the topics!

We asked the 2200+ people in the eComm Facebook group for their panel suggestions. Please vote on some of the suggestions received here (or suggest your own topic/s):

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=W1sAhFZx5eAYTA92dTsWGA_3d_3d

What's Coming?
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* More pre-conference interviews will be published here http://eCommConf.com/blog. These will be available in both audio download (MP3) and text (transcribed) formats. The next interview posted will be with Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy, Sprint.

* Schedule reshuffle including new speakers.

Reminder
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* The heavily discounted group room rate of 159.00 USD/night (normally 229.00 USD/night) expires on the 8th February. It can be booked online here http://ecommconf.com/2009/travel/venue/

* The call for launch slots and sponsors is still open see http://ecommconf.com/blog/2009/01/call-for-launch-slots-and-fina.html

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Emerging Communications (eComm) 2009, 
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