Disruptive Telephony

(Originally posted to http://dyork.livejournal.com/254735.html)

Just confirmed late last week that I'll definitely be speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Conference (aka "ETel") this coming February 27 - March 1, 2007 in San Francisco. The topic I will be speaking on will, of course, be VoIP security. Two sessions, actually... one a 15-minute plenary session providing an overall view of VoIP security and then the second a 90-minute workshop going into much more detail, providing info about security tools, best practices and much more. Both, of course, will be later put out as part of Blue Box. Should be a lot of fun, and given that it's in the SF area, I'll probably be able to pull Jonathan Zar in as well, which would be cool. Now I just need to put up a picture, bio and session abstracts...

As I've said to a number of folks, ETel 2006 was one of the very best out of all the conferences that I attended all year. No real trade show... just conference sessions full of the "alpha geeks" that O'Reilly conferences tend to attract. People really on the bleeding edge of trying out new and different things with telephony. They had a "fair" at one point that showcased startups that were doing really wacky things... it was all great stuff. Definitely a place to meet the people pushing the true leading edge of IP telephony. Here's a brief part of the promotional material:

ETel captures and telegraphs the excitement around ahead-of-the-curve telephony technologies, bringing together all layers of the telephony community to compare and contrast web telephony technology, business, and culture in a collaborative, spirited environment. ETel highlights the people, projects, and activities pushing the boundaries of what's possible with IP telephony. ETel provides a map of the evolving telephony horizon and gives you the charts you need to navigate the new communication opportunities ahead.

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