The VoIP World Middle East 2007 conference event marks the first major event in that area that will focus largely on VoIP business strategies.  Attendees are expected to include VoIP provider senior executives, mobile operators, Internet service providers, regulators and government officials, equipment manufacturers and more from around the world. 

From Fusion, “Mr. Rosen’s keynote address will focus on VoIP’s advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of each of its relevant stakeholders. It will also cover the challenges faced by the incumbent service providers in the region, as well as the many opportunities available to forward-thinking, quick-acting companies seeking to capitalize on the potential of this new technology. The session will also review VoIP’s market demand and revenue potential, the current state of affairs with regards to VoIP in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and ‘Strategies for Success’ that can be embraced by companies seeking to aggressively compete in the world of ‘Next Generation Networks.’ ”

“The opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa are a key element of our global VoIP marketing strategy,” said Mr. Rosen. “We expect this region to deliver significant growth for us, as we are already seeing very rapid adoption of our Efonica VoIP services.”

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The Conference, chaired by Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch, an authoritative, vendor-neutral source for comparative evaluations of content management and search technologies, featured many great forums for sharing and learning about the latest content technologies. Highlights of the event included the keynote panel comprised of industry analysts debating the future of content technologies, "Pump My Website!" - a session that pit three consulting firms against each other to re-imagine an association website and online strategy (winner voted by attendees) and "Stump the Consultant!" - a session that allowed attendees to challenge analysts with a content technology conundrum or content management project challenge.

"The Gilbane Conference series continues to provide us with direct interaction with companies and organizations looking to go beyond tire kicking but working to fulfill actual RFPs," said Bill Rogers, CEO of Ektron. "In addition to speaking with potential customers, the events offer our team access to multiple industry analysts who share their insight with us on the latest market trends. The DC event was an excellent forum for us to showcase our latest web content management and authoring solutions to government and association attendees. We look forward to participating in future events."

The conference planning committee led by Tony Byrne is now looking for speakers for the 2008 event.

"We recognize that the Federal government and Associations each have their own unique set of content challenges and requirements," said Byrne. "With that in mind, we are building an event to provide these organizations with discussions around real-world best practices related to managing content. We look forward to coming back to Washington DC next year."

Gilbane Boston, November 27-29, 2007

The next event in the Gilbane series is Gilbane Boston, taking place November 27-29, 2007 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Conference will focus on the broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications, including widely deployed technologies like web content management, enterprise search, text analytics, and publishing. The event will also look at the use and applicability of newer "social software" technologies for corporate content applications, especially blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS, and .other collaboration and semantic technology tools.

In addition to the keynotes, conference sessions, and exhibit hall, Gilbane Boston has been home to CMS Idol, a fast-paced set of competitive vendor demos. Also taking place is the fifth annual CM Professionals Summit being hosted in conjunction with Gilbane Boston. The one-day CM Pros Fall Summit will kick-off with an industry keynote followed by roundtable discussions and workshops.

About CMS Watch

CMS Watch is an independent source of analysis and advice on content management and enterprise search. In addition to the freely-available articles on its website, CMS Watch publishes vendor-neutral technology reports that provide independent analysis and practical advice regarding web content management, records management, and enterprise search, and portal solutions. These reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.

About Gilbane Group, Inc.

Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe.

About Lighthouse Seminars

Lighthouse Seminars` events cover information technologies and "content technologies" in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs.

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Derwood, MD – Cluecon announces the platinum sponsorship of Sangoma Technologies in the upcoming Open Source Telephony Conference. Existing for more than 20 years in the VoIP and telephony connectivity industry, Sangoma Technologies has provided infrastructure and solutions compatible with today’s communications applications and protocols.

Sangoma Technologies will be represented by Chief Software Engineer, Nenad Corbic. Nenad Corbic, a pioneer in the connectivity hardware and software development, will represent Sangoma Technologies in the said event. Nenad is a graduate of Ryerson University in Toronto and holds an Honors degree in Computer Engineering.

About Sangoma
Sangoma`s technological expertise is data and voice communications. From the earliest days, we have concentrated on delivering data across long distance networks efficiently and cost effectively. Today we are the leading provider of PC-based voice and data communications products to customers large and small in over 130 countries around the world.

Data and Voice communications can be complex, but technology can make it simple for the user. Sangoma`s tools coupled with our rock-solid product reliability make complex WANs and voice networks something our customers never have to think about.

About ClueCon
ClueCon - is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The presentations and discussions will cover several open source telephony applications such as Asterisk/OpenPBX, Bayonne, YATE and FreeSWITCH.

Each day of the conference is filled with presentations and Q&A sessions with many of the leaders in the industry including hardware engineers, programmers and project leaders. No short course or even full semester can deliver as much information and knowledge as this concentrated exposure to the front lines of Telephony.

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