Let’s start with the disambiguation: I’m involved in two distinct “2.0” events, whose only commonality is telecom and me.
Announcing Voice 2.0 conference
I’m one of the people putting together the Voice 2.0 conference, Ottawa, trivial pursuit capital of Canada on 16th October 2006. (Americans should turn up on October 16 instead.) So join me heading south to the icy wastes lurking where the plains fall off the edge of the world, and get a dose of the latest and greatest thinking in telephony. (My only previous visit there was in January, so my views may not be fully representative of Ottawa’s climate!)
A couple of features:
- It’s great value-for-money. Non-profit, no fancy schamncy stuff, just what you need. Affordable to everyone.
- Both conference and un-conference: time to meet people and shape the agenda around what you care about.
- Workshops. I’ll be running one, and you can come and see how I look into the future of telephony and explore your own insights (and without having to pay the usual consulting fee!)
Now, just again, this is completely separate from the Telco 2.0 event in London, which is mercifully for-profit, and designed around network operators rather than grassroots community and smaller vendors with great ideas.
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Now that we have this Telco 2.0 thing in London, and Voice 2.0 in the US, are their plans to use "skype-type" functionality to let users that register for Voice 2.0 see-into the discussion at Telco 2.0 etc.? ;) seems like a neat "early stage network" whereby the new bright and shiny Voice 2.0 boys and girls get to see whats possible with the Telco boys and girls? Just a thought. What a great opportunity to develop an influencer network.
Posted by: at August 30, 2006 03:05 PMAre you sure you never came to Ottawa with me in our Sprint days? I was there twice. Actually to Kanata but what is a suburb when you are looking from this distance.
Or maybe I'm remembering you joining me on a trip to Toronto?
Posted by: at September 12, 2006 05:21 AM