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António Miguel Ferreira
CEO
Via Net.Works




Anwar Siddiqui
Technical Manager
Avaya

Anwar's areas of interest include call processing in IP networks, communication support for distributed systems, and communication protocols for the Internet, such as SIP/H.323, Enterprise Applications in Wi-Fi Networks, IP/IEEE/3G network agnostic applications, Presence Aware networks, Network Monitoring & Fault Tolerance, QOS, Network Security and Privacy, and OA&M.

Anwar joined Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories in 1998 and conducted research on the first generation of Voice over IP call processing systems. In 2000, he joined Avaya Labs Converged Systems Division where he was awarded Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff for his contribution in development of Avaya’s Enterprise Class VoIP Systems and various other Real-Time Communication Systems widely used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Anwar Siddiqui holds a Masters degree from Columbia University in the City of New York in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Bombay. He holds numerous patents in the field of computer communication, network security and privacy, QoS etc. He is an active contributor to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and author of various IETF standard specifications. He is also a frequently invited speaker in a variety of venues across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, including prominent technology events and conferences.

Anwar Siddiqui is currently a Technical Manager of the Avaya Chief Technology Office (CTO) in Lincroft, New Jersey. He is responsible for identifying emerging technologies that are strategic to the implementation of Avaya’s converged communication vision.


Ari Takanen
Founder and CEO
Codenomicon

Ari Takanen, founder and CEO of Codenomicon has since 1998 been researching information security issues in security-critical environments. His work at Codenomicon and at the OUSPG (University of Oulu) aims to ensure that new technologies are accepted by the general public by providing means of measuring and ensuring quality in networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research that studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. WAP, SNMP, LDAP and SIP implementations. His company, Codenomicon Ltd. provides automated tools with a systematic approach to test a multitude of interfaces on mission critical software.

Dr. Carlos Zorrinho

Member of the Parliament




Frederico Carneiro
Business & Marketing Manager
Convex

Frederico Carneiro holds a degree in Engineering and a Master in Business Administration. Developed his career mainly in sales and marketing, in companies such as Vodafone, Lucent Technologies and Oni. Nowadays is Business & Marketing Manager in Convex Portugal.

Guy Redmill
EMEA Market Development Manager
Brooktrout

Guy Redmill is EMEA market development manager at Brooktrout Technology. In this role, his primary responsibilities include developing Brooktrout’s enterprise voice and carrier enhanced service businesses in the EMEA marketplace.

Previously, he was Senior Market Development manager for the VoIP and SS7 market segments where he managed strategic direction and business investments for Brooktrout Formerly, he was senior SS7 product manager at Brooktrout, providing specialist product knowledge to the sales, marketing and support teams. Prior to joining Brooktrout, Redmill was Marketing Manager at Telesoft Technologies, where he spent five years, experiencing the complete life cycle of Telesoft's products, from development through to installation and product validation. 

 Mr Redmill holds a MSc from Bath University and a BSc from Leeds University.

Dr. Henry Sinnreich
Distinguished Member of Engineering
MCI

Dr. Henry Sinnreich is an MCI Fellow. Operating in more than 65 countries, MCI is a premier provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance, international and Internet services. Dr. Sinnreich has held at MCI various engineering and executive positions working on lightwave systems, digital cross-connects, lab testing and vendor product evaluation/integration and in telephony switch systems engineering. Dr. Sinnreich has worked on Internet and web services since 1993 and has initiated multimedia and voice projects based on standards developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he is an active contributor, having authored several IETF drafts.

Dr. Sinnreich has received the award of Pioneer in Telephony at the June 2000 Voice On the NET conference, VON Europe 2000 in Stockholm.

Dr. Sinnreich is a founding member on the board of directors of the International SIP Forum based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Sinnreich is frequent speaker at various conferences and his book "Internet Communications Using SIP" co-authored with Alan B. Johnston published by John Wiley is considered the reference on IP communications. Dr. Sinnreich has been recently featured on the cover page of the VON Magazine as the ‘Godfather of SIP’.

Henry Sinnreich is a contributor to the SIP based MCI Advantage flagship service design and is currently working on new features to extend the reach and appeal to customers of MCI Advantage.

Henry’s current focus is on extending MCI IP communications beyond VoIP to mobility services, IP based presence, instant messaging, multimedia and using the SIP events architecture to integrate communications and IT applications for the enterprise market. Henry is also going back to his roots as a microwave radio engineer by participating in the MCI evaluation and planning of new mobile services.

Jens Lundstroem
Co-founder and COO
Hotsip

Jens Lundström is the co-founder and COO of Hotsip AB. Prior to this Mr. Lundström was managing the Multimedia Communication program at Ellemtel, an Ericsson and Telia jointly owned think tank based in Sweden. Prior to this Mr. Lundström worked as a consultant with American Management Systems in Fairfax, USA. Mr. Lundström has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden, and he also holds ~10 approved patents in the field. Mr. Lundström has also been active as officer within the Swedish Army and also the Swedish Royal Air Force.

Kerry Ritz
Managing Director
Vonage



Luís Esteves Martins
Responsible Department of Technical Sales for Enterprise Solutions
Siemens




Dr. Mário Soares de Freitas
Director of Development and Convergence Directorate
Anacom

Since May 1999 Dr. Mário Soares de Freitas is Director of Development and Convergence Directorate.

In this role, his primary responsibilities include

- Coordination of studies on technical, political and regulatory developments on systems, markets, services and equipment convergence issues;
- Strategic adviser of the Board on future regulatory measures and actions to be taken by the Regulatory Agency;
- Coordinator of beauty contests: UMTS, Digital Video Broadcasting Network, FWA;
- National Representation in: DigTAG, ONP-DVB, DVB Forum, ITU – Convergence and Regulation, DG XIII, e-Content Program;
- Coordination of several public consultations on “Convergence and Regulation”, “Consumers” and “Information Society”.

Before, Dr. Soares de Freitas held the position of Director of Licensing and Market Monitoring. Before joining Anacom in 1998, he held several functions as a board member in some leading Telecommunication enterprises.

Dr. Mário Soares de Freitas Lecturer and Speaker on several national and international conferences and University Teacher of “Telecommunications Law”.
He holds a Master Degree from "Air and Space Law" from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
 

Miguel Araújo Lopes
Vice President, Marketing & Product Management
Altitude Software

Miguel Araújo Lopes is Vice President, Marketing & Product Management at Altitude Software, since 2000. In this role he supports Sales in 10 AS offices globally, leverages their experience into R&D directions, and has driven Altitude Software to be ranked as visionary (and only global independent company) in Gartner’s EMEA CIM Magic Quadrant.
 
Before joining Altitude, he managed contact center product lines and teams in ROLM, USA and Siemens Information and Communication Networks AG, Germany.
Mr. Lopes has a deep experience in the CRM industry and international tenure of 6 years in Silicon Valley and 3 years in Germany. Mr. Lopes took part in ITU’s CTI standards definition of the CSTA phase III. Mr. Lopes and Siemens colleagues won a Top50 Worldwide Innovation Competition with RésuméRouting (now HiPath ProCenter), which won several industry awards and a patent on advanced skills based routing.
Mr. Lopes has been a speaker at CeBIT, CRM Europe, ICCM, ComputerTelephony, IDC.

He earned his MBA at Santa Clara University, USA and his B.S. in EE/CS from Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon.



Dr. Mike Hollier
CTO
Psytechnics

Dr Mike Hollier has been a technical pioneer and commercial champion for perceptual engineering over the last 14 years. Between 1987 and 1999 he held a number of positions within BT, finally directing their research into audio, video and multi-media performance assessment. His PhD was gained from the University of Essex for his work on using models of human hearing to predict speech quality. Technical capability was demonstrated when Mike’s team set the new ITU-T world standard for speech quality assessment in 2000. During 2000 Psytechnics was incubated as a potential spin-out from BT - attracting investment from 3i. Mike left BT in December 2000 to become the CEO of Psytechnics Ltd. Psytechnics have 18 licensees and are poised to become a significant global player providing essential performance information for the design and management of Next-Generation-Networks. Since October 2002 Mike has been the CTO at Psytechnics acting as their technology evangelist and overseeing the research and development of a new generation of voice and video products. Dr Hollier is a Chartered Engineer, a fellow of the University of Essex and member of the IOA and AES.

Mike Wilkinson
Vice President, Strategic Marketing
Alcatel

Mike Wilkinson is Vice President, Marketing Positioning at Alcatel. Mike joined Alcatel in 2000, and has held various positions in marketing before his role in corporate marketing. Prior to Alcatel, Mike spent ten years at Newbridge Networks where he held various roles including Vice President of marketing in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Director of Product Marketing and Director of Newbridge's IP Business Unit in EMEA. Mike holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. 

 

Moacir Ferreira

Network Consultant

Moacir is a Network Consultant that has over 26 years of working experience, of which 10 were exclusively in the IT area; he holds 35 IT certifications (Cisco, Compaq and Microsoft); working experience in 3 countries and a large experience in networking architecture and design.

Pedro Magalhăes
System Engineer
APC




Prof. Raúl Oliveira
CEO
iPortalMais

Raul Oliveira is iPortalMais CEO and Professor at Engineering Faculty of
Porto University. He got is PhD in Network Management from ENST de Paris
in 1998, the McS in Industrial Automation in 1991 and the Electrical
Degree 1987 both from Engineering Faculty of Porto University.

Thomas Vasen
VP Business Development
Telio

Thomas Vasen is VP Business Development at Telio AS and Managing Director at Telio Netherlands B.V. At Telio he is responsible for the International role out of Europe’s largest access independent Voice over IP provider, both through own brand and through means of white label partnerships. Thomas has over 8 years operational experience with Voice over IP. In his last position at B2 Bredband AB, the 2nd larges broadband operator in Sweden, he was responsible for the setup and operations of the 1st line local loop replacement services to approximately 300.000 customers. Thomas studied at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and at the London School of Economics.

Vitor Magalhăes

Netcall