Why Attend

The O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference prepares you to ride the wave of disruption and improve your communications in unconventional ways, through new open technologies. ETel is not selling “reassurance-ware,” reinforcing what attendees already know from the usual lineup of speakers from marketing departments. Instead, it provides a high-level perspective of the future of telephony, supported by an examination of the grassroots tools and the pioneers that will carry us into that future.

ETel debunks rumors and gets rid of the smoke and mirrors. From projects to products to players, ETel provides a map of the evolving telephony horizon, and helps you navigate the new communications opportunities ahead.

Who Should Attend

If you're involved in evaluating, specifying, or creating communications infrastructure or applications, your job is going to be transformed over the next few years. Whether you're a CxO, business manager, entrepreneur, VC, technical innovator or developer, you need to meet the people who are shaping the future of communications, and understand the opportunities that are unfolding. That's the mission of ETel.

In the O'Reilly tradition, ETel uses the hacker/"alpha geek" community to identify projects and products that will soon become large-scale commercial applications. The hacker impulse to solve problems and push technological boundaries helps to show us the shape of the future. ETel taps into the collective intelligence of early adopters, and reframes their insights and innovations into a form that is useful for business.

ETel happens January 24-26, 2006 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. To receive information about the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, sign up for the ETel newsletter.