VON (Voice On the Net) is the Cadillac of VoIP conferences. It’s on my short list of things I must do this year with Astricon and O’Reilly’s inaugural Emerging Telephony Conference, at which I’ll be presenting some VoIP Hacks with the distinguished Jim Van Megellen, author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony. Rounding out the annual VoIP tradeshow circuit is TMC’s Internet Telephony Expo. Incidentally, the I.T. Expo and the VON events are somewhat in competition with each other, but it’s very healthy sort of competition that gives occasion to the best thought in the industry. Distinguished voices always breed more beneficial consensus.
But VON is really is the Cadillac, as it will play host to a dazzling series of keynotes from heavy hitting executive thinkers at Nokia, Cisco, CounterPath, Telio, AT&T, and Ericsson. The Spring VON is billed as the largest Voice over IP expo in the world. One look at the list of speakers confirms that. Of course, the VON show is sponsored by Pulvermedia, the publishing and trade exposition company founded by Jeff Pulver, perhaps the namest VoIP luminary of all.
This spring’s VON 2006 will be held March 14 through the 16 in San Jose, CA at the McEnery Convention Center, accesible from the Norman Mineta airport. I hope to see you there!