Category Archives: Event Review

Summary of TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 2 (9-13th Nov)

This weblog summarises the presentations given during TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 2. Thank you to all the presenters and our sponsors: Automat Berlin, GoContact, Radisys, and Sangoma for making TADSummit possible. With a packed agenda we’ve moved to 2 sessions per day, else we’ll be running into the middle of December. We’re seeing 80-100 views per day on the TADSummit Channel, with excellent … Continue reading Summary of TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 2 (9-13th Nov)

Project FONOS: An open-source framework for CPaaS building Pedro Sanders, Project Leader Fonos

Project FONOS: An open-source framework for CPaaS building Pedro Sanders, Project Leader FONOS Project FONOS is a framework for CPaaS building. It aims to help organizations of all sizes reduce time to market, protect private data, and avoid vendor lock-in. Project Fonos has been engineered to run in cloud environments such as Kubernetes and be … Continue reading Project FONOS: An open-source framework for CPaaS building Pedro Sanders, Project Leader Fonos

Innovator Interview: Marlon Bowser, CEO, HTK (data-driven CX & loyalty)

Marlon Bowser, CEO, HTK (data-driven CX & loyalty) The background to the interview is described below the video embed. I found the interview refreshing and insightful, it provides some great quotes such as: “Context is more important than channel.” The contextual relevance of voice, SMS, email or web chat as channels will remain for years to … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Marlon Bowser, CEO, HTK (data-driven CX & loyalty)

Keynote: Helping Carriers Win More Enterprise Business in a post-COVID-19 World, João Camarate Silva

Helping Carriers Win More Enterprise Business in a post-COVID-19 World, João Camarate Silva, Founder & CTO at GoContact. Another fast keynote! Well done João 🙂 Carriers are facing a significant threat in enterprise communication services from the confluence of technology, business models and rapidly changing business customer behavior due to the pandemic. This is driving … Continue reading Keynote: Helping Carriers Win More Enterprise Business in a post-COVID-19 World, João Camarate Silva

LivingAds®: RTC Advertising Switchboard

LivingAds®: RTC Advertising Switchboard, David Uhalley & Brian Boyajian / Co-founders / contact@livingads.com LivingAds® is a communications platform providing advertisers with powerful tools to engage with ad viewers in real-time. Our patent pending MarTech converts static ad-reach into live in-the-moment ad-engagement. Enabling live personalized interaction between advertisers and consumers shortcuts the traditional sales funnel process; … Continue reading LivingAds®: RTC Advertising Switchboard

Innovator Interview: Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson, The Matrix.org Foundation and Element

Amandine Le Pape, COO & co-founder at Element; Co-founder at The Matrix.org Foundation; and Matthew Hodgson, CEO/CTO and co-founder Element, Technical Co-founder at Matrix.org It’s always fun to catch up with Amandine and Matthew. They’ve been making the news recently with their acquisition of Gitter. I kicked off with asking about their darkest times 🙂 … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson, The Matrix.org Foundation and Element

CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe Leitão, 8X8

CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe Leitão, EMEA Solutions Engineer, 8X8. In this presentation Filipe covers: Brief history of CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) since VAS (Value Add Service) times. It’s not about winning the developer anymore. Or viewed another way, how everyone tries to be what Twilio was 5 years ago. Be … Continue reading CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe Leitão, 8X8

Innovator Interview: Erlend Prestgard, Working Group Two

Erlend Prestgard, CEO and co-founder at Working Group Two. You can read more about the background and questions asked below the video in this weblog. Overall, this interview provides a nice introduction to WG2’s proposition, differentiation, and go-to-market. A related presentation to this interview is The challenges of creating a multi sided marketplace platform for telecom … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Erlend Prestgard, Working Group Two

The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital, Paul Sweeney

The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital – Access, Control, and the Power of Permissions; Paul Sweeney, EVP Product at Webio. It’s great Paul is back to share his insights on conversational messaging. For all businesses looking at WhatsApp as a communications channel, Paul highlights the importance of joined-up thinking around the customer … Continue reading The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital, Paul Sweeney

Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas

Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco, by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas, VAS Development Expert at PLAY. Below are the video and slides, followed by my summary of the presentation. If you have any questions for Jesus ask in the comments or contact him directly. Video and Slides Slideshare is having difficulties today, here’s a direct link to Jesus’s slides. … Continue reading Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas