Tag Archives: Twilio

Lantre Barr, Founder & CEO of Blacc Spot Media

Lantre Barr, Founder & CEO of Blacc Spot Media. The success of Blacc Spot Media and Vinix are testament to the opportunities for small businesses in programmable communications around the world. Lantre provides a package of consulting and development services for enterprises. And in April 2021 Blacc Spot Media will be 10 years old 🙂 The … Continue reading Lantre Barr, Founder & CEO of Blacc Spot Media

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

Programmable Telecoms: What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann

Programmable Telecoms – What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann, Technology & Innovation at Deutsche Telekom Sebastian’s presentation does a great job of bridging the thinking across the traditional telco world, and the CPaaS world (or CXTech world). He explains the NT (Network Technology) / IT (Information Technology) view within telcos, where IT … Continue reading Programmable Telecoms: What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann

TADSummit 2020 (Update)

Given all the events run by corporations, trade bodies, and professional event organizers; why should TADSummit exist in 2020? Especially given programmable telecoms / communications is no longer a hot topic. Firstly, communications is fundamental to the human condition, it’s not going away. Secondly, now it is programmable, we are only beginning to scratch the … Continue reading TADSummit 2020 (Update)

TADSummit EMEA 2019 19th Nov Morning Session

TADSummit began in 2013, focused on Programmable Telecoms (Telecom APIs back then). We get a diverse mix of people, with telcos, CPaaS/UCaaS/CCaaS providers, developers, and enterprises. The diversity and the small size (about 70 in total this year) create an insightful and fun event. A big thank you to our sponsors Wazo, VoIP Innovations (now Sangoma), TeleSign, Automat Berlin, SiPalto for making … Continue reading TADSummit EMEA 2019 19th Nov Morning Session

TADSummit Americas Day 2 Morning

TADSummit Americas 2019 ran on the 15-16 Oct, in parallel with the IIT RTC Conference. This weblog provides a summary of the presentations and discussions from TADSummit Americas Day 2 morning. Thank you to TeleSign and Mio for sponsoring TADSummit Americas, all our partners (VoIP Innovations, Apidaze, IIT RTC Conf, IIT RTC Labs, Mind Commerce, Aplisay, The Fast Mode, Disruptive Analysis), … Continue reading TADSummit Americas Day 2 Morning

TADSummit Sponsor Plenary: The Brain Trust of Our Industry

After the “Carnival of the Creators” everyone knew they were somewhere special. We had also reached peak attendance with lunch being provided. So the timing was perfect for the brain trust of our industry to present, that is the sponsors of TADSummit, in the: Sponsors’ Plenary – The Brain Trust of Our Industry. Here Come the … Continue reading TADSummit Sponsor Plenary: The Brain Trust of Our Industry

Building the TAD Ecosystem

Given the feedback received since the release of the TAD Manifesto and the responses to the TAD Questionnaires, Telecom application developers range from: Hardcore Telecom Application Developers building communications platforms and services on open source and proprietary platforms such as OpenCloud, Asterisk, Free Switch, Mobicents, Clearwater, etc..  These are the developers that understand re-origination, codec … Continue reading Building the TAD Ecosystem

Interviewing the TADS Sponsors: Telestax

TADS: What does Telestax do? Telestax is in the business of making telecom innovation simpler. The company leverages the Open Source background of its core team at Apache, JBoss and Red Hat to disrupt the telecom technology market. Telestax is the primary sponsor of the Mobicents family of projects, which has been supported over the … Continue reading Interviewing the TADS Sponsors: Telestax