Past Speaking Engagements
Vivek Khuller to present in the "Integrating and Automating Presence in Mobile Applications" session at the ITExpo Miami
Miami, FL - Tuesday, January 21, 2010 2:00 - 2:45 pm
Applications that incorporate presence have been around for many years. While some have been highly successful, the hype behind others has yet to truly materialize. The result is that, while presence has been popular within closed communities for instant messaging, the real potential of presence-based applications has never been realized for a few reasons. The fact that the presence information is only shared among a community who use a specific application, and the ability to determine presence has been tied to detecting usage of a PC keyboard or the user going through the manual and cumbersome process of setting their status. This session will look at the next steps in the evolution of presence-based applications – integrating it and automating it with any device or network. It will examine the challenges that the industry has had along the way, including failed models as well as success stories, and why businesses have not completely embraced mobile presence.
Vivek Khuller to present in the "The Future of Social Messaging in the Enterprise" session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
San Francisco, CA - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 4:15 - 5:00 pm
The rapid rise of social messaging services such as Twitter creates challenges and opportunities for end-user organizations. How can end-user organizations utilize social messaging to improve external and internal collaboration? What's the role of social messaging in a unified communications and collaboration architecture and how are UC&C vendors incorporating social messaging into their products? How can organizations embrace social messaging in a way that is consistent with needs for security, governance and compliance? Will the rise of public social messaging services render investments in unified communications moot? Join us for a free-wheeling discussion into the all of these topics and more.
Vivek Khuller to present onthe "Beyond Guys in Trucks: Mobilizing Enterprise Applications" session at the VON Conference & Expo
Miami, FL - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:00 - 11:50 am
From "smart metering" on the electrical grid to Salesforce.com on your smartphone, the universe of fully mobilized enterprise applications has remained limited - until now. With the advent of Android, the iPhone apps store and open-API moves from the big-carriers, productivity applications are bursting the desktop bounds. This session will focus on the latest enterprise applications and how service providers are mobilizing them - and profiting from them.
Vivek Khuller to present "Mobile UC Strategies for the Enterprise" session at ITExpo.
Los Angeles, CA - Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:00 - 2:45 pm
Until you can unify applications on a mobile handset, you cannot achieve the benefits that unified communications has the potential to provide. Dual-mode mobile smartphones work 100% wirelessly and were built for voice conversations as well as messaging that can be conducted equally over WiFi or cellular. This session will discuss solutions available today that can unlock the power of dual-mode phones, providing the technology that enables seamless roaming between WiFi and cellular networks. Solutions that can be integrated into the handset so that end users can make calls, send e-mail, send IMs and broadcast their presence from any location making true Unified Communications a reality.
Vivek Khuller to present at the "Mobile UC Market Landscape" session at ITExpo
Los Angeles, CA - Thursday, September 3, 2009 9:30 - 10:15 am
The market for mobile unified communications is constantly changing, with vendors adding features and support for third-party systems. This session will delve into the current state of the market landscape, touching on the availability of features for mobile unified communications from an array of vendors each with unique target markets, channels and customers. The fact that customers have so many choices, even given one or more brand of telephony system suggests that the mobile unified communications application has in fact progressed to the point of consistently delivering capabilities that improve the productivity and security of mobile workers. Join this panel discussion to learn about the latest solutions available on the market and — more importantly — learn what questions you should be asking your mobile UC solution vendor before spending your hard-earned dollars implementing a solution.
Vivek Khuller to co-present "Implementing a Mobile UC Solution" at the ACUTA Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mobile UC leverages an institution's WLAN to provide seamless roaming (over WiFi and cellular). Mobile UC also provides Unified Communications (UC) applications on a mobile phone such as email, IM, Presence and Contacts. The presenter will discuss a university customer has seen tremendous productivity gains, lowered cell phone bills and maximized their initial WiFi investment.
Vivek Khuller to present at the "Presence: Dial Tone of the Future?" session at VoiceCon Orlando.
Orlando, FL - March, 2009
Most industry experts seem to agree that presence capabilities will form the core of the next-generation Unified Communications network. But today, we're clearly nowhere near the place where presence can be as reliable and ubiquitous as dial tone has been in the PSTN. In this session, you'll learn why presence is considered so important; what elements are used to create and distribute presence information; and what will be required to fulfill the promise of presence.
Vivek Khuller to present "How do you cut costs while enhancing your business - the answer is Mobile UC" in the "Strategies for Managing in Tough Times" session at the CIO Impacts Forum
Los Angeles, CA - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Vivek Khuller to present in the "Mobile UC & Presence" session at ITExpo
Miami, FL - Monday, February 2, 2009 3:00 - 3:45 pm
Voice and IM are both “real-time” collaborative modes of communication and they are key components of any UC package. Yet these communication tools can only offer maximum productivity for business users when the caller, or message-sender, knows that the party they are trying to reach is truly available for communication, and by what method. Presence addresses the availability issue, and is one of the staple UC capabilities provided by a truly mobile UC solution. Presence has become a key driver in both the perceived and actual value of UC. This session will discuss how Presence lets mobile workers be more available and more productive.
Vivek Khuller to present "Mobile UC Makes Educators More Available and Productive" at the ACUTA Winter Seminar
Palm Springs, CA - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:00 - 5:00 pm
By deploying Mobile UC, educators can leverage their VoWiFi investments and increase their reachability, while lowering their costs. Mobile UC mobilizes voice and messaging (deskphone, contacts, IM and presence) by unifying these UC applications onto smartphones. The Mobile UC solution can run on either WiFi or cellular networks, or both, making users more reachable, and thus more productive.
Vivek Khuller to present in the"Fixed Mobile Convergence: The Hows and Whys" at VoiceCon San Francisco
San Francisco, CA - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:00 - 2:15 pm
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but there are still a wide array of options that range from a simple simultaneous ring feature to solutions that extend presence-enabled directories and visual voicemail to mobile devices worldwide. The cellular carriers are also hinting at plans to introduce their own FMC services based on either Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) or the more comprehensive IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Meanwhile, IP-PBX vendors, technology partners and now WLAN switch vendors are all proposing their own solutions. This session will provide an overview of FMC and mobile unified communications and a description of the various strategies now being proposed.
DiVitas Customer Greg Ireland to present "Case Studies: Mobility in the Enterprise" at VoiceCon San Francisco
San Francisco, CA - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:00 - 5:00 pm
The rapid rise of social messaging services such as Twitter creates challenges and opportunities for end-user organizations. How can end-user organizations utilize social messaging to improve external and internal collaboration? What's the role of social messaging in a unified communications and collaboration architecture and how are UC&C vendors incorporating social messaging into their products? How can organizations embrace social messaging in a way that is consistent with needs for security, governance and compliance? Will the rise of public social messaging services render investments in unified communications moot? Join us for a free-wheeling discussion into the all of these topics and more.
