Tele/Presence Forum Expo Speakers Update

“Tele/Presence Trends and Solutions”

Tele/Presence Forum 2010 Expo – September 28-29 – Boulder, Colorado

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Highlights – Speakers

Tele-Presence Forum 2010 Expo highlights the rising importance of Tele/Presence to businesses, organizations and institutions of all sizes. By all accounts, Tele/Presence will reduce travel and staff downtime, improve productivity, enhance communications, and lower costs. Tele/Presence will be a viable solutions in nearly all aspects of business management including for use in call centers, remote/branch offices, investor/corporate/partner meetings/events, telecommuter, mobile and other environments and will include such technologies as video, presence, webseminar, audio, multi-media, IM, conferencing solution to nearly every other aspect of communications. Speakers have been identified that can address present concerns, ongoing issues and the future outlook of Tele/Presence.

Tuesday – September 28

11:00-12:00 - Keynote – From Teleconferencing to Telepresence:
Making Virtual Meetings Work For You

• A brief history - thirty years of tele-meetings - what will meetings be like 30 years from now
• Best practices - developing valuable tele-skills – enhancing human communications with tele/presence
• Creative techniques applied: lessons learned – what has failed and what will it take to succeed

Presenter: Hal Josephson is President of MediaSense, a San Francisco firm that specializes in international business development, strategic marketing/communication and special project planning management services for high-tech businesses. Hal works extensively Pacific Rim companies focusing on assisting partnerships and alliances with Chinese companies. In addition, Hal is the annual Program Chair, Executive Producer and Host of the annual Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF) and the Cyberport Venture Capital Forum (CVCF) in Hong Kong, China.


1:00-2:00 – Presentation - Understanding and Troubleshooting Video Conferencing Networks
• The bulk of installed systems are H.323 compliant, how can H.323 work with SIP and other standards and protocols
• How does the ITU H.323 and SIP standards support advanced audio and video features
• What are the common problems in videoconferencing networks
Presented by Gary Thom, President, Delta Information Systems &
Thomas Smith, Program Director, University of Wisconsin

Wednesday – September 29

9:00-10:00 - Presentation – Future of Inter-Company Visual Communications . . . Today

- Building a Business Case and Modeling ROI for Tele/Presence
- The rising hard, soft, and opportunity cost of Tele/Presence
- Balancing Physical Travel Versus Tele/Presence
- Utilizing Tele/Presence for Economic Development and Global Expansion
- Enhancing and Accelerating Revenue Growth via Tele/Presence
- Integrating Tele/Presence into the Supply Chain for Improvement Channel Partner Communications
Presenter: Howard S. Lichtman is a productivity-focused technology futurist, author, publisher and consultant with specialties in telepresence and visual collaboration to improve organizational and personal productivity. He is the founder and president of the Human Productivity Lab, an independent consultancy and research firm that helps organizations design telepresence strategies and deploy telepresence solutions. He is the publisher of Telepresence Options and editor of the Telepresence Options Telegraph.

Tele/Presence Forum provides education, research, and events designed to improve awareness of the benefits of tele/presence whether video, audio, computer, multi-media, web and other systems.
Among the many benefits, Tele/Presence can:
- Reduce sales cycles - and are proven to increase revenues
- Reduce business costs - travel, downtime, meeting delays, business processes
- Improve productivity - increased coordination yields improved customer communications
- Accelerates communications - faster communications means faster product cycles
- Reduce customer communications disasters - reduce impact of crisis situations

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Isaac Asimov - Move Minds, Not Flesh - A View of Tele/Presence 40 Years Ago

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Teleconferencing Is Moving Ideas, Not People

Time and energy can be conserved by using teleconferencing, because information and ideas, rather than people, can be exchanged. Making this point pragmatically and graphically, Isaac Asimov, keynote speaker at the first North American seminar on teleconferencing and visionary extraordinaire (author of more than 200 books on science and science fiction), noted,"It is much simpler to transmit a message than to transmit a human being simply because he is carrying the message. There is no need to carry 70 kilograms of flesh and blood for thousands of miles when at the speed of light any message in speech, in writing, in any image, can be transmitted.
The whole world becomes one with virtually zero energy expenditure compared to what would exist before the electronic age."

In other words, green has always been a good business strategy. Tele/presence, telecommuting and other information technologies that move minds without moving people are viable for many types of human communications as "being there without going there" makes both business and personal sense. For weekly newsletter on tele/presence, go to http://www.presenceforum.com

Tele/Presence Goes Portable Because Problems are Everywhere.

I generally don't like product reviews because it sounds like a sales pitch and while this product isn't ready yet, it sets a interesting talking point. This is interesting because is that the dominant forms of tele/presence are focused on fixed room systems. However, tele/presence takes place in a lot of situations where there there is a problem not just talking heads. That is, something I have said for thirty years, "show the problem, not the person." Simply put, when people conference they talk about issues, problems, situations, crises, ideas, presentations, strategies, and others but rarely need to show the people in the group as, for the most part, know and have met one another.

Meanwhile, this is a great concept and look forward to more from ooVoo.

What is driving the demand? Industry experts point to a simple reality: technology has caught up with consumer demand. Enhancements in networking, platforms and devices -- together with demand for anywhere, anytime connectivity -- has created a revolution of computing and communication centered around mobile devices.

Today developers are working with faster networks including 3G and 4G, and mobile devices have better operating systems -- iPhone OS, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The combination of mobile computing with social networking applications is creating a powerful "always on" communication platform that allows consumers to choose the type of interaction they want at any moment.

"Visual communication is on the rise in enterprise and consumer worlds with each fueled by its own drivers as well as cross connections between the two," said Andrew W. Davis, senior partner & analyst at Wainhouse Research. "Mobile video communications represents a significant opportunity for companies like ooVoo who see themselves as game-changers in mobile video."

Smartphones are available with enough processing power to handle video chat and more cameras are now front-facing which will aid video chat conversations. Even as the trend continues, many mobile devices do not include two-sided cameras and the capability is missing from iPhone and iPad, which has raised questions in technology media, blogger sites and consumer social media. Experts predict the market will continue to push for face-to-face communication.

"We've listened carefully to what consumers are telling us about their expectations for mobile," said Philippe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. "We're excited about demonstrating the quality, ease-of-use and seamless experience of ooVoo's mobile video calling capability at Mobile World Congress."

About ooVoo
ooVoo, a privately-held company based in New York, provides a high-quality video-driven communication service to anyone with a computer, broadband connection and a web camera. ooVoo offers multi-point high-resolution video, video conversation recording, telephony, desktop sharing, video messaging, instant message chat and file sharing. Download ooVoo at www.ooVoo.com.