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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