Aastra || XML Contest

Jury

Corinne Amouroux
France / Engineer in CNAMTS, Asterisk Expert.

In charge of the ToIP implementation’s strategy within French Health Insurance organization, Corinne is engaged in development of Asterisk solutions (technical and financial expertise).

Stephane Angelot
USA / Vice President Strategic Solutions and alliances at Aastra Telecom /SIP and XML Expert

With more than 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications, Stephane manages strategic partnerships to develop Aastra Telecom endpoints sales. He is involve in development of XML applications for SIP terminals S. Angelot holds a Master of Science degree in computer science and telecommunications from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France

Said El Ketrani
France / CEO at Ilexia / Analyst

ILEXIA is a technical consulting company specialized in IP Telephony and Unified Communications:
- Audit and Technical Assistance
- Tests & validation between IP terminal third party and IP PBX solutions.
- Interoperability Label : interoperability testing between different IP telephony products on the market
- Training sessions

Dave Michels
USA / Telecommunications Protagonist

Dave's unique perspective comes from a career involving telecom, IT, and the channel including leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups and even a telecom dealership. Dave's telecom blog is www.pindropsoup.com and he is also a regular contributor to UCStrategies.com and NoJitter.com. He is the founder and President of Verge1 which offers consulting and analysis on Unified Communications and emerging technologies of convergence. Dave holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications from Colorado University where he has also been an adjunct faculty member. Other education includes Harvard Executive Education on Technology.
www.pindropsoup.com

Tom Keating / TMC Labs
USA / VP & CTO & SEO Director & Executive Technology Editor

A true VoIP industry veteran, Tom Keating serves as VP & CTO & SEO Director & Executive Technology Editor at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a publisher of VoIP news, call center & CRM news, as well as other telecom information. Back in 1995 Tom founded CTI Labs, which later became TMC Labs - one of the leading sources for unbiased opinions and reviews in the VoIP, call center, datacom/telecom industries. In 1996, he helped launch Internet Telephony Magazine - the first magazine covering VoIP, IP telephony, etc. and still considered a premiere news source for the VoIP industry. Today, in addition to his many duties at TMC, Tom writes articles for Internet Telephony Magazine as well as Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine, and his well-known blog. Tom graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Ariel Gomez
France / IT Press Chief Editor
Founder & associate of the Telecom Presse group

Télécom Presse is the head company that edits Le Journal des Télécoms and Digital News. Le Journal des Télécoms is the leader magazine covering the telecom industry in French language.
Ariel is editor and chief editor for these two magazines.

Jacques Heitzmann
France / IT Consultant

Jacques Heitzmann, founder and Managing Director of Jaito (Consulting company), has accumulated experience of 30 years in telecommunications (France telecom, Cap Gemini, Alcatel and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting). Since 2002, Jacques Heitzmann assists the medium and large companies in optimizing their telecom. He publish IT newsletters.
Jacques Heitzmann is alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and telecommunications engineer
www.jaito.fr

Eric Ochs
France / IT Consultant / Journalist and Analyst

Eric Ochs, 47, has over 20 years of experience in the IT and technology sectors in France and in Europe, primarily within the IDG group (International Data Group). Eric developed MMMedia.fr, a company specializing in media consulting, on-line BtoB surveys and on line publishing. MMMedia.fr is one of the shareholder of www.lemagit.fr the french partner of www.techtarget.com in France.

Yvon Rastetter
France / IT guru, Author Open Source, Telecom and VOIP expert consultant.

After more than ten years in telecommunications, he founded Yvon Rastetter and Associates in 1985, specialized in Telecom, Telephony integration strategies in the IS,…
At the end of the 1990s, he studied the free software movement and directs its activity Board to this sector. He worked with several organizations and associations on issues of free software and telecommunications (R&d, departments, regions, Cigref, Ailf, Aful FT). Member of the Board of Adullact since its creation.

"Le logiciel libre dans les entreprises " - Éditions Hermes 2002
"La fusion de la téléphonie et de l'Internet" - Éditions Hermes 2005
"Le logiciel libre dans la mondialisation" - Éditions Hermes 2006
"Le logiciel libre dans les PME" - Éditions Hermes 2008

Luca Scheuring
Switzerland / SIP Phone Specialist EMEA / SIP and XML Expert

Luca Scheuring is a member of the product management team for the Aastra Open Standard SIP Phones. He's the technical expert for the EMEA region and is also involved in the development of XML applications. Luca Scheuring holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Philippe Sultan
France / Aastra SIP terminal user in an University (INRIA) / Author

Telecommunications Engineer at INRIA and graduated from Telecom Sud (Paris), Philippe Sultan develops Asterisk and other free software-based telephony applications and services. Contributor to the project since 2005 and official developer since 2007, he maintains Asterisk’s modules related to the XMPP (Jabber) Protocol.

"Asterisk - the free enterprise telephony - Design and develop its ToIP/VoIP system” (Eyrolles edition)

Francois Tonic
France /Chief Editor at Programmez magazine

Founder and Chief Editor at cloudmagazine.fr training historians, He works in the computer world business for over 15 years.
His main collaborations: Chief Editor of Programmez : magazine on development, technologies. Permanent journalist of Logiciels et Systèmes.

Pierre Tran
France / Journalist at 01net and 01 Informatique

Areas of specialization:
- Software engineering, ALM (requirements management, modeling, development, configuration management, change management, quality management), programming, languages, methodologies, software architecture
- Infrastructure software, SOA, MDM, enterprise architecture
- Web 2.0, web 3.0, social networks, social media
Skills:
- Implementation of items, folders, studies, white papers,…

Robert Viseur
Belgium / VOIP Bloger and University professor

Assistant at FPMs, Technological Guideur, CETIC Civil engineer, training and assistant at the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) in the Department of Economics and management of innovation. His research is about Co-creation and its application to the Open Source software. Robert Viseur is also technological “guideur“ to the center of excellence in Information and communication technologies (CETIC).
http://www.robertviseur.be/