TeleSpan's Future of Conferencing Workshop

Committed Speakers:

State of the Industry

Elliot Gold, President of TeleSpan Publishing Corporation

As always, I will present the current state of the industry--size, growth, revenues--but will point out how the old school services and technologies are quickly being dwarfed by the "free" start ups and more importantly the Web RTC services.

Future of Conferencing: New Entrants, Mobile and Web RTC providers

John Logsdon, Founder and CEO, Drum
Jack Blaeser, Founder and CEO, Ten Hands
Jonas Huckestein, Co-Founder, HipDial

Hypervoice: How do we add value to Conference Calls?

Kelly Fitzsimmon, Co-Founder of the Hypervoice Consortium
Martin Geddes, Principal
Tracy Isacke, Head of the Silicon Valley Office, Telefonica Digital

Web RTC and Free Video: How do we connect them and make money?

Scott Wharton, CEO, VidTel
Other speakers to be announced

Regulatory Update on Free Conferencing & Rural Video

Steve Augustino, Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren
David Erickson, President, FreeconferenceCall.com

Social Networking in the Business World

Richard Kaiser, Marketing Strategist

What Are Users Asking For in Conferencing and How Are You Going to Help Me Deliver It!!!

Toni Alonso, Director, Visual Communications Industry Group (VCI-G)

Leaders Make The Future: How can you develop the skills to thrive in the next decade?

Dr. Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future (IFTF)

TeleSpan's Eighth Annual Future of Conferencing Workshop is about "Game Changers".
The market is no longer just about offering conference calls or videoconferencing, it's about several new waves, really a tsunami, of collaboration tools and options.
It’s a Web-driven social networking driven industry now. As such, we will have the best ever line up of speakers teaching us how to profit in this new environment. As always—it will be a workshop you won’t want to miss. Register today and take advantage of our Early Bird discount.

Fee: $737 per person

Discounted Fees:

$637	·	Early Bird: For registrations received by February 1, 2013.
$627	·	Corporate: Register 3 or more attendees from same company and they each save $110 off full price!

Registration includes:

Continental breakfast both mornings

Full lunch March 7

Cocktail reception and hearty hors d’oeuvres March 7, evening

Hotel & Conference Room Info:

Smoke free rooms:

TeleSpan has blocked rooms at a discount in the Courtyard (now totally smoke free) or Tower at the Palace Station for Tuesday, March 6 thru Sunday, March 10.

Bring your laptop: we’ll have electric outlets in the conference room and all conference materials will be provided on thumb drives.

·	Over 1,000 new Luxury Tower & Courtyard guestrooms
·	New Restaurants
·	Over 20,000 sq ft of fresh meeting space
·	5 miles from McCarran International Airport
·	One quarter mile from famous Las Vegas Strip
·	Shuttle service to and from Airport and Strip
·	Two swimming pools, spa tubs, and fitness center
·	Over 84,000 sq ft of non-stop casino action
·	Recipient of numerous Best of Las Vegas Awards

Courtyard	$45.00 Tu-Th/$60.00 Fri-Sat
Tower	$50.00 Tu-Th/$75.00 Fri-Sat