O’Reilly Emerging Telephony 2008
by Imran Ali
Next March sees the third edition of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony conference; 2008 will see ETel co-located with O’Reilly’s flagship Emerging Telephony conference in San Diego.
{ Disclosure: I’m part of the conference programme committee }
My background’s not in telephony, but my participation as a delegate and a contributor at ETel has certainly been enlightening and given me new perspectives on the future of telephony.
Encountering messaging innovators such as Jaiku, GrandCentral, iotum and Equals at ETel highlights how conflating telephony with voice is a little old hat - when what underlines telephony and this new wave of services, is ‘human connectedness’…Emerging Communication, if you will.
The ETel team is currently accepting proposals for sessions and speakers working ‘at the intersection of voice, instant messaging, the mobile ecosystem, and the Web’.
The conference is a useful philosophical meeting point between two communities - the traditional telcos and cellcos coupled with disruptive innovators drawn from the hacker community, startup entrepreneurs and most significantly those striving to understand the underlying sociology and ethnography of human communication.
ETel takes place on March 3rd and 4th, 2008 in San Diego - find out more from O’Reilly’s Call for Particpation.
I’m certain the Mobile Messaging 2.0 community will have some amazing contributions for ETel…see you in March!
