Alan has for two decades working at the bleeding edge of IT and Telecoms; he is an independent Engineer (MEng, CEng, MIET, MIEEE) that focused on the commercialization of technology. Work experience includes: BT, Cambridge Technology Partners, founded Teltier (sold to Cisco) and 10 years as an independent focused on intersection of IT, Web and Telecoms. Customers range from global leaders like AT&T, Etisalat, M1, Telstra, Huawei, and Oracle; to innovative start-ups like Apigee, AppTrigger (sold to Metaswitch), Camiant (sold to Oracle), Guavus, Layer 7 (sold to CA), OpenCloud, and Tropo. He is on the advisory board of hSenid Mobile, Sigma Systems, and Telestax.

He has worked with most of the leading Telcos, suppliers, industry bodies, and many developers on service innovation. His research on service innovation has been downloaded over 125,000 times on Slideshare in 2013 putting him in the 1% of most viewed users.

For more information check out his weblog,www.alanquayle.com/blog. One of his side projects is helping build the telecom application developer ecosystem; TADHack, www.tadhack.com, and TADSummit, www.tadsummit.com, are global events, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes.

Chris Koehncke has been a longtime advocate of WebRTC via his blog chriskranky.com. Chris is currently responsible for business development at &yet, a 40-man development team focused on real time communications projects. &yet has been a leader in WebRTC development with their open source SimpleWebRTC JavaScript libraries and their free video conferencing service, talky.io. &yet is also a leading contributor to the WebRTC specifications. Prior to joining &yet, Chris was the co-founder of two VoIP service providers employing 200 and subsequently attracting USD$100m in investment.

Chad Hart is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Dialogic where he is responsible for strategy, messaging, and ecosystem development for Dialogic’s PowerMedia media processing and WebRTC portfolio. Chad was previously at Oracle/Acme Packet where he was most recently focused WebRTC, OTT communications, and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Chad has been at the leading edge of many of communications innovations including computer telephony integration (CTI), VoIP, IMS, OTT-communications, WebRTC, and NFV. His 14 years of experience in the communications industry includes business intelligence, product marketing, product management, analyst relations, and a syndicated industry analyst. Chad is also Chief Editor of webrtcHacks.com – a blog for WebRTC developers. Chad has a BSECE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Dan Burnett is best known these days for his work with WebRTC. As one of the official editors of the key WebRTC specifications and co-author of the longest-selling book on WebRTC, Dan has been a key driver in this area since its early days. With more than a decade of experience in web standards, Dan was a key leader in the development of VoiceXML and the related SRGS, SSML, and MRCP standards, used in the majority of today’s interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Dan is Chief Scientist at Tropo and Director of Standards at Voxeo.

Founder BlogGeek.Me, Tsahi Levent-Levi has 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, VoIP and 3G industry: as an engineer, manager, marketer and CTO. Tsahi works part time as a Product Manager at Amdocs. In the rest of his time, Tsahi is an independent consultant, assisting companies to bridge between technologies and business strategy in the domain of telecommunications.Tsahi is the author and editor of bloggeek.

Amir works part time for AudioCodes as VP Alliances & Partnership. In his other hat, Amir is an independent consultant working with companies in the area of communications and WebRTC on planning and execution of product, marketing, strategy and Go to Market activities.

Among other positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for Radvision technology business unit, VP Marketing & Products and later VP BD for Surf Communication Solutions, CEO and Co-founder of a web based service creation and video communication startup and head of the H.323 R&D and Product Management groups in the early days of VoIP at Radvision.