CSI: Vegas - Communications, Solutions and Intergration

The ITPX is excited to announce that Belland Cisco Systemswill be a Platinum Sponsor at the upcoming ITPX conference and Trade show, June 3 -6, 2007 at the Palms Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. Following the Vegas CSI theme: Communications, Solutions, Integration - if you are implementing, have implemented, or are researching the implementation of VoIP, Contact Centers, or Messaging, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to meet with the Platinum sponsor staff and see their solutions in the Exhibit Hall.

Agenda at a Glance
To help you make the most of your time at the annual ITPX Conference and Trade Show, here is a preview of the exciting agenda. Please note that the information is current as of April 5, 2007 and is subject to change without notice. Please visit the ITPX web site for updates, www.itpx.org

Sunday, June 3, 2007

TimeActivity
Noon – 7:00 pmRegistration Open
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm First Time Attendees Orientation
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Basic Centrex: A Tutorial
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall

Monday, June 4, 2007

TimeActivity
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration Open
7:30 am – 8:45 am Service Provider’s Breakfast
8:45 am – 9:00 am Welcome Remarks
9:00 am – 10:00 am Keynote Address: Cisco Systems
10:00 am – 2:00 pm Exhibit Hall Opens
10:00 am – 10:30 am Morning Break in Exhibit Hall
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Served in Exhibit Hall
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• Identifying the True Costs & Benefits of Migrating to VoIP: Verizon Business
• Using The Power of the IP Phone in a Hosted Centrex Environment: Aastra Telecom
• Add Multimedia Functionality to Your Existing Centrex Call Center and Enhance Your Customer Touch Points: Perimeter Technology
• Convergence – A Four Point Framework: AT&T

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Afternoon Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• Improving Your Contact Center Teams’ Performance: Smart Telecom
• The Challenges in Delivering VoIP to SMB Customers: Packet Island
• Blackberry: Beyond Email: Research in Motion (RIM)
• Network Hosted & Managed Communications Solutions: Bell

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• VoIP - Top Trends: Nortel/Telus
• Unified Communications – It’s the Journey, nor the Destination: Communitech Services
• Emergency/Event Notification: Mutare
• E911 Convergence of Technologies: Conveyant

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Time Activity
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration Open
7:30 am – 8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:45 am – 9:00 am Morning Housekeeping/Remarks
9:00 am – 10:00 am British Telecom’s Deployment of Large Scale Hosted Business VoIP
10:00 am – 2:00 pm Exhibit Hall Opens
10:00 am – 10:30 am Morning Break in Exhibit Hall
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Served in Exhibit Hall

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• “Getting it all Together” – The Importance of Converged Management Systems: Janet L.F. Smith and Associates
• Contact Centers – Pulling it all Together: Nortel / Aliant
• Solving Telecom Electronically, An Inventory Based Approach to TEM: RBC Financial Group/ETeleSolv
• Driving Business Applications with Unified Communications: Cisco Systems
  

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Afternoon Break

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• Migrating your Messaging Systems: Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST)
• Enterprise OSS in the Changing Network Environment: ACE*COMM
• The Emergence of TEM in the Enterprise Software Market: AnchorPoint
• Advantages of Virtual Contact Center Solutions: Aastra on Demand
  

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Time Activity
7:30 am – Noon Registration Open
7:30 am – 8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:45 am – 9:00 am Morning Housekeeping/Remarks
9:00 am – 9:45 am Translating Telecommunications into IT Language: Furley Lumpkin
10:00 am – 10:45 am Plenary Session - How To Plan for Integration: Callisma
11:00 am – 12:15pm Service Provider/Manufacturer Panel Discussion
12:15 pm Closing Remarks

If you are not getting the recognition or the pay that you deserve, you won’t want to miss

“Translating Telecommunications into IT Language”

With a touch of humor and just the right words, Furley Lumpkin, Director of Telecommunications for a world renowned academic medical center based in Los Angeles, will help you articulate the complexity when preparing your job description, so that your management and Human Resources can appropriately determine your job grade in a world that is now use to the language of IT when evaluating complexity.