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WR Summit 2006:
Unified Collaboration and IP Communications

The Wainhouse Research Summit has become the industry's premiere networking event, with conferencing professionals, integrators, and vendors interacting over plans, successes, difficulties, and future intentions in voice, video, and web/data collaboration products and services. The previous events were sellouts, and space is limited again this year, so plan ahead, and book early. Hotel rooms will definitely sell out. (Bring family and spend a weekend in one of North America's premiere cities of historical and cultural significance.)

This year's theme, Unified Collaboration and IP Communications, will bring together users and vendors in frank presentations and panel discussions about what works and what doesn't, how audio and video and web conferencing are evolving, where unified collaborative communications are heading, and the future role of service providers.

The WR Summit 2006 will begin with presentations by WR analysts on the state of the industry and then follow with perspectives from end users deploying IP communication solutions of all types. The Summit will also feature interactive panel discussions with vendors and end users that will explore methods that have worked to drive adoption and creative steps that have made some end user companies very successful.

Of particular interest this year will be the impact of Cisco, Microsoft, and other major enterprise vendors driving data conferencing and video to the desktop, integrated with voice in a variety of ways. These developments are forcing vendor partnerships, competition, and service offerings to mutate in ways that affect all end users' collaboration strategies. Presentations from end users and select vendors will help the attendee understand the range of options available and the implications.
When:
July 19-20-21, 2006
Where:
The Colonnade Hotel
Boston, MA
Hotel Update:
Our block of rooms at the Colonnade is sold out.
See our list of suggested alternate accomodations.
Cost:
Includes breakfast, lunch,
& networking cocktail party
$1,195* per person,
$395* per person for
Government, Education, &
Enterprise End Users of conferencing and collaboration products or services
$295* per person for
PUG Principal Members,
Point Nine Members
$295* per PC to attend via
webcast, includes access to archives
*Fees increase $100
after 30-June-06
Register Now!
Sponsors:

Continuing on the success of last year's event, the first day (July 19) features a Technology Showcase that includes very short presentations and hands-on demonstrations of a wide variety of products and services for enterprise conferencing and collaboration. Attendees will be able to see for themselves in a side-by-side comparison a range of desktop video products, sophisticated IM-based interfaces, and web-based collaboration solutions available today.

The Summit is a highly interactive event. So bring your tough questions and be prepared to walk away with a new view of where IP communications and conferencing and collaboration solutions are headed in the next 2-3 years.

See the Agenda tab for unfolding details on the program and speakers.

Who Should Attend:

  • Senior IT, networking, and MIS professionals needing to understand real-time voice and video communications
  • Teleconferencing department managers, VoIP project managers
  • A/V Professionals investigating next-generation solutions
  • Rich media communications & collaboration professionals
  • Functional department heads looking to deploy IP communications solutions
  • HR managers looking to improve training and recruiting tools
  • Marketing and sales professionals investigating methods to improve communications with customers
  • ISPs and NSPs adding enhanced services to their product offering
  • Conferencing Service Providers involved with audio, video, web, and streaming conferencing services
 Why You Should Attend:

  • Hear from leading edge end users their successes, roadblocks, experiences, and advice
  • Gain insight into what's real and what's not, what works and what doesn't
  • Learn about the new conferencing and collaboration tools and solutions
  • Network with conferencing professionals from other organizations
  • Interact with leading experts in conferencing, collaboration, and IP deployments
  • Participate in panel discussions
  • Meet with leading conferencing, network, and managed services providers
  • Find out what's needed and what's coming in the land of IP convergence

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