Wed, Oct 1 DruidCON 2008 - Day 1

The first day of conference activities and events.
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Mitchell Room
Registration Desk Open
Check in, get your Druid OSE CD
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Welcome Keynote
Ming Yong - CEO of Voiceroute
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Druid Open Source Unified Communications Project: Past Present, Future
Vikram Rangnekar - COO of Voiceroute
Vikram will speak on the current stage of Druid and give exciting sneak peaks on where Druid is heading.
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM
Introducing Warp, the Appliance" - Gone are the Days of Loading a Board in a PC.
Cheryl Farmer - Pika Technologies
Pika will review the Features and Benefits of their new Warp Appliance. The presentation will review the target market for the device, it's architecture, and specs. We will include a review of the development environment which comes with the WARP, which makes it truly unique compared to any other appliance on the market today. We will comment on the type of developer interested in this device, and the success stories we have so far
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Injecting SMB's with Asterisk & Druid
Benjamin Davis - Emergency Network Services
Overcomming hurdles of companies taking a "chance" with OSS. A brief overview of Druid & asterisk deployment using commodity hardware with inexpensive IP phones.
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Lunch
Join other attendees for a buffet lunch and network
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Preview of Druid UCS 5.0 - Single site redundancy with LDAP backend
Navin Kumar - CTO of Voiceroute
Navin will give us a preview of Druid Unified Communications Server v5.0, which is a major release with complete LDAP backend. Druid UCS 5.0 will have single site redundancy capabilities with Active directory integration allowing for next generation enterprise UC deployments.
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Druid Deployments from the network IT SI perspective: Contact Center, SMB
Dave Shauger - Sollos Technologies
Abstract to be announced
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break
Get some donuts and network with other attendees
4:10 PM - 5:20 PM
Open Panel Discussion - Enterprise Druid deployments
Panelist:
Vikram Rangnekar, Druid Community Lead - Voiceroute(Moderator)
David Shauger, Sollos Technologies
Benjamin Davis, Emergency Network Services
Jorge Zerpa, Teletec Group
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM
1st Day Conference closing remark
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Druid Conference Party - Open Bar with food
Hang out with other Druid attendees for some drinks at Park Tavern (500 10th St Ne, Atlanta, GA 30309)
 Thurs, Oct 2 DruidCON 2008 - Day 2

The second day of conference activities and events.
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Mitchell Room
Registration Desk Open
Check in, get your Druid OSE
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Developing UC applications on Druid using Druid SOAP API
Navin Kumar - CTO of Voiceroute
Navin will demo some applications that leverage the Druid SOAP API like the Druid Communicator for Blackberry. Navin will give a short tutorial with code examples on how developers can use the Druid SOAP API to create third party UC applications for different industry verticals.
10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Tutorial on deployment of Druid Open Source Edition
Vikram Rangnekar - Community Lead of Voiceroute
Vikram will give a hands-on demo and tutorial of the Druid Open Source Edition including interesting deployment scenarios like hosted Druid and multi-site.
11:20 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch & End of Conference Closing Statement
Join other attendees for a buffet lunch and network