UBM TechWeb's Enterprise Connect Orlando 2011 Announces Featured Session Lineup

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Connect, formerly VoiceCon, produced by UBM TechWeb, today announced its conference featured session lineup. Enterprise Connect will be held February 28-March 3 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, FL. Registration is now open at http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/.

In addition to a keynote lineup presenting top executives from Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya, Skype and HP, each day Enterprise Connect will feature panels analyzing the key issues in enterprise communications and collaboration. The featured sessions include:

"The Enterprise Connect featured sessions will address the linchpin issues facing all of the stakeholders in the communications and collaboration community, said Fred Knight, Enterprise Connect General Manager and Co-Chair. "IT executives and decision-makers get insight into how their peers are evolving their architectures and services," he continued, "the vendors have the opportunity to present their vision and capabilities, and the press and analysts are able to hear from both enterprises and the vendors, and determine whether the two are speaking to – or past – each other."

The featured sessions and keynotes bolster an already-rich Enterprise Connect program that will showcase the full range of platforms, services and applications that comprise modern communications and collaboration systems. The areas of focus for this year's conference are:

• Unified Communications
• Mobility
• The Cloud and Virtualization
• SIP and SIP Trunking
• Video and Collaboration
• The Social Enterprise
• Planning/Implementing IP Telephony
• Managing Technology, Costs and People

"We're committed to having customer organizations speak from the podium, and we're delighted with the number and quality we'll present in Orlando," said Eric Krapf, Enterprise Connect Co-Chair and Lead Blogger for its editorial website NoJitter.com. "More than a dozen senior enterprise executives will be either presenting or participating in our panels, from companies like Northrup Grumman, Pfizer, MODEC, Grainger, Pearson, LSU and ESPN."

Rounding out the conference program will be the newly introduced Strategies Summit, which will offer two days of high-level analysis targeted at CIOs/VPs and other high-level decision-makers who are assessing their options for communications and collaboration technologies and business partners. For more information on conference tracks, keynote speakers and the Strategies Summit, please visit the event website: http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/.

The Enterprise Connect Exhibition will feature more than 100 companies and is the only expo where all of the enterprise communications equipment, software and service suppliers providers are in one location. The list of sponsors and exhibitors currently includes: Diamond Sponsors AVAYA, Cisco and Siemens Enterprise Communications; Platinum Sponsors Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Aspect, Extreme Networks, HP, IBM, Interactive Intelligence, Microsoft, NEC Corporation, Polycom, ShoreTel and Verizon; Gold Sponsors 911 Enable, AVST, Axede SA, Blackberry, Carousel Industries, Dimension Data, SecureLogix Corp., Sprint and Vidyo; Silver Sponsors Aceyus, Acme Packet, AudioCodes, Inc., Avtex, Bucher + Suter AG, Calabrio, CosmoCom, EchoPass Corporation, Genesys, Integrated Research, Level 3 Communications, NET, Orange Business Services, Plantronics, Presidio Networked Solutions, Psytechnics, RADVISION, Sipera Systems, Skype, snom technology, Inc., Sonus Networks, XIRRUS, XO Communications and Zeacom.  

About Enterprise Connect®

Enterprise Connect® (formerly VoiceCon) is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications in North America. Enterprise Connect® brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. Enterprise Connect® owns and produces No Jitter, (http://www.nojitter.com/), providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter, a Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more information, visit http://enterpriseconnect.com/.

About UBM TechWeb

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands include: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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