Local Voices
SmartVoice Conference Welcomes Martin Geddes as Keynote Speaker
Telecom consultant to provide insight at Miami event
Norwalk, CT—January 6, 2014, Today TMC and HD Voice News announced that Martin Geddes of the Hypervoice Consortium will be providing the opening keynote at the SmartVoice Conference, held January 28, 2014, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event will center on the benefits of Smart voice services, including recording/archiving, hypervoice and text-to-speech indexing, voice biometrics and voice analytics. Geddes will deliver a keynote address, titled “From Dumb Calling to Smart Voice,” at 10:00 am, and provide a fresh perspective on the future of voice services.
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"The integration of smart voice with the Web is a rare opportunity to seize valuable unclaimed business territory,” said Geddes. “This area deserves the same attention as the emergence of e-commerce in the 1990s or social media in the 2000s."
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Geddes is a consultant on future telecoms business models and technologies. He is co-founder and executive director of the Hypervoice Consortium, a new industry association for value-added voice services. Together with business partners, he also works at the forefront of knowledge on network performance engineering. He co-runs public workshops on the future of voice, broadband and OTT strategy. His former roles include senior technical and executive positions at BT, Telco 2.0, Oracle and Sprint. Martin is currently writing a book on the future of distributed computing, called “The Internet is Just a Prototype.”
“There is a great opportunity in smart voice technology and services because they allow service providers to incrementally offer additional services to businesses and increase revenue,” said Doug Mohney, HD Voice News editor-in-chief and conference chairman. “Martin possesses a host of knowledge and best practices in the space and we look forward to his opening keynote at SmartVoice Conference.”
Registration for SmartVoice is now open. Contact Frank Coppola at 203-852-6800 x131 for more information. For media inquiries, contact Ashley Baster. Companies interested in exhibiting, sponsorship or advertising packages for SmartVoice Conference should contact TMC's Joe Fabiano at 203-852-6800 x132.
About TMC:
TMC is a global, integrated media company that supports clients' goals by building communities in print, online, and face to face. TMC publishes multiple magazines including Cloud Computing, M2M Evolution, Customer, and Internet Telephony. M2Mevolution is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries, and is read by as many as 1.5 million unique visitors monthly. TMC produces a variety of trade events, including ITEXPO, the world's leading business technology event, as well as industry events: Asterisk World; AstriCon; ChannelVision (CVx) Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; Customer Experience (CX) Hot Trends Symposium; DevCon5 - HTML5 & Mobile App Developer Conference; LatinComm Conference and Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobile Payment Conference; Software Telco Congress, StartupCamp; Super Wi-Fi Summit - The Global Spectrum Sharing and TV White Space Event; SIP Trunking-Unified Communications Seminars; Wearable Tech Conference & Expo III; Fitness and Sports Wearable Technology (FAST) Expo II, WebRTC Conference & Expo IV; and more. Visit TMC Events for additional information.
About HD Voice News:
Since 2009, HD Voice News has tracked the growing ecosystem of wideband voice services, solutions, and hardware around the globe. The publication’s third report on the industry, “HD Voice 2013: Explosion,” is available on the TMCnet website.
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