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Kevin Fleming, Wednesday, October 27th
Kevin Fleming
Kevin P. Fleming has 20+ years of programming experience, with every major programming language. Most recently, Kevin has been applying his software design and architecture skills to the open source unified communications arena. Kevin's primary skill is producing solutions that use resources effectively through problem analysis and solution design.
A member of the worldwide open source community for over five years, Kevin has contributed to many open source projects in a wide variety of applications. He fervently believes that open source is the 'right' way to do things and uses open source solutions whenever possible. Kevin joined Digium in 2005.
Kevin Fleming synopsis:
The Future of Open Source Communications
Asterisk has been an industry-changing open source project that has grown with the support of an active and thriving community. The news that Kevin Fleming will be sharing at AstriCon will further the disruption of the communications industry, as Asterisk did with its original release, and demonstrate Digium's commitment to taking open source communications in an exciting direction for the Asterisk Community.
Mark Summer, Thursday, October 28th at 9AM EST
Mark Summer, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer:
Over 15 years specializing in VoIP/IP Networking Architectures and Operations Management. Most recently Mark was CTO of IPDeliver. Previous to IPDeliver, he founded ImmediateIT, a company that provided consulting for VoIP network design and service roll-out. Prior to ImmediateIT, Mark played key technology strategy and support team development roles in Mirapoint, NetCentrex, GoRemote. He started his career in Internet Services by launching Computer Management GmbH in Germany, an IT training, consulting and enterprise ISP in 1991.
Mark grew up around the world living the US, South Africa and Germany before he was 8 and has never stopped traveling. He has lived in Thailand, and Malaysia and recently traveled through Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia on motorcycle. Now he is based in one place for awhile -- San Francisco.
Mark Summer Keynote synopsis:
Asterisk is changing the world, not just in the limited confines of business-oriented UC communications, but in real, tangible, and life changing ways. Our featured keynote is from Mark Summer from Inveneo, whose work in bringing Open-Source to under-served areas is literally changing lives. The ability to communicate via voice is something we take for granted, but in many areas of the world that basic technology has remained out of reach due to cost, complexity, and implementation difficulty with traditional telecommunications infrastructure. The good news is that in the last several years, Open-Source software and hardware has made inroads into these previously unreachable areas, and we're seeing how Asterisk is actually changing the quality of life in areas where it has enabled people to talk with each other at a distance.
Mark brings to this keynote address his real-world experiences with Open Source communications in developing areas, and has concrete examples of how free software and methods are not only creating economic opportunity, but uplifting whole communities with communication. His work in Sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and elsewhere focus on the implementation of Open-Source telecommunications, and the changes he has witnessed when people are given the tools to exchange ideas and create opportunity. Asterisk is a component in this change, bringing not only the ability to connect people together, but the ability to allow local administration and innovation in what was once a centrally-managed, monolithic, and slow-changing telecom world.
