February 05, 2007
PULVERMEDIA EXPANDS MEDIA PARTNERS AT SPRING VON
Media Sponsors Augment Pulvermedia’s Efforts to Connect VON Exhibitors with the
IP Communications Industry’s Largest Most Qualified Attendee Audience
Beverly, Massachusetts – February x, 2007 – Pulvermedia today announced that it has expanded its list of media partners, to augment the array of activities planned to help VON exhibitors reach the largest and most qualified attendee audience anywhere in the IP communications industry.
"We’re looking forward to the best Spring VON event ever, and in the weeks leading up to the show, we plan to do everything we can to help our vendors prepare their storylines, and get their messages out to their customers and prospects," said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "Our media partners play a critical role in the promotion of the event, and in much of the business that gets done during, and after the show, and we’re thrilled with the impressive collection of media partners we’ve assembled for Spring VON."
The upcoming Spring VON event will prominently feature the following media sponsors:
• Broadcast Engineering: provides executives at broadcast networks, cable, and telephone and satellite production centers with industry news analysis and technology updates.
• Business Solutions: provides IT channel companies - VARs, integrators, and solution providers - insight into growth and sales strategies for IP Communications and VoIP products.
• Compact PCI: covers developments in CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA technologies.
• Embedded Systems: covers embedded technologies on boards, RTOS and IDEs, software tools, and chips.
• Network World: reaches enterprise decision makers through its print and online community providing IT news, analysis, reviews, events and education.
• Telecom Reseller: reports on IP/IP-PBX, VoIP, SIP, telemanagement software, call centers, call accounting, e-911, power, testing, and peripherals. It also publishes quarterly and monthly reports on major OEMs: AvayaExtra, Cisco Tribune, NEC Newslink, Nortel Networks Now, Inter-Tel Report, and Siemens Sun.
• Telecommunications Magazine: covers service provider technologies, applications and business issues worldwide, through print magazines, and numerous web-based products. Telecommunications helps the VON community understand the business issues that affect their businesses and their bottom lines.
• Telephony Magazine: provides the information that shapes service provider strategies. Its print magazines, supplements, e-newsletters, and Webcasts help VON exhibitors reach their customers and partners on a daily basis.
• Screenplays Magazine: provides strategic information for the broadband marketplace, through ideas and articles from technology experts and leading industry suppliers.
• IP Media Monitor: provides insight, analysis and news on the emerging services and applications that ride on top of the IP platform, from voice-over-IP to IPTV to online gaming and more.
• IPTV Magazine: identifies and explains the technologies, applications and business opportunities that come together to enable television services to be provided through IP data networks.
• TVover.net: aggregates news and information about IPTV, Internet TV, and other topics, while also providing a directory of online resources offering video or Internet TV and IPTV Forums.
• VoIP News: covers important aspects of the VoIP and Internet Telephony marketplaces and aggregates news analysis, events, and background information.
• And VON Magazine: the Voice of IP Communications – which covers the IP Communications industry in all its vital aspects, from infrastructure to products and services.
In addition to these media sponsors, Spring VON is also sponsored by the following companies: premium sponsors, including Dialogic and NeuStar, Inc., platinum sponsors, such as Aculab, Brix Networks, Level 3 Communications, NexTone, Personeta, Polycom, Inc., and VoEX; and gold sponsors including Acme Packet, Inc., InterTalk, Lumenaré Networks, Microsoft, Network2, and TARGUSinfo. A complete list of sponsoring companies at Spring VON can be found at: http://www.von.com/sponsors.html and a complete list of exhibiting companies at Spring VON can be found at: http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html.
The thousands of attendees gathering at VON are recognized to be the leaders in the IP communications industry. Recent survey data suggests that more than 84% of the VON attendee base has purchasing authority – and these attendees come to VON to plan their purchasing decisions, identify partners to work with, and evaluate the technologies they will purchase within the upcoming year.
The VON conference (http://www.von.com/schedule.html) runs each day from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM across multiple tracks covering VoIP, IMS, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), and IPTV. The ever-expanding Video-on-the-Net conference runs concurrently with VON, with four full days of additional conference sessions. Details are available at (http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html.) Members of the media can obtain media credentials by contacting todd@pulvermedia.com or ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com.
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com
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January 22, 2007
Pulvermedia Hosts the Eleventh Annual Spring VON Event at the San Jose Convention Center, March 19-22, 2007
Record Number of Attendees Expected to Attend VON and the Adjoining Video-on- the-Net Conference & Expo
BEVERLY, Mass., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced
that the 11th annual Spring VON Conference & Expo will take place on March
19-22, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. This year, Pulvermedia's
flagship event will feature a record number of attendees, exhibitors, and
speakers, while also playing host to the Video on the Net event -- which
runs parallel to VON, in the adjacent Marriott Hotel at the San Jose
McEnery Convention Center.
Prominent themes for this year's VON event include: Fixed Mobile
Convergence (FMC); IMS; IPTV; Wi-Fi & WiMAX; and rich media for mobile
environments. More than 250 of the industry's foremost thought-leaders are
scheduled to address the VON community.
Featured speakers include:
* Niklas Zennstrom, Founder & CEO, Skype, who, in his first US-
appearance in several years, will discuss the impact that Skype's
revolutionary pricing model will have on the industry
* Jeffrey Citron, Chairman and Chief Strategist, Vonage, will provide an
update on upcoming Vonage initiatives
* Mike Volpi, Senior VP & GM of Cisco System's Routing and Service
Provider Technology Group, will discuss deploying unified,
intelligent, IP-based platforms that support voice, video and data
over fixed and mobile networks
* Mark Spencer, President of Digium, will provide numerous Asterisk and
Digium updates
* And Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of Pulvermedia, will share his
thoughts and perceptions regarding the emerging trends in the IP video
space.
* Other speakers include Chris Fine, Vice President, Goldman, Sachs &
Company, Andy Ory, President and CEO, Acme Packet, Jeff Ganek,
Chairman and CEO, NeuStar, and Peter Barrett, CTO for the Microsoft TV
Group. For a complete list of VON speakers, please visit
http://www.von.com/speakers.html .
The VON Expo, which opens Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 AM, will provide
attendees with the opportunity to compare and evaluate solutions from more
than 300 exhibitors. The event is sponsored by NeuStar, Inc., Dialogic,
Aculab, Brix Networks, Broadwing Corporation, NexTone, Personeta, Polycom,
Inc., VoEX, Acme Packet, Inc., InterTalk, Lumenare Networks, Microsoft,
Network2, and TARGUSinfo. For a complete listing of VON exhibitors, please
visit: http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html .
This year's Video on the Net conference runs concurrently with VON, in
the adjoining Marriott hotel. The event features four full days of
conference sessions: http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html , as
well as a showcase of companies
http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/sponsors.html presenting their latest IP
video technologies. Attending members of the media will have access to both
VON and Video on the Net, which will be served by a common press room.
"2007 is the year of Internet-driven TV, film and broadcasting, and
we're excited to bring the newly expanded Video on the Net event along side
of VON," said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "This
year's events offer the opportunity to meet the people that are defining
the new communications landscape, and shaping the future of media,
Internet, communications and entertainment."
To learn more about Spring 2007 VON, and Video on the Net, including
conference program content, exhibitor information, and show-specific
programs, please visit http://www.von.com and http://www.videoonthenet.com
or email Christopher Erb at cerb@pulvermedia.com . Members of the media can
obtain media credentials by contacting todd@pulvermedia.com or
ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com .
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com .
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December 05, 2006
VON Enterprise Opens to Standing Room Only Crowds
ATLANTA, Dec. 5 -- Pulvermedia today announced that its
inaugural enterprise-exclusive event in Atlanta, Georgia opened this week,
to a greater-than-anticipated crowd discussing the impact that IP
communications is having on enterprise infrastructures and business models.
The VON Enterprise Conference and Expo is running through December 6 at the
Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
On Monday, December 4, Pulvermedia's Vice President of Content &
Community, Carl Ford, led sessions discussing SIP Trunking standards with
senior level executives from Ingate Systems, Level 3 Communications,
NeuStar, Quintum Technologies, Sphere Communications, and many others.
Today, Pulvermedia's Founder Jeff Pulver and CNN.com Executive Producer
Sandy Malcolm both delivered provocative Industry Perspectives that drew
standing room only crowds.
"Pulvermedia is responding to the growing needs for the Enterprise to
better understand how to adopt and manage IP communications," said Glenn
Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "Our webinar announcement
-- which drew an unprecedented 600 registrations within the first 24 hours
-- coupled with the large and progressive crowds at VON Enterprise, confirm
the growing need for networking and education in the Enterprise IP
communications space."
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com .
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November 29, 2006
SIP Trunking Issues and Trends Emerge as a Key Theme at VON Enterprise in Atlanta December 4-6, 2006
BEVERLY, Mass., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced
that it will host numerous events discussing SIP Trunking technologies at
the VON Enterprise Conference and Expo, December 4-6, at the Cobb Galleria
Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
On Monday, December 4th, Pulvermedia's Vice President of Content &
Community, Carl Ford, will lead sessions discussing SIP Trunking standards
(from 1:30 - 2:30 PM), which will be followed by a session highlighting
carrier and vendor perspectives (from 2:45 - 4:00 PM). On Tuesday, December
5th, Carl will host the "Birds-of-a-Feather" session (from 6:00 - 7:00 PM)
discussing future opportunities associated with SIP Trunking, and
evaluating the issues that remain to be addressed in order to bring these
opportunities to market.
Senior level executives from BellSouth, Cbeyond, GlobalTouch Telecom,
iBasis, Ingate Systems, Level 3 Communications, NeuStar, Quintum
Technologies, Sphere Communications, and many others will share their
insights and opinions during these sessions.
Sip Trunking is gaining rapid popularity because of its ability to
provide local, toll-free, nationwide, and international calling services at
rates much lower than traditional analog services. Beyond cost, SIP
Trunking is having a profound influence on the way enterprises buy
equipment and select services from carriers.
"This technology is poised to fundamentally change the way companies
communicate, by blending premise equipment with network services to
distribute tailored calling features around an enterprise -- where they're
needed -- and all at a lower cost," said Carl Ford, Vice President of
Content and Community for Pulvermedia. "SIP Trunking helps companies apply
logic to where their features and functions are deployed, and we're going
to discuss all of the issues and opportunities associated with this
important trend next week at VON Enterprise."
VON Enterprise s a one-stop opportunity for companies, and executives
who are looking to set strategic directions, evaluate the latest IP
communications technologies, deploy solutions, and quantify the
return-on-investment for IP voice and video offerings. For additional
details on the event, please visit:
http://www.von.com/enterprise06/index.html . Members of the media can
obtain media credentials by visiting
http://www.von.com/enterprise06/press.html , or by contacting
ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com .
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com .
Contact: Pulvermedia
Todd Keefe
617-262-1968
todd@pulvermedia.com
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November 16, 2006
VON wins top tradeshow honors
VON® NAMED TOP OVERALL EVENT IN THE TRADE SHOW INDUSTRY BY TRADESHOW WEEK
Pulvermedia Receives Honors in Two Top Categories, Plus Two Listings on Tradeshow Week’s Fastest 50 List
Beverly, Massachusetts – November 16, 2006 - Pulvermedia™ today announced that Spring VON, in San Jose, has been named the 2006 Top Overall Trade Show by Tradeshow Week (TSW), which is the global exhibition industry news magazine published by Reed Business Information. Additionally, both Spring VON and Fall VON were named to Tradeshow Week’s Top 50 listing.
TSW provides this annual award to tradeshows that demonstrate growth. In its description of the winners, TSW states, “It is not mere serendipity that led Spring VON, in its very first year in TSW Fastest 50 contention, to be named the 2006 overall fastest-growing show, and fastest-growing tradeshow.”
Jason Chudnofsky, Pulvermedia’s CEO, attributes this success to the entire Pulvermedia team. “The success that Pulvermedia has achieved over the last two years is attributed to the team that’s come on board to expand upon the successes created by the vision and momentum started by Jeff Pulver,” said Mr. Chudnofsky. “Our team of seasoned executives has given Pulvermedia the ability to grow our core brands, and also acquire new ones.”
Mr. Chudnofsky joined the Pulvermedia team in the Spring of 2005. Other recent executive additions have included Glenn Gaudet, who came on as Chief Marketing Officer, and Bill Sell, who came on as VP and General Manager of VON Events. Both executives joined the team in the Fall of 2005. These recent additions have rounded out the senior management team, extending the company’s growth in publishing and events for the communities it serves.
Pulvermedia’s senior staff includes:
Jason Chudnofsky, CEO
Christopher Erb, VP of Sales, VON Events
Richard Erb, VP of International Events
Carl Ford, VP of Community & Content, VON Events
Glenn Gaudet, CMO
Scott Kargman, CFO
Maury Kauffman, VP & General Manager, VON Publishing
Bill Sell, VP & General Manager, VON Events
The award-winning Spring VON Conference and Expo will take place March 19-22, 2007 in San Jose, CA. Additional details can be obtained at: http://www.von.com/.
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November 07, 2006
VON Europe Autumn 2006 -- Report from the floor
BERLIN, Germany -- The buzz was strong Tuesday as conference and Expo Delegates converged on the expo floor for the second day of VON Europe Autumn 2006 here. Exhibitors demonstrated the latest in software, infrastructure, testing and management tools designed to enable voice and video to be delivered via IP.
The buzz continued as the Expo Theaters kicked off the on-show-floor education programs with Nokia discussing mobility issues and Sonus discussing IMS architecture. Both sessions drew standing room only crowds. Many pre-planned and impromptu meetings are taking place both on and off the Expo floor.
Thorsten Deutrich, CEO of Communipen, one of the exhibiting companies at VON Europe, said the following: "This is the best expo that I have ever been at. I have been in non-stop conversations since the show floor opened two hours ago." When asked about the attendees, Mr. Deutrich said," The attendees are the highest quality. I have been talking to buyers from Germany, Canada, Australia and Qatar. This is truly a worldwide audience." Communipen is a company that chose VON Europe as the venue to launch their company and their new VoIP solution.
VON Europe 2006 Autumn continues through Wednesday.
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September 19, 2006
Ted Leonsis -- VON is the new COMDEX
From pulver.tv interviews at Fall 2006 VON, AOL's Ted Leonsis tells Jeff Pulver why VON is the new COMDEX:
For the full interview, check out the pulver.tv video vault.
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