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UC Expo – The UK’s leading enterprise communications and collaboration event takes place at Olympia on 10 – 11 March.
According to the organiser, UC Expo offers visitors an exciting look into the business potential and changing delivery models within the voice, visual, mobile, and collaboration workspaces to ensure your organisation has substantial business benefit and competitive advantage.
This year’s show will see announcements from leading companies as well as the first public viewing, outside of the US, of the latest Microsoft Office Communications Server part of the refresh of Information Worker products (code name ‘Wave 14) which is currently in private beta-testing. Outsourcery will be announcing and demonstrating two new unified communications products: Hosted iPBX and Hosted iPBX Overlay.
Eurodata systems have teamed up with StartReady and Interoute and will be launching the first ever Microsoft OCS appliance in the UK, taking only days to deploy (not weeks) at fraction of the cost. End users will also be present including Severn Trent Water who can speak about how ClickSoftware’s mobile field service application is transforming service delivery.
This year, UC Expo and Mobile 10 offers four exhibition areas with over 100 exhibitors including O2, Vodafone, Mitel, Brocade, Symbian, Microsoft, ShoreTel, Digium|Asterisk, Gigaset and SMART. The show also offers unrivalled breadth of knowledge through its eight seminar theatres delivering strategic keynotes, Insights into future development, practical ‘How to’ sessions, analysis and opinion, roadmaps to implementation, infrastructure planning services and technology overviews.
Key speakers to look out for include:
• Nic Newman, head of strategy and European GM, Tigerspike – Mobile Applications now and the future – the application of technology. Wednesday 10 March 11:50 am – 12:20 pm
• Brett Johnson, UC technical specialist, Microsoft – Microsoft Office Communicator 14 early preview. Wednesday 10 March 11:50pm – 12:20pm.
• Andy Powell, solutions evangelist EMEA, ShoreTel – Building a business case for new technology: the challenges and opportunities. Wednesday 10 March 11:50am – 12:20pm.
• Geoff Paulsen, global security operations director, Microsoft – Using Microsoft Unified Communication & Collaboration to run your business. Thursday 11 March 12:30pm – 13:00pm.
• Alison Brewer, solutions marketing manager, Mitel Networks – ‘Sorry I can’t make it to work today’…..how flexible working can keep your business moving, whatever the disruption. Thursday 11 March 12:30pm – 13:00pm.
• Jon S von Tetzchner, founder and former CEO, Opera – The future of mobile applications. The browser vs the OS. Thursday 11 March 13:10pm – 13:40pm.
• Lester Hewett, solution architect, Dell – Dell’s approach to building available unified communications solutions. Thursday 11 March 13:50pm – 14:20pm.
Attendance to the event is free, and visitors to UC Expo will have access to all four parts of the exhibition Voice, Visual, Mobile, and Collaboration.
For further information on the event, to register for a press pass or to set up interviews with speakers, please contact Niamh O’Grady or Natalie Domanski on 020 7401 8001.
