O'Reilly ETel Conference 2008 Call For Participation

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:
Dawn Applegate
dapplegate@oreilly.com
(707) 827-7111

Calling All Innovators For The O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference 2008 
Call for participation is now open

Sebastopol, CA, August 28, 2007--Now in its third year, ETel, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference, brings together all of the voices in telephony that need to be heard--from
telecommunication company executives, garage hackers, mobile executives, programmers, researchers
to venture capitalists, community activists and CEOs. The call for participation is now open;
submissions will be accepted until September 17, 2007. 

The conference, taking place March 3-4 in San Diego, California, is an ambitious mix of
inspirational speakers who lay out visionary road maps to the future, combined with practical,
unconventional hacks from small, innovative startups. ETel conference chair Surj Patel is
assembling a program that will focus around three main themes: Business, Culture, and Technology.
Mr. Patel and the planning team are soliciting submissions from telephony innovators, product
developers, university and industry researchers, coders, and hackers who work at the intersection
of voice, instant messaging, the mobile ecosystem, and the Web.  Mr. Patel had this to say about
what's new for ETel in 2008:

"This year has seen many events, most notably the launch of the iPhone. The industry is realizing
that polished, well designed products have a place in this market. The seductiveness of the
platform has already motivated many hackers to create ports for common scripting languages and game
emulators.  We want to encourage submissions from speakers who can rethink real-time
communications, who can think beyond what is typical in telecommunications."



Topics to be covered at this year's ETel will be:

-Information Service Product Design
-The iPhone Economy
-Handsets and Industrial Design Innovation
-The Sociology of Social Networks
-Open Source Hardware and Software
-How Business Deals Change the Landscape of Telecom
-Open Codes and Protocols
-What's Next for Voice

O'Reilly conferences are traditionally about bringing key industry leaders together for exchange of
ideas and distribution of knowledge. For ETel, the goal is to bring fresh ideas and profits into a
stagnant industry by providing a marketplace for innovation. In addition, ETel will provide leading
edge executives in the global telecommunications industry with the forum for exchange of knowledge
by bringing together developers, academics, and entrepreneurs.

ETel is conveniently co-located with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech).
Registration and press registration for ETel will open November 2007. 

Learn more or to submit a proposal for ETel 2008, visit: 
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etel2008/

If you'd like to stay up to date on information relating to ETel, sign up for the conference
newsletter:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home#conferences

If you regularly write about the emerging telephony world, visit
the Emerging Telephony site at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/etel

For more information on ETech, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/et2008/

To read the O'Reilly Radar, visit:
http://radar.oreilly.com/

If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the conference, send a note to:
etel-idea@oreilly.com

For information about exhibiting or sponsoring at ETel 2008, contact Yvonne Romaine at (707)
827-7198 or yromaine@oreilly.com

If you would like to form a media partnership with O'Reilly for an upcoming event, contact Avila
Reese at (707) 827-7116 or mediapartners@oreilly.com

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