Conference Schedule

Please Note: The following schedule is tentative and may change prior to the event. We appreciate your understanding.

Mon, Sep 22

Registration and Check-In

3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Registration Desk

Advanced Check-In
Avoid the lines on Tuesday morning by checking in on Monday.

Tue, Sep 23

Pre Conference Events 2008

A day of primer activities for those new to Asterisk, including Asterisk 123 and Asterisk Developer 101.

7:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Registration Desk

Registration Desk Open
Check in and get your badge, t-shirt and other AstriCon goodies.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Continental Breakfast
Enjoy a selection of pastries, coffee, tea and juices.

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cira A

Asterisk 123
An introduction to the Asterisk Open Source PBX, Asterisk 123 brings the new user up to speed with the features and functions of Asterisk.

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Asterisk 123 - Jared Smith

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cira B

Developer 101
So you want to work on the Asterisk core project(s)? Great! Learn coding standards, become one with SVN and take a guided tour of the Asterisk code base.

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Developer 101 - Kevin Fleming, Russell Bryant and team

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cira C

Asterisk Ecosystem
Learn about the latest and greatest tools with Asterisk.

	9:00 AM - 9:25 AM	Polycom & Asterisk: A Winning Combination - Tim Yankey, Polycom
	9:30 AM - 9:55 AM	Scaling Asterisk TDM Architecture - Konrad Hammel, Sangoma
	10:05 AM - 10:30 AM	New Contact Technologies with Enterprise Experience - Nick Thwaites, ContactQ
	11:00 AM - 11:25 AM	Asterisk and SugarCRM: A modern CTI example - Clint Oram, SugarCRM
	11:30 AM - 11:55 AM	X-Pro Asterisk Solution for the Digium\|Asterisk Community & VoIP Market-Mark Klakenburg, Counterpath
	1:00 PM - 1:25 PM	The Future of Switchvox - Tristan Degenhardt, Digium

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Morning Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Solana Ballroom E

Lunch
Take a break and enjoy.

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Afternoon Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall

Opening Reception
Opening reception in the Asterisk Exhibit Hall. Free beer, wine and cocktails.

7:00 PM - 1:00 AM
The Code Zone - Aurora BCD

Code Zone Opening Party
Celebrate the opening of AstriCon with a party in the Code Zone. Enjoy a Mario Kart Wii competition, or just kick back with your friends and code the latest tool for Asterisk. The Code Zone is sponsored by DIDx.

Wed, Sep 24

AstriCon 2008 - Day 1

The first day of conference activities and events.

7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Registration Desk

Registration Desk Open
Check in and get your badge, t-shirt and other AstriCon goodies.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Continental Breakfast
Enjoy a selection of pastries, coffee, tea and juices.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Cira A

Asterisk: Reliable and Scalable Solutions with AudioCodes - ***FULL***
Asterisk has found it's way into a range of diverse enterprise and service provider applications. The challenge for these deployments is designing reliability into the solution and minimize the possibility of any disruptions due to software, hardware or network failures. Attend this valuable session to learn how the combination of Asterisk and AudioCodes Media Gateways can work together to deliver highly reliable and scalable solutions. Presented by Alan Percy and arranged by Scansource Communications. This session is available by registration only and is currently full. Please contact Lisa King at lking@digium.com to be placed on the waiting list.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Solana Ballroom FGHI

Keynote - Brian Aker
The Parallel Evolution of MySQL; one foot in the commercial world and the other foot in the open source community. In this talk, Brian will talk about what they have learned while growing up with the Open Source Market. He will also discuss the billion dollar question: How to keep an open source model, without resorting to Crippleware tactics while still feeding the family.

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom CD

Business Track
Learn about Asterisk from the Business perspective.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Speech Recognition and Asterisk - Gerd Graumann
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Human Factors in Voice Interface Design - Jeff Dworkin
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Creating Large Scale Asterisk PRI installations using NetBorderTM Express - David Mandelstam
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Digium's Asterisk Application Marketplace, or: How to Make Money With Asterisk - Steve Sokol
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Intellectual Property Issues Surrounding Commercial and GPL use of Asterisk-Michelle Petrone-Fleming
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Asterisk at the Heart of the Enterprise - Russell Clarkson

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom B

Technical/Intro Track
New to Asterisk? Want to know what's been done with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Introduction to Asterisk - Greg Boehnlein
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Building Asterisk Under OpenWRT - Brian Capouch
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	AGI Porn: Eight Things We Built with AGI - Troy Davis
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Asterisk Checks into the Hotel - Ahmad Sharifinejad
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Connecting Your Enterprise with Asterisk: IAX to Carriers - Dayton Turner
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Asterisk and OpenSER Integration - Ovidiu Sas

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira A

Carrier/Large Scale Track
Come learn tips and tricks on Asterisk in large scale set-ups.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Voice Recording Challenges - Bruno Haas
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Why Cluster? - Leif Madsen
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Multi-Server Conferencing - Matt Florell
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	The Elastic Call Center - Jason Goecke
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Elastix: An Integrated IP Communications Platform - Jose Landivar
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Automated Load Testing for SIP Applications - Serge Kruppa

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira B

Advanced Track #1
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	FreePBX Internals - Philippe Lindheimer
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	CEL: An Introduction to Asterisk's New Call Logging Mechanism - Brian Degenhardt
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Bringing Enterprise Manageability to Asterisk - Jeff Gehlbach
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Audio Recording in Asterisk - Matt Florell
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Finding & Debugging Signal Quality Problems on Asterisk - Joachim Vanheuverzwijn
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	PBX_LUA: Taking Asterisk Applications to the Next Level - Matthew Nicholson

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira C

Advanced Track #2
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Benchmark Test Results of Asterisk as a B2BUA - Jim Dalton
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Introduction to Unified Communications: The Real Fun Has Barely Begun - Jim Van Meggelen
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Asterisk and Two Factor Authentication - Clinton James
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Open R2 in Asterisk - MFC/R2 Free of Headaches or Your Money Back - Moises Humberto Silva Salmeron
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Asterisk SS7 Update - Matt Fredrickson
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Asterisk Ashram: Ask the Gurus - Russell Bryant & Kevin Fleming

9:45 AM - 1:00 AM
The Code Zone - Aurora BCD

Code Zone Open
AstriCon Code Zone opens. Enjoy a Mario Kart Wii competition, or just kick back with your friends and code the latest tool for Asterisk. The Code Zone is sponsored by DIDx.

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Media Center

Expo Center
Come see the newest tools, services and gadgets available for Asterisk!

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall

Morning Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Solana Ballroom E

Lunch
Take a break and enjoy.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall

Afternoon Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Solana Ballroom E

AstriCon All Conference Party
Come enjoy the AstriCon sports bar. Pool shark your friends at the pool table. Enjoy a game of foosball. Or just chill with your friends listening to the AstriCon DJ.

Thu, Sep 25

AstriCon 2008 - Day 2

The second day of conference activities and events.

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk

Registration Desk Open
Check in and get your badge, t-shirt and other AstriCon goodies.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Continental Breakfast
Enjoy a selection of pastries, coffee, tea and juices.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Cira A

Polycom HD VoIP in the SMB Market ***FULL***
Learn how to differentiate your VoIP service offering by leveraging Polycom HD Voice and applications. Presented by Tim Yankey of Polycom. This session is available by registration only and is currently full. Please contact Lisa King at lking@digium.com to be placed on the waiting list.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Solana Ballroom FGHI

Keynote - Stefan Öberg
Stefan will speak about "Voip for Businesses." He will discuss how Skype's offering has evolved during its staggeringly rapid growth phases, across software features, commercial propositions, hardware vendors and external software developers. All with a special focus on Skype in businesses.

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom B

Technical/Intro Track
New to Asterisk? Want to know what's been done with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Radio Interfaces and Asterisk - Jim Dixon
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Designing Your First Asterisk Speech Application - Stephen Keller
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Lightning Talks
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	SIP Survivability and Security - Alan Percy
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	DUNDi: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It - JR Richardson
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Running Asterisk on Embedded Boards - Stelios Koroneos

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom CD

Business Track
Learn about Asterisk from the Business perspective.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	The Strategic Purpose of Open Source - Chalan Aras
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Telephony Appliances Versus Telephony Boards - David Clarke
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Selling the Flexibility of Asterisk: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (and Cheaper)- Bryan Johns
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	The Jigsaw-Shaped Future of Mobile 2.0 - Tim Panton
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Welcome to "No Rules" Telephony - David Duffett
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Operator Assisted Dialing - Meeting regulatory requirements in Israel with Asterisk-Nir Simionovich

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira A

Carrier/Large Scale Track
Come learn tips and tricks on Asterisk in large scale set-ups.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Asterisk Above 200 Seats - Sweat The Small Stuff - Bryan Johns
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Database-Driven Dialplans (For Those Who Aren't Dummies) - Jared Smith
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Run-Time Dependability Monitoring System for Asterisk - Balakrishnan Dasarathy
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Building a Hosted Call Center - Matt Florell
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	A Carrier Grade VoIP Project with Asterisk - Stefano Carlini
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Carrier Grade Asterisk Deployment - Dr. Daniel Ali Aman-Krahenbuhl

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira B

Advanced Track #1
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Embracing Embedded Environments for Development Success - Mark Recoskie
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Druid: Open Source Unified Communications - Vikram Rangnekar
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Developing Enterprise Asterisk Applications in .NET - Aaron Johnson
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	NAT and Firewall Traversal with STUN/TURN/ICE - Simon Perreault
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	High Performance Asterisk - Frank Waller
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	The Asterisk Update - The Present, The Future - Kevin Fleming & Russell Bryant

9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira C

Advanced Track #2
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you.

	9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Communicating with Windows.NET programs - Frank Waller
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	SIP From the Trenches: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly - Kristian Kielhofner
	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	AT&T SIP Trunk Compatibility Testing for Asterisk - Mark Vince
	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Part 1: ISDN PRI Capabilities and the Asterisk Implementation - Mark Vince & Matt Fredrickson
	2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Part 2: ISDN PRI Capabilities and the Asterisk Implementation - Mark Vince & Matt Fredrickson
	4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Carrier Class Routing Using Griffin Routing Engine - Chris Tooley

9:45 AM - 1:00 AM
The Code Zone - Aurora BCD

Code Zone Open
AstriCon Code Zone opens. Enjoy a Mario Kart Wii competition, or just kick back with your friends and code the latest tool for Asterisk. The Code Zone is sponsored by DIDx.

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Media Center

Expo Center
Come see the newest tools, services and gadgets available for Asterisk!

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall

Morning Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Solana Ballroom E

Lunch
Take a break and enjoy.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E

Afternoon Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water.