TechWeb's VoiceCon® Amsterdam to Showcase Thought Leaders and Major New Product Initiatives

VoiceCon Amsterdam®, produced by TechWeb, today announced that Eelco Blok, Managing Director of KPN's Business, Getronics and Wholesale & Operations Segments has joined the keynote lineup for the event. Also keynoting at VoiceCon Amsterdam are: Joe Burton, Vice President and CTO, Unified Communications, Cisco; David Farrell, Vice President, IBM Software Europe; Jean-Marc Voelckel, CIO, Ingencio; Eric Swift, Senior Director, Microsoft; Johan Krebbers, Group IT Architect, Royal Dutch Shell; Gerhard Otterbach, Member of the Board, Siemens Enterprise Communications. VoiceCon Amsterdam will be held 14-16 October at the Amsterdam RAI. Details are available at http://www.voicecon.eu/.

VoiceCon also announced that Microsoft has selected VoiceCon Amsterdam as the venue for releasing details of its new Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2. According to Microsoft, the new OCS Release 2 will validate its software-based approach to Unified Communications.

"It is very gratifying to have the leadership in European enterprise communications converge at VoiceCon Amsterdam to announce major new initiatives," said Fred Knight, VoiceCon General Manager. "In addition to Microsoft unveiling OCS Release 2, KPN will be demonstrating its new product and service strategy and other announcements are still in the works. At this critical time in the migration to a new framework for enterprise communications, VoiceCon Amsterdam will give the industry a good indication of how far we've come -- and what's coming next."

VoiceCon Amsterdam is designed to help enterprise executives address two fundamental questions: How to select and build the IP Telephony and enterprise communications platform that is right for their enterprise; and how to leverage that platform for Unified Communications and other emerging applications. In addition to the keynote presentations, VoiceCon will present a complete line-up of tutorials and conference sessions.

VoiceCon Amsterdam is both a conference and an exhibition, with many of the market leaders in European enterprise communications participating in the Demo Pavilion. The VoiceCon Amsterdam Diamond Sponsors include KPN, Siemens, Psytechnics and IBM. The Platinum, Silver and Gold Sponsors include Microsoft, Mitel, Prognosis, Eaton, LG Nortel, Motorola, NEC-Phillips, NetIQ, Polycom and Qunitum.

About VoiceCon®

Now in its 18th year, VoiceCon® is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications in North America. VoiceCon® brings enterprise decision makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. As the momentum toward IP Telephony and convergence has grown, VoiceCon has expanded to include two yearly shows in North America: VoiceCon San Francisco, returning to the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, November 10-13, 2008 and VoiceCon Orlando, set for March 30-April 2, 2009, at the Gaylord Palms Hotel. VoiceCon Orlando was recently named one of Tradeshow Week's Fastest 50, a distinguished award recognizing the fastest-growing tradeshows. The event was honored with this distinction for show growth between 2004 and 2006. VoiceCon recently launched a new website -- No Jitter, (http://www.nojitter.com/) -- providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise IP-Telephony, Unified Communications and Converged Networks. VoiceCon also serves the enterprise communications community with two weekly email newsletters -- VoiceCon eNews (http://www.voicecon.com/enews) and VoiceCon UC eWeekly (http://www.voicecon.com/unified-communications/) -- and the VoiceCon Webinar Series. For more information, visit http://www.voicecon.com/.

About TechWeb

TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3* million business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

  *13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

  About United Business Media Limited

United Business Media Limited is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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