SAN FRANCISO, CA — (Dec. 2010) – As part of its ongoing commitment to the FreeSWITCH community, VoIPKB is pleased to announce Official FreeSWITCH Trainings have gone worldwide. The first of its kind, this is an in depth course on FreeSWITCH and its related modules.

FreeSWITCH Training Bootcamp is a three-day, hands on course offered internationally. Each student will utilize an independent FreeSWITCH workstation/server, complete with high definition phones for testing, and will experience setting up and manipulating FreeSWITCH for use in PBX and carrier-grade services. Darren Schreiber, co-author of the FreeSWITCH book, leads the classes in San Francisco, Dallas and Australia.

Additional classes are planned for France, Brazil, Germany, Saudi Arabia and China. During the class, students will learn, step by step, how to configure, manage and program the FreeSWITCH telephony softswitch in great detail. This FreeSWITCH Bootcamp accelerates learning for students with a Linux background who want to participate in the explosive growth of open-source voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony.

The next upcoming bootcamp will be held Jan 17th – 19th, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. More information and registration is available at http://voipkb.com/.

Topics that will be covered in this course:
1. Install FreeSWITCH on a Linux Machine
2. Understanding configuration files and the default configuration
3. Call authentication and routing basics
4. Integration modules
5. Understanding presence
6.Load balancing and high availability
7. FreeSWITCH Internals
8. How to debug and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH
9. Building Custom C Modules
10. Advanced Modules

Prerequisites:
The introductory course assumes that students are already familiar with Linux, Linux administration, networking and network administration including TCP/IP and UDP/IP. Specifics of Linux and networking as they apply to FreeSWITCH installation and configuration are covered.

About VoIPKB VoIPKB is a VoIP knowledge base and professional services organization located in San Francisco, CA. Specializing in open-source telephony, the organization includes some of the sharpest talent in the open-source VoIP space. The company focuses primarily on soft switching technologies for carrier-based services, ISPs, SaaS application services and managed service providers.

About FreeSWITCH
FreeSWITCH is an open source software communications platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It is released under the MPL free software license and can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the call flow. Its core library, libfreeswitch, is capable of being embedded into other projects, as well as being used as a stand-alone application.

Open source developers from the East and West, North and South on planet Earth will converge on Chicago, Illinois in August 2011 for Cluecon. Make plans to be there.

An invitation from Omar Shaikh and Abdul Mutaal, Techistan reporters and DIDX marketing team members, is the at the heart of this video … to Cluecon August 3-5, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois at the Trump Hotel.

More information:

1. Sign up at http://www.cluecon.com
2. Listen to related podcasts:
Yossi, freeSwitch and open source developer and entrepreneur
Brian West and Anthony Minessale
Cluecon 2009
3. Watch Cluecon-related videos
4. 2010 Cluecon speakers including BBC R&D enginner Yasmeen Rasul

5. Garner new respect among IP communications and open source telephony by sponsoring Cluecon

Welcome to the DIDX podcast media channel where we bring you the expertise and inspiration from IP communication leaders, early adopters, all kinds of people, from around the world. I am your host Suzanne Bowen. And today we have Yossi Ne’eman. He is a freeSWITCH open source telephony developer and IP communications entrepreneur. His company is Cartis Solutions.

Yossi Ne’eman: I’ve been with the freeSWITCH guys for quite a while, very good friends of mine. I have been to every single Cluecon convention that has occurred. Back when I first started doing business on my own, I start working with the Asterisk open source PBX. I went to the first Cluecon convention. I got to know guys like Tony, Brian, Mark Spencer and all sorts of people, active in the open source community.

I was gearing up to do some software development for Asterisk some custom nodules and interestingly enough, I found myself at the roundtable at a restaurant in the Milwaukee area after Cluecon sitting with Tony Minessale, Brian West and Mike Jerris. We were talking about things we have learned and experiences we have working with the existing solutions including Asterisk and how we would like to take things into a different direction.

Basically, it was this and the other conversation that Tony and Brian and Mike had with the other peoples that lead to the development of freeSWITCH project. As soon as Tony will released the freeSWITCH source tree to public… that’s when I got cranking away. I was the first non-core developer to release a module for freeSWITCH. That was the original mod CDR. It was written in C++ as part of an experiment on our behalf to see if we could incorporate C++ modules into the freeSWITCH environment. Once we incorporated C++, we were able to will able to incorporate a series of other languages as well, both scripted and compiled. Unfortunately, the mod CDR was deprecated and removed, as we shifted the functionality in the core and it is no longer necessary at this time.

Suzanne Bowen: You are talking about Cluecon. I believe the first one was in 2006?

Yossi Ne’eman: 2005. It was in hotel in Elkgrove Village, IL. It is certain we had some interesting experiences at the hotel itself. You might have heard about the police coming looking for someone who was not affiliated with our group.

Suzanne Bowen: I know I have been to a couple of Cluecons myself, 2007 and 2009. And I was able to get some of the most interesting content that people in IP communications, whether they are entrepreneurs or developers for our You tube or podcast channels and plenty of photos, too. I like the fact that even though a lot of it is freeSWITCH community-involved. Still you see some people from Asterisk, OpenSIPs, Kamailio, Opal, Woomera. How would you compare the first Cluecon to the upcoming Cluecon at the Trump Hotel in Chicago on August 3-5, 2010?.

Yossi Ne’eman: I would say that a lot of synergies, knowledge, and experience have been gained over the years. At the very first Cluecon, they chose Elkgrove Village to save money for the attendees and the producers. You save money initially on the hotel but you are in a much less convenient location. The facilities and amenities were not as nice and readily at hand as they would have been at a nicer hotel in downtown Chicago. So, that’s why we located afterward to the city. I am wondering how much better the Trump Hotel is. We had it at the Omni last year.

Suzanne Bowen: Absolutely there is a lot to do downtown. So, people can have fun after at the end of the day after the development, educational and entrepreneurial sessions are over.

Yossi Ne’eman: It’s as much a business and development convention as it’s a social event.

Suzanne Bowen: No doubt. I’ve made some of the best friends ever at Cluecon conferences, but also much new business for our DIDX, our IP-PABX, etc. and also for our customers’ businesses also. So speaking about some past Cluecons, do you have some funny stories of what has happened at any?

Yossi Ne’eman: In 2008 I started to take care of videography and both Mike Harris and Brian West were doing the actual video taping for that year. So, we caught a very interesting exchange. Doing one of James Body from Truphone’s presentation one year. Here was giving a demonstration of some software they were working for. And he warned everybody that the next cell phone that rings, he was going to be take it and passively destroy it. It was a pretty serious threat. A little bit later, Jame’s own cell phone rang unexpectedly.

Suzanne Bowen: And you know the guys carries about 12-14 different smar devices on him at one time at all times.

Yossi Ne’eman: However smart these devices are, they know when to shut themselves off. I just thought that was a very hilarious moment because we were all threatening to take his phone away from him, make him live up to his own threats.

If you have access to the videos 2008, put them online. Unfortunately, they are no longer on the files from the freeSWITCH.org site. In there, I did include the out-takes which includes an out-take file for James Body and get a few laughs.

Suzanne Bowen: Absolutely! Ok, so now, I am looking for a pat on the back. From what you know about DIDX, the kind of service we provide. I would love to hear your thoughts how it may enable and help a new company, any Voip company, and also love to hear if you have any advice or any thing that you wish DIDX would do?

Yossi Ne’eman: I know how it would be beneficial to me, and I am having a small company. A site like DIDX would help me. I don’t have a lot of negotiating power and DIDX levels the field for me. Let’s say I have a bunch of clients who are in different geographical regions where they need telephone numbers. It takes the incumbent LECs out of the picture. I find that the incumbent LECS are most inflexible to the needs of modern, small companies.

So if I need a pool of numbers then I will go and purchase them from DIDX and get them from just about anywhere. It looks like you guys serve the greater part of the world. If I have a company and I want to have local numbers in these different countries. I actually received bids on projects that would need phone numbers in different regions.

Something like your service would be perfect because we could order numbers we need in different locations and just have all the inbound calls routed over SIP or 323 and keep the old PSTN out of the loop. It makes us able to re-locate our systems, load balance differently than on the PSTN. It is much more flexible than having to deal many individual large telecom companies.

Suzanne Bowen: In a company like yours can better meet the needs of small businesses because you are there for them. Let me give you an example. I met a lady who is with the technical staff for the Los Angeles police department at ITEXPO West last year. I noticed that LA police department was using something called BrightComms for video conferencing. I found that it was very expensive. I know about things like Skype or TokBox, have video and some other free video conferencing softwares online. So I realize that couple of reasons that a police department would not want to use Skype like the security issue and the privacy issue. Those are important for the law.

But I asked her, “Are there any other reasons that you choose you choose to use BrightComms as supposed to something free or very inexpensive?

She said that a lot of people involved with police department may not have the knowledge of technology and they need to take service such as video conference from someone who they can call. Like can you help us this way or can you help us in that way, something we don’t understand. Like your company will offer that kind of personalized support, but Skype is not able to do that. Whereas, Skype, yeah, they are cool, but they would laugh … don’t have time to do that. It’s a point about the difference between small companies and big companies. On DIDX, we have large companies like incumbents and CLECs to sell DID to others on wholesale, but many, many smaller, lithe, entrepreneurial companies who are face to face with the customers. You are able to serve their needs. DIDX basically saves its members time.

Yossi Ne’eman: We have to be nimble. You need to be able to change with your clients’ needs. Small clients have different needs than larger companies. Their needs can change very drastically over the course of the business relationship even, so services like DIDX to companies like mine and then from companies like ours to our SMB users … we make it much easier for business users to get what they need.

Suzanne Bowen: That’s an interesting way to express this. So what’s your website address?

Yossi Ne’eman: I am just hosting some dial tone services for some very small companies I have business relationship in the past seven years that I’ve been incorporated. I do some software proprietary development. I am not really focusing on dial tone services on a large scale. When I do hosted applications, I have tried to advertise to small companies. Say they need something like a “Call In Time Clock.” I would provide the DID phone number and I would develop the script or program tapping into freeSWITCH!

Suzanne Bowen: So do I have this right? What people can contact you for, keep business with you, get your consulting service, you can provide customized solutions like what you mentioned. So people hearing this pod cast who are looking for this kind of thing, so how can theycontact you?

Yossi Ne’eman: I can be contacted at Mishehu@freeswitch.org or freeswitch@cartissolutions.comspan. I do the following services: deployments of freeSWITCH-based solutions, Linux and Windows, I do custom development in C and C++ and I can do some script development in languages such as PHP5.

Suzanne Bowen: So we have been talking with Yossi Ne’eman of Cartis Solutions. Now you know how to get in touch with him to collaborate with him or to business with him. We were focusing on the coming Cluecon conference which is scheduled August 3-5 2010 at the Trump Hotel in Chicago. You can go to www.cluecon.com and signup. Hurry and sign up. It’s right around the corner. They have a great list of sponsors on board. Connect with people like Yossi and me Suzanne Bowen, open source telephony-oriented.

Yossi Ne’eman: I suppose that if we have large groups registering and we hit a certain goal, maybe Brian West will shave his head. Chuckles.

An interview between Suzanne Bowen, VP of DIDX and Techistan with Anthony Minessale II, lead developer and creator of freeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch and application media server!

Results?  A history of Cluecon, past, present and future. Readers can make plans to participate in Cluecon Aug. 3-5, 2010 at the Trump Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

Suzanne Bowen: Remember our last talks were at Cluecon 2009 and then the DIDX podcast interview. So, would you compare the first Cluecon with the one scheduled for 2010 this year?

Anthony Minessale II: There is a drastic difference between the first ClueCon and ClueCon MMX (2010). The first ClueCon was in an obscure hotel near one of the airports very far from downtown. There were several people in attendance who were intrigued by the idea of an open source developers’ conference. There was no FreeSWITCH at that time. It was only an idea brewing in my head. One major difference is that it’s the only time Mark Spencer attended, giving a presentation on Asterisk. Today, after 5 years of ClueCon, we are in downtown Chicago (have been since 2006) and this year we are at the luxurious Trump Hotel and we expect the biggest and best ClueCon ever!

Suzanne Bowen: John Todd of Digium gave an interesting presentation about the job outlook for open source developers. I liked how he used Craigslist to hire graphics artists for his PPT. I attended the 2007 and 2009 Cluecon conferences and have some great memories like West in pajamas and his big, friendly smile and leadership, the announcement of Barracuda Networks investment, the hot but friendly debates in Q&A sessions that I have recorded on Youtube, playing basketball with everyone, meeting a BBC correspondent, learning from Kamailio, openSIPs, freeSWITCH, Opal, Asterisk and other open source developers and entrepreneurs. Would you share a hilarious story about a past Cluecon, Anthony?

Anthony Minessale II: In 2008, we had a night where after the presentation we had beer and pizza in the conference hall. At 8pm they told us we had to clear the room for the night and we were stuck with 2 half-barrels on a luggage cart. With nowhere else to turn, we went to someone’s room where we hung out and played some instruments. The next day we realized it was on Youtube.

We still carry the tradition to this day to bring instruments to the conference for the night time.

Suzanne Bowen: I play the piano, Anthony. Can I bring it this year? I remember you guys taking us in 2007 to the DIDX-sponsored Cluecon party in a limousine, about 20 of us. The parties are just as creative and memorable as the conference itself. So, share a story about one of the best business developments from a Cluecon conference.

Anthony Minessale II: The number one best business development we have ever had from ClueCon is our relationship with Sangoma Technologies. They have been a proud sponsor of the conference every single year since the first. This year they will be announcing their commitment to the FreeSWITCH project by adopting the maintenance of our TDM abstraction layer FreeTDM (formerly OpenZAP) We are happy to have them in attendance and we can’t wait to see our friends!

Suzanne Bowen: Sangoma is wonderful. I met their CEO David Mandelstam last year at CommunicAsia. We spent a lot of time brainstorming business development ideas and ways to better enable more of the IP communications industry to Sangoma, DIDX and open source telephony applications like freeSWITCH. Give us a tiny blurb, plug-in about voip phone numbers and how DIDX just might happen to be a good service to jumpstart and grow one’s freeSWITCH or other open source telephony application and IP communications consulting and business. What do you think? I don’t mind some suggestions and critique, too.

Anthony Minessale II: FreeSWITCH lends itself well to services like DIDX. With a simple configuration tweak, calls can be routed in and out of FreeSWITCH instances all over the world allowing anyone to gateway the PSTN into VoIP space and to many FreeSWITCH services like conferencing , voicemail etc.

Suzanne Bowen: Let me tell you. Many DIDXchange members, readers of our media channels like the TMCnet DID/DDI channel, our blogs, and our new online magazine Techistan can’t wait to get together with you guys. Tell the venue, date, place, and how to sign up to sponsor, present, and participate in any way again please.

Anthony Minessale II: ClueCon will be held at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, IL +1 (312) 588-8000. The Trump is located at 401 N. Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL 60611. When contacting the hotel to book rooms, please call +1 877-45-TRUMP (87867) and refer to booking number 4347 (FreeSWITCH Solutions or ClueCon).

We are giving away some great prizes including 2 Ipads and a MacBook PRO engraved with the attached image.

Sponsors and anyone interested in attending can contact us at 1.877.742.CLUE (+18777423583) or on the web at http://www.cluecon.com/ or http://www.cluecon.com/sponsor.

Be among the movers and shakers in open source telephony as Cluecon sponsors and partners:

Sponsors – FreeSWITCH Solutions, Sangoma, CudaTel, bandwidth.com, iCall, broadvox, tropo, *#StarPound, Illinois Institute of Technology VoIP Conference & Expo, Voip88, Voip Providers List, TMCNet, VoipSupply, meraki, Voip-info.org, polycom, Modern Tailor, BayScribe, Dialogic, Paetec, NACT, VoipX, WCGS, DIDXchange, and Voice Networking.

John Lodden, a FreeSWITCH technical and business developer and DIDX member, shares his ideas on direct inward dialing over SIP. We were enjoying Cluecon conference in Chicago where open source developers convene, converge, collaborate, debate and innovate each year.

I asked Brian and Anthony who is the CEO and they said, “It’s not like that.” FreeSWITCH™ emphasis is on quality, honesty, communication consolidation, and collaboration even among formerly-perceived competitors. The door is open.

They think about outside the technical arena such as in the recognition that everyone has a unique learning style. An important goal of FreeSWITCH™ is to make their documentation easier to understand, keeping in mind these different learning styles.

Anthony shares talk about the new interop completions, wideband high definition conferencing, a couple ways to connect with Skype, the new SIP peering, OSTAG™ and goals of FreeSWITCH™ such as their nonprofit efforts.

Visit www.freeswitch.org, www.cluecon.com, and http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Main_Page. Look for more indepth information about FreeSWITCH™ and Cluecon in future podcast interviews.

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Part one of Skype with FreeSWITCH at Cluecon by Giovanni Maruzzelli. He has 15 years of IT experience and 10 years’ experience as consultant and entrepreneur creating, managing and advising start-up Internet companies; he has also experience as chief technology officer, trainer, lecturer and journalist on Information Technology issues.

Giovanni has deep knowledge and experience in Open Source Software Technology, and in creating, leading and motivating highly skilled technical teams. Since 1996 he has worked in strict relationship with Venture Capital Funds in the IT sector, both as manager of invested companies and as adviser/consultant of VC Funds.

As a manager he was founder and member of the board and Chief Internet Director for Italia Online, the major Italian Internet portal and Internet Service Provider to consumer, now owned by Italian WIND Telecom Carrier. It has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the board in Matrice, email and unified messaging company, now absorbed by Italian Internet Carrier INET. It was also Chief Technical Officer and board member in Managed Service Provider (MSP) the company providing Web-Publishing, Messaging and Fault-Tolerant industrial grade Internet operations.

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Links to part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 are on Viddler, one of our favorite social business media sites. (DIDXchange is a media partner for Cluecon and other open source, social business networking, educational and IP communications events. See http://www.didx.net/events.)

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(Our new events page is at http://www.techistan.com/events. We will no longer update this page. On the other hand, we can’t wait to meet you somewhere in the world. Have a funtastic, successful day.)

CURRENT EVENTS:

Event Name: 4th Mobile Commerce Summit Asia
Date: March 14-17, 2011
Location: Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Malaysia
More: DIDX.net and Techistan magazine are media partners. Meet with Rani Wemel, our Techistan representative, for pictures, interviews and videos.
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Event Name: CTIA WIRELESS 2011
Date: March 22-24, 2011
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Event Name: 19th Convergence India 2011 Expo
Date: March 23-25, 2011
Location: New Delhi, India
Booth #: TBA + Meet Yahya Techistan and DIX Reporter for your video interview and picture.
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Event Name: Eurasia com
Date: March 29-30, 2011
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Event Name: East Africa Com
Date: April 05-06, 2011
Location: The Kenyatta Convention Centre Nairobi, NAIROBI KENYA
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Event Name: i+C 2011
Date: March 30 – April 2, 2011
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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Event Name: M-Commerce World Summit 2011
Date: April 6-7, 2011
Location: Shangri-La, Singapore
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Event Name: 4G World China 2011
Date: April 18-21, 2011
Location: Century City New International Convention & Exhibition Center, Chengdu, China
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Event Name: COMNET ’11, 3rd National Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Exhibition
Date: April 23, 2011
Location: Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
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Event Name: 6th Information & Communications Technology Exhibition & Conference – CONNECT 2011
Date: May 3-5, 2011
Location: Karachi Expo Centre, Karachi, Pakistan
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Event name: Cloud Computing Asia Congress
Date: May 31, 2011
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Event name: Mobile Roaming and Wholesale Applications Asia, 7th Mobile Roaming Asia
Date: June 7, 2011
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Event Name: West & Central Africa
Date: June 15-16, 2011
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Event Name: ad:tech Singapore 2011
Date: June 16-17, 2011
Location: International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suntec, Singapore
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Event Name: CommunicAsia 2011
Date: June 21-24, 2011
Location: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
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Event Name: 2nd Annual Cloud Computing 2011
Date: June 24, 2011
Location: Bangalore, India
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Event Name: VAS Africa
Date: July 06-07, 2011
Location: Sandton Convention Centre Johannesburg, GP ZA
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Event Name: 2nd Annual 3G Summit 2011
Date: July 20, 2011
Location: TBC, New Delhi, India
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Event Name: Cluecon 2011
Date: August 9-11, 2011
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Event Name: 3rd Annual Mobile VAS Summit 2011
Date: Sep. 16, 2011
Location: TBC, New Delhi, India
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Event Name: ITCN Asia
Date: Sept. 20-22, 2011
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Event Name: Nigeria Com
Date: Sept.20-21, 2011
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Event Name: Gitex 2011
Date: Oct 9-13, 2011
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Event Name: CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2011
Date: Oct. 10-13, 2011
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Event Name: North Africa Com
Date: Oct. 11-12, 2011
Location: Medina Convention Centre Hamamat, NABEUL TN
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Event Name: VoIP Conference & Expo at IIT (rumor says it may have a new name … Real Time Communication Lab and Conference?)
Date: Oct. 12-14, 2011
Location: Wheaton, IL (Chicago area)
More information: SIP Tutorial, Emergency services /NG911, Unified Communications, Security, Voice, Video, Mobility – Architectures and Protocols
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Event Name: Asian LTE Summit 2011
Date: Oct. 14, 2011
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Event Name: 4G World
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Event Name: AndiCom 2011
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Location: Cartegena de Indias, Colombia
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Event Name: GSM>3G Middle East Telco World Summit
Date: Nov. 28-29, 2011
Location: Dubai International Convention Centre Dubai, DUBAI AE
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Event Name: Asian Telecom Forum 2011
Date: Nov. 17-18, 2011
Location: Venue TBC, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India
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Event Name: Africa Com
Date: Nov. 09-10, 2011
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Event Name: PTC 2012
Date: January 15-18, 2012
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
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PREVIOUS EVENTS SPONSORED:

Event Name: Mobile Content Summit 2011
Date:  February 25, 2011
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Event name: Green Buildings Asia 2011
Date: Feb. 22, 2011
Location: Grand Hyatt, Singapore
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Event Name: ITEXPO East, 4GWE, M2M, SmartGrid VIPeering Conference
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Event Name: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011
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Date: January 16-19, 2011
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Event Name: Mobile Broadband for Emerging Markets 2011
Date: January 18-19, 2011
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Event Name: Mobile VAS in Growth Market
Date: December 14-15, 2010
Location: JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Event Name: BAP 2010 Finals and Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship 2010
Date: December 11, 2010
Location: Pearl Continental Hotel, Karachi, Pakistan
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Event Name: India Telecom 2010
Date: Dec. 9-10. 2010
Location: Pragati Maiden, New Delhi, India
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Event Name: Live Interactive Voip Users Conference with DIDX Suzanne Bowen
Date: December 3, 2010, 12 noon EST
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Event Name: Outsourcing & Managed Services for Telecoms World Summit 2010
Date: November 30 through December 2, 2010
Location: Swissotel Merchant Court, Singapore
Booth#: We are press and media partner. Call centers, back offices, open source, telecoms, investors should participate.
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Event Name: CIO Summit MENA 2010
Date: Nov. 29, 2010 through Dec. 1, 2010
Location: Jumeirah The Meydan, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Event Name: Cloud Computing Summit 2010
Date: November 26, 2010
Location: Hyderabad, India
Booth# Meet and hear Techistan CEO Rehan Allahwala in presentation as well as others from Yahoo!, Intel, Aircel, Google, etc.
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Event Name: Cloud Computing World Forum Asia
Date: November 17-18, 2010
Location: The Mira Hotel, Hong Kong
Booth# N/A Media partner
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Event Name: 2nd Annual NanoTechnology International Conference & Exhibition
Date: November 8-10, 2010
Location: The Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
Booth: N/A, Techistan and DIDX are media partners!
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Event Name: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Live in Concert Nonprofit Fundraiser
Date: November 8, 2010
Location: The Royal Rodale Club, DHA Karachi
 

Event Name: Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010
Date: November 8-21, 2010
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Booth # NA. Join the activities, really fun and inspiration for all startups, mentors, and entrepreneurs.

Event Name: GoMobile Conference 2010
Date: November 12-14, 2010
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Booth # TBA. Techistan and www.didx.net are media partners.

Event Name: Smart Grids 2010
Date: November 2-5, 2010
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
Booth: N/A, Techistan is a media partner.
Info: Meeting energy demands with reliable, sustainable and energy efficient transmission & distribution systems.
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Name: AndiCom
Date: October 27-29, 2010
Location: Cartagena de indias, ColombiaInternational Convention Center Hotel las Americas
Booth# Register now. Meet with DIDX members like Vocati Communications team there!
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Pictures from AndiCom 2010.

Event Name: SMB Nation Fall < 2010
Date: Oct 22-24, 2010
Location: Flamingo Hotel
3555 Las Vegas Blvd S
Las Vegas, NV 89109 US
Booth# DIDXchange is media partner, Techistan is press.
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Event Name: 4G World
Date: Oct 18-21, 2010
Location: McCormick Center, Chicago, IL
Booth# N/A Media partner
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Event Name: Gitex 2010
Date: Oct 17-21, 2010
Location: Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre
Booth# N/A Techistan and DIDX teams will be everywhere at Gitex including the Dubai DIDX and Mobile Monday Desert Safari!
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Event Name: m-Health World Congress 2010
Date: Oct 18-19, 2010
Location: Concorde Hotel Singapore
Booth: N/A Media Partner

Event Name: Advanced Identity Management & Security 2010
Date: Oct.13-15,2010
Location: Singapore
Booth#: TBA, Techistan is media partner.
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Event Name: Illinois Institute Of Technology Conference
Date: Oct 13-14, 2010
Location: Wheaton, IL Institute of Technology campus
Booth: Media Partner
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Event Name: CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2010.
Date: Oct. 6-8, 2010
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV Click here to view Map
Booth#: 244
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Event Name: ITEXPO West, 4GWE, M2M, SmartGrid Conference
Date: Oct. 04-06, 2010
Location: Los Angeles, Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Booth: 143 and Media Partner
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Event Name: Increasing ARPU and Customer Loyalty through Innovative Telecom Services
Date: Oct. 03-05, 2010
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Booth#: TBA and Media Partner
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Event Name: Mobile Value Added Services World Summit 2010
Date: Sept.29-30,2010
Location:Swissotel Merchant Court, Singapore.
Booth#:TBA, Techistan and DIDX are media partners.
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Event Name: iPhone/iPad DevCon 2010
Date: Sept 27-29, 2010
Location: Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine, San Diego, CA
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Event Name: Asian Carrier’s Conference
Date: Sept.21-24,2010
Location: Shangri-La’s Mactan Island Resort and Spa, Mactan
Cebu, Philippine.
Booth#: TBA, Techistan and DIDX are media partners.
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Event Name: Momentum 2010
Date: Aug. 21-25, 2010
Location: Bath & West Showground, UK
Booth#N/A Press
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Event Name: Cluecon 2010
Date: Aug 3-5, 2010
Location: Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago
Booth#N/A Press
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Event Name: ITCN Asia 2010
Date: Aug 3-5, 2010
Location: Karachi Expo Centre, Karachi, Pakistan
Booth: Booth # TBA and Media Partner
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Event Name: 6th Build Asia Int’l Exhibition and Conference
Date: July 27-29, 2010
Location: Karachi Expo Centre, Pakistan
Booth: N/A Techistan recommends!
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Event Name: 3G Summit 2010
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: July 22-23, 2010
What to do? Let Techistan’s Yahya video interview you… we’re a media partner
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Event Name: OpenWebAsia
Date: July 13-14, 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza Mutiara, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur
Booth: N/A Techistan is a media partner.
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Event Name: Mobile Cloud Computing Asia| Singapore 2010
Date : July 14-15, 2010
Location: Singapore
Booth: N/A Techistan as a media partner
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Event Name: CommunicAsia 2010
Special announcement in Chinese and English.
Date: Jun. 15-18, 2010
Location: Singapore Click here to view Map
Booth#: 4P3-09, get yourself Googled! Let DIDX video interview you.
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Event Name: Mobile Payment 2010
Date: June 9-10, 2010
Location: Paris, France
Booth: N/A Techistan and DIDX media partners
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Event Name: ITEC 2010 South Florida
Date: Jun. 22, 2010 from 8 AM – 3 PM
Location: Miami, FL
Booth#: NA … DIDX and Techistan are a media partner and press agent.
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Event Name: Muslim World 2010
Date:Jun 04-06, 2010
Location:Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Booth#: 146
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Event Name: iTIndoComm 2010
Date: May 5-7, 2010
Location: Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia Click here to view the map
Booth# P104
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Event Name: Connect IT Pakistan 2010
Date: May 8-10, 2010
Location: Karachi Expo Center, Karachi, Pakistan Click here to view Map
Booth#:To be announced
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Event Name: SVIAZ / EXPO COMM Moscow
Date: May 11-14, 2010
Location: Moscow, Russia Click here to view Map
Booth#: Media Partner
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Event Name: AsterConference Asia 2010
Date: May 18-19, 2010
Location: Manhattan 1, Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Booth # See us as press, get your interview. Meet Mark Spencer and David Duffet from Digium and more.
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Event Name: Saudi Com
Date: May 24-25, 2010
Location: The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain
Booth # See us as press, get your interview!
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Event Name: ITW 2010
Date: May 24-26, 2010
Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC
Booth # A378. Hall A
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Event Name: COMNET’10 and IT EXPO
Date: April 16-17, 2010
Location: Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
Booth: Techistan is Media and Press Partner DIDX is Media and Press Partner
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Event Name: WiMAX 2010 New Delhi, India
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Location: Hotel TBC New Delhi, India
Booth: Techistan is Media and Press Partner DIDX is Media and Press Partner
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Event Name:3rd TeleCON 2010
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010
Location: Pearl Continental Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan
Booth: Techistan is Media and Press Partner DIDX is Media and Press Partner
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Event Name: International CTIA WIRELESS 2010®
Date: Mar. 23-25, 2010
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV Click here to view Map
Booth: 6574(Media Partner)
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Event Name: 18th Convergence India
Date: Mar 23-25, 2010,
Location:Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India Click here to view Map
Booth:Media Partner
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Event Name: SOFTEC 2010
Date: Mar. 23-25, 2010
Location: FAST National University, B – Block Faisal Town, Lahore, Pakistan Click here to view Map
Booth: To be announced
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Event Name: EduRG Conference 2010 Educational Vendors
Date: Feb.27-28, 2010
Location: EduRG Conference 2010 Educational Vendors
Booth: N/A Contact Tel: info@EduRG.com
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Event Name: B3Forum: Broadband for Business EXPO COMM Mexico
Date:Feb. 23-25, 2010
Location:Centro Banamex, Mexico City, MX
Booth: Press agent via Techistan.net
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Event Name: ITEXPO East 2010
Date: Jan.20-22, 2010
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center, FL
Booth: To be announced
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Event Name: PTC’10
Date:Jan.17-20,2010
Location:Honolulu, Hawaii
Booth: Meet with Techistan as press!
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Event Name: 3rd Asia Pacific Mobile Learning and Edutainment Conference 2009
Date: Dec. 16-17, 2009
Location:Cititel Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Click here to view Map
Booth:TBA and Media Partner
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Event Name: ICT Expo 2009 Indonesia
Date: Dec.14-16,2009
Location:Jakarta Convention Center, Indonesia
Booth:N/A Facebook

Event Name: Investing in ICTs in Emerging Markets
Date: Dec.9-10,2009
Location:Inmarsat Conference Centre, London, UK
Booth:N/A Linkedin,Facebook

Event Name: HR4ICT – Technology Evolution, Market Changes and the Challenge for HR
Date: Nov. 16-18, 2009
Location: Courtyard by the Marriot, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Booth #: N/A Contact Philip Baker +44 (0) 208600381
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Event Name: National Debate Series on Healthcare Reform
Date: Nov. 10, 2009, 6:30 – 10 PM
Location: Alfred L. Morse Auditorium, Boston, MA
Booth #: Contact or Phone (800) 834-9711
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Event Name: 5th Annual VoIP Conference and Expo
Date: Oct. 28-29, 2009
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Wheaton Campus VoIP Lab
Booth #: Friends of VoIP Conference and Expo
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Event Name: GoMobile Conference and Expo 2009
Date: Oct. 20-25, 2009
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Booth #: Meet DIDX Reps Jonathan Leong and Ksusha Carmes.
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Event Name: SUPERCOMM 2009 (formerly NXTcomm in 2008)
Date: Oct 21-23, 2009
Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA Click here to view Map
Booth#: 5318
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