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9:00am MDT

FreePBX World Opening - 'THE OG - Original GUI' What's in the Box - Not Just a Configurator for Asterisk! Cira APreston McNair Asterisk from Scratch - Part 1 - Intro to Asterisk & Asterisk Architecture Solana IAlejandro Gutierrez Switchvox: Building Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Menus Solana HSteve Jakab

9:45am MDT

Take Control of Your FreePBX Phone System with iSymphony Cira ASean Hetherington

11:00am MDT

Building your Business Around Open Source Telephony - DIY Telecom Best Practices Cira APreston McNair Asterisk From Scratch - Part 2 - Installing Asterisk & Intro to Dial Plan Solana IAlejandro Gutierrez Building Switchboards in Switchvox Solana HSteve Jakab

11:45am MDT

Do These Shoes Match My FreePBX? Accessorizing Your VoIP Deployments Cira AMike White

12:30pm MDT

1:45pm MDT

Bicom: How to Increase Profits & Grow Customer Loyalty Solana HKevin Langford • Stephen Wingfield Hardware and Software Certified and Designed for the FreePBX EcoSystem Cira APreston McNair Asterisk from Scratch - Part 3 - Configuring Endpoints & Interactive Dialplan Solana IAlejandro Gutierrez

3:05pm MDT

Afternoon coffee break TBA

3:30pm MDT

FreePBX Deployment Best Practices Cira ATony Lewis • Preston McNair • Allison Smith Asterisk from Scratch - Part 4 - Advanced Dial Plan Solana IAlejandro Gutierrez

4:00pm MDT

Deploying Digium Phones the easy way with DPMA: How to configure and manage your phones over a variety of networks, protocols, and distributions Solana HScott Griepentrog

4:15pm MDT

Staying Relevant: A Case Study in Evolving VoIP Product Lines to Fit the Needs of Today's Resellers and System Integrators Cira ADaniel Noworatzky

5:00pm MDT

Expo Hall Opening Reception Expo Hall

8:15am MDT

Breakfast Pre-function area

9:00am MDT

Keynote: Bill Ledingham, CTO/EVP of Engineering at Black Duck Software Solana EBill Ledingham

10:00am MDT

Converting a Fortune 500 Company to Asterisk Solana FJonathan Merrell Go-ing ARI Circa BSeán C. McCord FreePBX Roadmap - Features, design, 14 and the Sangoma OS 7 Cira ATony Lewis • Andrew Nagy • Bryan Walters (Dial)Plan to Succeed! Solana IDave Martin Security for SIP and VoIP Infrastructure Solana HJöran Vinzens Expo Open Expo Hall

10:45am MDT

Finding the Real Value in WebRTC Solana FChad Hart The Convergence of APIs & Telecom Cira BSean Hsieh PBXact Unified Communications + Cloud: A Commercially Supported UC Platform Based on FreePBX and Designed for the Channel Cira APreston McNair Integrating APIs with Asterisk through Adhearsion Solana ILuca Pradovera VoIP and RTC Troubleshooting using the SIPCAPTURE Stack Solana HLorenzo Mangani

11:30am MDT

Morning Coffee Break Expo Hall

11:45am MDT

How IVR is killing Customer Service Solana FAllison Smith Getting Your Asterisk In Gear: Web Services Edition Circa BEvan McGee Star What? Toss That Feature Code Cheat Sheet - Use Phone Applications Instead Cira ATony Lewis ARI Scaling and Production Solana IDan Jenkins Asterisk and the Social Internet of Things Solana HMike Walton

12:30pm MDT

Lunch Expo Hall

1:30pm MDT

How Asterisk Changed a Political Landscape Solana FAntony Russell IP PABX over 3g/4g Circa BUsman Ahmed From Alerts to Zero Touch Provisioning: Advanced Features of Sangoma Phones Cira ATony Lewis Just Married: Open Stack and Asterisk Solana IRussell Feeser Lowering Asterisk Registration Rates with Mid-registrar Solana HLiviu Chircu

2:20pm MDT

¡Viva la Revolución! - An Audience with Jim 'Duuuude' Dixon Solana FJim Dixon Handling multiple requests to Asterisk using Redis Cira BMiguel Angel Torres Govea Help Us Help You: Best Practices for FreePBX Support and Debugging Cira AAndrew Nagy Interesting or unusual applications of Asterisk (beyond the PBX) Solana ICarlos Celis OpenSIPS Cluster: a natural choice for building your distributed VoIP Platform Solana HRăzvan Crainea

3:05pm MDT

Afternoon Coffee Break Expo Hall

3:25pm MDT

What's new in the world of Speech Recognition? Solana FBen Klang PJSIP: Tuning for Performance Cira BGeorge Joseph • Mark Michelson FreePBX Developer Panel - Topic Design Decisions - How Community Input Builds a Better PBX Cira AJames Finstrom • Tony Lewis • Andrew Nagy • Bryan Walters Asterisk Rest Interface with Swift Solana IMatt Riddell Real-time Charging for distributed platforms using CGRateS Solana HDan Christian Bogos

4:00pm MDT

EXPO Hall closes Expo Hall

4:30pm MDT

All Conference Happy Hour - Sponsored by Voxbone Solana E Dangerous Demos/All-Conference Happy Hour Solana E

8:15am MDT

Breakfast Pre-function area

9:00am MDT

Keynote: Chris Matthiue, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix Solana EChris Matthieu

10:00am MDT

Asterisk: A story of Hope & Encouragement Solana FDavid Duffett Working around faulty networks Circa BDovid Bender FreePBX Performance Upgrades- Making FreePBX Swim Faster and Come Up Drier than Ever Before. Cira A Catching Fraudsters with Asterisk! Solana IOr Polaczek Securing Asterisk with Kamailio Solana HFred Posner Expo Open Expo Hall

10:45am MDT

Building a Custom Open Source Asterisk Module that Enables Web Streaming, Text-to-Speech, Prompts, Music, and More Solana FMitch Rodrigues Mobile VoIP is so damn hard! Circa BNir Simionovich Kamailio & FreePBX Cira AFred Posner Using Asterisk and XMPP to provide greater tools to your customers and your users Solana IMarcelo Hartmann Terres VoIP and Kubernetes Solana HSeán C. McCord

11:30am MDT

Morning Coffee Break Expo Hall

11:45am MDT

Real-World SDN and Your Future Career Solana FSimon Woodhead Asterisk Testing for Your Deployments and the Project Circa BJoshua Colp • Scott Griepentrog OpenSIPS & FreePBX Cira ARăzvan Crainea Asterisk & Web Panel Solana IMatt Fredrickson • Dan Jenkins • Chris Matthieu • Evan McGee Case Studies: Managing Your Asterisk System Solana HEric Klein

12:30pm MDT

Lunch Expo Hall

1:30pm MDT

Scaling: From one office to 100+ Solana FCorey McFadden The 'Little' Things Cira BBrian West Session Border Controllers & FreePBX in a hosted environment Cira AScott Beer Asterisk and Cisco Video Platform Solana IAhmad Sharifinejad Achieving 2000 seat multichannel contact centers with Asterisk Solana HAlfredo González

2:00pm MDT

EXPO Hall closes Expo Hall

2:20pm MDT

Managing Your Brand Reputation: 8 Keys to Success Solana FSusan Elder Asterisk + ELK: Sailing the seas of logs! Circa BGaston Draque Desktop Integration for FreePBX - Zulu UC - Current Feature Set and What's Coming Soon Cira ATony Lewis • Andrew Nagy Creating Magical Apps with Asterisk Solana IBen Klang Asterisk Mobility Call center Applications and API Solana HDiego Gosmar • Giuseppe Innamorato

3:10pm MDT

AstriCon Wrap Up : Asterisk: Past, Present, and Future Solana EMatt Fredrickson • Matt Jordan