David Duffett
Digium, A Sangoma Company Worldwide Community Director, Asterisk & FreePBX and AstriCon Emcee
A Published Author, Chartered Engineer, globally experienced trainer and public speaker (requested by name by conference organisers in the US and UK).
David is editorially responsible for AstriCon (THE annual global Asterisk event, where David also initiated an Asterisk-based contest several years ago, and has been a frequent speaker and MC).
He has spoken at AsterConference Asia (and has chaired this event), IT Expo (East and West) and a number of corporate events. He has also spoken at numerous other conferences - VoIP Developer, Speech World, CT Expo and UC Expo to name a few.
David excels at communicating technical subjects and issues to audiences of varying levels of technical understanding and his experience includes Air Traffic Control communications, Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Networks, Computer Telephony, Voice over IP and Asterisk specifically.
In addition to many web articles, David's publications include 'Asterisk 1.4: The Professional's Guide' (Packt, co-author), and the contribution of a chapter (on Internationalisation) to 'Asterisk: The Definitive Guide' (O'Reilly).