AstriCon 2016: Full Schedule

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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!

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FreePBX continues to grow in distribution globably due to the powerful feature set available out of the box. In this session you will learn what powerful features are baked into the platform that give you the freedom to build Unified Communications solutions to fit your needs.

Speakers

Preston McNair

As Vice President of Sales at Sangoma US, Preston is responsible for the growth of the reseller and distribution channels, and the overall sales and marketing of the FreePBX, PBXact, and SIPStation product lines and Professional Services. Preston brings more than 20 years of executive... Read More →

Tuesday September 27, 2016 9:00am - 9:40am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

9:45am MDT

Take Control of Your FreePBX Phone System with iSymphony

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See how iSymphony enhances your FreePBX phone system with powerful call management tools. You'll learn how to integrate iSymphony with User Manager, CRM tools, and multi-PBX systems. Find out how this web-based solution for FreePBX can help your organization be more productive.

Speakers

Sean Hetherington

Managing Partner, i9 Technologies

Sean Hetherington is a managing partner and one of two founders of i9 Technologies, a FreePBX EcoSystem Certified Partner. Sean has been in the telephony and VoIP fields for over 10 years and managing the iSymphony project since its creation in 2006.

Tuesday September 27, 2016 9:45am - 10:35am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

11:00am MDT

Building your Business Around Open Source Telephony - DIY Telecom Best Practices

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Preston McNair, VP of Sales for Sangoma Technologies, 20+ year telecom veteran and prior AstriCon, FreePBX World and Asterisk World Speaker walks you through the best practices of building your business with Open Source Telephony. "Being a part of the FreePBX Project has allowed me to speak to thousands of business owners and system integrators utilizing FreePBX to build businesses across the planet, in this session I'll share many best practices and case studies from that experience." - Preston

Speakers

Preston McNair

Tuesday September 27, 2016 11:00am - 11:40am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

11:45am MDT

Do These Shoes Match My FreePBX? Accessorizing Your VoIP Deployments

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Mike White with .e4 Strategies will give you an overview of additional hardware components that can help you close more deals! What additional devices should you consider when building out VoIP solutions? From headsets to paging gateways to door phones and all sorts of specialty devices, find out about the wide range of accessories that may fit the needs of your next installation.

Speakers

Mike White

Mike White is the owner and operator of .e4 Strategies, a leading online reseller of VoIP hardware.

Tuesday September 27, 2016 11:45am - 12:15pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

1:45pm MDT

Hardware and Software Certified and Designed for the FreePBX EcoSystem

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The FreePBX EcoSystem is more than just a downloadable distribution. The EcoSystem includes an entire array of hardware solutions from the FreePBX team and from certified third parties. These solutions give system integrators the freedom to build platforms to fit their needs. In this talk Preston will help you discover these platforms and some of the unique systems that may be a good fit for your next deployment.

Speakers

Preston McNair

Tuesday September 27, 2016 1:45pm - 2:30pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

3:30pm MDT

FreePBX Deployment Best Practices

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Deploying a communication system isn't just for developers and technicians. This panel will discuss roles and decisions that sales, management and business staff must play in order to deploy a system that fits the needs of a business.

Speakers

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Tony Lewis comes from an entrepreneurial background, successfully starting and running various companies. He brings a wide background in aggressive sales and marketing to Sangoma and the FreePBX Project. His true passion is competing with FreePBX/Asterisk based PBXs in a legacy world... Read More →

Preston McNair

Allison Smith

CEO, The IVR Voice.com

Allison Smith is proud to have been the Voice of Asterisk since its inception. If you’ve maneuvered through prompts while calling a Fortune 500 company, participated in a telephone customer satisfaction survey, signed onto a conference call, listened to the public airwaves, took... Read More →

Tuesday September 27, 2016 3:30pm - 4:10pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

4:15pm MDT

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

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As VoIP continues to grow in popularity, what role does Open Source and FreePBX play in the shift from analog to SIP and IP communications? How must businesses adapt? Daniel Noworatzky of TeleDynamics, a Sangoma Platinum Partner, will share his unique perspective on the trends that have emerged among the TeleDynamics dealer/reseller base. Find out what today's savvy businesses ask for in a telephony solution, where FreePBX fits into the equation, and how TeleDynamics has evolved to be a part of the change.

Speakers

Daniel Noworatzky

Chief Technology Officer, TeleDynamics

As a Sales Engineer and Purchasing Manager since 2006 for TeleDynamics, a worldwide wholesale distributor of telecom equipment and consumer electronics, Daniel has strong product knowledge in understanding VoIP systems and legacy integration. In his current post, he is responsible... Read More →

Tuesday September 27, 2016 4:15pm - 4:55pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

10:00am MDT

FreePBX Roadmap - Features, design, 14 and the Sangoma OS 7

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With millions of production systems in use today, FreePBX has grown from its beginnings as a tool for writing Asterisk config files to become the world's most widely deployed open source PBX platform. Since 2004, the FreePBX EcoSystem has allowed users, resellers, enthusiasts, and Partners to build robust communications solutions that are powerful but at the same time easy to implement and support. This session will give you an overview of the history of the FreePBX project, its current feature set, and the roadmap for its future.

Speakers

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Andrew Nagy

Director of Software Engineering, Sangoma Technologies, Inc

Andrew started his involvement with Asterisk in 2009 with the creation of the Open Source Endpoint Manager and Provisioner.net Library for FreeBPX (an open source GUI for Asterisk) and over the years has become the lead developer of the FreePBX project. Andrew strongly believes in... Read More →

Bryan Walters

Vice President, Engineering, Sangoma Technologies

Bryan has been intimately involved with Asterisk and FreePBX since 2007. As VP of Software Engineering at Sangoma Technologies, he oversees all aspects of the FreePBX project as well as Sangoma’s full suite of UC and Cloud Strategies. As a true technologist at heart, he continues... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 10:00am - 10:40am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

10:45am MDT

PBXact Unified Communications + Cloud: A Commercially Supported UC Platform Based on FreePBX and Designed for the Channel

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PBXact Unified Communcations provides a fully featured commercially supported platform based on FreePBX with options for Cloud, premise and hosted infrastucture. Ten extensions in ten minutes, with no telephony experience required. It's possible with the new PBXact UCC, which brings the freedoms you expect from a FreePBX-based platform to the cloud, with an advanced GUI designed to simplify and speed deployments. This session will introduce you to PBXact UCC and walk you through basic setup and configuration.

Speakers

Preston McNair

Wednesday September 28, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

11:45am MDT

Star What? Toss That Feature Code Cheat Sheet - Use Phone Applications Instead

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Unless your memorization skills qualify you for a Pi Day contest, you probably have a cheat sheet filled with FreePBX feature codes. What if you and your end users could navigate through powerful calling features and options without worrying about remembering what goes with the star key? In this presentation, Tony Lewis will show you how to use built-in phone apps to intuitively manage Sangoma Phones.

Speakers

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Wednesday September 28, 2016 11:45am - 12:30pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

1:30pm MDT

From Alerts to Zero Touch Provisioning: Advanced Features of Sangoma Phones

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Engineered by the same team who brings you FreePBX, Sangoma IP Phones offer advanced configuration options that are not readily available from other handset manufacturers. In this session, Tony will review product design considerations and features such as alerts, background images, BLFs, hot desking, VPN integration, and Zero Touch Provisioning. Through live demos, you'll learn more about the tight integration between Sangoma Phones and FreePBX, as well as the unique features that set these phones apart.

Speakers

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Wednesday September 28, 2016 1:30pm - 2:15pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

2:20pm MDT

Help Us Help You: Best Practices for FreePBX Support and Debugging

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With a worldwide community of users, support technicians, and developers standing behind FreePBX, help is available when you need it. How can you obtain the best possible support and the quickest resolution to your issue? It's all about providing the right data and striking a balance between "too much" and "too little." Fortunately, FreePBX has built-in tools that can assist you in obtaining logs, debugging, and working with support technicians. This seminar will introduce you to those tools and prepare you to handle issues so that your system can be back up and running in no time.

Speakers

Andrew Nagy

Director of Software Engineering, Sangoma Technologies, Inc

Wednesday September 28, 2016 2:20pm - 3:05pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

3:25pm MDT

FreePBX Developer Panel - Topic Design Decisions - How Community Input Builds a Better PBX

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Every Monday at 4 PM eastern, the FreePBX Team has planning sessions for FreePBX. Learn how to get your say in the process, and how developers implement your design decisions and feature suggestions into the product roadmap.

Speakers

James Finstrom

Software Engineer, Sangoma Technologies

James has been involved in one way or another with the FreePBX project for the past 10 years. He is an open source evangelist promoting and contributing time and code to various open source projects over the years. Prior to working with FreePBX, he worked in traditional telephony... Read More →

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Andrew Nagy

Director of Software Engineering, Sangoma Technologies, Inc

Bryan Walters

Vice President, Engineering, Sangoma Technologies

Wednesday September 28, 2016 3:25pm - 4:10pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

10:00am MDT

FreePBX Performance Upgrades- Making FreePBX Swim Faster and Come Up Drier than Ever Before.

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The FreePBX development team discusses changes, both major and minor, and how they increase performance and scalability of the FreePBX platform.

Thursday September 29, 2016 10:00am - 10:40am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

10:45am MDT

Kamailio & FreePBX

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Kamailio helps your FreePBX deployment by providing increased security, load balancing, least cost routing, and more. In this talk, Fred Posner introduces you to Kamailio and how it loves working with FreePBX.

Speakers

Fred Posner

VoIP Engineer, LOD Communications, Inc.

After working with solutions such as Acme Packet, Broadsoft, Cisco, and others, Fred discovered Asterisk and quickly embraced open source software in telecommunication. A large (yes, it’s a fat joke) proponent of Asterisk and Kamailio, Fred currently provides Kamailio / VoIP consultation... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
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FreePBX World Track

11:45am MDT

OpenSIPS & FreePBX

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OpenSIPS (Open SIP Server) is a mature Open Source implementation of a SIP server with application-level functionalities. Learn how OpenSIPS can work as a frontend for FreePBX, dealing with load-balancing, doing mid-registration and contact aggregation, traffic normalization and others.

Speakers

Răzvan Crainea

Core Developer, OpenSIPS

Răzvan has is part of the OpenSIPS project since summer 2010, and ever since he's been involved in developing various VoIP Platforms using OpenSIPS at their core. He's an open source enthusiast, with contributions to several Open Source projects such as FreeSWITCH, RTPProxy, RTPEngine... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 11:45am - 12:30pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

1:30pm MDT

Session Border Controllers & FreePBX in a hosted environment

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Learn how putting a powerful SBC in front of your FreePBX hosting cluster provides security, PBX upper-registration, and softswitch capabilitites for your total environment.

Speakers

Scott Beer

Director, Solutions Engineering, Sangoma Technologies

Mr. Beer is responsible for Pre-Sales Engineering & Training for a leading enterprise communications transformation to a full solution telecommunication provider, whether On-Premise or Cloud Solutions. Working within the Sales organization to ensure new customers are going to receive... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 1:30pm - 2:15pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track

2:20pm MDT

Desktop Integration for FreePBX - Zulu UC - Current Feature Set and What's Coming Soon

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Zulu UC expands the FreePBX platform to the desktop. The development team and product managers will discuss features that are already included, as well features they are planning and building now. If computer telephony integration, customer relations management, or property management systems are important to you, you should attend this session.

Speakers

Tony Lewis

General Manager, Sangoma Technologies

Andrew Nagy

Director of Software Engineering, Sangoma Technologies, Inc

Thursday September 29, 2016 2:20pm - 3:05pm MDT
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FreePBX World Track