AstriCon 2016: Full Schedule

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9:00am MDT

Asterisk from Scratch - Part 1 - Intro to Asterisk & Asterisk Architecture

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Asterisk from Scratch is a well-rounded informative overview of the Asterisk Project, with a focus on the essentials a general "newbie" should know. All are welcome! Whether you are managing a team deploying an Asterisk implementation, evaluating potential replacements for a legacy telephony solution, or are simply new to Asterisk, this talk has something to offer you.

This all-day seminar is broken into multiple sessions, beginning with background information such as the history of Asterisk and examples of fundamental configuration for a call flow and features such as Voicemail, IVR and will include a comparison of SIP channel driver configuration in Asterisk 13.

Speakers

Alejandro Gutierrez

Director/Owner, Tech 4 Canada

Over nine (9) years of proven experience in the design, implementation and support of successful IT projects (Voice over IP Solutions, Routing and Switching Configurations). Commitment to excellence, business insight, strong customer focus and great technical skills have allowed... Read More →

Tuesday September 27, 2016 9:00am - 10:35am MDT
Solana I Solana I

Asterisk from Scratch Commercial Track

11:00am MDT

Asterisk From Scratch - Part 2 - Installing Asterisk & Intro to Dial Plan

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Speakers

Alejandro Gutierrez

Director/Owner, Tech 4 Canada

Tuesday September 27, 2016 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Asterisk from Scratch Commercial Track

1:45pm MDT

Asterisk from Scratch - Part 3 - Configuring Endpoints & Interactive Dialplan

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Speakers

Alejandro Gutierrez

Director/Owner, Tech 4 Canada

Tuesday September 27, 2016 1:45pm - 3:00pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Asterisk from Scratch Commercial Track

3:30pm MDT

Asterisk from Scratch - Part 4 - Advanced Dial Plan

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Speakers

Alejandro Gutierrez

Director/Owner, Tech 4 Canada

Tuesday September 27, 2016 3:30pm - 4:55pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Asterisk from Scratch Commercial Track

10:00am MDT

(Dial)Plan to Succeed!

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Asterisk dialplans often fail to get the attention and planning they deserve. Without a planned structure, over time your dialplan runs the risk of devolving into a collection of cobbled-together, spaghetti-coded contexts that can be difficult to maintain. This session will identify several tools and steps you can take to help ensure your dialplan is a well-thought-out thing of beauty, something you can be proud of, that will serve your company for years into the future.To enable screen reader support, press shortcut ⌘+Option+Z. To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press shortcut ⌘slash.

Speakers

Dave Martin

CEO, IO Technologies Inc

Dave started a software development company 23 years ago, writing custom software and developing interfaces with external applications, including Asterisk. He's been actively using Asterisk at his own company for years, and deployed several Asterisk PBXs for clients. He also recently... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 10:00am - 10:40am MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

10:45am MDT

Integrating APIs with Asterisk through Adhearsion

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Integrating Asterisk with third party APIs who do not provide a direct interface, such as IBM Watson and Wit.ai, through Adhearsion and Ruby. ASR and sentiment analysis will provide our IVRs with an unparalleled ability to not only understand what callers say, but also what their desires and intent are. Dialplan applications can be complex to set up to use those APIs, and web applications are not well suited to that type of application. Adhearsion, the Ruby voice application framework, makes it easy and fun!

Speakers

Luca Pradovera

Principal, Mojo Lingo

A software engineer, I have always been interested in the challenges posed by real time messaging/signaling applications and telephony.Making a phone ring still has a special feeling to me!I have been involved with the development of the Adhearsion framework since version 0.x, and... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

11:45am MDT

ARI Scaling and Production

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The way we build applications around Asterisk has completely changed over the past couple of years. We now have the ARI leaving Asterisk to be a dumb media engine driven by your application using the ARI. This is great, but the way we write applications with the ARI needs to be different to how we would typically tackle application development with the AGI or even AMI. Creating a scalable solution that doesn't grind to its knees when there's an issue is vital. Building for resilience and uptime in the ARI era is completely different to how we may have done it just a few years ago. Come hear how to build a solution which isn't rigid, isn't monolithic and isn't going to collapse at the first issue thrown at it. Come hear how you can create a highly scalable, stable and secure solution for this generation.

Speakers

Dan Jenkins

CEO | Founder | Engineer, Nimble Ape Ltd

Founder of Nimble Ape, a Real-Time Communications Consultancy based in the UK, Google Developer Expert specializing in WebRTC and organizer of CommCon, a conference for Open Source RTC in the UK, Dan is always busy with some project. His knowledge of Asterisk, it's APIs and how those... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 11:45am - 12:30pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

1:30pm MDT

Just Married: Open Stack and Asterisk

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OpenStack is the hottest platform for deploying a cloud. However, what is a "cloud" actually made up of? What is OpenStack? What does it take to deploy OpenStack? Is there a way to deploy OpenStack in a home lab? Is it possible to get Asterisk running "in" the cloud? All of these questions will be answered, including tracing calls through virtually deployed environments.

Speakers

Russell Feeser

I started into the training industry by teaching the Session Initiation Protocol (RFC 3261). After a year of teaching SIP, I found my skill set in demand to help build, trace, troubleshoot, and help others understand the IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) being deployed within the US... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 1:30pm - 2:15pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

2:20pm MDT

Interesting or unusual applications of Asterisk (beyond the PBX)

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My experience and skills in IT operations, solution architecture, assessment and strategy development has been well honed due to working in the industry during its booming era. I have a proven record of providing leadership in the evaluation, selection and implementation of new information systems technologies and have been involved deeply in full scale implementation of core IT projects in the company.

Specifically, I want to present my skills in the area of telecommunications as a manager by seven years, billing postpaid with different applications and different models, provisioning and mediation, access to legacy nodes and core nodes, migrations, integrations, development of peripheral applications and management of APIS. Additional my experience in human resources management, renovation and transformation of IT departments and data centers, change management, management of risk situations, technological renovation and project management of infrastructure and implementations.

Speakers

Carlos Celis

"My experience and skills in IT operations, solution architecture, assessment and strategy development has been well honed due to working in the industry during its booming era. I have a proven record of providing leadership in the evaluation, selection and implementation of new information... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 2:20pm - 3:05pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

3:25pm MDT

Asterisk Rest Interface with Swift

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Examples on how to create code that works with Apple's Swift programming language and the Asterisk Rest Interface. Demonstrating Apple TV interfaces to show status of calls on a server.

Speakers

Matt Riddell

CTO, Create Offshore Company

Providing IT and infrastructure development for a growing business based in Panama. It helps customers to move everything offshore. Offshore banking, investments, hosting, encrypted chat and communications through to even offshoring yourself - immigration.

Wednesday September 28, 2016 3:25pm - 4:10pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

10:00am MDT

Catching Fraudsters with Asterisk!

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There are lots of services out there that provide phone fraud detection, alerting, speaker recognition, call content analysis, etc.
The selection in huge.
How can a merchant even tell if he’s got a phone fraud problem?
And once he admits the problem exist - how can he address the situation?

This session will review few methods of fraud detection and prevention,
while focusing about how can a merchant/call-centre take advantage of
Asterisk (combined with couple of open-source libraries) and start catching fraudsters.

And the cherry on top:
The merchant’s website can help catch (phone) fraudsters as well!

This session will include few (real world!) examples that show how few
countermeasures can reduce and even eradicate a fraud problem from your call-centre.

Speakers

Or Polaczek

Lead Mobile Engineer, Forter

"I am a software developer with 8+ years of experience. As a Research Engineer at Forter, i'm developing new methods aimed to help e-commerce merchants prevent credit-card fraud on their website / call centre. Before I've started working at Forter, I helped creating a cross-platform... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 10:00am - 10:40am MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

10:45am MDT

Using Asterisk and XMPP to provide greater tools to your customers and your users

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In this talk I'll show how to make use of Asterisk and XMPP to create tools and facilities that can improve the customer and the user experience.
I'll start with a brief XMPP protocol introduction and its support in Asterisk and then I'll demonstrate two projects (both PoC) that I'm developing:
* IVR's Data Delivery (https://github.com/mhterres/IVR-Data-Delivery), that can be used to expose the data entered in IVR to other softwares used in a company in a simple manner. Using Asterisk ARI API and XMPP this project can optimize the customer experience. And using res_xmpp, the internal user experience can be improved by earlier caller identification.
* XyBot (https://github.com/mhterres/XyBot): XyBot was created to allow users to interact with Asterisk directly from their IM (XMPP) client. In our "unified communications" times, this project shows how to create your own features to attend your needs.
In the end, with the participation of audience, we will discuss more uses of this kind of integration.

Speakers

Marcelo Hartmann Terres

SysAdmin/VoIP Engineer

I'm a Linux SysAdmin with almost 10 years of Asterisk experience. Besides the administration of several Asterisk servers, for years I'm researching and developing some projects that makes use of Asterisk and XMPP to create features and tools that can improve and optimize the customers... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

11:45am MDT

Asterisk & Web Panel

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The Asterisk & Web Panel will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and to hear from Asterisk Community members about the role of Asterisk in the move of Communications to the Web.

Speakers

Matt Fredrickson

Asterisk Project Manager, Digium, Inc.

Matthew has worked at Digium more or less since 2001. He has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He wrote Digium's SS7 stack, libss7, as well as maintained and developed its ISDN stack libpri. He also wrote a number of DAHDI drivers and maintained... Read More →

Dan Jenkins

CEO | Founder | Engineer, Nimble Ape Ltd

Chris Matthieu

Director, IoT Engineering, Citrix Octoblu

Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and... Read More →

Evan McGee

Co-Founder, CTO, hifelix.io

Evan McGee is Co-Funder of Felix, a phone assistant platform for mobile professionals. He also serves as the Chief Technology Officer at RingPlus, an MVNO technology company. At Felix they are working to bring simplicity to the realtime communications side of entrepreneurs and... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 11:45am - 12:30pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

1:30pm MDT

Asterisk and Cisco Video Platform

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Asterisk is used like a swiss army knife for one of our clinet’s video platform. In this low budget project, multiple asterisk servers with rich functionalities were deployed to address the need for voicemail, audio conferencing, call routing, black listing, ISDN-gateway and many more for the video platform. Currently the undergoing project for the same client is to use asterisk as the webRTC gateway. Asterisk server with multiple embedded codecs succeeded where products from other vendors has failed to integrate to our client’s video platform.

Speakers

Ahmad Sharifinejad

Longtime Asterisk developer/consultant for European countries. Ph.D. graduate from the University of New South Wales in Electrical Engineering and computer science in the field of computer networks and Telecommunication. 100 projects have been delivered to our customers. CTO of Twinintel... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 1:30pm - 2:15pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces

2:20pm MDT

Creating Magical Apps with Asterisk

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Voice is a rich and natural interface for interacting with humans. Asterisk provides a full toolkit for building voice interfaces. This talk will look at the importance of voice interface design as well as the technology that can realize it. The audience will learn some easy ways to improve voice user experience and get to see what goes into a magical voice interaction.

Speakers

Ben Klang

VP of Business Technology, Power Home Remodeling

Ben Klang has been fascinated with communication technology since before he can remember. As VP of Business Technology, he leads a department of software developers and operations people who create innovative, integrated systems that deliver tremendous business value every day. Previously... Read More →

Thursday September 29, 2016 2:20pm - 3:05pm MDT
Solana I Solana I

Integrations & Interfaces