BOSTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — FALL VON — Pulvermedia’s Vice
President of Business Development Bill Kelly today announced a joint
venture with Thomas Howe, of Thomas Howe Company, to lead the Innovator’s
track at Fall VON and to help further integrate the Mashup community into
the VON community.
The Fall VON Innovator’s track will include a traditional, VON-style
executive summit featuring a number of companies that challenge the status
quo. Howe will also lead the “un-conference,” featuring an innovative
approach, where the agenda is set once the meeting begins. This dynamic
format enables participants to identify what they want to talk about, and
organize themselves into groups and sessions to exchange and gather the
information they seek. This productive, exciting and unfiltered format has
been proven to bring out the most from the audience at VON.
During the un-conference, Howe and his colleagues will create a voice
mashup, in real time, in front of the audience. A mashup is a web
application that combines data from more than one source into a single
integrated tool (such as cartographic data from Google Maps with real
estate data from any number of sources), thereby creating a new and
distinct web service that did not originally exist by either source. Howe’s
expertise rests in bringing voice to the mashup equation. At VON, Howe will
help attendees see first-hand how mashups are created, and he will also
help participants gain a better understand of the power of this new
approach to voice enabled applications.
The application created will benefit Innovations for Poverty Action
(http://www.poverty-action.org) a charity dedicated to researching,
developing, and testing solutions to real world problems faced by poor
developing countries. Howe’s voice mashup will provide a light-weight
mobile credit scoring application to international microfinance
institutions. This voice mashup will provide the latest illustration of the
power of IP communications. Additional details on this mashup will be made
available at Fall VON.
Pulvermedia also announced today that Howe has become a regular monthly
contributor to VON Magazine. “We’re excited to bring Thomas to Fall VON in
such a significant way, and we’re looking forward to sharing his expertise
with the entire VON community,” said Pulvermedia’s Vice President of
Business Development Bill Kelly.
“VON has long been the centerpiece of the IP communications industry,
and now, more-than-ever, it has become the place for next generation
communications,” said Thomas Howe. “I’m thrilled to give back to the
organization that has given me — and my customers — so many opportunities
over the years.”
About the Thomas Howe Company:
The mission of the Thomas Howe Company is to become the world’s leader
in developing real time communications mashups for the enterprise.
Combining real time communications elements such as VoIP, SMS and presence
with the business process, makes businesses run faster and more
efficiently, and make their customers happier and more satisfied. Our team
combines best of breed components, Web based services and open source
technology to create compelling and valuable applications for companies of
all sizes.
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com.