Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/10/2015
6:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Location
Kings Arms Hotel
Categories
7th trefor.net UC Executive Dinner
The 7th trefor.net UC Executive Dinner will be held at The Kings Arms Hotel, Hampton Court on Wednesday 7th October. This is the usual night and venue timed to coincide with the middle night of Convergence Summit South which is being held at Sandown Park Racecourse.
At this time our guest speaker is Curtis Peterson, Senior Vice President of global operations for RingCentral.
This event is very generously sponsored by leading VoIP handset and conference product vendor Polycom as well as Curtis’ own company RingCentral.
trefor.net Exec Dinners are events that gather together leading players from industry for evenings of debate over dinner. Our guest speakers are experts in their field and are there as a catalyst for the debate which is conducted under Chatham House rules. The speakers get as much out of these dinners as the other attendees so we are able to attract some of the leading players in their field.
We only accept CLevel people or Senior Execs in larger organisations to these events and attendance is by invitation only. If you are in the UC industry and fit this profile feel free to get in touch.
Previous dinners and lunches have had an interesting variety of guest speakers:
- Tony Cox of Microsoft talking about the future of Lync
- Huw Rees of 8×8 on the USA market for hosted Internet Telephony
- Joe Baguley of VMware talking virtualisation futures
- Mehdi Nezarati of esna.com talking about the Google Unified Communications landscape for business
- Prof Alan Johnston talking WebRTC
- Steph Watson on the future of the PBX
- Andy Davidson on “instant on” WANs
- Dean Elwood on the Large Telco market
- Kevin Murphy of BT on the challenges of moving Voice to the 21CN
What people have said about trefor.net Exec Dinners:
Sally Fuller – Director Marketing & Centres of Excellence, KCOM
Trefs annual UC dinners are held twice a year and that should give you a clue about their surprising nature from the outset. Tref has a knack of picking interested, interesting and inspiring people that are at the core of making our industry a great one (yes I sneak in on the b list). Tref’s guests get more from sharing their insights and ideas than withholding them. Every time I learn something new, meet someone new, get a new perspective & miss my last train home.
Colin Duffy – CEO, Voipfone
The trefor.net dinners are always good for high quality gossip, industry chit chat and networking – you can guarantee learning something or meeting someone new and useful. Far more importantly though, they’re just a damn good evening out.
Tim Meredith – Director of Unified Communications and Mobile, Daisy Group PLC
I just wanted to thank you for being an excellent host and putting on a really informative (and fun) evening. I hope to attend many future evenings!
Andy Davidson – CTO Allegro Networks, Chairman LONAP, Chairman IX-Leeds, Director Euro-IX
Lively, informative, and tasty! That’s how I’d describe each evening I’ve spent in the company of Tref and his invited guests. You’re guaranteed several conversations with colleagues and key decision makers at organisations across the industry over a relaxed dinner at a fantastic hand-picked menu and location.
