IMTC 2008 Forum Speakers

Joe Burton

Joe Burton is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in Cisco's Voice Technology Group. His team is responsible for vision, technical strategy and advanced research for Unified Communications at Cisco. Additionally, he and his team represent Cisco in many Unified Communications industry standards organizations, and represent the Cisco Unified Communications team in many cross-Cisco initiatives.

Joe is a highly regarded visionary in our industry and evangelist for Cisco. He has a passion for technology and innovation, as well as a demonstrated business savvy that has been instrumental in several of our acquisitions including Latitude, WebEx, and Securent. During his career at Cisco, Joe has led the development of many of Cisco's Unified Communications products including MeetingPlace voice, video, and data conferencing products, IPVC video conferencing, IP Communicator, Unified Advantage, Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, productivity application integrations, and Cisco Unity Connection integrated voice messaging products.

Hakon Dahle

Håkon Dahle joined TANDBERG in 1992 and has served as the company's Chief Technologist since April 2004. He is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and technology partnerships. Prior to joining TANDBERG, Håkon served in the Royal Norwegian Navy as a second lieutenant. Håkon received a Master's of Science degree in Computer Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH).

Dr. Michael J. Horowitz

Dr. Horowitz, Managing Partner of Applied Video Compression and Technical Advisory Board Member at Vidyo Inc., is a leading architect of low-delay video codecs. At Vidyo, he led the engineering team that developed the first commercially available H.264 Scalable Video Codec (SVC) and earlier in the decade at Polycom he led the team that developed the first commercially available H.264 Advanced Video Codec (AVC). Dr. Horowitz has 16 patents and patents pending and has served as chair of the ad-hoc group for H.264 Complexity Reduction in the ITU-T's Video Coding Experts Group and the Joint Video Team (JVT).

Nam Gun Kim

Nam Gun Kim joined SK Telecom in 2000. He has been involved in the commercialization of 3G-324M, multimedia valued added services and interworking between UMTS and CDMA video telephony. Currently, he is a manager in the Institute of Network Technology, focusing on the development of unified communication client and the standardization of AMS. Mr. Kim holds a master's degree in electronics from Yonsei university, Korea.

Dave Lindbergh

Dave Lindbergh leads Hooke's development of laboratory instrumentation systems that will help in vivo scientists with their work. Prior to joining Hooke, Dave was Director of Standardization at Polycom, Inc., where he was active in international telecommunications standardization, including Committee T1, TIA, IETF, ISO/IEC and ITU, where he served as Rapporteur for ITU-T Study Group 16 Question 23 ("Media Coding"), as a principal contributor to ITU-T Recommendations H.223, H.224, H.281, H.460.18, H.460.19 and V.140, as editor for Recs. H.226, H.239, H.241, and H.324, and as chairman of the H.324 Systems Experts, H.264 Requirements, and H.264 Applications groups. Dave also served on the Board of Directors of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), as chairman of its Requirements WG and co-chair of its Media Processing and IPR activity groups. He is a co-author of Digital Compression for Multimedia: Principles and Standards (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998), and a contributor to Multimedia Communications (Academic Press, 2001) and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). In 2002 he received an IMTC Leadership Award for his contributions to the standardization community. In 1981 Dave founded Lindbergh Systems, maker of OMNITERM data communications software.

Manfred Lutzky

Manfred Lutzky received his M.S. (Diplom) degree in electrical engineering from Erlangen University and joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany, in 1997. He was engaged in the implementation of audio coding schemes mp3 and MPEG-4 AAC on embedded platforms. Since 2001 he is in the position of a group manager now heading the Audio for Communcation group that deals with research, implementation and optimizations on low delay audio codecs such as MPEG-4 AAC-ELD and related technology for communication applications. He has actively participated the standardization of audio codecs in ETSI/NGDect body.

Christoph Mosing

Christoph Mosing manages all aspects of Envox's global professional services business and assists companies in moving to open, standards-based voice solutions. Previously, he spent two years as vice president of professional services at TuVox. He built TuVox's customer base and was responsible for the company's consulting, enterprise speech application, implementation and training activities. Prior to TuVox, he led the worldwide solution consulting, IT, and pre- and post-sales at Convey Software as executive vice president for enterprise solutions. Mosing spent seven years at Logos in various positions, including executive vice president and CIO, responsible for the company's enterprise software solutions organization.

Michael Palmeter

Michael Palmeter is the Director of Product Management for Fusion Middleware within Oracle Corporation. Michael has a long history of with the Internet technologies and has spent the last decade working in the area of IP-based multimedia communications networks, applications and software standards. Previously, Michael was Director of Product Management with BEA Systems (recently acquired by Oracle corporation). Prior to joining BEA, Michael was a Strategic Product Manager with LM Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden, responsible for IP Multimedia Service Architecture and the development of Ericsson's SIP Application Server middleware platform.

Mark Reid

Mark Reid has over twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Mark is currently the Sr. Director of Engineering for Polycom's Telepresence and Vertical Solutions Business Unit where he manages all R&D for the RPX, TPX and vertical/custom product lines. Mark has served as the president and CTO of ProvisionSoft and as the video president of engineering of VideoServer, FVC, Xelor Software, and NMS Communications. Earlier in his career Mark was the director of engineering at PictureTel, where he lead the development of the LiveLAN family of IP-based products and was a major contributor to the H.323 ITU-T recommendation. Mark has a BSCS from the Ohio State University and a MSEE from Northeastern University.

Andrew Reitter

Andrew Reitter is a Senior Technologist for TANDBERG, a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing, mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data for the visual communications market. Mr. Reitter is part of the Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) organization within TANDBERG focusing on the area of unified communications. In this role he provides technology trend analysis and guidance to media, industry, internal and external customers alike. Prior to joining TANDBERG in 2002, Mr. Reitter worked in a variety of engineering roles for companies such as Terayon, Raychem, Ericsson, and Raynet.

Gary Sullivan

Gary J. Sullivan is the chairman of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), a co-chairman of the video subgroup of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and a co-chairman of the Joint Video Team (JVT), which is a joint committee of the VCEG and MPEG organizations. He is best known for leading the development of the H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard from its inception through several editions and extension efforts, including the Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt), Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Multiview Video Coding (MVC). He holds the position of Video Architect in the Core Media Processing group of the Windows division of Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft he has been the lead designer of the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Stephan Wenger

Stephan Wenger received the diploma and Dr.-Ing degrees in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1989 and 1995 respectively. He is with Nokia's Intellectual Property Rights department, with responsibilities including patent policy work in SDOs. His technical interest lie in the field of media compression and media transport over digital links.