Speakers at CommCon

Alastair Appleby is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Gigapipe, the unified observability platform for correlating your logs, metrics, traces & eBPF emitters into one single data layer.

Backend and WebRTC engineer, currently employed at Meetecho, Alessandro worked for years on RTC and VoIP platforms.

He has been involved with architectures that conceived core protocols like SIP, RTP, XMPP and WebSockets. Designing every day new applications built around Janus, he is also the author of Janus SDKs for Node.js and Go. His main task today consists in developing, debugging, testing and optimizing the Janus server.

He describes himself as a curiosity-driven technology enthusiast, always ready to share his knowledge. And an awful guitarist too.

Alex Maitland is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Gigapipe, the next-gen data orchestration platform for managed data and observability services.

He is employed as Senior Voice Engineer for QSC AG, one of the major German voice and data providers. Alexandr holds a diploma in physics of Odessa State University. He has 20 years of experience in telecommunication techniques and has contributed to many OpenSource projects like FeeeSwitch, SER, Kamailio, SEMS, Asterisk, SIPP, Wireshark. Alexandr is the founder and main developer of Homer SIP Capture project.

Dr Alex Gouaillard is CEO and Founder of CoSMo Software, a WebRTC consulting and tooling company. Winner of 3 WebRTC Conference and Expo Industrial Awards (2013~2014), as well as 1 WebRTC Pioneer Award (2014), Co-Leader of the WebRTC-in-Webkit Project with Ericsson R&D (2015), he is regarded as one of the pioneers of Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC). Invited Expert of the W3C WebRTC Working Group, he is in charge of the WebRTC test suite, and browsers interoperability. Active member of IETF, he participates to the definition of all WebRTC specifications, and some more, like PERC. He was also co-chair of the IMTC WebRTC Interoperability Group. Dr. Alex holds two PhDs from INSA, France, and KEIO University, Japan. He has deep experience in communications, signal and image processing. In the past, he has established and led successful research groups at Caltech University, Harvard University, and the Singaporean Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Dr. Alex was also involved in several innovative startups in Europe, North America, and APAC. He speaks to some level French, German, English, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Filipino, all with a French accent.

Allison Smith is a veteran Professional Telephone Voice, despite being only in her early twenties. Heard on platforms for Cisco, Mitel, ShoreTel, Bell Canada, Cincinnati Bell, Hawaiian Telcom, Verizon, Vonage and many others, she is probably best known for her work as the Voice of the Asterisk Open Source PBX and Switchvox, and FreeSWITCH. Private clients inlude PetSmart, 3M, NASA, Toyota, Royal Caribbean, State Farm Insurance. She hates talking on the phone.

Andreas is working in telecoms since over 20 years. He developed and operated open source VoIP systems since the early 2000s, founded Sipwise and created and managed the rtpengine project. During this time, Andreas saw lots of good, bad and ugly aspects of developing and operating telecom systems. This lead him to found Sipfront to support the industry with accessible and modern telecom testing solutions.

Andrei is the founder of peer metrics, a startup that helps businesses monitor and improve WebRTC apps.

He is on a mission to help developers create the best products so their users would never have to say "hey, can you hear me?".

I studied radio engineering in Zaporizhia National Technical University, Ukraine. Since my diploma in 1992 I worked in telecommunications and IT industries. My experience with VoIP started in 2005. I'm author of Vapp IVR framework which allows to create multilingual IVR applications with small effort. I created a golang port of popular sippy b2bua library. I've contributed to many open source projects. Since 2006 I'm working for Sippy Software as a backend developer. I'm married and have two children.

Aravind Sethuraman is a senior software engineer and thought leader having worked in Voice and Video industries and space since 1998. He currently leads the RTC platform team in bloomberg, after having joined Bloomberg in 2014 to grow the RTC team which focussed on building voice and video solutions for Bloomberg terminal users.His main focus are in voice and video communication sentiment analysis and new value added services in the space of rich media. Prior to joining bloomberg, Aravind was the chief architect and lead engineer for Teliris Telepresence system which was later sold to Dimension Data. He has also bootstrapped and run few startups in the space of IOT, smart city, ASR and has also had experience working in companies like Vonage and Lucent technologies Bell labs where he started his career as a software engineer in 1998. Aravind Sethuraman graduated from Syracuse university and currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and few animals on a small farm.