I am was at the Emerging Communications Conference going on in San Francisco this week from the 3rd till the 5th of March. Here is the official schedule.

Since I got positive feedback on my Future of Mobile summary I decided to use a similar format for ECommConf. Each talk has a short description and rate.

Here are the reviews by day:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3 (Wednesday, March 5th)

• The First Technology Administration – What Will Mean For the Future of Communications?, Maura Corbett, Qorvis
• New User Experience for Voice, Matt Ranney, RebelVox
• Cookie Scale Computing: Human-Computer Interfaces as Piles of Smart Little Things, Jeevan Kalanithi, Taco Lab
• A White Box. A Vision of Our Evolving Mobile World., Mark Rolston, Frog Design – Funky presentation showing some inspirational video clips about the user interface and experience of the future. – 5+
• “Slow Communication”, Stefan Agamanolis, Distance Lab
• The Last Two Years, The Next Two Years, Thomas McCarthy-Howe, The Thomas Howe Company
• Taking a SIP of Java – Building Voice Mashups using SIP Servlets, RJ Auburn, Voxeo – Telling us how Java is obsolete. I didn’t listen after that – 3
• Voice Applications: The Wheel Has Already Been Invented, Martyn Davies, Dialogic – Missed this one. Sorry.
• Suing AT&T for a Trillion Dollars While the President Tries to Stop You, Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation – Missed this one. Sorry.
• Teens and Connectedness, Daniel Brusilovsky, Teens in Tech – 16 years old Daniel has a very interesting speech about how teenagers view technology. He is a star not only because of his age but because he has some very good points. Well done Daniel ;) – 5
• Software-Driven Natural Communications, Xuedong Huang, Microsoft – how Microsoft sees the future of communications. Xuedong showed us this video (not really the whole video but good enough to get the point).
• Panel: Spectrum 2.0 – What’s really happening?, Brough Turner, Ashtonbrooke – I was not very interested in this one and can not comment – 3
• The Race to the “Next Big Thing” in Mobile Phones, Ricky Yuen, Qualcomm – nice overview of hardware components in mobile devices. The limit price for a HW component adding by an OEM is provider 1$ :) – 3+
• The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity: Opportunistic Access to the Airwaves, Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation – skipped this one. Sorry.
• Where’s the money in Voice 2.0?, Martin Geddes, BT – video clip with some excellent concepts. Following Google‘s model, Martin suggests that money should not be earned on final customers but in enabling business do more money. – 4+
• TeleDarwinism, Crick Waters, Ribbit – Many good concepts from a company that revolutionized telephony and was aquired by BT. – 4
• Eight Centers of Gravity: The New Rules of Mobile, Andreas Constantinou, VisionMobile – Cool presentation. – 4
• Mobile Digital Broadcasting: An Infrastructure for One-to-Many Converged Services, Francois Lefebvre, Communications Research Centre Canada – everything you need to broadcast TV on mobile devices. Fits in a backpack and is composed from opensource software. Funky! – 5
• Tinkering without Tampering: Wrestling with Convergence and Communications Policy, Richard Whitt, Google - Policy stuff. Not very interesting for me, but was apparently interesting for others. – 3+
• Netbooks, MIDs, Tablets and Emerging Communication Devices, Ram Fish, ex-Nokia – interesting insights about the process of selecting hardware and software for a Netbook or Tablet. Ram should know best as he has probably been working on Nokia’s netbook :) – 4
• Asia’s Best of Breed – Learning from the World’s Largest and Most Advanced Mobile Markets, Benjamin Joffe, +8* – great presentation exposing some really interesting data about how things are done in Asia. Learned a lot. Benjamin has also a great presenting style – 5