The schedule for Comms vNext’s Microsoft UC conference has been published.
Comms vNext will include talks from Microsoft MVPs on a range of topics, an exhibition hall of companies connected to Microsoft, and more.
The in-person conference is taking place in Denver, Colorado, from August 16-17. The sessions will also be made available online.
Comms vNext Schedule Highlights
Highlights for Comms vNext 2022 include a keynote address and talk on Microsoft Teams by MVP Tom Arbuthnot, who recently launched Empowering.Cloud as a Teams advice and training centre for IT professionals.
Michael Tressler, Christina Wheeler, Nathan Loback, Matt Slaga, and Laurie Pottmeyer are among the speakers also basing their talks around Microsoft Teams.
Stacy Deere will be talking about the functionality of Microsoft Loop, which can raise the bar for collaboration even higher for Microsoft 365.
Lauren Brockman’s talk is on direct routing and the dos and don’ts of E911 compliance and porting.
Other sessions include Joy Apple’s ‘How to win friends and solve problems’, Eric Marsi on ‘SIP gateway: everything you need or might want to know’, and Rodolfo Castro’s ‘ How to select the right room solution’.
There are 23 talks, including the keynote address, and they will run from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on both days of the conference.
Expo Hall & Speakers
The platinum line-up of exhibitors at this year’s Comms vNext conference are Landis, Logitech, Oracle, and Poly. Accompanying these are a further 12 sponsors, which include Jabra, Yealink, AudioCodes, Bandwidth, and more.
There are 17 Microsoft professionals speaking at Comms vNext in total. These include Shari Oswal, a Microsoft 365 solutions architect and consultant, Laurie Pottmeyer, the Community Lead for Microsoft Teams, and Jamie Stark, a principal PM manager with Microsoft Teams.
What is Comms vNext?
Comms vNext describes itself as “an independent, community-led event, created and fashioned with the community in mind… a place where the community can meet, connect and share information and ideas.”