Unified Comms Influencers
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -Conversations about Unified Comms with influencers that shape the industry. Each week, Dominic Kent hosts the Unified Comms Influencers podcast to get to know the people shaping the industry.
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Episodes
Jon Arnold; Business Phones Have Hardly Changed Since The 80s
August 03, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 28.3 MBJon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent analyst providing thought leadership and go-to-market counsel with a focus on the business-level impact of communications technologies on digital transformation.
Irwin Lazar; Is Unified Comms Worth The Money?
July 26, 2020 13:40 - 28 minutes - 22.7 MBIrwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research. He covers all elements of business comms from basic mobile UC to new style team collaboration platforms.
Adam Fowler; Slack Connect Won't Replace Email
June 30, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBAdam Fowler is an IT Operations Manager at a leading law firm and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services.
Steve Goodman; Teams and Slack Reflect The Way People Work
June 21, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 41.1 MBSteve Goodman is Principal Technology Strategist at Content and Code, a Microsoft partner focusing on Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Azure.
Dmitry Odintsov; Why On-Premises Video Conferencing Still Exists
June 07, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 22.9 MBDmitry Odintsov is CEO of TrueConf, a provider of on-premises video conferencing solutions, based in Moscow.
Mark Vale; Why I Created Commsverse
June 01, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 19.5 MBMark Vale is an independent Microsoft contractor who has set about organising Commsverse. Commsverse is a community-led Microsoft Teams event in the UK.
Craig Chiffers; Replacing a Cisco phone system to Microsoft Teams MVP
May 03, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBCraig Chiffers is a Principal Solutions Architect at Icomm Australia, and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services.
Blair Pleasant; The Business Communications Umbrella
April 26, 2020 09:02 - 25 minutes - 18.5 MBBlair Pleasant is President and Principal Analyst at COMMfusion and Co-Founder of BC Strategies. As an overseer to the world of Unified Comms, Collaboration, and Contact Centre, Blair has seen a lot of change in her 20+ years in the industry.
Chris Palermo; Don't forget the second C in Unified Comms (Collaboration)
April 18, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 24.1 MBChris Palermo has been a Collaboration Sales GTM & Strategy Specialist for the last 10 years. Chris looks after the strategy and go-to-market for team collaboration.
Jono Luk; 12 Years at Microsoft & 2 Years at Cisco
April 11, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 22.5 MBJono Luk is the Senior Director of Webex applications at Cisco. He also looks after how Cisco helps with verticals like healthcare, education, and manufacturing.
Tony Cuevas; Webex Master to Contact Centre Guru
April 05, 2020 09:45 - 27 minutes - 21.1 MBTony Cuevas is a Solutions Consultant at Five9 with a deep history in Cisco collaboration. We talk through his Cisco background, including becoming a Webex Master and a Cisco Champion, and highlight the current state of Unified Comms and Contact Centre.
Randy Chapman; Moving from the Lynciverse to Microsoft Teams
March 28, 2020 16:55 - 29 minutes - 21.3 MBRandy Chapman is Head of Consulting at Enablit and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps & Services.
Michael LaMontagne; Enabling Microsoft Teams for not just for Voice - but for Collaboration and Integration
March 28, 2020 16:50 - 27 minutes - 21.7 MBMichael is currently on a 6 year run as a Microsoft MVP and is a Microsoft Solutions Advisor & Partner Evangelist at LaMontagne Solutions.
David Maldow; Lets Do Video on Unified Comms
March 22, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 22.1 MBDavid Maldow is the Founder and Lead Analyst at Lets Do Video where he focuses on everything from Unified Comms to team collaboration - specialising in video communications. We talk about how he built a remote team through his learnings when he was an attorney, how chat is the backbone of modern communications, and what people (and vendors) need to do in order to get remote working right.
Patrick Watson; Unified Comms Journalist to Analyst
March 14, 2020 15:06 - 25 minutes - 18.7 MBPatrick Watson is a Research Analyst at Cavell Group specialising on collaboration and customer engagement. He focuses on platforms like Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Teams, and Slack, but also on the CPaaS side of things.
Moshe Beauford; Is 5G the Future of Unified Comms?
March 14, 2020 15:05 - 27 minutes - 20.1 MBMoshe has been a journalist at UC Today for just over a year now but has embedded himself perfectly following experience in technology communications and PR. As a fairly new face to Unified Comms, Moshe says business communications is so important for the bottom line of businesses. While it's not a mainstream term, he recognizes the importance of relaying the benefits.
Graham Walsh; Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Open-UC
March 14, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 23 MBGraham Walsh is the Technical Director of Enterprise UC Products at Crestron. He looks after the entire portfolio that works together with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and open-UC. Pretty much anything that ties into the meeting room space.
Alaa Saayed; Unified Comms Exponential Growth
March 08, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBAlaa Saayed is an ICT Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan; we talk the rapid pace of Unified Comms adoption across all regions and how integration, interoperability, and federation are crucial for that momentum to continue.
Tim Banting; Military Intelligence to Market Intelligence
February 28, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBTim talks through his move from Cisco to Microsoft and how that is extremely relevant to the team collaboration market he looks after today.
Tom Arbuthnot; The Microsoft Guy at a Cisco Shop to the Point of Reference for Microsoft Teams
February 27, 2020 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBTom Arbuthnot walks through how he changed from being the Microsoft guy at a Cisco partner to a Microsoft MVP talking at Unified Comms events around the world.
Alan Quayle; BT Sponsored Student to Keeping Up with Unified Comms
February 26, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 22 MBAlan Quayle, founder of TADHack and TADSummit, walks through his career from traditional telecoms engineering to leading the latest innovations in programmable communications and APIs.
Blooper Reel
February 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBThe best (?) bits from the first few recordings... probably not making it to production.