Unified Comms Influencers

Jon 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 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 is an IT Operations Manager at a leading law firm and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services.

Dmitry Odintsov is CEO of TrueConf, a provider of on-premises video conferencing solutions, based in Moscow.

Mark 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 is a Principal Solutions Architect at Icomm Australia, and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services.

Blair 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 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 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 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 is Head of Consulting at Enablit and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps & Services.

Michael is currently on a 6 year run as a Microsoft MVP and is a Microsoft Solutions Advisor & Partner Evangelist at LaMontagne Solutions.

David 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, founder of TADHack and TADSummit, walks through his career from traditional telecoms engineering to leading the latest innovations in programmable communications and APIs.

The best (?) bits from the first few recordings... probably not making it to production.