Unified Comms Influencers

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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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    • Aug 3, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 28m AVG DURATION
    • 21 EPISODES


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    Jon Arnold; Business Phones Have Hardly Changed Since The 80s

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 37:55


    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 Unified Comms Worth The Money?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2020 28:26


    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; Slack Connect Won't Replace Email

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 35:34


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

    Dmitry Odintsov; Why On-Premises Video Conferencing Still Exists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 31:08


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

    Mark Vale; Why I Created Commsverse

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 30:13


    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; Replacing a Cisco phone system to Microsoft Teams MVP

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2020 30:45


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

    Blair Pleasant; The Business Communications Umbrella

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2020 25:35


    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; Don't forget the second C in Unified Comms (Collaboration)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2020 31:34


    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; 12 Years at Microsoft & 2 Years at Cisco

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 30:58


    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; Webex Master to Contact Centre Guru

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2020 27:59


    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; Moving from the Lynciverse to Microsoft Teams

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2020 29:18


    Michael LaMontagne; Enabling Microsoft Teams for not just for Voice - but for Collaboration and Integration

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2020 27:43


    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; Lets Do Video on Unified Comms

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2020 28:53


    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; Unified Comms Journalist to Analyst

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 25:51


    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 Beauford; Is 5G the Future of Unified Comms?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 27:47


    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; Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Open-UC

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 32:20


    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; Unified Comms Exponential Growth

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2020 34:12


    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 Banting; Military Intelligence to Market Intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2020 27:40


    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; The Microsoft Guy at a Cisco Shop to the Point of Reference for Microsoft Teams

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 31:33


    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; BT Sponsored Student to Keeping Up with Unified Comms

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2020 30:38


    Blooper Reel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2020 1:09


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

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