AVST Announces Plans For 2010 End User Seminar Series

Conscious of the current global economy and its effect on our customers, AVST has decided to take a brief pause from hosting our annual conference to focus efforts on expanding  the benefits of the AVST online community.  During this time, we have been talking to customers from around the country about options for the 2010 CallXpress End User Conference.  The feedback has been consistent – end users want to participate, but they are limited by corporate travel restrictions.

So, AVST has decided to change the format of the CallXpress End User Conference in 2010 to ensure we provide as many customers as possible with the opportunity to connect and collaborate with their peers.  Instead of requiring end users from all over the world to travel to a single location, starting in Spring 2010, AVST will be taking the show on the road and offering a series of 1-day end user seminars across the U.S. The multi-city tour will allow users to come together at regional venues to share ideas and expertise with other users, as well as provide access to AVST executives and product specialists in a small group environment.

The final cities will be announced on AVST Blog soon…stay tuned for more information!

Prospective AVST Customers Invited to Attend Technology Discussion

AVST is inviting all prospective customers to join its Senior Management Team for a Special Technology Discussion & Reception on November 3rd at the Intercontinental San Francisco Hotel.

Event Details:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Discussion; 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Cathedral Hill Meeting Room, 4th Floor

Reception; immediately following from 5:00pm -7:00pm
Pacific Terrace Foyer

Click here to R.S.V.P. by November 2nd

Attending Senior Mangement Team:
Hardy Myers, President and CEO
Tom Minifie, CTO
Mike Berlin, VP of Sales
Denny Michael, VP of Marketing

Hotel Information:
Intercontinental San Francisco Hotel
  888 Howard Street
  San Francisco, CA 94103
  888-811-4273
The InterContinental San Francisco is adjacent to the Moscone West Convention Center

Click here to R.S.V.P. by November 2nd

Looking Forward to Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009

Greetings from VoiceCon San Francisco 2008!

Yesterday I arrived in San Francisco to get our new exhibit booth ready for AVST’s participation in VoiceCon® San Francisco 2008. Joining me at the show are AVST executives, Hardy Myers and Mike Berlin, in addition to members of our marketing, sales and engineering teams.

AVST has been actively participating in this annual event for at least the past 4 years. And it is an important event to us (and the AVST Community) because it focuses on the issues central to enterprise voice networks and the migration to IP telephony and convergence. As the VP of Marketing for AVST, I also know that an event of this quality and caliber also provides a unique opportunity to bring decision makers together with the industry’s pioneering end users, vendors and consultants.

While attending and participating in this year’s event the AVST staff will share how interoperability is key to any effective UC solution. We understand the sizable investment you’ve already made in your IT infrastructure (telephony, groupware, and enterprise business applications from multiple vendors). After all, it would be impractical and extremely costly to rip out and replace all components when building your UC strategy. CallXpress is ideally suited to fill this gap and support your disparate or evolutionary transition of your enterprises’ communications infrastructure.

I’ve highlighted a few of the activities we will be participating in below:

1. We created a new 20×20 booth that visually showcases the CallXpress suite of communication applications including call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, fax, notification, hands-free speech based personal assistant and automated attendant and communication enabled business processes (CEBP).
2. AVST’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Mike Berlin, will participate in a panel discussion titled, “Voice Messaging: Are PBXs Still Needed?" on Wednesday, November 12, at 4:00 p.m. PST, in room 124 of the convention center.
3. Also on Wednesday the 12th, at 5:15 p.m. PST, CallXpress will be showcased during a 30-minute product briefing session on the show floor.
4. We are conducting 16 Press and Industry Analyst briefings over the 2 day show period with a great deal “post show” follow up in the coming weeks.

We also just attended the first Pan European VoiceCon show in Amsterdam a few weeks ago and will also be attending the VoiceCon show in Orlando in the spring of 2009. I’ll write more once I return.

Related Articles:

• AVST Spotlights CallXpress Interoperability at VoiceCon San Francisco – press release