As Microsoft Teams grows in adoption, security will naturally become a more critical factor. But now Oracle and Microsoft have entered into a partnership incorporating Oracle’s Communications portfolio with Microsoft Teams, offering new opportunities for secure team collaboration.
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Dr. Brent Kelly is Principal Analyst at KelCor, Inc. where he provides strategy and counsel to CxOs, investment analysts, VCs, technology policy executives, sell side firms and technology buyers. He has made measurable contributions in multiple industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, electronics, oil field services, chemicals, and mining. Brent has a strong background in numerical methods and applied artificial intelligence along with significant experience developing IoT solutions. He has written hundreds of articles and reports in the unified communications and collaboration industry and regularly delivers webinars and thought leadership addresses at public and private events. Brent has a Ph.D. in engineering from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in engineering from Brigham Young University. Dr. Kelly has served two terms as an elected official in his community and is co-owner with his wife of a gourmet chocolates manufacturing company.
Carl DCosta is Worldwide VP of Alliances & Channels Sales for Oracle Communications Global Business Unit. This includes global sales with and through all partner organizations including Systems Integrators, MSPs, OEMs, VARs, VADs, ISVs for all Cloud and on-premise products: IT Applications (Monetization and Orchestration) and Network Solutions (previously Acme Packet and Tekelec). Previously, Carl has held various sales and marketing leadership positions at HP. He was Head of Alliances and Channels of HP’s BI Software & Services business unit. At HP, Carl completed the year long Key Talent for Directors program (top 5% of HP Directors worldwide). Prior to that Carl worked in Boblingen, Germany with HP EMEA as the Product Marketing Head for HP’s $1.2 B UNIX server business. While in Germany, Carl also built new distribution channels for HP servers, storage and workstations for the EMEA market.
Nikolay is a Principal Product Manager in Microsoft. Nikolay is working in organization that powers telephony services in Microsoft Teams, Skype and Skype for Business. Recently Nikolay worked on Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams, option which allows customer to connect on telephony carriers to Microsoft Phone System. In the past Nikolay worked on the telephony area on various projects, including hybrid voice connectivity to Skype for business.
Eric Krapf is General Manager and Program Co-Chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry. He has been Enterprise Connect’s Program Co-Chair for over a decade. He is also publisher of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community’s daily news and analysis website. Eric served as editor of No Jitter from its founding in 2007 until taking over as publisher in 2015. From 1996 to 2004, Eric was managing editor of Business Communications Review (BCR) magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.
