E911 Support for Microsoft Teams in the Enterprise and Beyond

Irwin Lazar manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in unified communications and collaboration, covering the collaboration space as an analyst for over 15 years. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Mr. Lazar is a blogger for NoJitter.com and contributor for searchunifiedcommunications.com writing on topics including IP telephony, UC, cloud, adoption metrics, SDN, SD-WAN, WebRTC, and more. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is a regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect , Interop, and IT Roadmap. His earlier background was in IP network and security architecture, design, and operations where he advised global organizations and held direct operational responsibility for worldwide voice and data networks. Mr. Lazar holds an MBA from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from Radford University where he received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve, Ordnance Corps. His passion outside of IT is Scouting, where he serves as the Chartered Organization Representative for Boy Scout Troop 1882 in Haymarket, VA and holds outdoor coordination and training roles with the National Capital Area Council. He is a member of the American Legion, the IEEE, and is a lifelong baseball fan.

With almost 20 years of experience in telecommunications, more than half of which has been focused on 911, Lev Deich has played a fundamental role in the design, development and evolution of enterprise-focused emergency calling solutions. As Vice President of Enterprise at Intrado, he manages the enterprise Enhanced 911 (E911) suite of solutions which delivers forward-looking technologies that keep us all safer. Lev joined Intrado (formerly West) in 2014 as part of Intrado’s acquisition of 911 Enable, of which Lev was a co-founder. Under Lev’s direction, 911 Enable grew from a start-up to a market leader in the E911 space.

Beth Schultz is Program Co-Chair of Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry, and Editor in Chief of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community’s daily news and analysis media site. She has more than three decades of experience as an IT writer and editor, including as the founding editor in chief for UBM Tech's AllAnalytics.com, an editorial site for analytics, IT, and business professionals, and longtime editor at Network World, where she oversaw multimedia content development, writing and editing for special feature packages focused on advanced IT technology and its impact on business users. Over the years, she has earned more than a dozen national and regional editorial excellence awards for special issues from American Business Media, American Society of Business Press Editors, Folio.net, and others