Next week, Jeff Pulver's famous VON show returns to Canada.  The lineup of speakers is again very impressive, including the likes of Niklas Zennström (the CEO and co-founder of Skype), Ibrahim Gedeon (Telus CTO), Alexander Brock (VP of Business Development of Rogers), Ian McLaren (CEO of Ubiquity Software), Ron McKenzie (Executive VP of Allstream), and Mark Spencer (President of Asterisk).  Moreover, the new venue (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, right downtown) and quite a few interesting sessions - such as for instance a great "Town Hall" meeting with Lawson Hunter (Executive VP for Bell Canada) and Larry Shaw (Director General for Telecom Policy at Industry Canada) - will also contribute towards making this a can't miss show. 

I am honored to have been invited for a few sessions and hope to make a positive contribution to the event.  Two of the sessions in which I will be participating will be potentially very interesting: one is a venture capital perspective (where experts in the VC industry will give their impressions on VoIP-related investments) and another one on IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems), where we will have impressions about this new architecture for next-gen networks from both the vendor and the carrier side.  IMS has been a buzzword that has gotten a lot of press lately, and I will have a follow-up posting on the topic.