Much has been blogged about VON Canada already (and I recommend both Jon Arnold's and Mark Evans' various opinion pieces).  In its second year, there was more traffic at the VON show, and the new venue (in downtown Toronto) certainly helped.  I believe that the event definitely had star power, with figures such as Niklas Zennström (the CEO of Skype, the VoIP wonder company), Lawson Hunter (the Bell Canada Exec VP and regulation czar), Ibrahim Gedeon (the Telus CTO guru with a great sense of humor and realism), Alexander Brock (VP of Business Development at Rogers and one of the FMCA czars), and even young rising stars such as Mark Spencer (the president of Asterisk, an open-source IP PBX).

My enjoyable moments were many, including the Q&A session with Niklas after his keynote (reporters kept asking him questions, including many who made the trek from the US to take advantage of his being in Canada) and chatting with him the next day (again, thanks to Ash Chopra for taking the photo), chatting with various VCs in the VC session about their VoIP-related investments, listening to Arun Sobti and Eric Burger (they each gave a great lecture in the Media Server session), getting a good laugh from the crowd with my cocktail party question during the IMS session, and getting a great industry perspective from Tom Evslin (his VON Canada slides can be downloaded from this entry).