Call-the-Cloud

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting about Fonolo to a standing-room-only crowd at Startup Camp Telephony. The event was organized by Embrase and hosted at TMC’s ITExpo event in Miami.

ITExpo was a great show as always: Good sessions on  HD Voice, 4G wireless, the future of call centers, etc. I was on a panel titled Voice Application from the Developer Perspective with Conversif and TruPhone. (I’ll post the slides later.) A boisterous blogger dinner organized by Andy Abramson capped it off (where the menu included celery sorbet — two words I never thought I would see together).

But the StartupCamp was certainly the highlight for me.

From an article on TMC.net …

Startup Camp Telephony was born from the desire to grow the exposure – and ultimately commercial successes – of the many dynamic young businesses being created today in mobile, voice, video, network and other emerging forms of telephony. … Fonolo’s Shai Berger… explained that the call center industry still has the room and need for a service that will help clear the so-called “logjam” that has contributed to an inefficient calling process.

Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring. If you are interested in building a voice application you should take a look at their platform.

The other presenting companies were:

• pebb.ly — A platform to set up interactive SMS-based marketing in 2 minutes. (Quick! Can you name what country has the TLD “ly”?)
• CloseHaul — A freestanding gsm femtocell with game-changing potential.
• SayHired  — Accelerate the hiring process with automated phone-based interviews.

Check out their sites - a lot of promising ideas there.

Some video from the event here. I hope TMC and Embrase make this a new tradition.