The schedule for Comms vNext’s Microsoft UC conference has been published. 

Comms vNext will include talks from Microsoft MVPs on a range of topics, an exhibition hall of companies connected to Microsoft, and more.  

The in-person conference is taking place in Denver, Colorado, from August 16-17. The sessions will also be made available online. 

Comms vNext Schedule Highlights 

Highlights for Comms vNext 2022 include a keynote address and talk on Microsoft Teams by MVP Tom Arbuthnot, who recently launched Empowering.Cloud as a Teams advice and training centre for IT professionals.   

Michael Tressler, Christina Wheeler, Nathan Loback, Matt Slaga, and Laurie Pottmeyer are among the speakers also basing their talks around Microsoft Teams.   

Stacy Deere will be talking about the functionality of Microsoft Loop, which can raise the bar for collaboration even higher for Microsoft 365. 

Lauren Brockman’s talk is on direct routing and the dos and don’ts of E911 compliance and porting.   

Other sessions include Joy Apple’s ‘How to win friends and solve problems’, Eric Marsi on ‘SIP gateway: everything you need or might want to know’, and Rodolfo Castro’s ‘ How to select the right room solution’.   

There are 23 talks, including the keynote address, and they will run from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on both days of the conference.

Expo Hall & Speakers 

The platinum line-up of exhibitors at this year’s Comms vNext conference are Landis, Logitech, Oracle, and Poly. Accompanying these are a further 12 sponsors, which include Jabra, Yealink, AudioCodes, Bandwidth, and more.   

There are 17 Microsoft professionals speaking at Comms vNext in total. These include Shari Oswal, a Microsoft 365 solutions architect and consultant, Laurie Pottmeyer, the Community Lead for Microsoft Teams, and Jamie Stark, a principal PM manager with Microsoft Teams. 

What is Comms vNext? 

Comms vNext describes itself as “an independent, community-led event, created and fashioned with the community in mind… a place where the community can meet, connect and share information and ideas.”   

The conference models itself closely on the Lync Conferences, which took place in San Diego in 2013 and Las Vegas in 2014.   

Josh Blalock, one of the founders of Comms vNext, realised there was a big demand for a Lync-style conference in which the applicants and technologies took centre stage.   

The theme of Microsoft in unified communications was born out of the office 365-centred UCDayUK conference, which was happening around the same time Blalock discovered a common craving for a Lync-based set-up.   

Blalock formed Comms vNext with Microsoft MVPs Jonathan McKinney, Adam Ball, and Pat Richard and launched the inaugural conference in June 2018.   

Comms vNext 2022 Tickets 

If you would like to attend the event, two-day tickets cost $199 and can be purchased via the Comms vNext registration page.   

For those interested in registering, Comms vNext has informed us it will soon set up a product giveaway competition, rewarding participants for spreading the word and getting others to sign up for the event.   

UC Today has been named the media partner for Comms vNext 2022. 

Last year, Comms vNext took place in Denver, Colarado, and it was centred around the theme of ‘Reconnect’. 

 

 



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