Education in the Telepresence Space
2007.06.07 by John Serrao
Dr. R Shaun Edmonson of thereNow inc., a company that specializes in telepresence based education, spoke on the subject during the last day of Telepresence World. He was talking about how national education policy focuses its energy on large expenditures on technology for schools yet this technology never catches on or impacts the educational experience. He showed an interesting cycle of technology adoption in the educational space...
- Introduction (Excitement)
- Research (Promise)
- Implementation (Problems)
- Adoption (Disappointment)
- Blame (Teachers)
DVE's co-founder and CEO, Steve McNelley at Telepresence World
2007.06.06 by John Serrao
Steve McNelly, PhD, Co-Founder, DVE on stage at Telepresence World
The following article was written by Ed Kohler, a member of the Lab's TW2007 Coverage Partner, Technology Evangelist.
DVE has been getting a lot of attention at Telepresence World with the launch of their new tele-immersion system. However, when DVE's co-founder and CEO, Steve McNelly, PhD took the stage to present his thoughts on the telepresence industry, he decided to take a more high level approach than focusing on specific products. His presentation focused on what telepresence is with an anticipated steer toward what makes DVE's solutions unique.
Robot Doctors and Remote Presence
2007.06.06 by John Serrao
Day 3 of Telepresence World is filled with speeches that are showing the application of telepresence outside of the conference room, namely the medical applications of the technology. The first speech of the day that I got to see today was Yulung Wang, CEO InTouch Health. He was talking about clinical robots that can aid in helping doctors remotely diagnosing patients. He even brought out a robot named RP7 right on stage (pictured). These robots also 'act' as remote doctors that monitor patients in ICUs. Each robot uses telepresence to communicate between the remote doctor and robot doctor, so the patient feels as if their own doctors is actually in room with them. While the image quality is not that you will see in a standard telepresence room, but this solution is mobile.
Tom Szabo, CEO of Telanetix at Telepresence World
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
Tom Szabo, CEO of Telanetix, On Stage and On Screen
The CEO of Telanetix, Tom Szabo, delivered a presentation titled, "Driving Telepresence ROI with New Technology" which took at look at the driving forces behind growth in the Telepresence industry.
Reflecting on the current growth in the telepresence market, Szabo suggested that, "telepresence is turning into an overnight success that's been 20-years in the making."
Publically Available Telepresence and the Network Effect: Cisco and Regus Perspective
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
The following article was written by Ed Kohler, a member of the Lab's TW2007 Coverage Partner, Technology Evangelist.
While pretty much all of the telepresence solutions on display at Telepresence World are impressive and have the ability to improve business communications, the power of this is largely limited by the number of units deployed. It doesn't take a telepresence expert to understand that spending hundred of thousands of dollars to enable face to face conversations between only two people is rarely justified. But as soon as a third, then fourth, fifth and counting unit connects to the network, the number of communications opportunities grows exponentially. Read on >
TW2007 Day 2: Tom Jackson, Mission Benefits CEO
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
Tom Jackson, current CEO of Mission Benefits and the former CEO of the early telepresence company Telesuite, started his speech with an interesting question - how do we take telepresence to the masses? His answer (and some other industry experts agree) is publically available telepresence.
TW2007 Day 2: Barry Nalls, Masergy CEO
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
Masergy CEO Barry Nalls was the next speaker at Telepresence World today and he had some salient advice. His first order of business was to establish telepresence as a savings model for business. He did this by explaining that telepresence enables communication thereby allowing more goods to come to market more quickly for companies that adopt it. This creates an indirect cost benefit in addition to the more logical reduction in travel expenses associated with a product such as telepresence.
TW2007 Day 2: Martyn Lewis, European Chairman of Teliris
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
Martyn Lewis - European Chairman - Teliris
The following article was written by Ed Kohler, a member of the Lab's TW2007 Coverage Partner, Technology Evangelist.
One thing that is fairly ironic about the Telepresence conference is how many people are in attendance. As in, people have traveled to San Diego from all over the world where they're discussing how their technology solutions allow you to avoid traveling all over the world.
This led me to wonder, "why aren't more of the presentations being done via telepresence solutions from the solutions providers?" For example, Charles Stucki from Cisco mentioned that John Chambers was a real believer in telepresence, and Chambers would have loved to make it to the telepresence show. Why didn't they schedule a Cisco powered presentation where Chambers addressed the telepresence audience for a few minutes during Stucki's presentation?
TW2007 Day 2: Cameron Durke, Director of the San Diego Office of the Governor of California
2007.06.05 by John Serrao
Office of the Governor of California brought us their San Diego representative named Cameron Drukel. He highlighted some of the very progressive policies the state has adopted in order to combat global warming. The focus of his speech was the idea that goods movement is the central pollution mechanism creating greenhouse gases. To that end, Drukel's speech implied that advanced technologies such as telepresence are going to dent the total amount of goods and communication related traffic, thereby reducing greenhouse gas CO2. Read on for more
A Moment with Telanetix
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
Today I had the chance to spend some time with our friends over at Telanetix. They had some very interesting telepresence offerings to show off today. Pictured above is their Digital Presence solution - a 4 screen plasma setup that can interact with multiple sites around the world simultaneously. 2 of the 4 side screens display static content, like reports and movies where the 2 center screens display the conference members. Read on for more.
Mid-Day 1 at Telepresence World
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
I attended another interesting speech this afternoon here at Telepresence World called Trends in Collaboration with David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies. In this breakout session, he outlined his thoughts about a topic called Collaboration 2.0. Click to read more on the subject.
TW2007 Speech: Bob Hagarty, CEO Polycom
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
The following article was written by Ed Kohler, a member of the Lab's TW2007 Coverage Partner, Technology Evangelist.
Bob Hagarty, CEO of Polycom, kicked off Telepresence World by explaining that leaders need to be connected more than ever in today's business environment, yet face ever increasing communications challenges due to increasingly complex corporate structures. Read on for more information about this speech.
TW2007 Speech: Aaron McCormick, CEO BT Conferencing
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
The next speech following Mark Trachtenberg's was that of Aaron McCormick, the CEO of BT Conferencing. Aaron took a lower-level approach than Mark, concentrating more on the industry than the mechanisms that drive technological evolution in general. Read on for a synopsis of Aaron's speech.
TW2007 Speech: Marc Trachtenberg, CEO Teliris
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
One of the first speeches at Telepresence World 2007 Day 1 was Marc Trachtenberg, CEO of Teliris. Marc concentrated his speech on the fundamentals of how a new technology, like telepresence, becomes widely accepted into society. Read on for more about Marc's Speech.
Telepresence World 2007 (Day 1) - First Impressions
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
TW2007 Speech: Charles Stucki, GM Cisco Telepresence
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
The following article was written by Ed Kohler, a member of the Lab's TW2007 Coverage Partner, Technology Evangelist.
Charles Stucki, VP and GM, Telepresence Systems, Cisco Systems, Inc gave us an update on Cisco's position in the world of telepresence. He started out by emphasizing that John Chambers, Cisco's CEO, is a huge believer in telepresence and is pushing Cisco's growth in this initiative. Click to read on....
Human Productivity Lab Announces Telepresence Options 2008 -A Multimedia Guide to Telepresence and Inter-networking Telepresence
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
Ashburn. VA June 4, 2007 -- The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), an independent research firm and consultancy focused on telepresence and inter-networking telepresence, announces the launch of its next major multi-media publication: Telepresence Options 2008.
Telepresence Options 2008 will be a comprehensive overview of the technologies, vendors, and inter-networking options available in telepresence. The guide will be essential to executives, educators and organizations interested in leveraging Telepresence technologies to improve their ability to collaborate effectively with their branch offices, joint venture partners, vendors, customers and supply chains globally.
Telepresence Options will be a multimedia publication released in hard copy and a downloadable PDF. It will also include a companion DVD featuring the Lab's original videography on telepresence, inter-networking telepresence and the emerging telepresence industry including product overviews and interviews with the key executives and personalities revolutionizing Telepresence and effective visual collaboration. Those interested can register to receive a free copy of Telepresence Options 2008 at:
www.TelepresenceOptions.com
Telepresence World 2007 First Impressions (Day 0)
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
The Lab has arrived in full force to the beautiful University of San Diego campus for Telepresence World 2007. The scene is of controlled disorder; everyone is quietly gathering together their displays in hopes of impressing their fellow telepresence comrades. Everything we have seen is very impressive, unfortunately we can't talk about it quite yet due to some NDAs. In many ways, this conference is the coming out party for an industry. With each successive post the Lab distributes from this conference, you should start to see the future of immersive collaboration before your very eyes. Some very exciting and interesting technologies will be highlighted along with some of our very own announcement (just check the next post).
DVE Tele-immersion Room (The Ultimate Telepresence) Debuts at Telepresence World
2007.06.04 by John Serrao
DVE announced today the launch of the ultimate telepresence experience - the groundbreaking DVE Tele-Immersion RoomTM - which is available for world preview at the Telepresence World Conference being held in San Diego. Offering dramatic 3-D holographic appearing images of participants in perfect HD, the DVE Tele-Immersion RoomTM shows people sitting and walking around meeting rooms as if they were just across the table, providing an exciting new level of realism to the teleconferencing experience.
Will You Become Your Avatar? - Explore Telepresence in Virtual Worlds like Second Life with Bob McCandless at Telepresence World in San Diego, California June 4th
2007.06.01 by HSL
Orange County, CA May 31, 2007 -- Bob McCandless, CEO of McCandless Group, parent company of telepresence leader BrightCom Inc, will present "Avatars: The Real You" at Telepresence World 2007 conference, June 4th at the University of San Diego,...
Telanetix CEO to Speak at Telepresence World
2007.06.01 by HSL
SAN DIEGO, May 30 -- Telanetix, Inc., a leading developer of telepresence technology, today announced that company Chairman and CEO, Tom Szabo, will be sharing his insights on the strategic implementations of telepresence technology in today's business environment while...
Telepresence World 2007 to Feature Multiple Live Demonstrations
2007.05.29 by John Serrao
Steamboat Springs , CO (May 22, 2007) - "You have to experience it to believe it" is often heard when describing how telepresence works. At the Telepresence World 2007 conference, June 4-6, at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, attendees will be able to do just that--experience live, real-time demonstrations of telepresence technology provided by industry leaders and event sponsors Polycom, Teliris, Cisco, Telanetix, BT, DVE (Digital Video Enterprises), and Masergy. Telepresence, which uses high definition video and audio, large, high-resolution displays, and low-latency networks to offer the most realistic meeting experience possible between people separated by distance, will vastly simplify the way virtual collaboration takes place.
Welcome to the HPL's Official Telepresence World 2007 Special Coverage Website
2007.05.29 by John Serrao
Let me introduce the latest creation from the Lab - The HPL Telepresence World 2007 Coverage Site. This website will be devoted to covering the upcoming Telepresence World conference in San Diego, California from June 4th-6th. During the conference, this is site is THE place to go for up-to-the-minute information about what is going on at the show. We aim to update this website multiple times every day during the show with pictures, audio and video from the all the vendors along with keynote addresses and interviews with the all the speakers. Information prior to the conference will be updated here as necessary.
This site also has its own personal RSS feed. If you have a favorite RSS feed reader, be sure to point it over to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Tw2007/hplCoverageSite-MainRssFeed
