I’m presenting at Broadband Summit 2007 on Tuesday 27th Feb (next week). The title is “VoIPTopia” a concept that Sarah Rice and I developed (OK, so she suggested it and then watched in amusement while I got carried away and went MontyPythonesque). We started to think about ‘OK, so we’re doing VoIP. It works. The environment is a bit restricting. Now what?’ So we decided to go right over the top. Indulge the secret SciFi wannabe in each of us. Go Shatner, go Skywalker, go Buzz Lightyear, <sound effects please> …! 
What if the environment was conducive to VoIP-to-the-max? What if we all got really creative and leveraged the power of IP? Where it was no longer a world of “so, how much will this VoIP dingus save us eh?”, but where VoIP is used because the quality is better and it enables us to be so much more creative with our communications.
VoIPTopia was born.
I’ll make the .ppt and the associated movie clips (yeah, we really did go OTT) available here after the 27th (if you checked the link above you will have noticed the entry fee is just short of the GDP of a small country). Adam Lange of SignPost has put together an really cool intro. Andrew Bayley of Quirk succeeded in trimming it down to a barely emailable size (had to sacrifice a but of quality, but all in the interests of fun! ) and Adrian Berger (aka Meshsmith) worked 24*7 to meet my ridiculous deadline despite trashing his hard drive and RAM on the way to create the cartoon of a dude called Dave, living and working in VoIPTopia.
Thanks guys – will give you some feedback after Tuesday. I can just hear “Thunderguts” from “Men from the Ministry” (for those of you old enough to remember lying on the lounge carpet listening to Springbok Radio) yelling “AND DON’T MAKE A MUCK OF IT!”
that’s me.
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