SAN FRANCISCO, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- KPN's Eelco Blok Joins Cisco, IBM, Ingencio, Microsoft, Siemens and 
Royal Dutch Shell on Keynote Stage; Microsoft to Reveal OCS Release 2

VoiceCon Amsterdam(R), produced by TechWeb, today announced that Eelco
Blok, Managing Director of KPN's Business, Getronics and Wholesale &
Operations Segments has joined the keynote lineup for the event. Also
keynoting at VoiceCon Amsterdam are: Joe Burton, Vice President and CTO,
Unified Communications, Cisco; David Farrell, Vice President, IBM Software
Europe; Jean-Marc Voelckel, CIO, Ingencio; Eric Swift, Senior Director,
Microsoft; Johan Krebbers, Group IT Architect, Royal Dutch Shell; Gerhard
Otterbach, Member of the Board, Siemens Enterprise Communications. VoiceCon
Amsterdam will be held 14-16 October at the Amsterdam RAI. Details are
available at http://www.voicecon.eu/.

VoiceCon also announced that Microsoft has selected VoiceCon Amsterdam as
the venue for releasing details of its new Office Communications Server 2007
Release 2. According to Microsoft, the new OCS Release 2 will validate its
software-based approach to Unified Communications.

"It is very gratifying to have the leadership in European enterprise
communications converge at VoiceCon Amsterdam to announce major new
initiatives," said Fred Knight, VoiceCon General Manager. "In addition to
Microsoft unveiling OCS Release 2, KPN will be demonstrating its new product
and service strategy and other announcements are still in the works. At this
critical time in the migration to a new framework for enterprise
communications, VoiceCon Amsterdam will give the industry a good indication
of how far we've come -- and what's coming next."

VoiceCon Amsterdam is designed to help enterprise executives address two
fundamental questions: How to select and build the IP Telephony and
enterprise communications platform that is right for their enterprise; and
how to leverage that platform for Unified Communications and other emerging
applications. In addition to the keynote presentations, VoiceCon will present
a complete line-up of tutorials and conference sessions.

VoiceCon Amsterdam is both a conference and an exhibition, with many of
the market leaders in European enterprise communications participating in the
Demo Pavilion. The VoiceCon Amsterdam Diamond Sponsors include KPN, Siemens,
Psytechnics and IBM. The Platinum, Silver and Gold Sponsors include
Microsoft, Mitel, Prognosis, Eaton, LG Nortel, Motorola, NEC-Phillips, NetIQ,
Polycom and Qunitum.

About VoiceCon(R)

Now in its 18th year, VoiceCon(R) is the leading conference and
exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified
Communications in North America. VoiceCon(R) brings enterprise decision
makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to
focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. As the
momentum toward IP Telephony and convergence has grown, VoiceCon has expanded
to include two yearly shows in North America: VoiceCon San Francisco,
returning to the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, November
10-13, 2008 and VoiceCon Orlando, set for March 30-April 2, 2009, at the
Gaylord Palms Hotel. VoiceCon Orlando was recently named one of Tradeshow
Week's Fastest 50, a distinguished award recognizing the fastest-growing
tradeshows. The event was honored with this distinction for show growth
between 2004 and 2006. VoiceCon recently launched a new website -- No Jitter,
(http://www.nojitter.com/) -- providing daily blogging and analysis of
enterprise IP-Telephony, Unified Communications and Converged Networks.
VoiceCon also serves the enterprise communications community with two weekly
email newsletters -- VoiceCon eNews (http://www.voicecon.com/enews) and
VoiceCon UC eWeekly (http://www.voicecon.com/unified-communications/) -- and
the VoiceCon Webinar Series. For more information, visit
http://www.voicecon.com/.

About TechWeb

TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative
business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and
marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media
brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3* million
business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created
around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and
VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading,
Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial
Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek,
TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb
also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance
marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a
division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and
specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than
US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

About United Business Media Limited

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We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at
events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business
successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from
doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from
farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30
countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities,
helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and
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