WOW! 2019 has been a busy year for CXTech: Slack and Zoom went IPO, receaching valuations of $20-24B; Ipcortex was bought by Aerial Direct, and Rob launched Aplisay (conversational tech), you’ll hear more about that over the next 2 days; Enghouse bought Vidyo for $40M (revenue was $60M) VoIP Innovations hired some of the Tropo team, launched their Showroom, and became a virtual CLEC; Lots and lots and lots of people moves; TADHack continues to help developers get great jobs: Eric, Vincent, Tien and more; Telesign leads the fight against identity theft, telecom fraud, and account take-over; AT&T launched its API Marketplace; eCPaaS (enterprise CPaaS) announced by hSenid Mobile; Wazo is on a roll with new hires and account wins; Simwood launches in the US, sponsors TADHack Global and Simon keynotes at TADSummit EMEA; Federation of communication systems goes mainstream with Mio and Matrix; and UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS continue to converge.