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VidyoPanorama Design Guide
Howard S. Lichtman- President
Howard S. Lichtman is a productivity-focused
technologist, author, publisher and consultant
with specialties in telepresence and visual
collaboration to improve organizational and
personal productivity. He is the founder and
president of the Human Productivity Lab, an
independent consultancy and research rm that
helps organizations design telepresence and
visual collaboration strategies and deploy and
future-proof solutions.
He is the publisher of Telepresence Options,
the #1 website on the Internet covering the
telepresence revolution and Telepresence
Options Magazine and editor of the Telepresence
Options Telegraph, the world’s most widely read
publication covering telepresence technologies.
Mr. Lichtman is also the author and/or co-author
of: The Telepresence Options 2011Yearbook
(2011), The Telepresence and Videoconferencing
Exchange Review (2010), The Inter-Company
Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook
(2009),Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration
and the Future of Global Business at the Speed
of Light (2006), andEmerging Technologies for
Teleconferencing and Telepresence (2005).
Mr. Lichtman is a frequent commentator on
telepresence, videoconferencing and effective
visual collaboration and his writings on and
analysis of the industry have been featured by US
News and World Report, Telephony Magazine,
CXO Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Reuters,
Pro AV Magazine, Killer App Magazine, ABA
Banking Journal, Bank Systems and Technology
Magazine and CFO Magazine among others.
About the Authors
David Maldow – Associate Analyst and
Associate Editor
David Maldow is a visual collaboration technologist
with the Human Productivity Lab with extensive
expertise in testing, evaluating, and explaining
telepresence and other visual collaboration
technologies.David is focused on providing third-
party independent testing of telepresence and
visual collaboration endpoints and infrastructure
and helping industry participants explain
complicated subjects through white papers and
other end-user facing publications.David is also a
contributor to the Lab’s publications: Telepresence
Options, the monthly newsletter: Telepresence
Options’ Telegraph and the bi-annual Telepresence
Options Magazine.
Prior to joining the team at HPL and
Telepresence Options, David worked at industry
analyst rm Wainhouse Research (WR) as a
member of their video collaboration coverage
team. While at WR, he supported a variety
of videoconferencing, streaming, and end-
user consulting projects. David managed WR’s
videoconferencing test lab where he oversaw
and conducted evaluations of rich media
products and solutions. David wrote, or co-
wrote, numerous evaluations and other reports
for WR publications.