The other day I came across the homepage for the VON Israel telecommunications conference next month and quickly noticed that it is produced by Pulvermedia. Pulvermedia is the creation of telecommunications guru, Jeff Pulver, and VON Israel is one of several “Voice on the Net” events that Pulvermedia produces. VON Israel next month will provide a forum for leaders in “all sectors of IP communications” in Israel to “come together to discuss, debate and advance the industry.”

Why is Jeff Pulver’s company behind these events? Jeff Pulver is the founder of the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) company, Vonage, and the starter of Free World Dialup. He also played an influential part in the Federal Communications Commission’s decision “not to regulate peer-to-peer communications services that don’t connect with the traditional copper phone network” in 2005.

His success and ability to grasp the future of the telecommunications industry on the Internet (including his current push for Television on the Internet) has lead his websites, pulver.com and pulvermedia.com, to become two of the top resource destinations for people in the industry. Pulver’s influential call to focus on video is seen in the theme of this year’s VON Israel conference being “Voice, Video, Vision.” With current speculation on how a video site such as YouTube will impact the 2008 Presidential election in the United States, conferences such as VON Israel have the potential to further the means, use and influence of video on the Internet, beyond just YouTube and presidential elections.