How far way those days seem now, as the outbreak of Covid 19 has changed everything. It is no exaggeration to say that, as the vast majority of workers have been displaced to their homes because of government lockdowns, having a robust unified communications (UC) infrastructure is now a business essential and, in particular, the key planks of UC, such as remote conferencing and collaborations is become the basic necessity. Tune in to listen how companies are changing the UC game and companies like Google and Microsoft are fighting for becoming the market leaders. who can better tell us this then our guest today

Tom Arbuthnot is a specialist Unified Communications Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Master and MVP, with a number of years’ experience in the field working with many companies across different verticals on global UC projects.

He spent 5 years working for a Cisco UC specialist, before moving to Modality Systems to focus on the Microsoft UC offering. He has been involved in all aspects of UC projects from presales, scoping and design, through to deployment, support and user adoption.

He is heavily involved in the UC community, regularly blogging at tomtalks.blog, co-running the Microsoft UC User Group London (mucugl.co.uk) and speaking at many user groups and global events such as Microsoft Lync Conference, TechEd and Ignite. He is a contributing author to Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Unleashed, and a regular on the popular The UC Architects podcast.