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TeleCon was, in its time, the world's largest conference and trade show on all forms of teleconferencing, videoconferencing, collaborative computing technologies, and their applications in distance learning, corporate training, business collaboration, telecommuting, and telemedicine.

TeleCon XVIII was arranged in 1998 by Applied Business TeleCommunications owned and operated by Patrick Portway and Shawn Portway , [1] which makes it reasonable to suppose that the first show was arranged in 1980.

The show was sold in 1998 and changed its name to "Collaborate West" in 2002, [2] seeing a quite small turnout; [3] there was also a "Collaborate Conference & Expo East 2002". [4] It does not seem to have been arranged in 2003 under either name.

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References

  1. "International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium Hosts Market Interoperability Launch Event At TeleCon XVIII". BusinessWire. Oct 26, 1998. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  2. "Conferencing's Largest Trade Show, TeleCon, Expands Into Collaborative Communications; Broadened TeleCon Event Will Be Renamed "Collaborate West 2002" at Upcoming Event in Anaheim". Business Wire. October 10, 2001. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  3. John Latta (December 6, 2002). "Collaborate West 2002". WAVE Report. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  4. "Collaboration Products and Services to Be Introduced at Collaborate Conference & Expo East 2002". Business Wire. June 10, 2002. Retrieved 2009-08-30.