Ashburn. VA  October 30th, 2007 -- The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), an independent research firm and consultancy focused on telepresence and inter-networking telepresence, announces the launch of their newest website covering the telepresence industry: Telepresence Options.

Telepresence Options 2008 will feature a comprehensive overview of the technologies, vendors, and inter-networking options available for telepresence conferencing. The guide will be essential to executives, technologists, educators and organizations interested in leveraging telepresence technologies to improve their ability to collaborate effectively with their branch offices, joint venture partners, vendors, customers and supply chains globally.  Company Profiles and Solutions Reviews of telepresence and inter-networking telepresence solutions will begin posting to the site in the coming days and weeks.

Ashburn. VA June 4, 2007 -- The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), an independent research firm and consultancy focused on telepresence and inter-networking telepresence, announces the launch of its next major multi-media publication: Telepresence Options 2008.

Telepresence Options 2008 will be a comprehensive overview of the technologies, vendors, and inter-networking options available in telepresence. The guide will be essential to executives, educators and organizations interested in leveraging Telepresence technologies to improve their ability to collaborate effectively with their branch offices, joint venture partners, vendors, customers and supply chains globally.

Ashburn, Va., (PRWeb) March 16th, 2007 -- The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), an independent research firm and consultancy, announced today an expansion of its Telepresence Consulting Practice and the appointment of visual collaboration industry veteran Kirk Dennis as Managing Director. The Lab is also announcing an updated website for the Telepresence Consulting Practice at: http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/consulting

Ashburn, Va., August 30th, 2006 — In collaboration with telepresence consultancy Human Productivity Lab, international event organizer Hemisphere Expo Services announces the launch of TelePresence World, a series of conferences and exhibitions that will bring together telepresence, presence, unified communications industry leaders and major end users from around the globe. The kickoff event, TelePresence World 2007, will be held June 4-6, 2006 at the University of San Diego.

Ashburn, Va., August 9^th, 2006 – The Human Productivity Lab, an independent research firm and consultancy specializing in the emerging telepresence industry, recently published a landmark paper on telepresence and effective visual collaboration.

The paper, Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration, and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light, written by the Lab's President and founder, Howard S. Lichtman, examines the technologies, ROI, vendors and future of telepresence, a technology with revolutionary implications on global business, outsourcing, distance learning, business travel and telecommunications.

Ashburn, Va., August 3^rd, 2006 -- The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), an independent research firm and consultancy, announced today new coverage of the telepresence industry from Brent Houlahan. Brent brings to the Lab more than 15 years of experience providing network infrastructure, collaboration and comprehensive security solutions to both private and public sector clients. Most recently Brent was the CTO and VP of Operations for NetSec, a managed security services provider (MSSP) that was acquired by MCI for $105M in February of '05. Brent previously served as CTO and co-founder of Powwow Networks with HPL founder Howard S. Lichtman.