agenda Fall '26 Voice and Conversations on the Net Agenda The AI Communication Industry Conference October 13–15, 2026 · Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center · Atlanta, Georgia Oct 13 vCon Summit · VoiceAI LIVE! Oct 14 Full Schedule Oct 15 Full Schedule Oct 13 Two Co-Located Experiences To learn vCons specifically, October 13 is the day. The Introduction to vCons Primer runs once, on the 13th. Sessions across all three days teach in their own way. 2026 vCon Summit A vCon Foundation event Understand the conversation. (Track A) 8:15 AM Registration Opens 9:00 AM Welcome 9:10 AM Why Conversations Need a File Format Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 9:40 AM Data Privacy Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 10:10 AM The Conversation Graph Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 10:40 AM Break 10:55 AM Small Ball and Long Ball Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 11:25 AM The Network Problem Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 11:55 AM Closing the Loop Thomas Howe · CTO, vConic 12:25 PM Morning Session Ends 12:30 PM The vCon Foundation Member Lunch 2:00 PM vCon as the AI Agent Audit Trail 2:20 PM Provenance and Chain of Custody in the vCon Lifecycle 2:40 PM When STIR/SHAKEN Meets vCon: Attestation for the Full Conversation 3:00 PM Should AI Agents and Human Agents Be Modeled the Same Way? 3:20 PM Break 3:35 PM Fraud Has a Pattern. vCons Have the Signal. 3:55 PM From Prototype to Production: Lessons from Deploying vCon at Scale 4:25 PM Why the vCon Core Spec Matters for Every AI Agent on the Network 4:45 PM The Contact Center Extension and Working Group Last Call: What Comes Next 5:00 PM Growing the vCon Ecosystem: Foundation Developers and What's Next 5:30 PM Wrap and Close View the full vCon Summit agenda 2026 VoiceAI LIVE! See Voice AI work. (Track B) 9:10 AM Welcome 9:15 AM SignalWire Luca Pradovera · Head Solutions Architect, SignalWire 9:35 AM Speko Bek Abdik · CEO, Speko 9:55 AM Vapi (Invited) 10:15 AM VoiceRun Derek Caneja · CTO, VoiceRun 10:35 AM Hamming.ai Sumanyu Sharma · CEO, Hamming.ai 10:55 AM Morning Break 11:10 AM AgentPhone Manav Modi · CEO, AgentPhone 11:30 AM Callab AI Haithem Kchaou · CEO, Callab AI 11:50 AM Guava (Invited) 12:10 PM Convoso (Invited) 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM SoundHound Michael Anderson · EVP AI for Enterprise, SoundHound 2:20 PM Strolid Matt Watson · VP Product Development, Strolid 2:40 PM Best Buy Kishor Patil · Senior Engineering Manager, Best Buy 3:00 PM Dialpad (Invited) 3:20 PM Autom8ly Mark Vange · Founder & CTO, Autom8ly 3:40 PM Afternoon Break 4:00 PM BoundaryAI Hippolyte Lapierre · CEO, BoundaryAI 4:20 PM Okareo Matt Wyman · CEO & Founder, Okareo 4:40 PM Modulate (Invited) 5:00 PM Kidas Ron Kerbs · CEO, Kidas 5:20 PM Closing Remarks 6:30 PM VIP & Speaker Dinner View the full VoiceAI LIVE! schedule 6:30 PM VIP & Speaker Dinner Speakers and VIP guests come together for the Speaker Dinner, continuing a tradition that has opened every conference curated by Jeff Pulver. Included with any VIP ticket. Oct 14 Voice and Conversations on the Net 8:15 AM Registration opens 8:15 AM Registration Opens 9:00 AM The RenAIssance of Voice Jeff Pulver 9:15 AM Tangibility in Cyberspace Chris Fine · CEO, Integrative Technologies 9:35 AM Session details to come Dialpad (Invited) 9:50 AM Can the Bot hear me? Randy Layman · CTO, AVOXI 10:05 AM VON Spotlight: Something Old Is New Again Masud Khan 10:10 AM VoIP 3.0: Conversations Not Call Legs Jonathan Eisenzopf · Principal Agent Strategist, Vapi 10:25 AM Break 10:40 AM VoiceAI Rising Stars Derek Caneja · CTO, VoiceRun Manav Modi · CEO, AgentPhone Haithem Kchaou · CEO, Callab AI Bek Abdik · CEO, Speko 11:10 AM Session details to come SoundHound (Invited) 11:25 AM Session title to be announced Mike Mills · Managing Director, Service Provider, Gamma 11:40 AM Session title to be announced Dag Peak · CPTO, Alianza 11:55 AM When Conversations Become Assets Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO, vConic Mike Mills · Managing Director, Service Provider, Gamma Dag Peak · CPTO, Alianza Mark Vange · Founder & CTO, Autom8ly 12:30 PM Lunch 12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Two hours. Many choices in the area. Afternoon · Three Parallel Rooms 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM Room A SignalWire: Building Voice AI on Real-Time Communications SignalWire (Invited) Room B Asterisk, FreePBX and the AI Communications Stack Sangoma (Invited) Room C When Voice Becomes Software, What Exactly Gets Taxed? Robert Dumas · CEO & Founder, TaxConnex Mike Sanders · CEO, CereTax 2:55 PM to 3:40 PM Room A What an Enterprise Agentic-AI Builder Is Actually Building Kishor Patil · Senior Engineering Manager, Best Buy Room B Reliability Is a Voice AI Feature Spectrum (Invited) Gigapipe (Invited) Room C The Rules Don't Disappear When the Caller Is AI Lee G. Petro · Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC Ron Kerbs · CEO, Kidas Convoso (Invited) 3:50 PM to 4:35 PM Room A Rethinking the Future From the Past Chris Fine · CEO, Integrative Technologies Masud Kahn · Staff Software Engineer, Tin Can Room B How Do You Know Your Voice AI Actually Works? Sumanyu Sharma · CEO & Founder, Hamming AI Matt Wyman · CEO & Founder, Okareo Hippolyte Lapierre · CEO, BoundaryAI Room C Voice AI in Healthcare: From Agent to Patient QuantalTech AI (Invited) 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM Room A When the Dark Data Lights Up Vin Micciche · CEO & Founder, Strolid Matt Watson · VP of Product Development, Strolid Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO, vConic Room B You Can't Bolt Compliance Onto Voice AI Cortega (Invited) Room C View the full October 14 schedule 5:30 – 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Oct 15 Voice and Conversations on the Net 8:30 AM Registration opens Morning · Three Parallel Rooms 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room A Boomers + Gen X Meet AI: What We Learned Building the First Voice Internet Ken Adams · President, P2P Labs Mark Vange · Founder & CTO, Autom8ly SIPez (Invited) Room B Human in the Loop MindMaking (Invited) Room C 9:55 AM to 10:40 AM Room A VICIdial: What 20 Years of Production Voice Teaches Us About AI VICIdial Group (Invited) Room B Can You Prove What the AI Said? Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO, vConic Lee G. Petro · Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC Room C What Voice AI Can Learn From Agents That Never Hang Up Drum (Invited) 10:50 AM to 11:35 AM Room A When AI Moves Into the Call Path Charles Chance · CTO, Simwood Group PLC Room B Evaluating Real-Time Voice Agents Beyond AI Models Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy · CTO, WebRTC SIPez (Invited) Room C Who Owns the Conversation? 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM Room A The Economics of the AI Phone Call Room B What Haven't We Solved Yet? Room C When a Good Call Looks Like a Bad Call Gerry Christensen · Principal Consultant & Analyst, Convoso 12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Two hours. Many choices in the area. 2:00 PM Show Me the Money: Where Investors Are Betting on Voice AI Bradley Metrock · General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners Additional speakers to be announced 2:30 PM VON Spotlight: 20 Years Later, VICIdial Is Still Here VICIdial Group (Invited) 2:45 PM Open Source Built the Voice Internet. What Does It Build Next? Sangoma (Invited) 3:00 PM The Network Is Learning to Listen Charles Chance · CTO, Simwood Group PLC 3:15 PM The Enterprise Reality of Voice AI Hari Kishan KV · Director of Cloud Engineering, Manulife SoundHound (Invited) 3:45 PM Break 4:00 PM Will We Regret Replacing the Human Voice? MindMaking (Invited) Additional speakers to be announced 4:25 PM The Next Wave of Voice AI Hippolyte Lapierre · CEO, BoundaryAI Hamming AI (Invited) Additional speakers to be announced 4:45 PM The RenAIssance of Voice: What Comes Next View the full October 15 schedule Join us in Atlanta, Georgia. Help shape what comes next. This is a working conference designed for people who want to build and deploy, not just observe. Register Back to the event Sponsors Presenting Sponsor Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Become a sponsor