Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net Full Conference Schedule October 13–15, 2026 · Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia Register · ticket prices vCon Summit VoiceAI LIVE! Wed, Oct 14 Thu, Oct 15 Full Agenda October 13, 2026 Track A, vCon Summit 8:15 AM Registration Opens 9:00 AM Welcome 9:10 AM Why Conversations Need a File Format Thomas Howe 9:40 AM Data Privacy Thomas Howe 10:10 AM The Conversation Graph Thomas Howe 10:40 AM Break 10:55 AM Small Ball and Long Ball Thomas Howe 11:25 AM The Network Problem Thomas Howe 11:55 AM Closing the Loop Thomas Howe 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 Track B, VoiceAI LIVE! 9:10 AM Welcome 9:15 AM SignalWire Luca Pradovera 9:35 AM Speko Bek Abdik 9:55 AM Vapi (Invited) 10:15 AM VoiceRun Derek Caneja 10:35 AM Hamming.ai Sumanyu Sharma 10:55 AM Morning Break 11:10 AM AgentPhone Manav Modi 11:30 AM Callab AI Haithem Kchaou 11:50 AM Guava (Invited) 12:10 PM Convoso (Invited) 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM SoundHound Michael Anderson 2:20 PM Strolid Matt Watson 2:40 PM Best Buy Kishor Patil 3:00 PM Dialpad (Invited) 3:20 PM Autom8ly Mark Vange 3:40 PM Afternoon Break 4:00 PM BoundaryAI Hippolyte Lapierre 4:20 PM Okareo Matt Wyman 4:40 PM Modulate (Invited) 5:00 PM Kidas Ron Kerbs 5:20 PM Closing Remarks 6:30 PM VIP & Speaker Dinner October 14, 2026 Schedule 8:15 AM Registration Opens 9:00 AM The RenAIssance of Voice Jeff Pulver 9:15 AM Tangibility in Cyberspace Chris Fine 9:35 AM Session details to come Dialpad (Invited) 9:50 AM Can the Bot hear me? Randy Layman 10:05 AM VON Spotlight: Something Old Is New Again Masud Kahn 10:10 AM VoIP 3.0: Conversations Not Call Legs Jonathan Eisenzopf 10:25 AM Break 10:40 AM VoiceAI Rising Stars Derek Caneja; Manav Modi; Haithem Kchaou; Bek Abdik 11:10 AM Session details to come SoundHound (Invited) 11:25 AM Individual Talk Mike Mills 11:40 AM Individual Talk Dag Peak 11:55 AM When Conversations Become Assets Thomas McCarthy-Howe; Mike Mills; Dag Peak; Mark Vange 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM SignalWire: Building Voice AI on Real-Time Communications SignalWire (Invited) 2:00 PM Asterisk, FreePBX and the AI Communications Stack Sangoma (Invited) 2:00 PM When Voice Becomes Software, What Exactly Gets Taxed? Robert Dumas; Mike Sanders 2:55 PM What an Enterprise Agentic-AI Builder Is Actually Building Kishor Patil 2:55 PM Reliability Is a Voice AI Feature Spectrum (Invited); Gigapipe (Invited) 2:55 PM The Rules Don't Disappear When the Caller Is AI Lee G. Petro; Ron Kerbs; Convoso (Invited) 3:50 PM Rethinking the Future From the Past Chris Fine; Masud Kahn 3:50 PM How Do You Know Your Voice AI Actually Works? Sumanyu Sharma; Matt Wyman; Hippolyte Lapierre 3:50 PM Voice AI in Healthcare: From Agent to Patient QuantalTech AI (Invited) 4:45 PM When the Dark Data Lights Up Vin Micciche; Matt Watson; Thomas McCarthy-Howe 4:45 PM You Can't Bolt Compliance Onto Voice AI Cortega (Invited) 5:30 PM Welcome Reception October 15, 2026 Schedule 9:00 AM Boomers + Gen X Meet AI: What We Learned Building the First Voice Internet Ken Adams; Mark Vange; SIPez (Invited) 9:00 AM Human in the Loop MindMaking (Invited) 9:55 AM VICIdial: What 20 Years of Production Voice Teaches Us About AI VICIdial Group (Invited) 9:55 AM Can You Prove What the AI Said? Thomas McCarthy-Howe; Lee G. Petro 9:55 AM What Voice AI Can Learn From Agents That Never Hang Up Drum (Invited) 10:50 AM When AI Moves Into the Call Path Charles Chance 10:50 AM Evaluating Real-Time Voice Agents Beyond AI Models Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy; SIPez (Invited) 10:50 AM Who Owns the Conversation? Additional speaker to be announced 11:45 AM The Economics of the AI Phone Call Additional speaker to be announced 11:45 AM What Haven't We Solved Yet? 11:45 AM When a Good Call Looks Like a Bad Call Gerry Christensen; Additional speakers to be announced 12:30 PM Lunch 2:00 PM Show Me the Money: Where Investors Are Betting on Voice AI Bradley Metrock; 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 3:15 PM The Enterprise Reality of Voice AI Hari Kishan KV; 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; Hamming AI (Invited); Additional speakers to be announced 4:45 PM The RenAIssance of Voice: What Comes Next Sponsors Presenting sponsor Gold sponsors Silver sponsors Become a sponsor Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net