2026 vCon Summit, a vCon Foundation event. October 13, 2026. Registration Opens Welcome The vCon Foundation opens the Day Jeff Pulver Why Conversations Need a File Format What vCon is and why a file format for conversations changes everything for AI. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation Data Privacy How vCon handles data privacy in conversation records. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation The Conversation Graph How conversations connect, the graph structure that makes vCon powerful for AI. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation Break Small Ball and Long Ball Near-term and long-term vCon deployment strategy. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation The Network Problem How vCon solves the network problem for AI voice. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation Closing the Loop Bringing the primer together, what comes next. 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO and Board Member, vConic / The vCon Foundation Morning Session Ends The vCon Foundation Member Lunch Members only. Included with vCon Foundation membership. vCon as the AI Agent Audit Trail How vCon creates a complete auditable record of every AI agent conversation. Provenance and Chain of Custody in the vCon Lifecycle How vCon tracks the origin and handling of conversation data through its full lifecycle. When STIR/SHAKEN Meets vCon: Attestation for the Full Conversation How call attestation and conversation records work together to establish trust end to end. Should AI Agents and Human Agents Be Modeled the Same Way? The open design question from IETF 126 Vienna. Should AI agent reasoning and tool calls be first-class citizens in the vCon core spec? Break Fraud Has a Pattern. vCons Have the Signal. How conversation records surface fraud patterns that call metadata alone cannot detect. From Prototype to Production: Lessons from Deploying vCon at Scale What the first production deployments of vCon at scale have taught us. Why the vCon Core Spec Matters for Every AI Agent on the Network The argument for vCon as foundational infrastructure for the AI voice era. The Contact Center Extension and Working Group Last Call: What Comes Next Status of the contact center extension draft and the path to Working Group Last Call. Growing the vCon Ecosystem: Foundation Developers and What's Next The vCon Foundation membership roadmap and how developers and companies can get involved. Wrap and Close

Forward Deployed Engineers working on conversational AI deployments should understand vCon: when AI agents connect to enterprise systems, communications, customer data, workflows, identity and governance, the conversation itself needs a structured, portable record, not just a transcript. vCon gives that conversation an architecture, so it belongs in the FDE's deployment toolkit alongside the model and the agent.