Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net
Wednesday, October 14
Main Stage · Rooms A, C
As of October 13, 2026
8:15 AM · Registration Opens
9:00 AM
Welcome to Voice and Conversations on the Net
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation
Jeff Pulver welcomes everyone to Voice and Conversations on the Net and opens the day.
9:10 AM
Tangibility in Cyberspace
Chris Fine · CEO · Integrative Technologies
Voice AI agents speak, respond, remember and act, but they do not exist in the physical world. What does that mean for trust, accountability and enterprise relationships built on human presence?
9:30 AM
It Is Not as Magical as You Think
Brian Peterson · Co-Founder & CTO · Dialpad
Brian Peterson brings the perspective of someone who has been inside voice infrastructure since before today's Voice AI category existed.
9:45 AM
When Voice Becomes Business Intelligence
Jon Brinton · Chief Revenue Officer · Crexendo
A practical look at how AI transcription, sentiment, context and conversation data are turning everyday voice interactions into usable business intelligence.
9:55 AM
Can the Bot hear me?
Randy Layman · CTO · AVOXI
In this session we'll look at how different audio impairments impact bot effectiveness so you know which types of impairments to focus on eliminating to provide the best caller-bot interactions from a network perspective.
10:10 AM
VON Spotlight: Something Old Is New Again
Masud Khan · Staff Software Engineer · Tin Can
A five-minute provocation about why a new generation is reconsidering something communications thought it had left behind: the landline.
10:15 AM
VoIP 3.0: Conversations Not Call Legs
Jonathan Eisenzopf · Principal Agent Strategist · Vapi
Real-time communications split into SIP, WebRTC and now Voice AI. VoIP 3.0 proposes a vocabulary that maps across those communities.
10:30 AM · Break
10:40 AM
VoiceAI Rising Stars
Derek Caneja · Co-Founder & CTO · VoiceRun
Meet Modi · Co-Founder & CTO · AgentPhone
Justin Massey · Founder · Relay Hawk
Carter Huffman · CEO & Co-Founder · Modulate
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation (Moderator)
Four builders from the new generation of Voice AI companies. What did they discover was broken, what is harder than everyone thinks and what does the stack look like next?
11:10 AM
The RenAIssance of Voice
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation
From the first Voice Internet to Voice AI, a personal look at what has changed, what we forgot and why conversations are the foundation of the next communications revolution.
11:25 AM
Scaling Voice for the AI Era
Mike Mills · Managing Director, Service Provider · Gamma
11:40 AM
Conversations Matter
Dag Peak · CPTO · Alianza
11:55 AM
When Conversations Become Assets
Mike Mills · Managing Director, Service Provider · Gamma
Dag Peak · CPTO · Alianza
Mark Vange · Founder & CTO · Autom8ly
Jon Brinton · Chief Revenue Officer · Crexendo
Chris Fine · CEO · Integrative Technologies (Moderator)
What happens when conversations become structured, portable and useful, carrying context, consent, intelligence and history beyond the original call?
12:30 PM · Lunch Break (on your own)
2:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
2:00 PM
When the Dark Data Lights Up
Matt Watson · VP of Product · vConic
Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO · vConic
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
What changed when operational intelligence trapped inside conversations became usable at scale? A conversation with audience Q&A.
Main Stage
2:00 PM
You Can't Bolt Compliance Onto Voice AI
Sridhar Ramachandran · CEO & Co-founder · Cortega
Shai Berger · CMO · Consig AI
Chris Celiberti · Head of Customer Experience (CX) · vConic (Moderator)
Consent, controls, records, retention, auditability and escalation need to be considered as part of the architecture itself.
Room C
2:00 PM
When Voice Becomes Software, What Exactly Gets Taxed?
Robert Dumas · CEO & Founder · TaxConnex
Mike Sanders · CEO · CereTax
Introduced by: Jeff Pulver
How packaging voice, software, usage, data and professional services affects tax treatment, invoicing, margins and compliance.
2:55 PM to 3:40 PM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
2:55 PM
Rethinking the Future From the Past
Masud Khan · Staff Software Engineer · Tin Can
Chris Fine · CEO · Integrative Technologies
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
What if some of the ideas communications discarded become valuable again? What can the past teach us about the future of voice?
Main Stage
2:55 PM
Asterisk, FreePBX and the AI Communications Stack
Chris Maj · Open Source Solutions Advocate · Sangoma
Introduced by: Dean Landsman
Where Asterisk, FreePBX and the installed communications base fit as AI becomes part of the platform.
Room C
2:55 PM
The Rules Don't Disappear When the Caller Is AI
Lee G. Petro · Member · Dickinson Wright PLLC
Nima Hakimi · CEO · Convoso
Ron Kerbs · CEO · Kidas
Jeff Dworkin · Managing Director · The Cloud Voice Alliance (Moderator)
TCPA, consent, caller identity, robocall rules, trust and the compliance questions created when software handles calls at scale.
3:50 PM to 4:35 PM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
3:50 PM
SignalWire: Building Voice AI on Real-Time Communications
Luca Pradovera · Head Solutions Architect · SignalWire
Introduced by: Dean Landsman
Latency, media, orchestration, scale and connecting AI to the telephone network all matter in production Voice AI.
Main Stage
3:50 PM
How Do You Know Your Voice AI Actually Works?
Carter Huffman · CEO & Co-Founder · Modulate
Vikash Srivastava · CTO · Vobiz AI
Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy · CTO · WebRTC
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
How do you know a Voice AI system is ready for real customers? Carter Huffman, Vikash Srivastava and Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy share what they have learned about testing, safety, conversation quality, failure detection and the difference between a successful demonstration and a system that can be trusted in production.
Room C
3:50 PM
From Conversation to Root Cause: How vCon Gives AI the Context to Diagnose Customer Problems
Justin Massey · Founder · Relay Hawk
Introduced by: Jeff Pulver
Justin Massey demonstrates a workflow that uses a vCon, customer metadata, production documentation, configuration data and codebase search to determine whether a customer problem is caused by configuration, a software bug or a missing feature. A practical example of conversation context becoming operational intelligence for AI.
4:45 PM to 5:30 PM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
4:45 PM
Inside Enterprise Agentic AI
Hari Kishan · Director of Cloud Engineering · Manulife
Matt Watson · VP of Product · vConic
Shai Berger · CMO · Consig AI
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
Main Stage
4:45 PM
Reliability Is a Voice AI Feature
Rita Lopes · Founder · Gigapipe
Luca Pradovera · Head Solutions Architect · SignalWire
Jeff Dworkin · Managing Director · The Cloud Voice Alliance (Moderator)
Latency, observability, failures, infrastructure and unpredictable real-world conditions all matter when AI becomes part of a live conversation.
Room C
4:45 PM
250,000 Calls a Day: What a Research Call Center Needs from Voice AI
Kate Hobson · Vice President, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations · NORC
Jason Rajan · Senior Data Scientist, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations · NORC
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation (Moderator)
NORC at the University of Chicago, runs about 250,000 phone calls a day for a variety of government, corporate, and nonprofit clients, conducting social science research in a wide range of sectors, from public health surveys to economic program evaluations. Kate Hobson and Jason Rajan share what it takes to put AI into that environment: keeping survey questions word-for-word consistent, catching fraud, scoring call quality at scale, and dealing with AI call screening on both ends of the line. Voice AI builders will hear where the real gaps and opportunities are.
5:30 PM · Welcome Reception
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