Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net Wednesday, October 14 Main Stage · Rooms A, B, C vCon Summit VoiceAI LIVE! Wed, Oct 14 Thu, Oct 15 Full Agenda Register · ticket prices Registration Opens 9:00 AM The RenAIssance of Voice Jeff Pulver Voice was always the killer app. AI changes what voice can become. The opening thesis for a day about conversations, networks, intelligence and what comes next. 9:15 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? 9:35 AM Dialpad (Invited) 9:50 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. 10:05 AM VON Spotlight: Something Old Is New Again Masud Kahn · 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. 10:10 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. Break 10:40 AM VoiceAI Rising Stars Derek Caneja · Co-Founder & CTO, VoiceRun Manav Modi · CEO, AgentPhone Haithem Kchaou · CEO, Callab AI Bek Abdik · CEO, Speko 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 SoundHound (Invited) 11:25 AM Individual Talk Mike Mills · Managing Director, Service Provider, Gamma 11:40 AM Individual Talk 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 What happens when conversations become structured, portable and useful, carrying context, consent, intelligence and history beyond the original call? Lunch 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM Room A Room B Room C Room A 2:00 PM SignalWire: Building Voice AI on Real-Time Communications SignalWire (Invited) Latency, media, orchestration, scale and connecting AI to the telephone network all matter in production Voice AI. Room B 2:00 PM Asterisk, FreePBX and the AI Communications Stack Sangoma (Invited) Where Asterisk, FreePBX and the installed communications base fit as AI becomes part of the platform. Room C 2:00 PM When Voice Becomes Software, What Exactly Gets Taxed? Robert Dumas · CEO & Founder, TaxConnex Mike Sanders · CEO, CereTax How packaging voice, software, usage, data and professional services affects tax treatment, invoicing, margins and compliance. 2:55 PM to 3:40 PM Room A Room B Room C Room A 2:55 PM What an Enterprise Agentic-AI Builder Is Actually Building Kishor Patil · Senior Engineering Manager, Best Buy What is a technologist inside a major enterprise actually building, testing and thinking about right now? A firsthand look from inside Best Buy. Room B 2:55 PM Reliability Is a Voice AI Feature Spectrum (Invited) Gigapipe (Invited) Latency, observability, failures, infrastructure and unpredictable real-world conditions all matter when AI becomes part of a live conversation. Room C 2:55 PM The Rules Don't Disappear When the Caller Is AI Lee G. Petro · Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC Ron Kerbs · CEO, Kidas Convoso (Invited) 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 A Room B Room C Room A 3:50 PM Rethinking the Future From the Past Chris Fine · CEO, Integrative Technologies Masud Kahn · Staff Software Engineer, Tin Can What if some of the ideas communications discarded become valuable again? What can the past teach us about the future of voice? Room B 3:50 PM How Do You Know Your Voice AI Actually Works? Sumanyu Sharma · CEO & Founder, Hamming AI Matt Wyman · CEO & Founder, Okareo Hippolyte Lapierre · CEO, BoundaryAI How do you discover failures before customers do, measure quality and know when an agent is actually ready? Room C 3:50 PM Voice AI in Healthcare: From Agent to Patient QuantalTech AI (Invited) Healthcare is one of Voice AI's most promising and demanding environments. Accuracy, privacy, trust, escalation and accountability matter as much as automation. 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM Room A Room B Room C Room A 4:45 PM When the Dark Data Lights Up Vin Micciche · CEO & Founder, Strolid Matt Watson · VP of Product Development, Strolid Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO, vConic What changed when operational intelligence trapped inside conversations became usable at scale? A conversation with audience Q&A. Room B 4:45 PM You Can't Bolt Compliance Onto Voice AI Cortega (Invited) Consent, controls, records, retention, auditability and escalation need to be considered as part of the architecture itself. 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