Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net Thursday, October 15 Rooms A, B, C · Main Stage vCon Summit VoiceAI LIVE! Wed, Oct 14 Thu, Oct 15 Full Agenda Register · ticket prices 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room A Room B Room C Room A 9:00 AM 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) What survives from the traditional telecom model, what changes and what old lessons suddenly matter again when intelligence becomes part of the service? Room B 9:00 AM Human in the Loop MindMaking (Invited) Where should human judgment remain as Voice AI becomes more capable of acting on its own? Room C 9:55 AM to 10:40 AM Room A Room B Room C Room A 9:55 AM VICIdial: What 20 Years of Production Voice Teaches Us About AI VICIdial Group (Invited) What two decades of production contact-center voice reveals about AI, deployment reality and the gap between promises and operating systems at scale. Room B 9:55 AM Can You Prove What the AI Said? Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO, vConic Lee G. Petro · Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC Evidence, provenance, consent and accountable conversational systems when AI participates in important conversations. Room C 9:55 AM What Voice AI Can Learn From Agents That Never Hang Up Drum (Invited) Memory, persistence, context and work that continues after the conversation ends. 10:50 AM to 11:35 AM Room A Room B Room C Room A 10:50 AM When AI Moves Into the Call Path Charles Chance · CTO, Simwood Group PLC What becomes possible when intelligence exists inside the communications network itself? Room B 10:50 AM Evaluating Real-Time Voice Agents Beyond AI Models Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy · CTO, WebRTC SIPez (Invited) Implementing and using an open-source evaluation workbench involving vCons to evaluate real-time voice agents beyond the AI models themselves. Room C 10:50 AM Who Owns the Conversation? Additional speaker to be announced Who has the right to store, analyze, move or use conversations as they become valuable data, context and memory? 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM Room A Room B Room C Room A 11:45 AM The Economics of the AI Phone Call Additional speaker to be announced How AI changes who creates a call, what infrastructure it consumes, how it is priced and where value is created. Room B 11:45 AM What Haven't We Solved Yet? Reserved for an important technical, business or societal problem that earns the room by October. Room C 11:45 AM When a Good Call Looks Like a Bad Call Gerry Christensen · Principal Consultant & Analyst, Convoso Additional speakers to be announced A legitimate call can follow the rules and still be labeled, blocked or ignored. This session looks at the collision between compliance, caller reputation, STIR/SHAKEN, traffic patterns, consent and carrier analytics as AI increases the scale and complexity of outbound calling. What do responsible callers need to do to remain trusted and reachable? Lunch 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 After two days with the builders, enterprises and communications companies, we ask the people writing the checks what they see. What gets funded now, where is defensibility being created and what will the next generation of valuable Voice AI companies look like? 2:30 PM VON Spotlight: 20 Years Later, VICIdial Is Still Here VICIdial Group (Invited) What does two decades of production communications infrastructure reveal that the new Voice AI industry may be missing? 2:45 PM Open Source Built the Voice Internet. What Does It Build Next? Sangoma (Invited) Asterisk and open source helped make the first Internet voice revolution possible. What role does open source play in the AI communications era? 3:00 PM The Network Is Learning to Listen Charles Chance · CTO, Simwood Group PLC For decades, communications networks were built to carry conversations. What changes when intelligence moves into the network? 3:15 PM The Enterprise Reality of Voice AI Hari Kishan KV · Director of Cloud Engineering, Manulife SoundHound (Invited) What is actually being built and deployed? What gets through security, compliance, integration and operational review, and where is Voice AI delivering value today? Break 4:00 PM Will We Regret Replacing the Human Voice? MindMaking (Invited) Additional speakers to be announced If AI becomes cheaper, faster, always available and increasingly convincing, where will we still choose a human being? What do we gain, what might we lose and where should people remain part of communications? 4:25 PM The Next Wave of Voice AI Hippolyte Lapierre · CEO, BoundaryAI Hamming AI (Invited) Additional speakers to be announced Four more builders shaping the next generation of Voice AI. What are they seeing early, what are they building now, and what do they believe the industry is still underestimating? 4:45 PM The RenAIssance of Voice: What Comes Next Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver closes with what became visible during three days in Atlanta, what matters now and what this community should build next. Sponsors Presenting sponsor Gold sponsors Silver sponsors Become a sponsor Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net · October 13–15, 2026 · Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia