Fall ’26 Voice and Conversations on the Net
Thursday, October 15
Rooms A, C · Main Stage
As of October 14, 2026
8:30 AM · Registration Opens
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Room AMain StageRoom 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
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
What survives from the traditional telecom model, what changes and what old lessons suddenly matter again when intelligence becomes part of the service?
Main Stage
9:00 AM
Can You Prove What the AI Said?
Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO · vConic
Lee G. Petro · Member · Dickinson Wright PLLC
Dean Landsman · Strategy & Business Development · JLINC
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation (Moderator)
Evidence, provenance, consent and accountable conversational systems when AI participates in important conversations.
Room C
9:00 AM
Beyond Emotion Labels: Teaching Voice AI Which Way a Person Needs to Go
Yaron Seidman · Founder & CEO · MyWayv
Introduced by: Lauren Pulver
Emotion labels tell an AI that someone is sad. They don’t tell it what to say next. Yaron introduces Emotional Direction Mapping, a research approach that helps voice AI calibrate to the person on the line, not just the label. Learn why speed and low latency matter for emotional intelligence in conversation, and what it means as people turn to AI for support and companionship.
9:55 AM to 10:40 AM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
9:55 AM
VICIdial: What 20 Years of Production Voice Teaches Us About AI
Matt Florell · President · VICIdial Group
Introduced by: Lauren Pulver
Matt Florell shares the inspiration and backstory behind VICIdial, production anecdotes from 20 years at scale, what lasted, what broke, what he would do differently, and lessons for today's Voice AI builders.
Main Stage
Room C
9:55 AM
LIVE vCon Demos!
Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO · vConic
James L. Lee · CEO · Inlayer
Dean Landsman · Strategy & Business Development · JLINC
Sridhar Ramachandran · CEO & Co-founder · Cortega
Eugene Tcipnjatov · Co-Founder & CTO · Phound
Chris Celiberti · Head of Customer Experience (CX) · vConic (Moderator)
Live demos of vCon Compliance solutions with the people behind the implementations.
10:50 AM to 11:35 AM
Room AMain StageRoom C
Room A
10:50 AM
When AI Moves Into the Call Path
Charles Chance · CTO · Simwood Group PLC
Chakra Devalla · Co-Founder & CEO · tekVizion
Eugene Tcipnjatov · Co-Founder & CTO · Phound
Chris Celiberti · Head of Customer Experience (CX) · vConic (Moderator)
What becomes possible when intelligence exists inside the communications network itself?
Main Stage
10:50 AM
Evaluating SIP, WebRTC Voice Agents Beyond AI Models
Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy · CTO · WebRTC
Introduced by: Lauren Pulver
Room C
10:50 AM
Who Owns the Conversation?
Lee G. Petro · Member · Dickinson Wright PLLC
James L. Lee · CEO · Inlayer
Dean Landsman · Strategy & Business Development · JLINC
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
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 AMain StageRoom C
Room A
11:45 AM
When AI Agents Call AI Agents
Thomas McCarthy-Howe · CTO · vConic
Jonathan Eisenzopf · Principal Agent Strategist · Vapi
Kate Hobson · Vice President, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations · NORC
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation (Moderator)
What happens when software exists on both sides of the conversation? Identity, declared intent, negotiation, authorization, escalation, latency and the record of why each agent acted.
Main Stage
11:45 AM
Beyond the Call: vCon's Role in Billing and Business Operations
Ken Adams · President · P2P Labs
CeeJay Barber · Vice President of Business Development · Datagate
Room C
11:45 AM
When a Good Call Looks Like a Bad Call
Ron Kerbs · CEO · Kidas
Jason Rajan · Senior Data Scientist, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations · NORC
Chris Celiberti · Head of Customer Experience (CX) · vConic (Moderator)
A legitimate call can follow the rules and still be labeled, blocked or ignored.
12:30 PM · Lunch Break (on your own)
2:00 PM
Open Source Built the Voice Internet. What Does It Build Next?
Chris Maj · Open Source Solutions Advocate · Sangoma
Asterisk and open source helped make the first Internet voice revolution possible. What role does open source play in the AI communications era?
2:15 PM
Show Me the Money: Where Investors Are Betting on Voice AI
Bradley Metrock · General Partner · Project Voice Capital Partners
Nilay N. Patel · Chairman · 888VoIP
Peter Saddington · General Partner and CEO · Staas Fund
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation (Moderator)
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?
2:45 PM
VON Spotlight: 20 Years Later, VICIdial Is Still Here
Matt Florell · President · VICIdial Group
VICIdial has survived 20 years of change in communications. Matt Florell shares three lessons from that journey, what today’s Voice AI builders may be overlooking and what he would do differently if he were starting again now.
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 · Director of Cloud Engineering · Manulife
Brad Grafton · SVP, Sales · SoundHound AI
Matt Watson · VP of Product · vConic
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
What is actually being built and deployed? What gets through security, compliance, integration and operational review, and where is Voice AI delivering value today?
3:45 PM · Break
3:55 PM
Will We Regret Replacing the Human Voice?
Yaron Seidman · Founder & CEO · MyWayv
Ken Adams · President · P2P Labs
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
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?
4:15 PM
The Next Wave of Voice AI
Alex Smola · CEO & Co-Founder · Boson AI
Vikash Srivastava · CTO · Vobiz AI
Anthony Scodary · Co-Founder · Guava
Phil Bowers · Global Director of Marketing · Grandstream (Moderator)
Three 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?
4:35 PM
The RenAIssance of Voice: What Comes Next
Jeff Pulver · Chair · The vCon Foundation
Jeff Pulver closes with what became visible during three days in Atlanta, what matters now and what this community should build next.
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