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Spring '24 VON: Evolution Silicon Valley
April 10 - 11, 2024

Hyatt Centric Mountain View
409 San Antonio Rd

 

(as of April 11th)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th (all times are approximate)
8:30 AM - REGISTRATION 

9:00 AM - Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jeff Pulver - Founder, pulver.com

9:15 AM -
When it All Began at VocalTec - Alon Cohen - Co-Founder, VocalTec & Lior Haramaty - Co-Founder, VocalTec

9:30 AM- Introducing vCon, Virtualized Conversations - Thomas McCarthy-Howe - CTO, STROLID Inc.

9:45 AM - Restoring Trust in the Voice & Messaging Ecosystems
- Glenn Richards - Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- David Frankel - CEO, ZipDX
- Alex Quilici - CEO, YouMail
- Dave Erickson - Co-Founder, Phound
- Tom Sheahan - CEO, Red Oxygen

10:45 AM - Catching Up With 8x8 - Bryan Martin - CTO, 8x8 Inc

11:00 AM - Protecting Enterprises From Deep Fakes - Michael Matias - CEO, Clarity

11:15 AM - Enterprise Communications in 2024 - Kentis Gopalla - Head of Ecosystem-Phone & Contact Center, Zoom

11:30 AM - AI Policy Outlook The Honorable Jerry McNerney - Senior Policy Advisor, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

11:45 AM - Adding Trust to Messaging - Paul Walsh - CEO, MetaCert

12:00 PM - Innovation in Communications - Dan Thygesen - SVP & GM Wholesale, Innovation & Partnerships, T-Mobile

12:15 PM - Silicon Valley AI Update - Jeremiah Owyang - General Partner Focused on AI, Blitzscaling Ventures
 
12:30 PM - BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:15 PM - What Would You Do With Another You? Creating Digital Twins of People - Mark Dando - Co-Founder, ProxyTwin

2:30 PM - Navigating the Legal Intricacies of AI Use in Customer Service and Telemarketing - Diana James - Attorney, Marashlian & Donahue PLLC

2:45 PM -
Using AI for Storytelling in Business - Jeremy Toeman - Founder, Aug X Labs

3:00 PM - All Things Messaging: State of the Industry - Eddie DeCurtis - CEO & Co-Founder, Shush Inc

3:15 PM - Bridging Divides: Using Blockchain in Extending Connectivity 
Deborah Simpier - CEO & Co-Founder, Althea

3:30 PM - Revolutionizing Communication: The VocalTec Collective Reconnects
- Mike Jablon - COO, Agoric
- Scott Wharton - CEO, Tandem PV
- Alon Cohen - EVP, Phone.com
- Lior Haramaty - COO | Chief Acceleration Officer,  Neurosteer Inc
- Hugh Goldstein - CEO, WebTrit
- Amir Fish - Product Lead for Trust & Privacy, Instagram
- Ofer Shem Tov - Software Engineer, Meta
- Opher Kahane - Investor & Entrepreneur, Sonoma Ventures
- Ranny Haiby CTO Networking, Edge/IoT & Access, The Linux Foundation​
- Neta Haiby Director AI Security, Office of CTO, Microsoft
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4:30 PM - WrapUp - Jeff Pulver - Founder, pulver.com & Andy Abramson - CEO, Comunicano Inc

6:00 PM - VIP Dinner

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THURSDAY, APRIL 11th
8:30 AM - REGISTRATION 

8:50 AM - Welcome Back - Jeff Pulver - Founder, pulver.com

9:10 AM - Get Prepared for AI-First Conversational Messaging - Alexander Haque - Co-Founder, Clerk Chat

9:25 AM - Building Next Generation AI Voice Assistants - David Colleen - CEO, SapientX

9:40 AM - Future of Work - Oded Gal - Investor / Advisor, Ex CPO, Zoom

9:55 AM
- Evolution of Cloud Communications - Jeff Pulver - Moderator
- Thomas McCarthy-Howe - CTO, Strolid Inc
- Dave Erickson - Co-Founder, Phound
- James Tagg - CEO, Valis Corporation
- Eddie DeCurtis - CEO & Co-Founder, Shush Inc
- Andy Abramson - CEO, Comunicano Inc

10:45 AM - Telecom Blockchain Opportunities - Dean Tribble - CEO, Agoric

DeVON - Decentralizing Data Networks

11:00 AM - Bandwidth as a New Asset Class - Suruchi Gupta - CEO, GIANT Protocol
11:15 AM - Max Orcutt - Strategic Partnerships Development, DISH Network
11:30 AM - Adding Trust to Communications Tyler Boscolo - Head of Product & Growth, 3NUM

11:45 AM State of VR
- Neil Mandt - Producer/Director/Explorer, Mandt Bros. Productions
- Robert Scoble - Founder, Unaligned


12:15 PM - Concluding Remarks - Jeff Pulver

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