Spring '26 vCon

SPRING '26 Voice and Conversations on the Net

The AI Communication Conference

MARCH 23rd - 26th

Dallas, Texas

Spring ’26 vCon was curated and hosted by Jeff Pulver

Voice becomes memory.

Messaging becomes action.

vCons make conversations usable for AI.

Spring ’26 vCon is designed to do for AI Communication what the early VON conferences did for Internet Telephony - Turn Possibility Into an Ecosystem.

Spring ’26 vCon is where the AI Communication Industry comes together to define how conversations are captured, structured, governed, and used in enterprise systems.

vCons (Virtualized Conversations) turn voice and messaging into portable, machine-readable memory objects that power automation, compliance, analytics, and AI-driven workflows, without surrendering control or consent.

vCons are being built and used today. Standardization continues at the IETF, with early deployments in contact centers, regulated industries, and enterprise platforms

Spring ’26 vCon is focused on the emergence of AI Communication, where intelligent systems don’t just respond. They remember, govern intent, and act responsibly over time.

“vCons are the robot food for AI.”

— Thomas Howe, CTO, Vconic

co-author of the vCon Specification

What is a vCon?

Spring '26 vCon is the flagship event for the vCon ecosystem. If you haven’t subscribed to The Pulver vCon Report, now’s the time. Join us in Dallas, Texas. Help shape what comes next.

Who Should Attend Spring '26 vCon

Builders and Platform Teams

For those designing AI, communications, data, and infrastructure platforms.

Understand how vCons fit into modern systems

Learn implementation patterns from early adopters

Connect with the emerging ecosystem

Enterprise Buyers and Operators

For contact center, customer experience, compliance, and operations leaders.

See practical enterprise use cases

Understand where AI and communication intersect

Learn how vCons create business value today

Policy, Trust, and Governance Professionals

For privacy, consent, audit, and regulatory leaders.

Explore governed conversational memory

Understand trust frameworks for AI Communication

Engage with standards-based approaches

Ecosystem Partners

For carriers, CPaaS, CCaaS, analytics, and AI tooling providers.

Meet the vCon community

Identify partnership opportunities

Understand where the market is forming

What to Expect at Spring ’26 vCon

Spring ’26 vCon combines strategy, education, and hands-on work.

You will experience:

Vision and roadmap sessions on AI Communication

Practical training on vCon fundamentals

Pre-conference workshops and a hands-on hackathon

Main conference sessions with real-world use cases

The vCon Foundation MeetUp to align the community and the work ahead

This is a working conference designed for people who want to build and deploy, not just observe.

This conference does not ignore the risks of conversational memory. It exists because those risks must be addressed deliberately, through governance, consent, and architecture before, AI Communication can scale responsibly.

Speakers at Spring '26 vCon (as of 3-18-26)

Andrew Silver - CTO, CISO & Co-Founder, Tango Networks

Audrey Hayn - Co-Founder & COO, Mind Making

Becky Reed - COO & Founding Team

Ben Curtis - CTO, JLINC Labs

Carl Ford - CEO, Crossfire Media

Charlene Ignacio - CEO, FORNIX

Chris Celiberti - Head of Customer Experience (CX), Vconic

Chris Fine - CEO, Integrative Technologies

Dag Peak - CPTO, Alianza

Dan Petrie - President, SIPez

Dean Bubley - Director, Disruptive Analysis

Dean Landsman - Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development, JLINC

Doug Green - Publisher, Technology Reseller News

Dwane Hemmings - JavaScript Developer Advocate, Vonage

Eddie DeCurtis - CEO & Co-Founder, shush

Eugene Tcipnjatov - Co-Founder & CTO, Phound

Glenn Richards - Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC

Hippolyte Lapierre - CEO, BoundaryAI

Ian Bell - CIO/CTO, Pulver Innovations

Jeff Korn - CEO, Crexendo

Jeff Pulver - CEO, The vCon Foundation

Jill Blankenship - CEO, Frontline Group

Joe Marion - President, Cloud Communications Alliance

Joe Mazzeo - Partner, Crossfire Consulting

John Wingate - Chairman CEO & Founder

Jon Arnold - Principal, J Arnold & Associates

Justin Massey - Founder, Relay Hawk

Lee Petro - Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC

Mark Lindsey - VP, Senior Member of Technology Staff, ECG

Mat Mathews - Evangelist, Cloudonix

Mike Onslow - CTO, Clarity Voice

Mitch Lieberman - VP Product (Fuel CX) at Fuel ix, Telus Digital Company

Nilay N. Patel - CEO, 888VoIP

Perry Evans - CEO, Vconic

Oscar Rodriguez - Senior Director Global Partner Solutions, Vonage

Rachel Saunders - Executive Director of Sales, Grandstream Networks

Sean Barrett - CIO, CallRevu

Shai Berger - CMO, Consig.ai

Thomas McCarthy-Howe - CTO, Vconic

Tony Nuzzo - VP Product, Approved Contact

Tyler Bridegan - Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLC

Spring '26 vCon Sponsors