The AI Communication Industry Conference
The RenAIssance of Voice has arrived.Voice becomes memory. Memory becomes action. vCons give every conversation a file AI can use.
Curated and hosted by Jeff PulverProducing the conversations of this industry since 1996
If you build, buy, deploy, fund, or are simply interested in Voice AI and AI-powered communications, join the people shaping what comes next.
This conference is curated for people who want to stay ahead of the curve.
Meet founders and builders, enterprise teams, carriers and platforms, investors and business leaders, and professionals working in policy, compliance, security, and trust.
March 30 brings VoiceAI LIVE!, The vCon Summit and Agents on the Net. March 31–April 1 we continue with Voice and Conversations on the Net.
9:00 AM–5:30 PM
VoiceAI LIVE! brings the people building Voice AI into the room to demonstrate their work, live. Back-to-back demonstrations let enterprise teams, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS providers, investors and fellow builders see how different companies approach real conversations and the problems their products are designed to solve.
For teams evaluating Voice AI, it is a chance to compare approaches and identify people to talk with. For builders, it is a chance to see what others are developing and where your work might connect. Spring ’27 continues the live demonstration format from Fall ’26 VON in Atlanta.
9:00 AM–5:30 PM
The vCon Summit connects an introduction to the technology with the practical questions of putting it to work. The morning, Introduction to vCons, explores how a conversation becomes a structured record that applications and AI agents can use.
The afternoon turns to industry issues of the day: privacy and consent, identity and trust, audit trails, fraud, and the realities of deployment. These are questions for enterprise teams, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS providers as well as developers and standards contributors. The aim is to connect the work on the standard with the decisions people face when building and operating services.
Agents on the Net brings together enterprise teams, developers, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS companies building and deploying agentic AI solutions. We’ll explore the practical realities of development and deployment, alongside the early days of agent-to-agent communication and the protocols taking shape.
Jeff Pulver curates these programs and invites the people presenting. If you have a live demonstration, deployment experience or a technical perspective you would like to discuss with Jeff, start a conversation.
Industry Perspectives, Plenary Sessions, Fireside Chats and Breakout sessions
Building a Voice AI company takes more than a working model. Network quality, deployment experience, enterprise requirements, distribution and capital all matter. VON connects these conversations so founders and teams can learn from one another and explore business relationships.
Voice AI depends on communications infrastructure. For carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS companies, the questions include call quality, reliability, network operations and the services AI applications will need. Bring your experience, meet builders and explore where partnerships and new business can develop.
CIOs, CTOs and CX leaders are deciding how Voice AI and agentic AI fit into their businesses. Development, integration, deployment, reliability, security and compliance all shape those decisions. Bring the questions your team is working through and learn from people building and operating these solutions.
Understanding AI communications means looking across infrastructure, applications, compliance and enterprise demand. VON brings those perspectives into the conversation, helping investors examine what is working, what customers need and where businesses may grow.
Identity, trust, consent, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance are part of building AI communications that businesses can use. Bring your experience with TCPA, the EU AI Act, policy and operational requirements into discussions with developers, platforms, carriers and enterprise teams.
For developers, standards contributors, platform builders and enterprise teams deploying or evaluating vCons. Explore implementations, conversation records, consent and the connections between standards work and practical adoption. Bring what you are building and the questions you want the community to address.
Voice was always the killer app. The business models broke. The network got cheap. And the conversation disappeared the moment the call ended.
AI changed all three of those things.
Now voice agents can remember. Conversations can become structured records that agents can act on. The network has to be rebuilt for quality, not just cost. vCons make all of it possible.
Spring ’27 VON is where the people building that future come together.
March 30–April 1, 2027. Dallas, Texas. The generation that built internet voice and the generation building AI voice, in the same room.
vCons are the robot food for AI.Thomas McCarthy-Howe — CTO, vConic · co-author of the vCon Specification
Jeff Pulver
Curating events since 1996. It is one of my life’s passions: looking at what is happening in tech, and building conferences to explore the future.
From 1997 until 2008, Voice on the Net (“VON”) was the VoIP industry conference. More than 5,000 people twice a year in the US, with show floors that sold out in San Jose and Boston.
At VON we keep it intimate. The community, the experience, helping people connect the dots, drive business, build and grow relationships.
I helped grow the VoIP industry. Along the way I started a number of organizations, including Vonage, Vivox and VON Coalition. I am the person behind the Pulver Order, the FCC ruling that kept internet voice unregulated.
We are living in the RenAIssance of Voice. You can't spell renAIssance without AI.
VON is about building community and helping people connect the dots.
The networking app at VON is a person: Jeff Pulver.
Bring what you are building, the questions you are working through and the people you would like to meet. When you are in the room at VON, ask Jeff for an introduction.
October 13–15, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia
Alberto Gonzalez TrastoyCTOWebRTC
Alex SmolaCEO & Co-FounderBoson AI
Anthony ScodaryCo-FounderGuava
Audrey HaynCo-Founder & COOMindMaking
Brad GraftonSVP, SalesSoundHound AI
Bradley MetrockGeneral PartnerProject Voice Capital Partners
Brian PetersonCo-Founder & CTODialpad
Carter HuffmanCEO & Co-FounderModulate
CeeJay BarberVice President of Business DevelopmentDatagate
Chakra DevallaCo-Founder & CEOtekVizion
Charles ChanceCTOSimwood Group PLC
Chris CelibertiHead of Customer Experience (CX)vConic
Chris FineCEOIntegrative Technologies
Chris MajOpen Source Solutions AdvocateSangoma
Dag PeakCPTOAlianza
Dan PetriePresidentSIPez
Dean LandsmanStrategy & Business DevelopmentJLINC
Derek CanejaCo-Founder & CTOVoiceRun
Eugene TcipnjatovCo-Founder & CTOPhound
Hari KishanDirector of Cloud EngineeringManulife
James L. LeeCEOInlayer
Jason RajanSenior Data Scientist, Telephone Surveys & Support OperationsNORC
Jeff DworkinManaging DirectorThe Cloud Voice Alliance
Jeff PulverChairThe vCon Foundation
Jon BrintonChief Revenue OfficerCrexendo
Jonathan EisenzopfPrincipal Agent StrategistVapi
Justin MasseyFounderRelay Hawk
Kate HobsonVice President, Telephone Surveys & Support OperationsNORC
Ken AdamsPresidentP2P Labs
Kevin SelkowitzVP of UCaaSNetlink Voice
Lee G. PetroMemberDickinson Wright PLLC
Luca PradoveraHead Solutions ArchitectSignalWire
Mark VangeFounder & CTOAutom8ly
Mary CheneyCMO888VoIP
Masud KhanStaff Software EngineerTin Can
Matt FlorellPresidentVICIdial Group
Matt WatsonVP of ProductvConic
Meet ModiCo-Founder & CTOAgentPhone
Michael OethFounderRelay-OS
Mike MillsManaging Director, Service ProviderGamma
Mike SandersCEOCereTax
Nilay N. PatelChairman888VoIP
Nima HakimiCEOConvoso
Nishith ChudasamaSenior VP Strategy & GrowthCrexendo
Peter SaddingtonGeneral Partner and CEOStaas Fund
Phil BowersGlobal Director of MarketingGrandstream
Randy LaymanCTOAVOXI
Rita LopesFounder & CEOGigapipe
Robert DumasCEO & FounderTaxConnex
Ron KerbsCEOKidas
Sam PetraliaProductCarrierX
Shai BergerCMOConsig AI
Sridhar RamachandranCEO & Co-founderCortega
Thomas McCarthy-HoweCTOvConic
Vikash SrivastavaCTOVobiz AI
Yaron SeidmanFounder & CEOMyWayvCompanies represented at Fall ’26 VON included: 888VoIP, AgentPhone, Alianza, Autom8ly, AVOXI, Boson AI, CereTax, Consig AI, Convoso, Cortega, Crexendo, Datagate, Dialpad, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Gamma, Gigapipe, Grandstream, Guava, Inlayer, Integrative Technologies, JLINC, Kidas, Manulife, MindMaking, Modulate, MyWayv, Netlink Voice, NORC, P2P Labs, Phound, Project Voice Capital Partners, Relay Hawk, Relay-OS, Sangoma, SignalWire, Simwood Group PLC, SIPez, SoundHound AI, Staas Fund, TaxConnex, tekVizion, The Cloud Voice Alliance, The vCon Foundation, Tin Can, Vapi, vConic, VICIdial Group, Vobiz AI, VoiceRun, WebRTC
Community photographs from earlier VON gatherings.
Come to learn, connect, build relationships and be part of the conversations shaping what comes next.
Program updates, speaker announcements and the full schedule when it goes live — on the VON Substack.
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March 30 – April 1, 2027 · Dallas
#spring27VON
The AI Communication Industry Conference
If you build, buy, deploy, fund, or are simply interested in Voice AI and AI-powered communications, join the people shaping what comes next.
This conference is curated for people who want to stay ahead of the curve.
Meet founders and builders, enterprise teams, carriers and platforms, investors and business leaders, and professionals working in policy, compliance, security, and trust.
Why now
The RenAIssance of Voice has arrived. Voice becomes memory. Memory becomes action. vCons give every conversation a file AI can use.
Business runs on conversation. AI has changed what happens next. This is where the carriers, platforms, enterprises and standards people building that future get in one room.
March 30 brings VoiceAI LIVE!, The vCon Summit and Agents on the Net. March 31–April 1 we continue with Voice and Conversations on the Net.
VoiceAI LIVE! brings the people building Voice AI into the room to demonstrate their work, live. Back-to-back demonstrations let enterprise teams, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS providers, investors and fellow builders see how different companies approach real conversations and the problems their products are designed to solve.
For teams evaluating Voice AI, it is a chance to compare approaches and identify people to talk with. For builders, it is a chance to see what others are developing and where your work might connect. Spring ’27 continues the live demonstration format from Fall ’26 VON in Atlanta.
The vCon Summit connects an introduction to the technology with the practical questions of putting it to work. The morning, Introduction to vCons, explores how a conversation becomes a structured record that applications and AI agents can use.
The afternoon turns to industry issues of the day: privacy and consent, identity and trust, audit trails, fraud, and the realities of deployment. These are questions for enterprise teams, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS providers as well as developers and standards contributors. The aim is to connect the work on the standard with the decisions people face when building and operating services.
Agents on the Net brings together enterprise teams, developers, carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS companies building and deploying agentic AI solutions. We’ll explore the practical realities of development and deployment, alongside the early days of agent-to-agent communication and the protocols taking shape.
Jeff Pulver curates these programs and invites the people presenting. If you have a live demonstration, deployment experience or a technical perspective you would like to discuss with Jeff, start a conversation.
Industry Perspectives, Plenary Sessions, Fireside Chats and Breakout sessions
Building a Voice AI company takes more than a working model. Network quality, deployment experience, enterprise requirements, distribution and capital all matter. VON connects these conversations so founders and teams can learn from one another and explore business relationships.
Voice AI depends on communications infrastructure. For carriers, UCaaS and CPaaS companies, the questions include call quality, reliability, network operations and the services AI applications will need. Bring your experience, meet builders and explore where partnerships and new business can develop.
CIOs, CTOs and CX leaders are deciding how Voice AI and agentic AI fit into their businesses. Development, integration, deployment, reliability, security and compliance all shape those decisions. Bring the questions your team is working through and learn from people building and operating these solutions.
Understanding AI communications means looking across infrastructure, applications, compliance and enterprise demand. VON brings those perspectives into the conversation, helping investors examine what is working, what customers need and where businesses may grow.
Identity, trust, consent, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance are part of building AI communications that businesses can use. Bring your experience with TCPA, the EU AI Act, policy and operational requirements into discussions with developers, platforms, carriers and enterprise teams.
For developers, standards contributors, platform builders and enterprise teams deploying or evaluating vCons. Explore implementations, conversation records, consent and the connections between standards work and practical adoption. Bring what you are building and the questions you want the community to address.
VON is about building community and helping people connect the dots.
The networking app at VON is a person: Jeff Pulver.
Bring what you are building, the questions you are working through and the people you would like to meet. When you are in the room at VON, ask Jeff for an introduction.
Come to learn, connect, build relationships and be part of the conversations shaping what comes next.
