Spring '27 VON | Voice and Conversations on the Net
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Edition: Spring '27 VON (current event)
Dataset version 0.3.0-review, updated 2026-10-29

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March 30 – April 1, 2027 · Dallas

#spring27VON

March 30 – April 1, 2027 #spring27VON Dallas, Texas

# Voice and Conversations on the Net

The AI Communication Industry Conference

WhenMarch 30 – April 1, 2027 LocationDallas, Texas WhoCurated by Jeff Pulver

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The RenAIssance of Voice has arrived. Voice becomes memory. Memory becomes action. vCons (https://von.tc/f26-vcon) give every conversation a file AI can use.

Curated and hosted by Jeff Pulver Producing the conversations of this industry since 1996

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## This room is for you.

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

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.

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## At Spring ’27 VON

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.

### March 30

#### VoiceAI LIVE!

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.

[Image: VoiceAI LIVE! · March 30, 2027 · Dallas, Texas]

#### The vCon Summit

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.

[Image: The vCon Summit · March 30, 2027 · Dallas, Texas]

#### Agents on the Net

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.

[Image: Agents on the Net · March 30, 2027 · Dallas, Texas]

### Want to contribute to the March 30 programs?

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.

Talk with Jeff about March 30 (https://calendly.com/jeffpulver/sponsor-vonevolution)

### March 31–April 1 · Voice and Conversations on the Net

Industry Perspectives, Plenary Sessions, Fireside Chats and Breakout sessions

Explore the Program (https://von.tc/f26-program-overview)

Attend Spring ’27 VON (https://von.tc/f26-tickets)

## Who Should Attend

### Voice AI Companies and Founders

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.

### Carriers, UCaaS, and CPaaS Companies

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.

### Enterprise Technology Leaders

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.

### Investors

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.

### Compliance Practitioners

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.

### The vCon Community

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.

Curated and hosted by Jeff Pulver Producing the conversations of this industry since 1996.

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.

[Image: Thomas McCarthy-Howe and Jeff Pulver at a vCon Foundation event]
vCons are the robot food for AI.
Thomas McCarthy-Howe — CTO, vConic · co-author of the vCon Specification

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Jeff Pulver

## The Community That Built This Industry

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.

## Thank you to the speakers of Fall ’26 VON.

October 13–15, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia

[Image: Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy] Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy CTO WebRTC

[Image: Alex Smola] Alex Smola CEO & Co-Founder Boson AI

[Image: Anthony Scodary] Anthony Scodary Co-Founder Guava

[Image: Audrey Hayn] Audrey Hayn Co-Founder & COO MindMaking

[Image: Brad Grafton] Brad Grafton SVP, Sales SoundHound AI

[Image: Bradley Metrock] Bradley Metrock General Partner Project Voice Capital Partners

[Image: Brian Peterson] Brian Peterson Co-Founder & CTO Dialpad

[Image: Carter Huffman] Carter Huffman CEO & Co-Founder Modulate

[Image: CeeJay Barber] CeeJay Barber Vice President of Business Development Datagate

[Image: Chakra Devalla] Chakra Devalla Co-Founder & CEO tekVizion

[Image: Charles Chance] Charles Chance CTO Simwood Group PLC

[Image: Chris Celiberti] Chris Celiberti Head of Customer Experience (CX) vConic

[Image: Chris Fine] Chris Fine CEO Integrative Technologies

[Image: Chris Maj] Chris Maj Open Source Solutions Advocate Sangoma

[Image: Dag Peak] Dag Peak CPTO Alianza

[Image: Dan Petrie] Dan Petrie President SIPez

[Image: Dean Landsman] Dean Landsman Strategy & Business Development JLINC

[Image: Derek Caneja] Derek Caneja Co-Founder & CTO VoiceRun

[Image: Eugene Tcipnjatov] Eugene Tcipnjatov Co-Founder & CTO Phound

[Image: Hari Kishan] Hari Kishan Director of Cloud Engineering Manulife

[Image: James L. Lee] James L. Lee CEO Inlayer

[Image: Jason Rajan] Jason Rajan Senior Data Scientist, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations NORC

[Image: Jeff Dworkin] Jeff Dworkin Managing Director The Cloud Voice Alliance

[Image: Jeff Pulver] Jeff Pulver Chair The vCon Foundation

[Image: Jon Brinton] Jon Brinton Chief Revenue Officer Crexendo

[Image: Jonathan Eisenzopf] Jonathan Eisenzopf Principal Agent Strategist Vapi

[Image: Justin Massey] Justin Massey Founder Relay Hawk

[Image: Kate Hobson] Kate Hobson Vice President, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations NORC

[Image: Ken Adams] Ken Adams President P2P Labs

[Image: Kevin Selkowitz] Kevin Selkowitz VP of UCaaS Netlink Voice

[Image: Lee G. Petro] Lee G. Petro Member Dickinson Wright PLLC

[Image: Luca Pradovera] Luca Pradovera Head Solutions Architect SignalWire

[Image: Mark Vange] Mark Vange Founder & CTO Autom8ly

[Image: Mary Cheney] Mary Cheney CMO 888VoIP

[Image: Masud Khan] Masud Khan Staff Software Engineer Tin Can

[Image: Matt Florell] Matt Florell President VICIdial Group

[Image: Matt Watson] Matt Watson VP of Product vConic

[Image: Meet Modi] Meet Modi Co-Founder & CTO AgentPhone

[Image: Michael Oeth] Michael Oeth Founder Relay-OS

[Image: Mike Mills] Mike Mills Managing Director, Service Provider Gamma

[Image: Mike Sanders] Mike Sanders CEO CereTax

[Image: Nilay N. Patel] Nilay N. Patel Chairman 888VoIP

[Image: Nima Hakimi] Nima Hakimi CEO Convoso

[Image: Nishith Chudasama] Nishith Chudasama Senior VP Strategy & Growth Crexendo

[Image: Peter Saddington] Peter Saddington General Partner and CEO Staas Fund

[Image: Phil Bowers] Phil Bowers Global Director of Marketing Grandstream

[Image: Randy Layman] Randy Layman CTO AVOXI

[Image: Rita Lopes] Rita Lopes Founder & CEO Gigapipe

[Image: Robert Dumas] Robert Dumas CEO & Founder TaxConnex

[Image: Ron Kerbs] Ron Kerbs CEO Kidas

[Image: Sam Petralia] Sam Petralia Product CarrierX

[Image: Shai Berger] Shai Berger CMO Consig AI

[Image: Sridhar Ramachandran] Sridhar Ramachandran CEO & Co-founder Cortega

[Image: Thomas McCarthy-Howe] Thomas McCarthy-Howe CTO vConic

[Image: Vikash Srivastava] Vikash Srivastava CTO Vobiz AI

[Image: Yaron Seidman] Yaron Seidman Founder & CEO MyWayv

Companies 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

Meet the Fall ’26 VON speakers (https://von.tc/f26-speakers)

Fall ’26 Program PDF (https://von.tc/documents/VON-Fall26-Official-Program.pdf)

The community

## The People In The Room

Community photographs from earlier VON gatherings.

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## Join us in Dallas, Texas. Help shape what comes next.

Come to learn, connect, build relationships and be part of the conversations shaping what comes next.

## Stay In Touch

Program updates, speaker announcements and community news.

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## Thank you to the sponsors of Fall ’26 VON.

[Image: Sponsors: Presenting sponsor 888VoIP. Gold sponsors Grandstream, Alianza, Crexendo, CarrierX and vConic. Silver sponsors Phound, The vCon Foundation, VoBiz and Phone.com. Media sponsors Fornix and Technology Reseller News.]