Speakers and Proposals | Spring '27 VON
https://von.tc/speakers
Edition: Spring '27 VON (current event)
Dataset version 0.4.1, updated 2026-10-31

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

October 13–15, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia

- Alberto Gonzalez Trastoy CTO, WebRTC

- Alex Smola CEO & Co-Founder, Boson AI

- Anthony Scodary Co-Founder, Guava

- Audrey Hayn Co-Founder & COO, MindMaking

- Brad Grafton SVP, Sales, SoundHound AI

- Bradley Metrock General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners

- Brian Peterson Co-Founder & CTO, Dialpad

- Carter Huffman CEO & Co-Founder, Modulate

- CeeJay Barber Vice President of Business Development, Datagate

- Chakra Devalla Co-Founder & CEO, tekVizion

- Charles Chance CTO, Simwood Group PLC

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

- Chris Fine CEO, Integrative Technologies

- Chris Maj Open Source Solutions Advocate, Sangoma

- Dag Peak CPTO, Alianza

- Dan Petrie President, SIPez

- Dean Landsman Strategy & Business Development, JLINC

- Derek Caneja Co-Founder & CTO, VoiceRun

- Eugene Tcipnjatov Co-Founder & CTO, Phound

- Hari Kishan Director of Cloud Engineering, Manulife

- James L. Lee CEO, Inlayer

- Jason Rajan Senior Data Scientist, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations, NORC

- Jeff Dworkin Managing Director, The Cloud Voice Alliance

- Jeff Pulver Chair, The vCon Foundation

- Jon Brinton Chief Revenue Officer, Crexendo

- Jonathan Eisenzopf Principal Agent Strategist, Vapi

- Justin Massey Founder, Relay Hawk

- Kate Hobson Vice President, Telephone Surveys & Support Operations, NORC

- Ken Adams President, P2P Labs

- Kevin Selkowitz VP of UCaaS, Netlink Voice

- Lee G. Petro Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC

- Luca Pradovera Head Solutions Architect, SignalWire

- Mark Vange Founder & CTO, Autom8ly

- Mary Cheney CMO, 888VoIP

- Masud Khan Staff Software Engineer, Tin Can

- Matt Florell President, VICIdial Group

- Matt Watson VP of Product, vConic

- Meet Modi Co-Founder & CTO, AgentPhone

- Michael Oeth Founder, Relay-OS

- Mike Mills Managing Director, Service Provider, Gamma

- Mike Sanders CEO, CereTax

- Nilay N. Patel Chairman, 888VoIP

- Nima Hakimi CEO, Convoso

- Nishith Chudasama Senior VP Strategy & Growth, Crexendo

- Peter Saddington General Partner and CEO, Staas Fund

- Phil Bowers Global Director of Marketing, Grandstream

- Randy Layman CTO, AVOXI

- Rita Lopes Founder & CEO, Gigapipe

- Robert Dumas CEO & Founder, TaxConnex

- Ron Kerbs CEO, Kidas

- Sam Petralia Product, CarrierX

- Shai Berger CMO, Consig AI

- Sridhar Ramachandran CEO & Co-founder, Cortega

- Thomas McCarthy-Howe CTO, vConic

- Vikash Srivastava CTO, Vobiz AI

- Yaron Seidman Founder & CEO, MyWayv

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

[Image: Spring '27 VON 30th Anniversary Edition]

Spring '27 VON | 30th Anniversary Edition | March 30 - April 1 | Dallas, Texas

# Help Shape the Future of AI Communication

Voice AI. Agents on the Net. vCons.

What are you building? What have you learned? What should this community be talking about?

We invite proposals that bring working technology, real deployment experience and concrete technical or policy work into the room.

Propose a Session (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0ASks_klmFNBKxwI96r3AklyvivSW8DXKmhFUjF3o0cnxdg/viewform?usp=publish-editor)

## Bring something we can learn from.

We welcome:

- Working demonstrations

- Production case studies and real deployment results

- Technical deep dives

- Panels

- Workshops

- Protocol and standards work

- Regulatory and policy work

Tell us what you want to share, what supports it and what people will take away.

## The questions ahead

Voice AI deployment. Agents on the Net. vCons and governed conversation records. Future IETF protocols. Agent interoperability and agent-to-agent communication.

STIR/SHAKEN. Identity, trust and fraud. Consent, TCPA and regulatory compliance.

CPaaS, UCaaS and CCaaS. Wholesale carriers and network operations. Enterprise CX and communications infrastructure.

We lean into the future while respecting consent, trust, regulation and communications operations.

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

[Image: Fall '26 sponsors: Presenting sponsor 888VoIP, with FAXedge, Netlink Voice and PhoneSuite. 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.]

## How proposals are selected

Jeff Pulver curates the event and reviews all proposals. Your proposal can be the seed of an idea that inspires a future session. Jeff will contact the people whose proposals he would like to incorporate into the conference.

Speaking opportunities are selected for the ideas, experience and relevance they bring to the conversation. Submitting a proposal does not guarantee acceptance. Sponsorship and exhibiting are separate from speaker selection and do not guarantee a speaking opportunity.

Propose a Session (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0ASks_klmFNBKxwI96r3AklyvivSW8DXKmhFUjF3o0cnxdg/viewform?usp=publish-editor)

March 30 - April 1, 2027

Where the AI Communication Industry Meets.

Related event (a separate event with its own site): VON Policy Summit, December 2, 2026 · Washington, DC. https://vonpolicy.com/