Time flies! Preparing for a more Complex Future. It’s been 2 years since we last talked with Karim, This session is long overdue, and shares an open and honest review on the status of programmable communications in the Middle East, with a focus on AI Back in 2023 Karim gave a session on Unifonic’s origin … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, AI in the Middle East, Karim Zaki, Unifonic
Overview Social Engineering, also known as human hacking, has been a common theme of TADSummit’s cybersecurity sessions in 2025. Social engineering in cyber security refers to the psychological manipulation of individuals to perform actions or divulge confidential information that compromises security. Instead of exploiting technical vulnerabilities, it relies on human error and trust to gain … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Social Engineering, Matt Holland and Enrico Faccioli
Background Thibault [T-Bot] Mardinli is mapping the Voice AI space and helping people navigate its rapidly developing territories. He brings a unique set of experiences, especially in events, and most importantly learning from trying and failing. Such learning creates entrepreneurs that can change industries. He created a start-up a couple of years ago with a … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Voice AI Space is born, Thibault [T-Bot] Mardinli
Voice AI attack rise 442% AI-powered voice attacks are surging, with vishing (voice phishing) attempts increasing 442% in the latter half of 2024. Criminals can now clone the voice of a CEO to demand an urgent wire transfer, making the threat more persuasive than ever. Meanwhile, traditional security training – with its generic videos and … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Cybersecurity Training in the Age of Voice AI, Enrico Faccioli, vishr.ai
Preface Unfortunately FC has a family issue, one we all face in our lives. He and his wife are in the UK for that. We wish them the best of strength. His email came in after midnight. Given we were all meeting that day, we decided to discuss the analysis of the SKT hack published … Continue reading SKT Hack Debrief
<Reader note, this is a long note. My hope is the executive teams of some telcos investigate what is going on with their industry fora. The fora are not acting in the best interests of their customers or investors.> June was the month of TADHack, we had two wonderfully diverse innovation events thanks to Telnyx … Continue reading TADHack 2025. Why does Telecoms Service Innovation feel like an Oxymoron? Because the Web won, and telecoms has not caught up!
Introduction In this session we discuss with Kevin: Back in November last year (2024) Kevin and I discussed, “Is Security in Programmable Communications ready for the post Quantum Era?” Since then, quantum computing has rapidly become mainstream, with announcements from Google, Microsoft, and trials between carriers and their technology partners. In addition, the world has … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Cavero Quantum Update Symmetrikey, Kevin Graham
Meet the developers You can see all the hacks and winners here. It’s been a hectic week, yet we managed to gather a few interviews with developers so you can witness firsthand the diversity, maturity, and talent available for your projects and internships. If you have an internship or project need on vCon, vCon TADHack … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, vCon TADHack, meet the developers
A subtitle for this session could be Flat Rate Continuous Authentication, but more on that later. IPification was launched in 2017. Missing the initial bubble-burst cycle of mobile connect. I realized that we’ve been discussing MobileConnect at TADSummit since 2014. With a presentation from George Held, VP Commerce, Etisalat Group and Frans De Rooij, Strategic … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Truth in Identity Verification, Stefan Kostic, IPification