I’ve known Lyle Pratt since he founded BetterVoice in 2010, and was then acquired by Inteliquent (wholesale voice services) in 2016. Lyle was part of Inteliquent / Voyant, which was acquired in 2021 by Sinch. Lyle then left to build Vida as LLMs (Large Language Model) were getting interesting in automating some business functions. Through … Continue reading Vida Voice AI Lyle Pratt, Vida io Founder & CEO
Podcast Directory Bait and switched into another Truth in Telecoms. Robert (The Vis) thought he was entering an industry beauty contest (really?) only to discover Johnny had an inquisition’s worth of questions. This really is a great review of the state of the industry and so many of the issues covered up by industry bodies. … Continue reading Podcast 87: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 1
Podcast Directory Pieter Luitjens, is the co-Founder and CTO at Private AI. He took part in the TADSummit panel session, AI and Video applications, here’s the Video of the panel. As I got to understand PrivateAI I realized the importance of what they do, all the conversations recorded across programmable communications are now fed into LLMs … Continue reading Podcast 34: TADSummit Innovators, Pieter Luitjens, PrivateAI
Podcast Directory Before Bird was a time when the A2P SMS industry was comfortable in scamming / overchargin enterprises, innovators and consumers. Then came a time AB (After Bird) when Bird shone the light of truth on the dirty tricks being played. Check out Podcast 30: Truth in Telecoms: Flipping the Bird with Robert Vis … Continue reading Podcast 33: Truth in Telecoms, Before Bird / After Bird (BB/AB)
Podcast Directory We had ‘CPaaS is done’ from Robert Vis on Podcast 30. And we now have CPast from Anthony on Podcast 32. Anthony also positioned their platform as Programmable Unified Communications, more on that later. If you’re still using CPaaS after both of these leaders in the industry dismissed it, you’re most definitely legacy. … Continue reading Podcast 32: TADSummit Innovators, Anthony Minessale, SignalWire and FreeSWITCH
Register Logistics (maps, address, hotel, etc.) Timed Agenda Content Agenda (grouped by subject) TADSummit is the thought-leadership event in programmable communications (CPaaS, xPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS) for eleven years. It runs on the 19th and 20th of October in Paris, France and online. Our focus is simple, innovation and truth. We’ll be at Capgemini’s 5G Labs, 147 … Continue reading Everything is set for TADSummit 2023 Innovation and Truth
These TADSummit 2022 reviews are a chance to give all the excellent content deserved attention and add my commentary on its importance. I cover only my ‘Welcome and What happened since we last met? Where is the Programmable Comms market going?’ presentation as the article ended up being quite long and a bit soapboxy (warning … Continue reading Welcome & What Happened? Review
Running the event on a tight budget means I’m often dealing with logistics during the event. This year Youtube streaming in Portugal was problematic, the event location had 200 Mbit/s bidirectional, I think it was the local ISP messing with the stream. Anyway, these reviews are in part for me to give all the excellent … Continue reading Keynote Review TADSummit 2022
In this weblog we review the presentations focused on programmable communications at TADSummit EMEA Americas 2021. The presentations include: Panel Discussion: The Challenges and Opportunities of merging UCaaS and CCaaS. João Camarate, CTO Broadvoice and GoContact, Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo; Adnan Saleem, CTO Software and Cloud Solutions, Radisys; Al Balasco, SVP Communications Solutions, Radisys; Thomas Howe, … Continue reading Slice of TADSummit: Programmable Comms
Video Outline GoContact Keynote Panel Discussion: The Challenges and Opportunities of merging UCaaS and CCaaS. João Camarate, CTO Broadvoice and GoContact. Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo Adnan Saleem, CTO Software and Cloud Solutions, Radisys Al Balasco, SVP Communications Solutions, Radisys Thomas Howe, CTO STROLID Alan Quayle, Independent Let’s get this one out of the way first, … Continue reading GoContact Keynote Panel Discussion: The Challenges and Opportunities of merging UCaaS and CCaaS.