Tag Archives: Dave Horton

TADSummit Online Conference, 2 April, Simwood Potato

This ended up a long but worthwhile discussion. The Simwood potato is relevant across the telecoms industry, from legacy telcos needing to leapfrog technical debt, to Simwood competitors missing features and services, to enterprises needing to add features overnight, and all the startup voice AI companies needing to plug their telephony gaps. It’s a surprisingly … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 2 April, Simwood Potato

Congratulations to VAPI for Raising $20M Series A.

Use the vapi voicebot, you’ll be impressed, and check out the docs. At TADSummit we’re fans of VAPI, here’s the podcast we did with Nikhil Gupta, their CTO, see below. As covered in Dave Horton’s TADSummit session, How Jambonz is changing the world of programmable telecoms, VAPI uses Jambonz. The best voice AI companies use the best open … Continue reading Congratulations to VAPI for Raising $20M Series A.

TADSummit’s Insights Part 2: Innovators

This article shares some of the important and unique insights generated through TADSummit 2024. Insights you’ll not read anywhere else, on where telecom innovation is going. We achieved over 65k views of the TADSummit 2024 presentations so far. An amazing result that demonstrates the interest TADSummit generates because of our focus is truth and integrity, … Continue reading TADSummit’s Insights Part 2: Innovators

How Drachtio and Jambonz are changing the World of Programmable Telecoms. Dave Horton

Dave Horton is the creator of jambonz, the open source voice gateway for CX/AI; and drachtio.org, the open source framework for SIP Server applications. This is an interesting presentation as Dave pivots from the usual platform / technology focus to a business focus. Dave frames what jambonz will become: like Intel, Gore Tex, Vibram and … Continue reading How Drachtio and Jambonz are changing the World of Programmable Telecoms. Dave Horton

TADSummit 2024 is less than 3 weeks away

Thanks to TADSummit sponsors TSG Global, Inc. and Strolid, Inc. for understanding the importance of truth (no BS) for customers Here are the agenda for 22nd October and 23rd October. The focus is the truly innovative stuff in programmable communications. Since its founding in 2013 TADSummit has a stated policy of no BS. https://tadsummit.com/2024/policy/. This … Continue reading TADSummit 2024 is less than 3 weeks away

TADSummit Timed Agenda, Day 1 22nd October 2024

TADSummit is the thought-leadership event in programmable communications / telecoms for over ten years. We deliver the truth, no BS. Truth you can build your business on. The segmented agenda is here, and we’ll add Day 2 soon. All times are Eastern Standard Time (New York City time). TADSummit Sponsors Summary, Timed Agenda: 22 October … Continue reading TADSummit Timed Agenda, Day 1 22nd October 2024

Please Register for TADSummit 2024

A big thank you to Strolid and TSG Global for sponsoring TADSummit. They understand the importance of focusing on the reality of today’s diverse markets. I’m grateful to all the presenters, they know programmable communications can step up to the current challenges using their innovations.  Robert Vis, Bird, recently described what is happening in A2P SMS as EOL (End of Life) … Continue reading Please Register for TADSummit 2024

TADSummit Podcast Episode 7

Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators This is an amazing multi-decade review of Dave Horton‘s telecoms journey, through Open Development Systems, Pactolus that supported the prepaid calling card industry so he and Johnny have much in common, to where we are today with Drachtio and Jambonz, enabling CPaaS to run on free and open source software. I … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 7

TADSummit Special: Why conversational AI providers are moving to open source

Dave Horton, Creator of drachtio.org, the open source framework for SIP Server applications Commentary Dave provides an nice intro to the conversation AI space, and the reasons why Cognigy are using Jambonz. I really like Dave’s framing of why community driven FOSS (Free and open Source Software) will win over commercial software. Remember Linux and … Continue reading TADSummit Special: Why conversational AI providers are moving to open source

TADSummit Special, March 21-23

We were unable to get every presentation we wanted into TADSummit 2022 in November. TADSummit Special will share 3 insightful presentations. We plan to run them March 21-23, one per day, live (and recorded), starting at 11AM ET, 8AM PT, 4PM CET. Register for TADSummit Special here to receive the URL for the live session. … Continue reading TADSummit Special, March 21-23