Sam Machin, Principal Engineer, Jambonz; creator of DragonPBX. Introducing DragonPBX https://dragonpbx.org Introduction About 18 months ago Sam started sketching out what a Programmable PBX would look like — built in the same style as the CPaaS platforms he’d spent the last 10 years of his career on, but designed for connecting calls between users, rather … Continue reading DragonPBX with Sam Machin
Purpose of this session It was TADSummit 2022 in Avero were Andreas Granig presented on Programmable Testing for Programmable Telcos, they won a couple of customers from that TADSummit. Then in January 2026 they announced Sipfront had raised a €1.8M seed round, well done! And last month they announced the addition of Filipe as an … Continue reading Sipfront, The Quality Assurance Platform for Voice AI and Enterprise Telco
Simon Woodhead, Founder & Group CEO at Simwood Group PLC Background I’ve just read Simon’s recent article, https://simwood.com/2026/01/chapter-3-what-are-you-going-to-build/. Combined with Dave Horton’s post https://blog.jambonz.org/why-were-introducing-a-commercial-license, it’s interesting times in voice AI. Things are converging as technology matures. I continue to like the work of Lyle Pratt at Vida on proving out a simple SMB use case, https://blog.tadsummit.com/2024/11/13/lyle-pratt-2/. And fully support … Continue reading The Simwood Potato Chapter 3
Marten Schoenherr, CEO AWA Network/Mation.work Sebastian Schumann, programmable communications for Deutsche Telekom Introduction It’s been too long! Marten and Sebastian return to TADSummit to help the community understand Mation. and how Deutsche Telekom use it. “Mation helps us to quickly and legally implement GDPR-compliant products on our own infrastructure.”Sebastian, Senior Architect, Deutsche Telekom\ BOAT (Business Orchestration … Continue reading Mation: process automation. AI-native, legally compliant, and cost-effective.
Gerrit Riessen, Experimentalist FlowHub Sam Machin, Principal Engineer Jambonz Viacheslav Katsuba, CEO & Founder at Scalicon. Introduction Gerrit created Erlang RED to experiment with visual Flow Based Programming (FBP) in conjunction with Erlang. FBPs message-passed concurrency is well suited to Erlang, conversely Erlangs Supervisor design pattern is well suited to FBP. Erlang RED is an experimental Erlang backend to … Continue reading Erlang RED
It’s the early summer conference season, when Camara like OneAPI did in the past, gather the old-boys to sing from the same hymn sheet. Telecom APIs are a high data topic, we should focus on facts not belief. For those that do not know me, I’ve run TADHack since 2014, the largest, longest running hackathon focused … Continue reading Choose Rational Thought over Belief in Telecom APIs
Organizational Stuff What TADSummit is about: Honesty and Integrity TADSummit is the thought leadership event in programmable communications / telecoms for 12 years (founded 2013). Our 2025 trends identified honesty and integrity as critically important for customers, https://blog.tadsummit.com/2025/01/17/10-global-predictions-for-2025/. There’s no hype, just innovators and experts sharing insights that respect you, your business, and your customers. Yes, … Continue reading TADSummit and TADHack 2025 Plans
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.
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
RJ has been in the ‘Voice AI’ industry for decades. The session is not about his company Consig; rather his opinions on the voice AI industry, on where it’s been, where it is, and where its going. This is a dynamic time in the communications industry, as the English ironic curse goes, “may you live … Continue reading Voice AI: Breaking Past the Bullshit RJ Burnham, Founder & CEO at Consig AI