With my two favorite voice AI expert practitioners, a discussion on the state of the art in voice AI: After all the marcom from a bunch of conferences over the past few months, this is the dose of salts you need to clear away all the BS congestion blues. Voice AI continues to move at … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 9 April, Voice AI Update, Rob Pickering & Lyle Pratt
Here are the TADSummit and TADHack 2025 plans, so you know the big picture. This post lists the agenda, and links to recorded sessions Links to Recorded Sessions Google rejects SMS OTP for QR Codes? I understand the SMS bit, but QR codes? Kevin Graham, Bohdan Hopanchuck, Noah Rafalko, Johnny, Dennis Kersten (audience), Ahmed Serag (audience). From the Trenches, RCS / RBM … Continue reading TADSummit 2025 Online Conference Agenda
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, and how voice AI is rapidly evolving and how to keep up. Compare our numbers to other telecom events and organizations. TADSummit is the most viewed resource in Telecoms. … Continue reading TADSummit’s Insights Part 1
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
Rob is a TADSummit and TADHack regular. He provides in my opinion a critical litmus test on whether a new communications technology has potential, the issues to consider, and whether its ready. At the end of this post I include the pitch Rob gave for his hack RTCEmergency at the first TADHack in 2014. Time … Continue reading Using speech-to-speech models in conversational chatbots. Rob Pickering.
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
In 2020 we ran a panel at TADSummit on “Serverless and RTC (Real Time Communications).” The conclusions from that panel continue to ring true today, 4 years later. The importance of examining the specific workloads, AGM (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) define developer fashion, so serverless is required to remain relevant. The key is some workloads … Continue reading TADSummit Panel Discussion. Are LLMs about to disrupt enterprise SaaS (Software as a Service)?
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 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 the Day 1 agenda here. All times are Eastern Standard Time (New York City time). TADSummit Sponsors Summary, Timed Agenda: 23 October 08:00 Evolve … Continue reading TADSummit Timed Agenda, Day 2 23rd October 2024