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TADSummit Online Conference

Sipfront, The Quality Assurance Platform for Voice AI and Enterprise Telco

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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 →

TADSummit Online Conference

The Simwood Potato Chapter 3

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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 →

TADSummit Online Conference

Real World AI-enhanced coding and product development

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Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO Vconic, vCon Father Rob Pickering, Internet and Real Time Communication Software Expert, RJ Burnham, Founder and CEO Consig AI João Camarate, Entrepreneur, Investor, Startup Nerd, Advisor to Broadvoice Lyle Pratt, Founder CEO Vida Voice Introduction I follow the above thought leader’s Linkedin posts and our one-on-one conversations about AI and the role … Continue reading Real World AI-enhanced coding and product development →

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TADSummit online Conference, Voice AI Space is born, Thibault [T-Bot] Mardinli

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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 →

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TADSummit Online Conference, 9 April, Voice AI Update, Rob Pickering & Lyle Pratt

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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 →

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TADSummit 2025 Online Conference Agenda

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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 →

Announcements, Developer

Congratulations to VAPI for Raising $20M Series A.

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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. →

Event Review

TADSummit’s Insights Part 1

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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 →

Event Review

Vida Voice AI Lyle Pratt, Vida io Founder & CEO

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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 →

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Using speech-to-speech models in conversational chatbots. Rob Pickering.

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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. →