Introduction I’ve known Karel since 2009, we met at eComm in San Francisco (surprisingly the event’s website sort of remains here, http://ecommconf.com/). He was a graduating MBA student from NYU Stern, in our discussion voice agents were mentioned even back then. After graduation he joined Alcatel Mobile Phones, then moved to Orange Libon. During his time … Continue reading Original Gangster in Voice AI, Karel Bourgois
Over the summer I had a number of conversations that included vCon. This is a chance for some of the vCon team to share the latest updates. Mindmaking is really exciting for me, its building the vCon Store, its applications and dashboards; supported by some of the TADHack community. More on that later in this … Continue reading vCon Progress Report
Introduction In this session we discuss with Kevin: Back in November last year (2024) Kevin and I discussed, “Is Security in Programmable Communications ready for the post Quantum Era?” Since then, quantum computing has rapidly become mainstream, with announcements from Google, Microsoft, and trials between carriers and their technology partners. In addition, the world has … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Cavero Quantum Update Symmetrikey, Kevin Graham
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
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
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)?
I’m grateful to Matteo for being prepared to keynote at TADSummit 2024. He brings a long and storied experience to TADSummit. His world-class presentation explains an important and under-discussed aspect of CPaaS. His core messaging is focus on the customer, which I support, it’s a weakness for the industry. And local customer focus leads to … Continue reading Conquer the world or win the customer? Matteo Gatta, Founder GenNoor, ex-CEO BICS
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. We’re able to do that because many of our presenters are small and medium businesses. If they are wrong, their business ceases to exist. I’ve noticed a movement in … Continue reading The 20+ year Governance and Certification Gap in A2P SMS When is it Going to End? Daniel Gill, Augnet
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
It’s great to have Karel back on the podcast. He’s building a whitepaper, Real Time Enterprise AI, and is asking the TADS community to help him refine it, as well as review the ideas contained within. Please reach out to Karel (karel.bourgois@voxist.com) if you’d like to review his whitepaper, he’ll send it to you. You … Continue reading Podcast 78: TADSummit Innovators, Voxist Whitepaper