Agenda

Wednesday, November 11th

8:30 AM

Check-In & Sponsor Hall Open + Light Breakfast

9:30 AM

Opening Keynote

Opening Keynote + Vapi Product & Company Update

  • Jordan Dearsley, Founder & CEO, Vapi

10:15 AM

Morning Keynote

How the Next Voice Agents Will Be Built

  • Scott Stephenson, CEO, Deepgram

11:00 AM

Builder Track

Skipping Turns: A More Responsive Architecture for Voice Agents ‍

  • ‍Justin Uberti, Head of Realtime AI, Open AI

Operator Track

Surprised by the Data: Can Voice AI Outperform Humans?‍ ‍

  • Joshua March, Co-Founder & CEO, Veritus

  • Anna Oh, Head of Product & Design, Norbert Health

  • ‍Martin Siniawski, Founder & CEO, Rest

  • Charles Hua, Head of Product & Engineering, Pinnacle

  • Moderator: Ryan Ratner, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Vapi

11:30 AM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Operator Track

FDE Demo: Emotional Sentiment with High Speed Classifier Models

  • Noah Raynor, Forward Deployed Engineer, Vapi

  • Dhruva Reddy, Forward Deployed Engineer, Vapi

Builder Track

Choosing the Right Voice for Your Business

  • Akki Shafiqullah, Head of Voices, Cartesia

  • O‍livier Vroom, Founder, UserExperience.org

  • Vijeth Vijaykumar, AI Solutions Specialist, Descartes Systems Group

  • Patrick Finlay, Co-Founder and CTO, Solidroad

  • Moderator: Scott Cohen, Head of Customer Engagement, Vapi

1:45 PM

Builder Track

Voice AI in the Wild: Unique Deployments

  • ‍Siddeshwaraswamy Avaragolla Math, Principal Engineer, Intuit

  • Kaan Karakas, Applied AI Engineer, Delphi

  • Ulrich Gartzke, Founder & CEO, CAREBELLS

Operator Track

Improving the Standard for Patient Experience with Voice AI ‍ ‍

  • ‍Shoham Shitrit, Technical Lead, Healthcare, Percepta

  • Alberto Lopez Toledo, CTO, Cityblock Health

  • Joshua Ruminski, SVP Member Engagement & Experience, Cityblock Health

  • Sam Loewner, VP Member Experience, Cityblock Health

  • Moderator: Lisa Gohil, AI Agents in Healthcare, Vapi

2:45 PM

Builder Track

Production Vs. Demo: How to Keep Agents Reliable ‍ ‍

  • M‍ichael Grinich, Founder, WorkOS

  • Sourish Biswas, Product Leader, HOAi

  • Vidas Bacevičius, Lead Solutions Engineer, Oxylabs

  • Utsav Singhal, Co-Founder & CTO, Interact AI

  • Sidhant Kabra, Co-Founder & President, Cekura

  • Moderator: Shuaib Ahmed, Forward Deployed Engineer, Vapi ‍

Operator Track

Going from 1500ms to 500ms latency with Rust & GPU magic

  • Andre Natal, Member of Technical Staff, Vapi

3:30 PM

Builder Track

AI for Public Good - How Centria Healthcare is Expanding & Accelerating Access to Care with Voice AI

  • Pawanjit Singh, CIO, Centria Healthcare

  • Steven Diaz, Engineering Manager, Vapi

4:15 PM

Closing Keynote

Building Proactive, Goal-Oriented, Always-On Agents

  • Harrison Chase, CEO, LangChain

5:00 PM

Happy Hour

6:00 PM

Event & Sponsor Hall Closed

Thursday, November 12th

8:30 AM

Check-In Open + Light Breakfast

9:30 AM

Opening Keynote

100,000 Customers a Day, 96% Handled by AI Agents: Inside Kavak

  • Alejandro Maza, Chief AI & Product Officer, Kavak

10:20 AM

Builder Track

The Last GUI You Will Ever Build

  • Sandhya Hegde, Co-Founder, Calibre Labs

  • Justin Bauer, Co-Founder, Calibre Labs

Operator Track

The Future of Voice AI: What Will Voice be Used for in 12 Months?

  • Neil Zeghidour, CEO, Gradium

  • Michael Carpenter, Sr. Director Voice & Video, Twilio

  • Davit Baghdasaryan, Co-Founder & CEO, Krisp

  • Isha Sheth, Sr. Product Manager, Gemini Live, Google Deepmind

  • Gustaf Alstromer, General Partner, Y Combinator

  • Moderator: Nikhil Gupta, Founder & CTO, Vapi

11:00 AM

Builder Track

Open Weights, Open Source, or Closed: Choosing Your Voice Model

  • Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Head of Open Source, Deepgram

  • Vitali Korezki, Forward Deployed Engineer, Vapi

Operator Track

Customer Spotlight: NHS, Smart General Practice

  • Chris Manko, CTO, Smart General Practice

  • Benjamin Bulford-Forbes, Software Engineer, Smart General Practice

11:30 AM

Lunch

12:50 PM

Builder Track

Workshop: Testing Voice Agents: Going from Zero to Hero with Simulations

  • Scott Lowe, Member of Technical Staff, Vapi

Operator Track

Shipping Voice AI in Regulated Industries

  • Homer Kay, SVP Data Science & AI, Spring Venture Group

  • Sindhu Narasimhan, Head of Design, Agentic AI, Obin AI

  • Sumanyu Sharma, Founder & CEO, Hamming AI

  • Moderator: Lisa Gohil, AI Agents in Healthcare, Vapi

1:40 PM

Builder Track

Building Voice Models for Real Conversations

  • Klemen Simonic, CEO, Soniox

  • Hervé Bredin, Co-Founder & CSO, pyannoteAI

  • Rissa Cao, Co-Founder & CEO, Fish Audio

  • Damien Murphy, Applied AI Engineer, SpaceX Super Intelligence

  • Ed Anuff, CPO, Deepgram

  • Moderator: Nikhil Gupta, Founder & CTO, Vapi

Operator Track

Defending Against Voice Fraud

  • Carter Huffman, Co-Founder & CEO, Modulate AI

  • Zohaib Ahmed, Co-Founder & CEO, Resemble AI

  • Sanjay Krishnamurthy, Head of AI Enablement, Cinder

  • Moderator: Alex Tandy, Product & Engineering, Vapi

2:20 PM

Builder Track

Monitor, Simulate, Evaluate: Catching Agent Failures Before Your Customers Do

  • Brooke Hopkins, Founder & CEO, Coval

  • Rohan Vasishth, CEO, Bluejay

  • Yi Zhong, Co-Founder & CEO, Besimple AI

  • Laurie Voss, Head of Developer Relations, Arize AI

  • Moderator: Bets Margulies, Product Manager, Vapi

Operator Track

The Data Is In: Voice AI Pays Off When It Finishes The Job

  • Derek Top, Principal Analyst & Research Director, Opus Research

  • Ian Jacobs, VP, Lead Analyst, Opus Research

3:00 PM

Closing Fireside Chat

Fireside Chat with Vercel

  • Guillermo Rauch, CEO, Vercel

3:30 PM

Happy Hour

4:30 PM

Event & Sponsor Hall Closed

7:00 PM

Vapi After Party, Thriller Social Club ~ (RSVP Required)

*Agenda is subject to change