November 11–12 · San Francisco
AGENDA.
2 Days
1,200+ Attendees
50+ Speakers
20+ Sponsors
Builder Track
Operator Track
8:30 AM
Light Breakfast
Doors open
9:30 AM
Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote + Vapi Product & Company Update
Jordan Dearsley
Founder & CEO
Vapi
10:50 AM
Morning Keynote
Morning Keynote
Scott Stephenson
CEO
Deepgram
11:20 AM · Breakout 1
Builder Track
Panel · Main Stage
Conversation on Speech to Speech Models
Justin Uberti
Head of Realtime AI
OpenAI
Operator Track
Panel
Surprised by the Data: Where Voice AI Outperforms Humans
Which “human” skills voice AI is quietly matching, improving, or still falling short on.
Anna Oh
Head of Product & Design
Norbert Health
Martin Siniawski
Founder & CEO
Rest
12:45 PM
Lunch Break
1:25 PM · Breakout 2
Builder Track
Rapid Fire · Main Stage
Voice AI in the Wild: Unique Deployments
Rapid-fire pitches from developers deploying voice AI in production at real scale.
Siddeshwaraswamy Avaragolla Math
Principal Engineer
Intuit
Kaan Karakas
Applied AI Engineer
Delphi
Ulrich Gartzke
Founder & CEO
CAREBELLS
Operator Track
Panel · Side Stage
Choosing the Right Voice for Your Business
What enterprises test for beyond “does it sound human” and what surprised them with real customers.
Brandon Yang
Co-Founder
Cartesia AI
Olivier Vroom
Founder
UserExperience.org
Charles Hua
Head of Product & Engineering
Pinnacle
Vijeth Vijaykumar
AI Solutions Specialist
Descartes
2:05 PM · Breakout 3
Operator Track
Panel · Main Stage
Improving the Standard for Patient Experience with Voice AI
Cityblock’s human-plus-AI model for better care outcomes and lower downstream medical spend.
Shoham Shitrit
Technical Lead, Healthcare
Percepta
Lisa Gohil
AI Agents in Healthcare
Vapi
Alberto Lopez Toledo
CTO
Cityblock
Joshua Ruminski
SVP Member Engagement & Experience
Cityblock
Sam Loewner
VP Member Experience
Cityblock
Builder Track
Workshop · Side Stage
Workshop: Building an Agent with Speech to Speech Models
Andre Natal
Voice & AI Engineer
Vapi
3:00 PM · Breakout 4
Builder Track
Panel · Main Stage
Production Vs. Demo: How to Keep Agents Reliable
Interruptions, accents, noise, mid-sentence changes. The parts that actually drive reliability at scale.
Michael Grinich
Founder
WorkOS
Sourish Biswas
Product Leader
HOAi
Vidas Bacevičius
Lead Solutions Engineer
Oxylabs
Utsav Singhal
Co-Founder & CTO
Interact AI
Operator Track
Panel · Side Stage
Getting Teams to Trust AI Agents
What actually changes minds once the pilot is over — what earned trust, what killed it.
Sneha Revanur
Founder
Encode AI
Zohaib Ahmed
Co-Founder & CEO
Resemble AI
3:40 PM · Breakout 5
Builder Track
Fireside Chat · Side Stage
AI for Public Good – How Centria Healthcare is Expanding and Accelerating Access to Care with Voice AI
Pawanjit Singh
CIO
Centria Healthcare
Steven Diaz
Engineering Manager
Vapi
Operator Track
Stand & Deliver · Main Stage
The Future of Voice and What It Means for How We Work
Tanay Kothari
Co-Founder & CEO
Wispr Flow
4:20 PM
Closing Keynote
Lessons in Scaling: What Changes when you get from 1 Agent to 10,000?
Harrison Chase
CEO
LangChain
5:00 PM
Happy Hour
Drinks & networking · All are welcome
8:30 AM
Doors Open
Light breakfast available
9:30 AM
Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote with Kavak
Alejandro Maza
Chief AI & Product Officer
Kavak
10:20 AM
Panel
The Future of Voice AI: What Will Voice Be Used for in 12 Months?
Nikhil Gupta
Founder & CTO
Vapi
Neil Zeghidour
CEO
Gradium
Andy O'Dower
VP, Field CTO
Twilio
Davit Baghdasaryan
Co-Founder & CEO
Krisp
10:55 AM · Breakout 1
Builder Track
Fireside Chat · Main Stage
Open Weights, Open Source, or Closed: Choosing Your Voice Model
When the license actually bites, when self-hosting pays off, and how to keep your architecture flexible.
Kwindla Hultman Kramer
CEO
Daily
Bogo Giertler
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Vitali Korezki
Forward Deployed Engineer
Vapi
Operator Track
Stand & Deliver · Side Stage
Customer Spotlight: NHS, Smart General Practice
Chris Manko
CTO
NHS
Benjamin Bulford-Forbes
Software Engineer
NHS
11:25 AM
Lunch Break
12:45 PM · Breakout 2
Operator Track
Panel · Main Stage
Shipping Voice AI in Regulated Industries
HIPAA, PCI, & TCPA each break your stack differently. What actually satisfied auditors across regulated verticals.
Homer Kay
SVP Data Science & AI
Spring Venture Group
Sindhu Narasimhan
Head of Design, Agentic AI
Obin AI
Sumanyu Sharma
Founder & CEO
Hamming AI
Builder Track
Workshop · Side Stage
Workshop: Testing Best Practices from Simulations to Evaluation
We hand you a production-grade Vapi agent and one job: make it fail. Whoever finds the most interesting failure wins.
Scott Lowe
Member of Technical Staff
Vapi
1:40 PM · Breakout 3
Builder Track
Panel · Main Stage
Building Voice Models for Real Conversations
Recognition across languages, diarization, expressive multilingual speech. The tradeoffs and what’s coming.
Klemen Simonic
CEO
Soniox
Hervé Bredin
Co-Founder & CSO
pyannoteAI
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO
Fish Audio
Damien Murphy
Applied AI Engineer
SpaceXAI
Ed Anuff
CPO
Deepgram
Nikhil Gupta
Founder & CTO
Vapi
Operator Track
Panel · Side Stage
Defending Against Voice Fraud
Cloned voices are already defrauding real companies. What a real defense looks like when “sounds human” becomes the risk.
Alex Tandy
Product & Engineering
Vapi
Carter Huffman
Co-Founder & CEO
Modulate AI
2:20 PM
Panel
Monitor, Simulate, Evaluate: Catching Agent Failures Before Your Customers Do
Brooke Hopkins
Founder & CEO
Coval
RV
Rohan Vasishth
CEO
Bluejay
YZ
Yi Zhong
Co-Founder & CEO
Besimple AI
Laurie Voss
Head of Developer Relations
Arize AI
3:00 PM
Closing Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat with Vercel
Guillermo Rauch
CEO
Vercel
3:30 PM
Happy Hour
Drinks & networking · All are welcome
7:00 PM
VapiCon After Party
Thriller Social Club · San Francisco