Voice Agents Forum

Imagine being in a full room of the best engineers, each one hyper focused on their craft.

Hands-On Workshops Masterclasses led by experts building voice AI systems at scale. Bring your laptop! Leave with frameworks, code, and practical workflows you can implement immediately.

Talks and Networking Keynotes and lightning talks from some of the innovators and bright minds in the Voice Agents realm.

Networking & Community 250+ AI builders, engineers, founders, researchers, and operators. Great food. Meaningful conversations.

Voice systems combine speech, models, orchestration, infrastructure, and user experience in ways that make failures difficult to isolate and evaluate. Decisions in one part of the stack can affect latency, reliability, conversation quality, and how easily a system can be monitored or improved. Voice Agents Forum is designed to give teams a chance to compare how others are approaching those problems, hear where different technical choices create tradeoffs, and discuss the issues that become more important as voice agents move from prototypes into deployed systems.

Agenda 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM | Registration & Badge Pick-Up 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Keynote Cale Shapera & Walt Lafky, Fish Audio 9:55 AM - 10:15 AM | Keynote When Your Agent Can't Afford to Fail: Voice AI Lessons from Waymo for Regulated Industries Brooke Hopkins, Coval 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM | Keynote Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal. Dan Tacci, LiveKit 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM | Coffee Break 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Keynote Your Voice Agent Has Amnesia and Jet Lag: Real-Time Infrastructure that Fixes Both Sonam Gupta, Telnyx 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM | Keynote Samith Venkatesh, Cartesia 12:10 PM - 3:00 PM | Attendee Lunch 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Workshop Voice AI Under Pressure: Build It. Break It. Fix It. 1:50 PM - 2:50 PM | Workshop The AI Sales Agent Showdown: May the Best Bot Win LIGHTNING TALKS 3:00 PM | Prashant Shishodia, Kalpa Labs 3:10 PM | What To Do About The Crowded Room - Jessica Powell, AudioShake 3:20 PM | Fine Tuning a Model for Phone Calls - Will Bodewes, Phonely 3:30 PM | Cale Shapera & Walt Lafky, Fish Audio 3:40 PM | Don't Let Your Voice Agent Act on a Guess - Sam Gutentag, Deepgram 3:50 PM | Catch Voice Agent Failures Before Your Customers Do - David Tupper, LiveKit 4:00 PM | Beyond Handoff: Bringing Humans Into Agent Calls - Anusha Thukral, Telnyx 4:10 PM | Voice Agents Need a Commit Protocol - Vyoma Gajjar, ServiceNow 4:20 PM | Building Fast, Free, and Accurate Voice Agents Using Open Source - Pete Warden, Moonshine AI 4:30 PM | Thinking While Talking - Kaan Karakas, Delphi 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM | Booth Crawl & Happy Hour

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