🎙️Conference Keynotes

TADSummit, TADHack, and other conference talks introducing or advancing vCon, newest first with dates.

vCon got its first sustained public exposure at TADSummit (Telecom Application Developer Summit) and TADHack, its hackathon. Those venues remain where the working group, the vCon Foundation, and the implementer community meet face to face. Years run newest first, and entries within a year run newest first. Dates come from the linked source: a blog post date or a video upload date, noted as such.

2026

VCONIC TADHack 2026, 2026-03-07 to 2026-03-08

TADHack blog: VCONIC TADHack March 7-8
The vCon-focused TADHack. The hackathon review with all 16 submissions and winners is on this site at VCONIC TADHack 2026: Hackathon Review.

2025

Matthew Smith, "vCon + UNS for Manufacturing / Process Industries", blog post 2025-12-17

TADSummit blog: End of Year Special
vCon applied outside customer-experience contexts, combined with Unified Namespace (UNS) patterns for manufacturing and process industries.

"vCon Progress Report", TADSummit blog post 2025-08-20

TADSummit blog: vCon Progress Report
Status update covering the 211-contact-center pilot, the Strolid / Frontline alliance, and the work then in progress on selective disclosure, a transcription schema, and consent.

"Voice AI Space is born", Thibault Mardinli (T-Bot), TADSummit Online, blog post 2025-07-23

TADSummit blog: Voice AI Space is born
Adjacent context: how vCon fits into the broader voice-AI field.

Dan Petrie, "The Geeky Side of vCon", TADSummit Online, blog post 2025-05-02

TADSummit blog: Dan Petrie, The Geeky Side of vCon
Implementation-focused walkthrough of the py-vcon and py-vcon-server reference implementations. The talk was given in April 2025; the exact day is not stated on the post.

Jeff Pulver, Generative AI Expo 2025, video uploaded 2025-03-13

Video: YouTube
Jeff Pulver, CEO of the vCon Foundation, frames vCon as the missing data layer for the AI era. A short pitch for non-telecom audiences.

2024

Thomas Howe, "The Rise and Rise of vCon", TADSummit 2024, blog post 2024-10-29

TADSummit blog with video: The Rise and Rise of vCon
The TADSummit 2024 sponsor keynote, covering the path from the original whitepaper to the IETF working group and the LLM use cases driving adoption.

Steve Lasker, "SCITT and vCon AI Governance for Conversations, at Scale", TADSummit 2024, blog post 2024-10-29

Same blog post as above.
The companion keynote: why SCITT (Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust) belongs alongside vCon for Right to Know and Right to Erasure compliance. Steve also appeared on the TADSummit Innovators podcast, see Podcasts.

2023

Thomas Howe, "Grooving on vCons", TADSummit keynote, Paris, October 2023

Video: YouTube, uploaded 2023-10-18. Location and month per vCons, More Information; the exact talk date is not stated.

2022

vCon presentation at TADSummit, Portugal, November 2022

Video: YouTube. Exact date not stated in the source.

vCon presentation at IETF 115, London, 2022-11-07

Video: IETF YouTube, DISPATCH session. The session recording is dated 2022-11-07.

vCon presentation at IIT, Chicago, October 2022

Video: YouTube. Exact date not stated in the source.

vCon Workshop, 2022-06-09

Video: YouTube · Summary: Alan Quayle's writeup
The pre-IETF community workshop where the case for an open standard was made publicly.

Explainers and overviews

Newest first, by YouTube upload date.

"The Future of Conversations: Why #vCon Is Emerging as a New Standard", 2025-12-18. Adoption-focused framing.
"Unlocking Customer Conversations: New IETF Standard for (vCons)", 2024-07-10. vCon overview video.