🎙️Conference Keynotes

TADSummit, TADHack, and other conference talks introducing or advancing vCon.

vCon got its first sustained public exposure at TADSummit (Telecom Application Developer Summit) and TADHack (the corresponding hackathon). Those venues remain the place where the working group, the vCon Foundation, and the implementer community meet face-to-face. The talks below are organized reverse-chronologically.

2026

VCONIC TADHack 2026

• TADHack blog: VCONIC TADHack March 7-8

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

2025

"vCon Progress Report" — TADSummit 2025

• TADSummit blog: vCon Progress Report

• Status update covering the 211-contact-center pilot, the Strolid / Frontline alliance, and upcoming features (selective disclosure, transcription schema, consent).

Matthew Smith — "vCon + UNS for Manufacturing / Process Industries"

• TADSummit blog: End of Year Special

• vCon applied outside customer-experience contexts — combining vCon with Unified Namespace (UNS) patterns for manufacturing and process industries.

Jeff Pulver — Generative AI Expo 2025

• Video: YouTube

• Jeff Pulver, CEO of the vCon Foundation, frames vCon as the missing data layer for the AI era. Good elevator pitch for non-telecom audiences.

Dan Petrie — "The Geeky Side of vCon" — TADSummit Online, April 2025

• TADSummit blog: Dan Petrie, The Geeky Side of vCon

• Implementation-focused walkthrough of the py-vcon and py-vcon-server reference implementations.

"Voice AI Space is born" — Thibault Mardinli (T-Bot) — TADSummit Online 2025

• TADSummit blog: Voice AI Space is born

• Adjacent context: how vCon fits into the broader voice-AI landscape.

2024

Thomas Howe — "The Rise and Rise of vCon" — TADSummit 2024

• TADSummit blog with video: The Rise and Rise of vCon

• The TADSummit 2024 sponsor keynote, covering the trajectory from the original whitepaper to the IETF working group and the explosion of LLM use cases driving adoption.

Steve Lasker — "SCITT and vCon AI Governance for Conversations, at Scale" — TADSummit 2024

• Same blog post as above.

• The complementary 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.

Thomas Howe — "Grooving on vCons" — TADSummit Keynote

• Video: YouTube

• An earlier-in-the-year Thomas Howe keynote.

2022–2023

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.

"vCon presentation at TADSummit, Portugal" — November 2022

• Referenced in vCons → More Information.

"vCon presentation at IETF 115, London" — November 2022

• Referenced in vCons → More Information.

"vCon presentation at IIT" — Chicago, October 2022

• Referenced in vCons → More Information.

Explainers and overviews

• "Unlocking Customer Conversations: New IETF Standard for ..." — vCon overview video.

• "The Future of Conversations: Why #vCon Is Emerging as a New Standard" — adoption-focused framing.

See also

• IETF Sessions for the working-group sessions themselves

• Podcasts for audio-only interviews

• Articles & Press for written coverage