Voice Agents Forum

Hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation Voice agents are being deployed across customer support, healthcare, financial services, enterprise operations, and consumer applications. As they move into production, teams need to manage latency, turn-taking, interruptions, handoff, reliability, and the operational constraints that come with live voice systems. Users notice latency quickly. Long pauses can make a system feel unresponsive. Missed interruptions disrupt conversation. Poor handoffs create frustration. Voice Agents Forum is a one-day event for teams building and deploying voice agents in production. The event brings together engineers, founders, product leaders, researchers, and operators working on the technical and operational challenges behind voice AI. About the event 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. The focus will be on useful technical and operational lessons around architecture, evaluation, observability, orchestration, reliability, compliance, and human handoff. Hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation and brought together with the MLOps Community. Confirmed Speakers Kaan Karakas (Engineer, Delphi), Vyoma Gajjar (AI Architect, Service Now) Pete Warden, (CEO, Moonshine AI) Jessica Powell, (CEO, Audioshake) Brooke Hopkins (Founder, Coval) Rissa Cao (CEO, Fish Audio) Luke Miller (Co-Founder, SLNG) Will Bowedes (CEO, Phonely) Sam Gutentag ( Sr. Developer Advocate, Deepgram) And more to be announced... Agenda 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Registration9:35 AM - 10:25 AM Opening Keynotes10:25 AM - 11:00 AM Break11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Talks12:20 PM - 3:00 PM Lunch & Expo Hall2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Hands-On Workshops (Limited Availability)3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Keynote3:20 PM - 4:50 PM Lightning Talks4:50 PM - 5:30 PM Booth Crawl Happy Hour Theme we expect to cover The program is still being shaped, but the event will focus on the practical problems teams face when voice agents move into production.Expected themes include: Latency and real-time user experience Turn-taking, interruptions, and barge-in Orchestration and dialogue management Evaluation, observability, and debugging Human handoff and escalation Compliance, governance, and trust Architecture choices across speech, LLMs, and tooling The focus will be on practical lessons from teams building and operating voice systems in the real world, including what worked, what broke, and what changed after launch. What you’ll leave with Practical architecture patterns for production voice agents Better approaches to latency, turn-taking, interruptions, and barge-in Evaluation ideas that go beyond demo performance and simple benchmarks Lessons from real deployments, including failures, fixes, and tradeoffs More concrete ways to think about orchestration, observability, and infrastructure choices A better understanding of where handoff, compliance, and trust break down in production Imagine being in a full room of the best engineers, each one hyper focused on their craft. Hands-On WorkshopsMasterclasses led by experts building voice AI systems at scale. Bring your laptop. Leave with frameworks, code, and practical workflows you can implement immediately. Networking & Community250+ AI builders, engineers, founders, researchers, and operators. Great food. Meaningful conversations. 20+ Booths Featuring teams that are actually building production-grade AI agents. Come chat with engineers directly, one-on-one. Ask questions and get the answers you really want. Interested in a booth? See our prospectus here! Or email [email protected]