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Oct 29 // San Francisco

One full day with the people building voice AI: complete. We talked new speech models, new predictions, new customer innovations, and a whole lot about the future of talking. Find it all here.

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Scott Stephenson presenting "Voice AI for real conversation" on the Speak '26 main stage

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Who we talked to

Meet the leaders and builders driving the future of voice AI forward.

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  • Scott Stephenson

    Founder & CEOat Deepgram

  • Steve Brewer

    SVP of Engineering, Commerce & Customer Experience Engineeringat Toast

  • Brooke Hopkins

    Founder & CEOat Coval

  • Kwindla Kramer

    Co-founder and CEOat Daily

  • Kris Efland

    VP of Engineeringat Deepgram

  • Corey Weathers

    Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Relationsat Deepgram

  • Hrushikesh Gangur

    Principal Solutions Architect, AI/MLat AWS

  • Andy O’Dower

    Field CTOat Twilio

  • Neeraj Pramodkumar

    Sr. Product Manager, Wearablesat Qualcomm

  • Jordan Dearsley

    CEO & Co-Founderat VAPI

  • Tim Ikhizgilov

    AVP of Engineeringat RingCentral

  • Robin Braun

    VP AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloudat HPE

  • Ping Wu

    CEOat Cresta

  • Jodi Blomberg

    VP of AI and MLat Cox Automotive

  • Ajeet Grewal

    Engineeringat Sierra

  • Geoff Works

    RVP AI Salesat NiCE Cognigy

  • Keith Roehrenbeck

    Director of Engineeringat Doximity

  • Caroline di Vittorio

    Software Engineerat LangChain

  • Shai Traister

    Watson Orchestrate Product Managerat IBM

  • Trent Weston

    VP of AIat Propio

  • Akshatha Kamath

    Product Manager, Dynamoat Nvidia

  • Alisha Wilson

    Staff Product Managerat Square

  • David Zhao

    CTOat LiveKit

  • Vyas A

    Director of Productat Plivo

  • Ryan Stomel

    SVP of AI Innovationat Capacity

  • Imran Aziz

    Sr. Director of Product Managementat UiPath

  • Mike Raker

    CTOat Maximus

  • Cindy Carlson

    Director of Global Retail Solutions and Strategyat Dell Technologies

  • Sean Robbins

    Tech Lead, Experience Engineeringat frog

  • Ed Anuff

    CPOat Deepgram

  • Ralphie White

    SVP, Customer and Revenue Operationsat Deepgram

  • Adam Sypniewski

    CTOat Deepgram

  • Anoop Dawar

    CSOat Deepgram

Who was in the room

AI decision-makers

C-suite, VPs of product and engineering, and product managers at Fortune 500 companies, and named accounts.

Sponsors

Co-sell and ecosystem players including NiCE, AWS, and Vapi.

Developers

Engineers and builders putting voice AI APIs to work, plus the broader developer community.

Press & analysts

Reporters and analysts covering voice AI, and helping shape the conversation around it.

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