Voice Agent - Virtual Event

Voice is becoming one of the most natural ways to interact with AI.

As AI agents move beyond text and into real-time conversations, voice is opening up an entirely new layer of interaction between people, software, and intelligent systems. From customer support and personal assistants to enterprise workflows, healthcare, and entirely new applications, voice agents are rapidly becoming a major interface for AI.

Join us for a virtual community event bringing together builders, researchers, founders, and AI practitioners to explore the technologies, ideas, and people shaping the future of voice agents.

We’re excited to have Luke Miller, Founder & CEO of SLNG, and Nicola Croon, Forward Deployed Engineer at SLNG, joining us to share the launch of UNMUTE, an open, MIT-licensed standard for voice agents. They’ll introduce the thinking behind the project and explore what open, declarative standards could mean for building and deploying voice agents across different runtimes and infrastructure. Their prerecorded presentation will be followed by a live Q&A.

We’re also excited to welcome Shankar Krishnan, Product Leader - AI at Stripe, and Venkata Kolla, Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce, for a joint session titled “Voice AI: From Speech Recognition to Real-World Intelligence, and What CDNs Already Solved.” They’ll explore what happens when voice AI moves from an impressive demo into reliable, enterprise-scale production. Shankar will cover how real-time voice architectures have evolved and the challenges that emerge when moving from prototypes to production, while Venkata will dive into how caching, CDNs, and edge infrastructure can help reduce latency and improve the performance of voice pipelines. The session will also feature a live demo of semantic caching in a voice pipeline.

And that’s just the start.

More speakers, projects, and conversations are coming, covering the broader voice-agent ecosystem and the challenges and opportunities emerging as conversational AI moves from demos into real-world applications.

What we'll explore

1. How voice agents work and what makes them different from traditional voice assistants
2. The technologies powering real-time conversational AI
3. Building natural, responsive, and context-aware voice experiences
4. The latest approaches to voice agent architecture and infrastructure
5. Voice agents across customer service, enterprise, consumer, healthcare, and other applications
6. How agents can move beyond conversation to actually take actions
7. Open standards, interoperability, and the growing voice AI ecosystem
8. How caching, CDNs, and edge infrastructure can improve voice AI performance
9. Lessons from teams building and deploying voice agents today
10. The challenges around reliability, latency, scalability, and natural interaction
11. Where voice agents are heading next, and what it will take to get there

Whether you're already building voice agents, working on the infrastructure behind them, or simply curious about where conversational AI is heading, come join the community shaping what voice-powered AI looks like next.

This is only the beginning. More speakers and sessions will be announced soon.

Hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation.