The State of Voice AI | A Conversation Across the Stack (Panel + Networking)
The people building the voice AI pipeline rarely end up in the same room.
We're changing that.
Voice AI is moving fast. But shipping a production voice agent still means stitching together five or six vendors - orchestration, STT, TTS, telephony, LLMs, observability, and hoping they all play nice.
The people building these layers rarely end up in the same room. We're changing that.
Join us for a candid, unscripted evening with C-level leaders from across the voice AI stack:
Venky B - CEO & Co-Founder, Plivo: The Voice AI platform to build and deploy human-like voice agents.
Nikhil Gupta - Co-founder & CTO, Vapi: Building the developer platform for voice agent orchestration
Brandon Yang (PhD), Co-founder @Cartesia: the fastest and most realistic text-to-speech model in the world. (backed by Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and Nvidia)
No rehearsed keynotes. No product pitches. Just an honest conversation about what's actually working in production, what's still broken, and where this is all going.
What We'll Get Into
🔩 The Production Gap — Demo ≠ deployment. What actually breaks at scale: noise handling, concurrency, failure debugging, cost.
🏢 Enterprise Adoption — Common roadblocks, the feature requests these leaders keep saying no to, and what it takes to get voice AI past the pilot stage.
🏆Vertical vs. Horizontal — Domain depth (healthcare, finance, recruiting) versus platform breadth. Which strategy is winning in practice?
🔊 Full-Duplex Models — What changes structurally when AI can listen and speak at the same time, and what it means for every layer of the stack.
🔮 Future Bets — What these founders would build if they started from zero tomorrow.
What to Expect
6:00 PM: Networking & drinks
6:30 PM: Panel discussion / fireside chat
7:30 PM: Audience Q&A
8:00 PM: Food, drinks & networking
🎁 Before and after the Panel, Tesla will offer a Full Self-Driving (Supervised) experience guided by a Tesla Advisor:
• Explore the newest models in the showroom
• Chat with Tesla Advisors about ownership options
• Witness Tesla’s signature Light Show!