Strolid keynote — the vCon proposal
The keynote that first put vCons in front of the telecom industry: a proposal that the conversation itself should be a portable, structured artifact rather than an internal product of whoever recorded it last.
Dialog.
Twenty-six talks, keynotes, and podcasts indexed in the corpus. A representative subset below — the arc from the 2007 mashup era through the years vCon moved from a slide to a working group document.
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vCon keynote — Aveiro
The talk that pushed vCon from concept into something businesses should actually plan around.
vCon presentation at IETF 115
First serious presentation of vCon into the IETF process. The room where this stops being a talk and starts being a draft.
vCon Birds-of-a-Feather session
The BoF that gathered the community of interest required to charter a working group. The chartering decision flowed from this room.
vCon keynote — Paris
Keynote tracing the year between Yokohama and Paris: drafts adopted, implementations spreading, the format starting to be assumed rather than argued for.
The rise and rise of vCon
Sponsor keynote walking through the years from 2021 concept to IETF ecosystem, and pivoting into SCITT as the governance and provenance layer the conversation file needs to live a long life.
From automotive to AI — how vCon is transforming customer experience
Interview tying the origin story (high-volume automotive operations) to the present: CX, AI agents, deepfake-era sensitivity, and the need for structured, signed conversation records.