We want to hear from you.
CommCon is nothing without the people who get up and talk. If you're working on something interesting in real-time media, open source communications, or voice AI, we want to hear from you.
CFP deadline: 3 April 2026 Submit early and you may get a decision before the deadline. We review on a rolling basis and will get back to you as quickly as we can.
What We're Looking For
CommCon is a technical conference. Our audience are developers, architects, and engineers who work in and around real-time communications, VoIP, video delivery, and open media. CommCon has always been as much about video transport and delivery as it is about telephony - if you're building anything that moves media in real time, you're in the right place. Our audience can smell a marketing talk from a mile away.
We want talks that are honest, specific, and grounded in real experience. Show us your work. Tell us what broke. Tell us what surprised you. Tell us what you figured out that nobody else has figured out yet.
Topics we're particularly interested in for 2026
- Voice AI - building real AI voice agents, integrating LLMs with telephony, the actual state of speech-to-speech models (Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime API, Cartesia and others), what's working and what absolutely isn't
- AI voice pipelines - end-to-end pipeline architecture for real-time voice AI: STT, LLM, TTS, latency management, tool calling, turn detection - the full stack, warts and all
- WhatsApp calling - integrating voice calling via the WhatsApp Business Platform, what the API actually looks like in production, and where it fits in a wider communications strategy
- SIP in the modern world - trunking, interop, registrar design, carrier integration in 2026
- WebRTC - what's new, what's changed, what's finally landed in browsers
- VoIP infrastructure - Kamailio, OpenSIPS, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, Jambonz, drachtio - real-world deployment stories and hard-won lessons
- SRT and low-latency streaming - broadcast workflows, contribution, distribution
- WHIP/WHEP - the evolving ingest/egress landscape and what it means in production
- Open source project updates - if you're a maintainer, we want to hear from you
- Security - SIP fraud, STIR/SHAKEN, what keeps you up at night
- Interop and open standards - IETF, W3C, wherever the important work is happening
If you're working on something that fits the CommCon spirit - technical, open, honest - submit it and let's talk.
Format
- Talks are 20–25 minutes with 5 minutes for questions
- All sessions are recorded and published on YouTube immediately
- Single track - every speaker gets the full room
What You Get
- Free ticket to the full three-day event (including evening events)
- Your session recorded and published on the CommCon YouTube channel
- The most engaged technical audience you'll find anywhere in the industry
We can't cover travel costs at this stage, but if a sponsor comes on board to help with that, we'll shout about it.
A Note on AI Talks
2026 is obviously the year where everyone wants to talk about AI. We're embracing that, but we're keeping the CommCon standard. We want talks about what you've actually built, tested, and deployed. The hype cycle is well documented. CommCon is where we cut through it.
Deadline: 3 April 2026 - submit early for a rolling decision.
Questions about your idea before submitting? Drop us a line at hello@commcon.xyz