Astricon is the annual event for developers, enterprises, and service providers that have built (or are planning to build) solutions based on the popular Asterisk open source software. AstriCon offers various levels of education sessions and provides attendees with networking opportunities with some of the smartest in the open source community.

Join us for education tracks, visits on the #TECHSUPERSHOW exhibit floor, and the famous "hallway conversations" where community members are happy to meet and discuss all things Asterisk.

Though collocated with the ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW in 2024, AstriCon sessions and meetings take place in a dedicated section of the Broward County Convention Center - allowing you to share experiences and work together to grow Asterisk. Then, use your time to interact with other participants at the #TECHSUPERSHOW between AstriCon events. It's the perfect blend to deliver value for your investment.

AGENDA

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

8:00am-6:00pm

Tuesday - 2/14/23

Registration Counters Open X-01

9:30am

Tuesday - 2/14/23

Coffee Service - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-02

12:30pm

Tuesday - 2/14/23

Conference Boxed Lunches - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-03

5:00pm

Tuesday - 2/14/23

Special Networking Event Welcome Reception - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-04

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

7:00am-7:00pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

Registration Counters Open X-05

8:30am

Wednesday - 2/15/23

Continental Breakfast - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-06

9:00-9:45am

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon Kick-Off Panel AC-01 Joshua Colp Asterisk Project Lead Sangoma Technologies Lorne Gaetz Director of Open Source Sangoma Technologies Michael White VP, Open Source Sales Sangoma

9:45-10:30am

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon Security, High Availability, Scaling AC-02 Fred Posner Consultant LOD

10:30-10:45am

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon Technological Advancement in the New Era of the PBX AC-03

10:45-11:30am

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon Using ARI and AGI to Connect Asterisk Instances in a Large Scale Environment AC-04 Joran Vinzens VoIP Software Developer sipgate

12:00pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

Conference Luncheon - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-07

12:30-1:15pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon How to Build a Natural Language Intent Based IVR AC-05 David Rodecker CEO LocalSplash

1:15-2:30pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon How Large Language Models Are Turning Call Recordings Into Gold AC-06 Matt Busigin CIO Hover Networks AI is exploding in 2022. OpenAI's release of Instruct-GPT in January ushered in a new era of AI, which understands natural language, human dialog and code equally well, and can perform tasks across all three mediums through natural language instruction. This turns large piles of unstructured data, such as call recordings, into natural-language mineable databases to answer questions like: - What's my call resolution rate? - What can my CSRs do better? - Action item tracking - Detailed transaction tracking - Caller intent - Call summarization ...and much, much more. This talk will walk through the high-level capabilities, demonstrate the functionality, and provide an overview of an architecture which could perform this analysis at scale.

2:30-3:15pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon Using Asterisk/FreePBX to Deliver Realtime Information to Remove a Heavy Load of Work from Medical Personnel AC-07

3:00-7:00pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW Expo Hall Grand Opening X-08

3:15-4:00pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon VoIP in Finance : How Bloomberg uses Asterisk to help Connect Finance Professionals AC-08 Dhananjay Deshpande Head of Engineering Bloomberg Real Time Communication (RTC) Aravind Sethuraman Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg LP The Bloomberg Terminal is used by more than 325,000 finance professionals around the globe. To help them with their communications and compliance needs, Bloomberg's engineers have used open source software to build a variety of useful VOIP / RTC workflows within the Terminal. In this talk, we will cover some of these workflows and how Asterisk has enabled us to implement them. three key messages : - Insights into use cases in the Finance industry - Talk about Asterisk deployment and Application architecture built around Asterisk - Talk about Modules implemented in Asterisk to support the use cases

4:00-4:45pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

AstriCon E911 AC-09 Joshua Colp Asterisk Project Lead Sangoma Technologies

5:00pm

Wednesday - 2/15/23

Special Networking Event Grand Opening Networking Reception in Expo Hall X-09

Thursday, February 16, 2023

7:30am-5:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

Registration Counters Open X-10

8:00am

Thursday - 2/16/23

Continental Breakfast - For Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-11

8:30-9:15am

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Scaling & Managing Real-time Communication Workloads in Kubernetes AC-10 Joe Mordica Founder/CTO VOXO Last year I discussed "Deploying Production Workloads in Kubernetes". This session will expand beyond deployment to the lifecycle of operating a global deployment. This session covers the following including demos: - Things to consider when deploying multi-region SIP based services - HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler) - Graceful shutdowns and post start practices - Deploying new updates without dropping calls - Single global ingress (security and simplicity) The foundation: https://github.com/voxoco/k8s

9:15-10:30am

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Open Source Speech Recognition Solutions AC-11 Overview of open source speech recognition solutions. How to train your own stt models. What architectures to use, what frameworks, what hardware.

10:30-11:15am

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Fun with FreePBX AC-12 Lorne Gaetz Director of Open Source Sangoma Technologies Michael White VP, Open Source Sales Sangoma

11:15-12:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Building STIR/SHAKEN services with OpenSIPS 3.3 AC-13 Join this presentation to brush up your knowledge on leveraging the "stir_shaken" OpenSIPS module in order to build open-source, production-ready STIR/SHAKEN services. "Authentication?" "Verification?" "302 Redirect or just an append of the Identity header?" are just a few of the questions we will answer during this presentation.

11:00am-4:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW Expo Hall Open X-12

12:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

Lunch Vouchers Provided to Diamond, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders X-13

1:00-1:45pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Testing in Asterisk AC-14 Michael Bradeen Software Engineer Sangoma Technologies

1:45-2:30pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon "It's a Mobile World" - Using Asterisk to Distribute Calls in a Mobile-first Retail Environment AC-15 Jason Park Lead Engineer Target

2:30-3:15pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Multi-tenant Asterisk on Kubernetes AC-16 Jeff LaCoursiere CTO StratusTalk, Inc I will address the difficulties we have had with persistent storage, dynamic configurations, networking, security, and failure recovery. I will compare this architecture to other iterations we have been through including LXC based, ProxMox VM based, and EC2 instance based, showing why we think this k8s based architecture is the next generation.

3:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

Special Networking Event ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW Pub Crawl on Expo Floor - Featuring Barracuda, Jenne, Live Oak Bank X-14

3:15-4:00pm

Thursday - 2/16/23

AstriCon Asterisk + FreePBX Update AC-17 Joshua Colp Asterisk Project Lead Sangoma Technologies Lorne Gaetz Director of Open Source Sangoma Technologies