Vapi Founder Recounts Building VapiCon, the First Voice AI Summit

Vapi founder recounts how the company staged VapiCon, billed as the first Voice AI summit, drawing 850 attendees and voice AI leaders from OpenAI, Deepgram and Assembly AI into one room. Vapi spent about $500,000 on the event and made roughly $400,000 back, with the founder citing partnerships and enterprise deals as the real return. The company has now launched a VapiCon Video Library of every session and panel.