Accelerating Voice Agents from Demo to Production w/ Vapi

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Fri, Sep 11, 2026

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Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam
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What you'll learn

Choose the right voice agent components

What actually goes into a production voice agent, and where the early architecture choices bite

Test before real callers do

How to validate an agent against interruptions and unscripted edge cases before it takes live calls.

Handle calls that go wrong

What breaks at real call volume when tools fail mid-conversation and calls go off script.

Run voice under compliance

Keeping control and compliance intact while running voice reliably in regulated environments.

Why this topic matters

Getting a voice agent to sound impressive in a demo takes an afternoon. Handling thousands of real calls, callers who interrupt, unscripted edge cases, and tools that fail mid-conversation is where most teams get stuck. Nikhil and Dhruva close that gap: the components that matter, how to test before production, and what it takes to run voice reliably in regulated environments.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti is the founder and CEO of LevelUp Labs, a human-first AI startup that helps develop and deploy production-ready generative AI solutions for mid to large enterprise clients. With over 9 years of experience in machine learning, she has published more than 35 research papers at top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and CVPR.

Kiriti Badam is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI Codex, with over a decade of experience designing high-impact enterprise AI systems. He specializes in AI-centric infrastructure, with deep expertise in large-scale compute, data engineering, and storage systems.

Nikhil Gupta & Dhruva Reddy

Vapi

Nikhil Gupta is the founder and CTO of Vapi, the voice agent platform for developers. Vapi has served over 1m+ devs with 1b+ calls. They are solving the hard problems of five 9s reliability for voice agents.

Dhruva Reddy is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Vapi, where he works at the frontier of voice AI, turning cutting-edge infrastructure into real-world solutions. His background encompasses founding a Voice AI startup, leading multiple enterprise AI deployments across hospitals and supply chain operations as an FDE at Palantir, and prior to that, accessibility research in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon.

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