SIPNOC 2025 Conference Schedule
“The Gathering Place for the Call Authentication Community”
(Final Agenda)
SIPNOC 2025 has concluded. For information about the event, please visit the main event overview webpage or contact Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and SIPNOC 2025 Program Chair, at marc.robins@sipforum.org
You can access the SIPNOC 2025 presentations in two ways: 1. Click on the linked titles of presentations below (if there is no link, it means that no presentation is available); or 2. Visit the presentation repository by visiting the Documents section of the SIP Forum website here: https://www.sipforum.org/documents/. The SIPNOC main repository is nine down from the top of the list. Simply click on it to reveal the sub-categories, with SIPNOC 2025 the first in the list. Click on that, and you will see the presentations organized into Gen’l Session Day 1, Gen’l Session Day 2, and Gen’l Session Day 3 sub-categories.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
7:30am-8:30am: BREAKFAST
8:45am: SIPNOC 2025 General Session Day One Begins
8:45am-9:00am: SIPNOC 2025 Welcome and Introduction. Presented by Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director, and SIPNOC 2025 Program Chair.
9:00am–9:30am: An Update on STIR/SHAKEN and the IP-NNI Task Force, Telecom Standards and Eco-System Updates. Presented by Chris Wendt, Vice President, Systems Engineering, at Somos, Co-Chair of the IP-NNI Task Force, and Director, SIP Forum.
9:30am–10:15am: Building Trust in Voice Communications: The Role of Unified KYC and End-to-End Call Authentication in Branded Calling. Moderated by Jonjie Sena, VP of Product, TransUnion. Panelists include Jim Tyrrell, Vice President of Global Product Strategy at TNS; Josh Whitehurst, Head of Product at First Orion; and Henry Hayter, Sr. Director of Product Management at TransUnion.
10:15am-11:00am: Special SIPNOC 2025 FCC Keynote. Featuring Jonathan Lechter, Attorney Advisor, Competition Policy Division – Wireline Competition Bureau; and Daniel Stepanicich, Deputy Division Chief, Telecommunications Consumers Division – Enforcement Bureau, at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
11:00am-11:30am: Refreshment and Networking Break
11:30am-12:00pm: Overview and Update of the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority. Presented by Glenn Clepper, Sr. Director, Telephone Regulatory at Charter, and Chair, STI Governance Authority; and Brent Struthers, STI-GA Director, ATIS.
12:00pm-12:30pm: Next Generation Call Protection: AI-Based Voice Analysis. Presented by Nysia George, Senior Director, Data Science, First Orion; and Julie Sara Fowler, Vice President, Sales Engineering, at First Orion.
12:30pm-2:00pm: LUNCH – Sponsored by BCIDTM
2:00pm-2:30pm: Sophisticated Scams are Driving a New Industry Approach: Real-Time Fraud Data Sharing. Presented by Catalin Badea, VP of Product Management at netnumber.
2:30pm-3:15pm: Panel Discussion: Innovation and Security in the BCIDTM Ecosystem – Restoring Trust in Enterprise Voice Channels. Moderated by John Marinho, Vice President Technology and Cyber Security, CTIA. Panelists include Doug Ranalli, CEO, Gated Networks; Joe Scarpelli, President, Quality Voice and Data; Cody Wood, Senior Corporate Counsel – Legal Affairs, T-Mobile; and Jonathan Ezor, Associate General Counsel, at Verizon.
3:15pm-3:45pm: Validating Spam and Scam Detection – Red Team Testing as an Alternative to Honeypots for Validating AI-Powered Call Analytics Engines. Presented by Greg Bohl, Chief Data Officer, TNS.
3:45pm-4:15pm: Refreshment and Networking Break
4:15pm-5:15pm: Legal Eagles Super-Session: Current Legislative and Regulatory Actions and Their Requirements and Ramifications. Moderated by Kevin Rupy, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP. Panelists include Glenn Richards, Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC; Loyaan Egal, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; and Michael Nemcik, Senior Associate, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
7:00pm-10:00pm: SIPNOC 2025 Attendee Welcome Reception and Dinner – Sponsored by iconectiv
7:30pm-8:30pm: BoF Time
8:30pm-9:30pm: BoF Time
9:30pm-10:30pm: BoF Time
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
7:30am-8:45am: BREAKFAST
9:00am: SIPNOC 2025 General Session Day Two Begins
9:00am-9:30am: Special SIPNOC 2025 Analyst Session: Presented by Sam Barker, VP of Telecoms Market Research, Juniper Research.
9:30am-10:15am: Call Me Maybe: A Guide to SIP Integration in the Cloud Era. Presented by Mark Lindsey, Senior Member of Technical Staff at ECG.
10:15am-10:45am: Numbering in an All-IP World – Numbering After the North American Numbering Council (NANC) and a Review of a New Routing Framework. Presented by Richard Shockey, Chairman of the SIP Forum, and Principal, Shockey Consulting; and Phil Linse, Director of Public Policy, Lumen, and Director, SIP Forum.
10:45am-11:15am: Refreshment and Networking Break
11:15am-12:00pm: Panel Discussion: Addressing the Complexities of Call Authentication and Branding Through the Trust Framework. Presented by Chris Wendt, Vice President, Systems Engineering, at Somos, Co-Chair of the IP-NNI Task Force, and Director, SIP Forum; Jaime Zetterstrom, Vice President, Product Management, at Somos; Julie Sara Fowler, Vice President, Sales Engineering, at First Orion; Josh Whitehurst, Head of Product, at First Orion; Anna Fridley, AVP Cyber Advanced Analysis, Navy Federal Credit Union; Homer Filart, Member of Technical Staff, T-Mobile; and Melodie Sobrenilla, Product Manager – Technical, T-Mobile.
12:00pm-1:30pm: LUNCH – Sponsored by Wiley Rein LLP
1:30pm-2:00pm: The Non-IP Call Authentication Standards (Out-of-Band). Presented by Alec Fenichel, Chief Technology Officer at TransNexus.
2:00pm-2:30pm: The State of Industry Traceback in 2025. Presented by Jessica Thompson, Director, Traceback Operations, Industry Traceback Group.
2:30pm-3:00pm: The Need for Authenticated Branded Calling. Presented by Mark Collier, Chief Technology Officer, SecureLogix.
3:00pm-3:30pm: Understanding Phone Fraud in the Age of AI: The NOMOROBO Honeypot Persuasion Study. Presented by Doug Shadel, Managing Director, Fraud Prevention Strategies, LLC.
3:30pm-3:45pm: Refreshment and Networking Break
3:45pm-4:15pm: Special SIPNOC 2025 Keynote: Featuring Nick Degani, Principal at Reticulated Strategies LLC and Former Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Ajit V. Pai
4:15pm-4:45pm: Digital Identity: What is it Good For? Presented by Pierce Gorman, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Numeracle.
4:45pm-5:15pm: Call007: End-Users Finally Realize the STIR/SHAKEN Promise. Presented by David Frankel, CEO, ZipDX.
7:00pm-10:00pm: SIPNOC 2025 Beer and Gear Networking Reception and Attendee Dinner. Sponsored by the SIP Forum, in celebration of 25 Years of Service to the IP Communications Industry.
7:30pm-8:30pm: BoF Time
8:30pm-9:30pm: BoF Time
9:30pm-10:30pm: BoF Time
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
7:30am-8:45am: BREAKFAST
9:00am: SIPNOC 2025 General Session Day Three Begins (location)
9:00am-10:15am: Special Panel Discussion: The State of All-IP Interconnection in the U.S. and UK. Moderated by Greg Rogers, Head of Global Public Policy at Bandwidth Inc., and Director, SIP Forum. Panelists include Linda Vandeloop, Principal – International Communications and Policy, ATIS; Tamar Finn, Partner, Cooley LLP; Chris Shipley, Executive Director of Public Policy at INCOMPAS; Huw Saunders, Independent Consultant and former Director, Network Infrastructure and Resilience at Ofcom; and Richard Shockey, Chairman of the SIP Forum and Principal, Shockey Consulting.
10:15am-10:45am: Special SIPNOC 2025 Federal Trade Commission Keynote. Featuring Simon Barth, Do Not Call Program Coordinator, at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
10:45am-11:15am: What’s Really Going on with Spam Calls? – A Data-Driven Review. Presented by Alex Quilici, CEO, YouMail.
11:15am-11:30am: Refreshment and Networking Break
11:30am-12:00pm: Empowering Enterprises: Spam Label Visibility with Security in Mind. Presented by Jonathan Nelson, Director of Product Management, Hiya.
12:00pm-1:30pm: LUNCH – Sponsored by SIP Forum
1:30pm-2:00pm: Secure and Efficient Out-of-Band Call Metadata Transmission. Presented by Bradley Reaves, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, and David Adei, Graduate Student Researcher, NCSU.
2:00pm-2:45pm: Trolling the BS-Level Attestations – How the Jolly Roger Telephone Company Uses AI and Humor to Expose Scammers Hiding Behind A-Level Identities. Presented by Roger Anderson, owner of Jolly Roger Telephone Company.
2:45pm-3:15pm: Evolving Trust in Telephone Numbers: An Industry Update on the VESPER Framework, RTU and Transparency Advances. Presented by Chris Wendt, Vice President, Systems Engineering, at Somos, Co-Chair of the IP-NNI Task Force, and Director, SIP Forum.
3:15pm-3:45pm: A Tsunami of Cyber-Enabled Scams: The U.S. Must Raise its Defenses. Presented by Ken Westbrook, Founder and CEO, Stop Scam Alliance.
3:45pm-4:15pm: SIPNOC 2025 Capstone and Conclusion.
