Sessions

Build your perfect SIGNAL day with sessions that span industries and skill levels, led by Twilio experts and leading customers.

Day 1 - May 14
Day 2 - May 15
Wednesday May. 14
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Keynote

Vision & Inspiration will kick off with our opening keynote, where Twilio leaders will discuss the company’s strategic direction and spotlight the key products shaping our future. We’ll also hear from customers like the CTO of CLEAR and the VP of Product Management at Best Buy, who’ll talk about how they’re using Twilio to build personalized experiences. Plus, live demos will showcase exactly how Twilio can help businesses wow their end users.

11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Workshops | Advanced

What if building conversational AI felt more like collaboration than configuration? 

In this hands-on session, you’ll explore Twilio’s latest innovation: ConversationRelay—a smarter, simpler way to bring voice AI to life. We’ll guide you step-by-step in creating a virtual agent that doesn’t just talk, but connects. Whether you’re a developer or a curious product manager, you’ll see how easy it is to build AI voice experiences that feel natural and impactful. You’ll leave with a working prototype, a clearer AI strategy, and inspiration to build something uniquely yours—no PhD required. 

Come for the build. Leave with a conversation.

Attendee requirements:

Twilio account (trial is fine)
Computer with access to the internet and the Twilio Account

11:05 am - 11:30 am
Chalk Talk

Marketing teams need data—but too often, it’s locked behind engineering barriers. 

Join Peter Grimm, Sr. Manager of Marketing Strategy at MoneyLion, as he shares how Segment empowered his team to close the gap between marketing and engineering. In just one year, Peter went from a new user to leading Martech at MoneyLion, using Segment to launch personalized SMS and outbound call campaigns. 

Discover how data democratization unlocked better targeting, faster execution, and more impactful campaigns.

Segment
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Lightning Talk | Advanced

In this session, we'll walk participants through how to build a masked communications (proxy) app using the Conversations API and Programmable Voice API. From there, we'll briefly cover the benefits of masked communications, how to create and manage number pools, estimate required phone numbers, and handle session management, inbound calls, and messaging. 

The goal is to show—with the help of many visualizations—just how easy it is to get up and running, thanks to Twilio’s ability to abstract away technical complexity.

Voice Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Self-care is on the rise, and med spas are seeing soaring demand. Aesthetic Record, a leading EMR and practice management platform, leverages Twilio Verify to confirm user identities and prevent fraudulent bookings and unauthorized access. Clinics also use Twilio Messaging to send real-time alerts, appointment reminders, and enable two-way patient engagement. 

In this session, hear from one of the top 25 women in healthcare tech on how Aesthetic Record integrates Twilio to enhance security, reduce no-shows, and deliver a frictionless experience. You’ll learn best practices for implementing secure, scalable messaging and authentication—without compromising convenience.

Video Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp User Authentication
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Chalk Talk | Intermediate

A comprehensive guide through the 10DLC submission process, focusing on SMS marketing compliance. 

Using AI-driven compliance agents, this session demonstrates how these tools streamline the submission process by verifying adherence to 10DLC rules and regulations. Attendees will see how AI leverages OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to scan and interpret image documents, ensuring accuracy in submission materials. The session will also showcases how AI agents check text structure and form compliance, highlighting potential issues with message content and submission formats.

By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped to efficiently utilize AI agents to ensure regulatory compliance.

Voice Engage Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Lightning Talk | Advanced

In this lightning talk, discover how to transform your implementation process by integrating Twilio AI Assistant with Segment. 

Learn how this powerful combo can act as an extension of your team—streamlining tasks, automating key processes, and quickly resolving issues. From sharing configuration details and providing actionable reporting to answering stakeholder questions and enhancing documentation, a custom Segment assistant can handle the heavy lifting. That means your team stays focused on the complex challenges best left to humans. 

Don't miss this chance to build a smarter, more efficient implementation process.

Segment Other
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Breakout Session

Creativity is not just an artistic endeavor, but a critical business strategy that fuels problem-solving, innovation, and competitive differentiation.

Pura, a smart-home fragrance company, uses Twilio Segment’s AI features and a data-driven understanding of their customers to power creativity — helping them break through industry noise, grow product adoption, and inspire brand loyalty.

In this talk, Skip Wilson, VP of Marketing at Pura, challenges the notion that creativity is reserved for designers and marketers, showing how it drives decision-making, storytelling, product innovation, and brand-building. Learn How Pura uses Segment CDP, AI Predictions, and Recommendations to scale creativity for personalization, and retention.

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Breakout Session | Intermediate

How do you know if you’re making the most out of your ad budget in 2025? Gaining a true understanding of your campaign performance, means your teams need to be able to identify which critical touchpoints lead to meaningful conversions for your business.

Learn how TechStyle Fashion Group leverages Segment CDP to send conversion events to media publishers for lower latency, better attribution, and campaign optimization. Leveraging their own customer data with Meta and Pinterest Conversions APIs, TechStyle is able to increase Return on Ad spend and drive more accurate measurement, audience targeting, and performance insights across marketing channels.

Segment
12:40 pm - 1:10 pm
Breakout Session | Introductory

Although Rich Communication Services (RCS) has been around for years, 2024 marked a turning point. 

Join Google’s Stephen Brough, Head of GTM – RCS for Business, to learn how rich messages are setting the stage for more consumer engagement and how businesses should adapt their own RCS messaging strategy. 

 

Technology
1:05 pm - 1:15 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Twilio recently surveyed 3,900 people worldwide to understand how consumers want to communicate. The findings were eye-opening: 91% of customers now expect brands to use their preferred channels. With expectations so high, meeting these customer preferences is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’, it is a ‘must-have’. 

In this session, we'll reveal key data-driven insights that can help your business meet rising customer expectations—and share actionable strategies for aligning your communications accordingly.


 

Voice SendGrid Email Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp
1:10 pm - 1:20 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

As fraud, abuse, and AI threats evolve, Indeed has evolved its approach to user verification, transforming the phone number from a basic security tool into a dynamic trust signal. What began as 2FA with Twilio Verify now leverages Twilio Lookup, enabling the detection of linked accounts, support for account recovery, and identification of high-risk activity across the platform. 

This session will demonstrate how Indeed uses real-time mobile signals to proactively mitigate abuse and build user trust. Learn how they’ve reimagined verification to stay ahead of threats—strengthening protection, reducing fraud, and enabling a safer, more seamless user experience at scale.

 

User Authentication
1:20 pm - 2:20 pm
Hands-on Labs | Advanced

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn to implement passkeys and SMS OTP authentication using Twilio's new features. Work in a Twilio-provided sample app or bring your own!

We'll walk you through real-world scenarios to showcase how passwordless login can simplify access without compromising security.

Attendee requirements:

- A laptop

Special requirements:

- A Twilio account (a free trial is fine).

- We recommend sharing your Account SID ahead of time to help us enable key functionality before the session. More setup details will be shared closer to the event.

1:25 pm - 1:35 pm
Lightning Talk

Twilio is a powerful platform—but building & scaling it in-house can introduce risk. 

In this session, learn why many companies succeed at initial implementation but hit roadblocks with long-term optimization, utilization, and support. You’ll hear how a high-touch partner approach helps organizations overcome performance issues, navigate compliance, and keep pace with evolving AI innovation.

This session covers:

- Why DIY Twilio builds often hit hard limits
- How partners reduce operational risk and accelerate innovation
- Real-world examples of businesses maximizing their Twilio investment through ongoing expert support

1:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Lightning Talk | Intermediate

Posh, a fast-growing social event platform, shares how it uses Twilio to address the loneliness epidemic while scaling from 300K to over 4M users in just two years. By integrating Twilio Verify, Lookup, and Programmable Messaging, Posh empowers organizers to build strong communities and deliver over a million messages daily. This session explores how Twilio supports secure onboarding, real-time event updates, and a seamless user experience. 

Attendees will gain insight into the architectural and cultural resilience behind Posh’s growth—and how to balance security and experience across the user journey using Twilio.

Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp User Authentication Other
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Breakout Session | Intermediate

Across the world, crisis helplines face overwhelming demand, limited resources, and outdated technology, resulting in millions of unanswered calls for help each year.

Tech Matters, an organization building technology for social impact, developed Aselo—an open-source, cloud-based contact center built on Twilio Flex. Designed for high-volume, mission-critical support, Aselo enables secure data collection, automated routing, and multichannel engagement across SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and more.

Learn how Tech Matters built a scalable, flexible, and empathetic contact center—and how your organization can adapt these innovations to deliver high-touch, real-time support in the moments that matter most.

Flex Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Workshops | Advanced

Email is a natural interface for business—but hard to scale.

This session shows how generative AI can make it seamless. Learn to connect an AI agent built in Langflow to a business email, enabling it to understand inquiries and take action. We’ll cover how to build with Langflow, equip your agent with tools, and integrate it into SendGrid.

You’ll leave with the blueprint for intelligent email experiences that respond, resolve, and elevate support through automation. 

Attendee requirements: - A laptop

Special requirements: - A SendGrid account with an email address that can receive incoming emails.

2:05 pm - 2:15 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

You can have the best care management tools in the world—but if patients don’t pick up the phone, it all falls flat. That’s why CareSignal, Lightbeam’s deviceless RPM solution, turned to Twilio Branded Calling: to help ensure more patients actually answered enrollment calls and gained access to proactive, personalized chronic care.

In this session, Nathan Beck, Engineering Manager for Lightbeam Health Solutions, shares how Twilio Branded Calling helped cut through the noise, increase enrollment rates, and extend CareSignal’s reach—unlocking better outcomes for more patients, faster.

2:25 pm - 2:35 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

With over 3 billion users, WhatsApp is transforming customer communication—and it’s not just for text anymore.

Join us for this lightning session where we'll explore how businesses can leverage WhatsApp for both rich messaging and voice to enhance customer interactions, streamline support, and drive engagement—all on a platform your customers already use and trust

Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp
2:25 pm - 2:55 pm
Breakout Session | Intermediate

Verifying consumer identities isn’t about collecting information, it’s about ensuring that information is real, accurate, and trustworthy. But how can businesses confidently match user-provided details with authoritative data while minimizing friction and fraud?

Join Scott Jones, Group Manager of Product at CLEAR, and Catie Kolander, Twilio Principal Product Marketing Manager and learn how leading organizations are leveraging trusted data to reduce risk, improve conversions, and build lasting customer relationships in an increasingly complex digital ecosystem.

User Authentication
2:30 pm - 2:40 pm
Lightning Talk

The future of customer engagement is intelligent, scalable, and AI-driven. Businesses are evolving from traditional call centers to AI-powered contact centers that deliver seamless, personalized experiences across voice, chat, and messaging. 

In this session, we’ll explore how AI-driven voice automation enhances customer interactions, reduces operational costs, and improves efficiency. Discover how Twilio’s powerful AI capabilities enable businesses to automate conversations, optimize agent performance, and scale customer engagement for the future.

2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Breakout Session | Introductory

AI is revolutionizing product-led growth (PLG). In this fast-paced talk, you'll get an insider's view from the executives that run the PLG program at Twilio, Vanessa Thompson and Orisa Cherenfant. 

From leveraging homegrown ML models for hyper-personalization and user activation to optimizing self-serve onboarding, we'll explore how AI is helping us drive faster conversions, increase retention, and boost expansion—without adding friction.

You'll leave the session with a clear framework for identifying high-impact opportunities and practical strategies for creating value in your PLG motion.

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Chalk Talk | Introductory

Allmyson’s journey of innovation, transformation, and modernization is rooted in a commitment to both customers and employees. 

In this session, Allmyson will demonstrate how it uses Twilio tools—including Messaging, Bots, Flex, Engage, Segment, and Video SDKs—to create seamless experiences and improve quality of life for employees. This isn’t just about tech—it’s about reimagining how support, communication, and customer success can work together. From internal workflows to customer-facing touchpoints, Allmyson’s approach centers on flexibility, connection, and human-first solutions.

Learn how deeply integrated tools and a people-centric mindset are driving next-level outcomes across every part of the organization.

Video Flex Segment Engage Customer Service Other
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Authentication should be seamless, secure, and user-friendly. But too often, businesses face a trade-off between protecting users and creating a smooth experience. 

In this quick 10-minute session, see how Twilio Verify and Lookup help strike the right balance—keeping fraud out while letting trusted users in. We’ll explore real-world examples of companies improving conversion and reducing risk, and we’ll show you just how easy it is to implement a simple OTP flow using Twilio APIs. 

Whether you’re just getting started or looking to level up your strategy, this session offers practical insights into building secure, frictionless user experiences.

 

 

 

 

User Authentication Technology
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm
Lightning Talk

Building a voice agent? Let’s talk about the path that leads to delight. In this lightning talk, we’ll explore two distinct approaches—chained vs. speech-to-speech voice agents—and the key decisions that shape each one. Whether you're optimizing for speed, naturalness, or flexibility, we’ll share practical tips, trade-offs, and lessons learned to help you make smart choices and build voice experiences that truly resonate.

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Breakout Session

Ready to unlock the full potential of your first-party data? 

This session shows how leading brands are using Twilio Segment, Snowflake, and The Trade Desk to build a real-time Customer 360 that powers personalization without compromising data privacy or governance. You’ll see how to streamline first-party data activation and campaign measurement across channels.

We’ll cover how to:

- Unify customer data into persistent, identity-resolved profiles
- Generate deeper insights through unified analytics
- Deliver real-time campaign performance and optimization
- Build and activate targeted audiences across key engagement platforms

3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
Breakout Session | Intermediate

Personalized, scalable communication in healthcare isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity.

Learn how healthcare teams are building for better access, faster care, and stronger connections. In this session, you’ll hear directly from digital teams at leading healthcare organizations who are building flexible engagement solutions that scale. From replacing legacy systems to automating communications and proving ROI, panelists will share real-world lessons, technical insights, and the internal storytelling that helped drive adoption across departments.

Whether you're early in your digital transformation or expanding your impact, this session will offer practical guidance and peer-tested strategies to bring back to your team.

 

3:25 pm - 3:35 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Silent Network Authentication (SNA) offers a low-friction, high-security way to verify users—but it’s most effective when combined with real-time phone intelligence. Each year, around 37 million U.S. phone numbers are reassigned, creating risks like unintended account access and fraud. In this talk, we’ll share how Plaid enhances authentication by pairing SNA with Lookup Reassigned Number checks. Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how to strengthen account security, reduce fraud, and protect user trust—all while keeping the verification experience seamless.

 

User Authentication Financial Services Technology
3:25 pm - 3:55 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Spotify currently serves 675 million monthly active users around the globe. Operating at that scale presents unique software engineering challenges when it comes to reliable email deliverability day-in and day-out. In this presentation I’ll give an overview of how our internal messaging platform handles those challenges to guarantee a great, reliable user experience while driving business outcomes.

3:25 pm - 4:25 pm
Hands-on Labs | Intermediate

In today’s B2B SaaS world, customers expect personalized, product-led experiences, reliant on real-time data. From breaking down siloes to fostering team collaboration, we’ll showcase how Autodesk’s commitment to a data-driven culture resulted in a 99% reduction in time to value—demonstrating the true impact of Product-Led Growth.

This session will also dive into Twilio Engage, showcasing rich data orchestration and upcoming features like Event Triggered Journeys and Contextual Data Payloads. These innovations integrate warehouse, event property, and profile data, empowering companies to deliver scalable, real-time, and context-rich personalization.

3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
Lightning Talk | Intermediate

In real estate, speed and persistence win deals—but what happens when agents fall short on follow-ups? Ylopo, a game-changer in real estate tech, set out to solve this challenge, evolving from an ad tech company to a full-fledged AI-powered lead nurturing platform. Join us as we unpack their journey—from automating emails and texts to building (and dismantling) a call center, and finally, scaling an AI-powered conversation engine with Twilio. Hear how they leveraged cutting-edge automation to transform agent performance, boost conversion rates, and reshape the future of real estate engagement.

3:40 pm - 4:05 pm
Chalk Talk | Intermediate

You've built login for your application, but what happens when a customer upgrades their phone, loses their device, or otherwise gets locked out of their account? With an increasing number of consumer applications adopting passkeys, account recovery is still an important consideration.

This talk will explore best practices for account recovery in a world of passkeys and passwordless flows. Based on research from dozens of recovery procedures, we'll compare methods, show how to minimize support costs, and discuss how Twilio Verify can help you build the most secure, resilient, and user friendly authentication flow.

Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp User Authentication
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Make every customer conversation smarter with Twilio Voice Intelligence.

This session explores Twilio Voice Intelligence as a product—how it works, where it fits, and how companies can benefit by adding it to automated and agent-assisted conversations. We'll break down how easy it is to integrate into your tech stack and showcase real-world use cases that drive insight and efficiency. To bring it all to life, we’ll wrap with a live demo featuring a visualized conversation flow powered by Voice Intelligence.

Come see how to turn every conversation into actionable data

Voice Customer Service Technology
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Breakout Session | Intermediate

AI is quickly becoming a customer’s first touchpoint with a brand. As marketing, support, and engagement channels adapt, the question is no longer what AI can do—it's whether your organization is set up to make it successful.

In this session, Krish Sailam, Marketing Technology and Operations Lead at Nextdoor shares his vision for transforming CX operations by bringing AI together with data from Segment and communications channels like Sendgrid. This session offers an AI operations roadmap that scales across business functions, reduces operational costs, and improves customer satisfaction. Because AI is a perpetually-evolving force, this session approaches it with a touch of humility.

Segment
4:05 pm - 4:15 pm
Lightning Talk | Intermediate

In today’s digital landscape, AI holds the promise of revolutionizing industries—but only if it has access to the right data. Universidad Uk, an online university, faced a major challenge: data scattered across systems prevented automation and personalization. 

Through Segment, they broke down silos and built unified customer profiles, giving human and AI agents complete, real-time insights. With this foundation, AI could anticipate needs and create use cases once unimaginable. As conversational interfaces grow, Universidad Uk is developing flexible systems—CRMs, SIS, ERPs—built to handle unstructured data and unlock AI’s full potential. 

This session explores how unified data fuels intelligent transformation.

Flex Segment Messaging/RCS/SMS/WhatsApp Education Technology
4:15 pm - 4:40 pm
Chalk Talk | Advanced

Want more confidence in your AI outputs? 

This session dives into how Twilio leverages evaluations—automated benchmarks, human assessments, and LLMs as evaluators—to measure understanding, performance, and error avoidance in large language models. You'll learn how our Emerging Tech and Innovation team accelerates development with evals, and what we’ve built to help customers run their own. 

Walk away with practical guidance on integrating evaluations into your LLM workflows using diverse metrics, contextual relevance, and transparent practices—so you can ship smarter, faster, and with fewer surprises.

Technology
4:25 pm - 4:35 pm
Lightning Talk

Real-time customer data goes beyond dashboards – it drives loyalty. 

This session will show how Twilio Segment enables personalized loyalty programs that respond instantly to customer behavior. You’ll learn how to automate enrollment, trigger rewards, and tailor offers using event tracking and computed traits. 

See how everyday interactions can become reasons to return – all without complex development effort.

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Breakout Session

Join this dynamic 30-minute session to see how Zennify (formerly Terazo) is helping innovative brands like PrimeStreet and Treatwell bring AI into production—fast. From AI-generated SMS re-engagement that doubled prospect response rates, to AI-powered phone assistants that book salon appointments 3x faster, you’ll hear how Zennify applies real-world AI to drive measurable impact.

We’ll walk through how we integrated Twilio Flex, Voice, and Messaging with AI/LLM models, and leveraged Salesforce and other CRMs for smarter decision-making and continuous improvement. This session is packed with proven strategies and real numbers that show what’s possible when AI meets customer engagement.

Whether you’re just starting to explore AI or looking to scale, learn how to go from idea to impact—with AI that works.

4:45 pm - 4:55 pm
Lightning Talk | Introductory

Take a historical tour through the evolution of telecommunications—from the earliest days of the telephone to today’s AI-powered contact centers. 

Led by Twilio’s Rob Masson, this session connects the dots between historical milestones and modern innovations, showing how Twilio fits into the larger story of global communications. 

Technology

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