Orion Labs had a strong presence at Twilio’s Signal 2018 conference, held this past week at the Bill Graham Auditorium and in the plaza in front of San Francisco City Hall. Here are our team’s key highlights from the event.

Orion: Signal’s Official Staff Communications Provider

Orion sponsored onsite communications for Signal 2018 staff and vendors to keep the entire conference running smoothly. We distributed over 60 Kyocera devices running the Orion Push to Talk app, instantly connecting the Signal team via PTT. Additionally, each device was powered by Twilio Programmable Wireless.

With a command post inside Bill Graham, the Orion deployment team distributed Orion devices to the staff and remained onsite for support. This was a great collaboration between the Orion and Twilio teams; look for more details soon.

“Voice as the New Interface” and Orion’s New SDK

Orion Co-Founder and CEO, Jesse Robbins, spoke on the theme of “Voice as the new interface: Transforming field services with natural language processing”. Jesse talked about how the Orion connected voice platform is transforming the enterprise and public safety workplaces. He also provided a live demo of the Orion platform and supported devices. He overviewed how Orion is partnering with the developer community to build voice bots and workflows for the Orion platform.

See the video below or view it on YouTube:

Key Signal 2018 News and Voice Industry Trends

Twilio took the opportunity to share big news with the 3,000+ attendees. Twilio announced their Super SIM for global capability. In addition to T-Mobile USA, Twilio has also partnered with the 3 Group, Singtel and Telefonica to deliver a global connectivity solution. Each carrier has a strong regional focus; 3 Group (Europe), Singtel (Asia) and Telefonica (Latin America). The Super SIM will use a multi IMSI solution to support the global footprint. Twilio also announced its support for NB IoT with T-Mobile.

The social impact arm of the company, Twilio.org, committed to helping a billion people over the next ten years. They also announced they’d donate up to $10 million worth of their Flex product to nonprofits.

Orion in the Signal 2018 Community Hall

Because many Signal attendees were developers, CTOs, and other technical folks, we invited our Engineering team to join the show. Our Head of Engineering Dan Phung and Web Platform Manager Jim Chambers met with attendees to explain what Orion does and learn about problems their organizations are working on.

We also gave away more than 100 Onyx devices to “Voice as the New Interface” attendees, many of whom were trying Orion for the first time. Not only did they walk away with their very own Onyx, but also they connected on Orion with other attendees to chat and network.

Signal 2018 was a fantastically fun and productive event. We were proud to be part of it and extend our thanks to the Twilio team!

Jesse Robbins, CEO and Co-founder of Orion Labs

Through his pioneering work on the Orion connected voice platform, Robbins has transformed the technology industry. Orion provides instant voice communication for teams across a constellation of connected clients and devices. In addition to Jesse’s experience as a the founder and CEO of Chef, the leader in cloud automation, he has also been credited as a creator of the DevOps movement.

What

Robbins will be featured in the session, “Voice as the new interface. Transforming field services with natural language processing”, at Signal 2018, the exclusive Twilio Customer and Developer Conference. This session will dive into key trends in voice enabled communications and demonstrate how voice enabled services are driving digital transformation for enterprises and public safety agencies. Robbins will also discuss how Orion is partnering with Twilio and powering edge devices with Twilio Programmable Wireless.

When

Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 4:30 p.m. PT

Where

Signal 2018
Eve Room
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
99 Grove St.
San Francisco, CA., 94102

In addition to Robbins’s session, Orion Labs will be providing all onsite communications for Signal 2018. The company will be exhibiting at stand M6, across from the IoT Showcase. Stop by to learn more about its expansive product offerings including:

Connecting Without Boundaries – See the latest advancement in smart walkie-talkie and compact and lightweight wearable, handheld technology. The Orion devices and platform help increase productivity and effective communication in the workplace.

Orion Voice Superpowers – Learn firsthand how the Orion platform provides reliable push-to-talk communication to teams to address complex security and logistical challenges, maintain high situational awareness, integrate the right data, and stay in sync. The Orion platform allows team members to instantly communicate with their colleagues, as well as with voice-driven chatbots and automations.

Meetings at Signal 2018 are by invitation only. To schedule a press meeting, please contact your Orion representative or email: press@orionlabs.io

About Orion Labs

Orion Labs is transforming the way teams communicate and work using the power of their voice. Orion’s award-winning platform delivers secure, real-time voice communication across a constellation of connected devices, applications and services. Orion gives mobile teams a heads-up experience that enables them to communicate without losing focus, across any distance, anywhere in the world. Orion recently won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” Award from IoT Breakthrough, the 2018 Best Overall Bot Platform from AI Breakthrough and has been recognized as a Hot Vendor by Aragon Research.

The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht who were inspired by their experiences using traditional radios as firefighters and EMTs. Orion Labs is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Media Contacts

Vanessa Naylon
Orion Labs
415-762-3431
vanessa@orionlabs.io

Allison DeLeo
Racepoint Global for Orion Labs
415-694-6700
press@orionlabs.io