LIVE WEBINAR

Back 2 Basics: Get the Most Out of Your Virtual Agent - Speed, Setup & the Customer Experience

November 10th 2026

11:00 AM (PST)

Guest speakers
Shelby Breger

Head of Conduit, Success

Virtual Agents are evolving fast, and small setup choices can help catalyze your performance. In this session, we’ll walk through the settings that drive both utilization and a great caller experience, starting with how to pick the right first use case (after-hours, overflow, or both) based on what motivated your team to sign up. We’ll show why slow trigger timing is one of the biggest hidden drivers of abandoned calls, and why tightening ring time for overflow and deploying after hours will drop your abandoned calls. We’ll also cover settings that can transform your booking rates, and how to make the most of your Virtual Agents. You’ll leave with a simple four-point self-check to audit your own setup, plus a rapid look at what’s new in VA so you’re optimizing against the current product.

What you will learn:
  • Where to start: pick the use case that matches why you signed up (after-hours, overflow, or both), then expand

  • The ring-time fix: trigger VA faster (about 20 seconds) to eliminate avoidable abandoned calls

  • Why front-of-queue placement increases utilization and reduces abandonment

  • A 4-point self-check: VA on, after-hours enabled, overflow enabled, ring time 20s or less, inbound SMS on

  • What’s new in VA, so you’re not optimizing against stale assumptions