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Project Voice X is a special edition of our namesake event - the #1 event for voice tech and AI in America - being held October 25-27 in sunny Destin/Fort Walton Beach.
What opportunities have emerged for voice technology and AI, as we enter a new chapter?
What opportunities now lie at the intersection of voice/AI and social audio?
Project Voice X marks the return of the in-person conference.
There are three hotels in very close proximity to the venue, all of which sit on the beach. Our preferred hotel is Hilton Garden Inn, but Four Points by Sheraton and a newly-renovated Holiday Inn Resort are also great options.
American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines all fly into the Destin / Fort Walton Beach Airport (VPS), which is a brief 16 mile distance from the convention center. More options are available at the Pensacola International Airport (PNS), located just under an hour from the venue.
Getting to the Fort Walton Beach Convention Center - official Florida travel information
Project Voice X Program
Sunday, October 24
[ALL TIMES CENTRAL]
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Opening Gathering
Rockin Tacos
Monday, October 25
[ALL TIMES CENTRAL]
9:00 AM
Welcome / Opening Keynote
9:30 AM
Amazon Keynote
Jeff Blankenburg (Principal Technical Evangelist, Amazon)
10:10 AM
Say What You Mean: Navigating Critical Conversations
Scott Sandland (CEO, Cyrano.AI)
10:40 AM
Building The Future Of Voice
Scott Stephenson (CEO, Deepgram)
11:10 AM
The New Age Of Voice Commerce
Mike Zagorsek (Chief Operations Officer, SoundHound)
11:30 AM
Sparking The Future Of Conversation Design
Braden Ream (CEO, Voiceflow)
11:50 AM
Lunch
12:30 PM
NLP On The Edge: Voice, AI, and Hardware
Robert Daigle (Global AI and Innovation Leader, Lenovo)
Andi Huels (Head of AI, North America, Lenovo)
1:00 PM
What's Next For AI in the Contact Center
Art Coombs (CEO, KomBea)
1:25 PM
Creating Next-Generation Voice Experiences
Mike Hoesten (Senior Director, Skilled Creative)
1:40 PM
VOICE IN HEALTHCARE
Henry O'Connell (CEO, Canary Speech)
Dr. Yared Alemu (CEO, TQIntelligence)
2:10 PM
Sonic Branding in the Enterprise
Audrey Arbeeny (CEO, Audiobrain)
2:30 PM
Retail, Restaurants, and Travel
Shilp Agarwal (CEO, Blutag)
2:45 PM
The Evolution Of Conversational AI In The Car And Beyond
Shyamala Prayaga (Product Manager, Conversational AI, Ford Motor Company)
3:00 PM
The Importance of Testing with Voice Experiences and Conversational AI
John Kelvie (CEO, Bespoken)
3:15 PM
Accuracy Matters: Improving Speech Recognition Through Data Processes
Esteban Gorupicz (CEO, Atexto)
3:30 PM Adjourn
4:30 PM
Party at The Gulf on Okaloosa Island
Sponsored by Voiceflow
Open to all attendees and attendee family members
Tuesday, October 26
[ALL TIMES CENTRAL]
9:30 AM
Microsoft Keynote
Eric Egland (Microsoft)
10:00 AM
Custom Voices, Spotify, and the In-Car Conversational AI Experience
Matt Muldoon (President, ReadSpeaker North America)
10:30 AM
Voice vs. Friction: Lessons Learned In Security & Authentication
Ben Cunningham (Director of Product Marketing, Pindrop)
11:00 AM
Sparking The Future Of Conversation Design
Emily Lonetto (Head of Growth, Voiceflow)
11:30 AM
Opportunities for Voice, Outside of Voice Assistants
Otto Soderlund (CEO, Speechly)
Collin Borns (Head of Business Development, Speechly)
11:50 AM
Lunch
12:30 PM
Interactive Audio Entertainment with Voice AI
Thomas Lindgren (Executive Chairman, Wanderword)
12:45 PM
Preservation of Culture and History with Conversational AI: Laleh Knowledge Lake and Google Assistant
Davar Ardalan (Founder, iVow.AI; Executive Producer of Audio, National Geographic)
1:15 PM
Multistyle, Multitone, Multilingual Natural Language Speech Synthesis
Fathy Yassa (CEO, Speechmorphing)
1:15 PM
The Case Against Sentiment Analysis for Natural Text
Shamoon Siddiqui (CTO, Betterleap)
1:30 PM
Voice in Education
Dottie Daniels (Northeastern University)
1:45 PM Adjourn
2:30 PM
Private Screening of DUNE
Sponsored by Deepgram
Visit Deepgram on site to receive your ticket (limited supply)
Wednesday, October 27
[ALL TIMES CENTRAL]
9:00 AM
Voice/AI Startup Pitches
Pitches by Selected Voice/AI Companies
- VoiceStar
- Arrivu
- U-Hertz
- Deken
- VoicePT
- Vital Group AI
- Tuzag
10:30 AM
Closing Keynote
Rucha Gokhale (Conversational AI Strategist & Chief of Staff, Deloitte)
11:30 AM
Prizes + Adjourn
1:00 PM
Project Voice X Golf Outing
Open to all attendees and attendee family members
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