The #1 event for voice tech and conversational AI in America returns to Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 25-28, 2022.
Amazon, Verizon, National Geographic, NVIDIA, Truist, the Washington Post, and Lenovo headline a star-studded in-person program.
The downtown Chattanooga Marriott, which is attached to the Chattanooga Convention Center and is the preferred hotel of Project Voice 2022, can be booked here.
Sunday, April 24
5 PM
Welcome Reception
Downtown Chattanooga Marriott
Monday, April 25
9 AM
Welcome
Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners)
J.Ed Marston (VP Marketing, EPB)
Tim Kelly (Mayor, City of Chattanooga)
9:10 AM
Opening Keynote
Jeff Blankenburg (Chief Evangelist, Amazon Alexa)
9:40 AM
That Sound You Hear: The Role Of Sound Across Voice/AI
Davar Ardalan (Executive Producer of Audio, National Geographic)
Jacob Pinter (Senior Producer, National Geographic)
10:00 AM
Using Voice Technology To Increase Revenue
Michael Jolley (Head of Developer Relations, Deepgram)
10:20 AM
Delivering Insight: The Heart of Conversational AI
Scott Sandland (CEO, Cyrano.ai)
10:40 AM
Achieving AI-driven Total Experience in an Industry-Siloed CX Culture
Ishaan Aggarwal (GTM Lead, Conversational AI, Quantiphi)
11:00 AM
Build, Rent, or Partner: Voice AI Solutions Tailored to Your Brand
Darin Clark (Director, SoundHound)
11:20 AM
Embedding Voice/AI Solutions In Healthcare
Henry O'Connell (CEO, Canary Speech)
11:40 AM
Building A Secure Voice Ecosystem For Healthcare
Mark Gray (CEO, Constant Companion)
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Lunch + Exhibitions
Violin music provided by WillowTree conversation designer Emily Banzhaf
1:10 PM
Making Real Estate More Accessible Through Conversation
Justin Lundy (Founder, GetLundy.io)
1:30 PM
Building And Designing For Humans: Meeting Users In The Moment
Alex Misiaszek (SVP, Experience Design Director of NLU & Emerging Experiences, Truist)
Peter Sutherland (Director of Innovation Engineering, Truist)
1:50 PM
What Worked, What Didn't Work, And How Verizon Built Memorable Customer Experiences With Voice/AI
Bala Maddali (Head of Conversational AI Experiences, Verizon)
2:10 PM
From AAA Gaming on the Nintendo Switch To Education with Moodle: Augmenting Customer Experience Through Synthetic Voice
Ricardo Garza (Business Development Manager, ReadSpeaker North America)
Cindy Hamer (Director Business Development, ReadSpeaker North America
2:30 PM
Reimagining Customer Experiences: Integrating Voice Into Digital Strategy
Tobias Dengel (CEO, WillowTree)
2:50 PM
Case Study: How Voice Commerce Is Re-Shaping India
Kumar Rangarajan (CEO, Slang Labs)
3:10 PM
Voice to AutoFlows: Towards First Autonomous Conversational AI
Chandra Khatri (Chief Scientist and Head of AI, Got-It AI)
3:30 PM
Natural Language Speech Synthesis
Fathy Yassa (CEO, Speechmorphing)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Project Voice After-Hours: Tennessee Aquarium
Presented by Deepgram
Open to all Project Voice 2022 attendees
Tuesday, April 26
9:00 AM
NLP At The Edge: How Voice AI Is Transforming Retail, Restaurants, And Hospitals
Andi Huels (Head of AI, North America, Lenovo)
Ken Sutton (CEO, Yobe)
Van West (CEO, Vocalytics)
Moderated by Ian Utile (CEO, Attn.live)
9:40 AM
Is Voice the Key to a Successful Metaverse?
Sean King (SVP, Commercial Services, Veritone)
10:00 AM
Bringing Voice/AI To Gaming and Entertainment
Johan Stromberg (CEO, Wanderword)
10:20 AM
Better Data, Better Voice AI
Brad Hastedt (Director, AI Data Solutions, DataForce)
Naresh Kuppuswamy (Director, AI, DataForce)
10:40 AM
Best Practices In Designing Voice UI
Otto Soderlund (CEO, Speechly)
11:00 AM
Driving AI Innovation In The Automotive Sector
Adam Emfield (Director of User Experience, Cerence)
11:20 AM
"Amazon, Can We Have Our Name Back?"
Alexa Juliana Ard (Washington Post) + Lauren Johnson (Creator, Alexa Is A Human)
Moderated by Bradley Metrock
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Lunch + Exhibitions
1:10 PM
The Importance Of Customer Testing For Conversational AI
John Kelvie (CEO, Bespoken)
1:30 PM
Building The Voice Data Layer The World Needs
Esteban Gorupicz (CEO, Atexto) with Bradley Metrock
1:50 PM
Tuning The In-Car Voice/AI Experience
Jacob Soendergaard (HEAD Acoustics)
2:10 PM
Building A Brand With Voice
John Campbell (Managing Director, Rabbit & Pork)
2:30 PM
Release Voice/AI Products Faster, With Confidence
Emerson Sklar (Senior Director AI/ML, Applause)
2:50 PM
Proving The Value: Getting Big Brands To Buy In To Voice/AI
Shilp Agarwal (CEO, Blutag)
3:10 PM
Voice AI Is The Infrastructure Of Modern Marketing
Brandon Kaplan (CEO, Skilled Creative)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Project Voice After-Hours: The Chattanooga Pinball Museum
Presented by Speechly
Open to all Project Voice 2022 attendees
Wednesday, April 27
8 AM
Project Voice Capital Partners Investor Pitches
Voice/AI startups pitch to accredited investors and conference attendees
- Hollarhype
- Arrivu
- VoicePT
- TQIntelligence
- Lundy
- Constant Companion
- Tweelin
9:00 AM
State of the Union: Conversational AI
Arte Merritt (Global Segment Leader for Conversational AI, AWS)
9:20 AM
API-First Conversation Intelligence: Measure, Improve, & Take Action in Real-Time
Surbhi Rathore (CEO, Symbl.ai)
9:40 AM
Signal To Noise: Keep Voice AI Data Clean
Ken Sutton (CEO, Yobe)
10:00 AM
Connecting Through Conversation: Building Voice Experiences
James Poulter and Jen Heape (Vixen Labs)
10:20 AM
Speech Recognition 2022: The Revolution of Extreme Accuracy
David Keene (Speechmatics)
10:40 AM
Deploying Voice For Major Brands: Lessons Learned
Jake DiMare (Voicify)
11:00 AM
Transforming Customer Interactions into Personalized Self-Service
Andrei Papancea (CEO, NLX)
11:20 AM
Dreaming Of A More Accessible World
Juliana Tarpey Hadad (Product Lead, Alexa Accessibility)
11:40 AM
VoicePT: Bringing Voice AI To Physical Therapy
Brett Adler (VoicePT)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch + Exhibitions
1:00 PM
The Present And Future Of The Open Voice Network
Open Voice Network's Jon Stine with Project Voice CEO Bradley Metrock
1:30 PM
The Need For Dedicated Venture Capital In Voice/AI
Ted Alling (Limited Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners)
Adam Cheyer (Venture Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners)
Marc Ladin (General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners)
Moderated by Bradley Metrock
2:00 PM
Closing
Thursday, April 28
9 AM to noon
Private meetings with Bradley Metrock, CEO Project Voice / General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners
Please reach out to schedule these beforehand
