David Isbitski is Amazon's Chief Evangelist for Alexa and Echo, introducing the world to the power of Voice. He has helped launch numerous platforms and products at both Microsoft and Amazon and made a career out of helping people be successful with technology. Towards that end, he has delivered keynotes at major conferences around the world. A Jersey Shore native, David loves being near the ocean. He returns to his roots at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he graduated Cum Laude from the Honors Program with a B.A. in Information Systems.

Anne Weiler, is co-founder and CEO of Wellpepper, a clinically validated and award-winning platform for digital patient treatment plans. She co-founded Wellpepper in late 2012 with Mike Van Snellenberg to address issues in communication and continuity of care after a personal experience when her mother was released from 6 months in the hospital with no instructions and a month before a follow-up visit. Anne’s expertise spans from concept to go-to-market for technology startups and established businesses. Prior to Wellpepper, Anne was VP of Marketing for iQMetrix, and Director of Product Management at Microsoft Corporation. She joined Microsoft in 2001 with the acquisition of Canadian web content management company Ncompass Labs.

Creative product leader with years of mobile, Web and digital video experience. Big fan of user-centered, iterative, data-driven product approaches.

Areas of focus include video on demand, subscription products, voice interfaces. Experience leading Agile product and UX teams and managing a large portfolio of products at scale.

Dr. Chiori Hori has worked on spoken language processing technologies since 1998. In 2002, she worked on spoken interactive Q&A using a real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) based on Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) with over-a-million word vocabulary, at NTT. She joined CMU to work on speech translation/summarization technologies in 2004 and then moved to ATR/NIC in 2007. She led the NICT ASR research group and their system to first place in the English TED talk recognition at IWSLT for three consecutive years from 2012. She invented a WFST-based cross-lingual dialog technology which was implemented on a humanoid robot ASIMO and recipe on-the-fly dialog systems at NICT. She has been working on neural network based technologies for Human-Robot communication at MERL since 2015. She is a member of the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and an editorial board of Computer Speech and Language.

Head of Natural Language Processing and most of Backend Development. I develop secure and accurate Natural Language Processing algorithms for accurately predicting text posts across user's web page suggesting PocketChange approved charities working for the cause. Establishing secure and quick communication between NLP algorithms on AWS machines and chrome extension.

Jeff Nelson is the founder and CEO of Cinchapi, an intelligent data platform out of TechSquare Labs that provides real-time analytics and machine learning to help businesses gain insights faster to drive dynamic outcomes. He has flexed his tech muscles at MailChimp and Ionic Securityworked, and worked as a developer in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and the Bay Area before settling in Atlanta. Nelson is also the co-founder and CTO of media site, Blavity, where he curates perspectives on black experience. He holds a B.S., Computer Science, from Washington University in St. Louis.

Call me JZ, like the rapper, even though my name is Jenny Zhang. After living in San Francisco and working in UX in NYC, now I’m working in the DC area as a Product Manager at Capital One. My favorite skill is paper prototyping and I’m passionate about involving designers/ developers/analysts early in the product planning process. I have spoken about card-based UX and shopping journeys, judged women in tech awards, organize my own meetup, and am part of a women in product mentoring group. I received my degree in Anthropology from Stanford University.