VOICE Live From CES

A FULL DAY OF
VOICE TECH AT CES®

January 8, 2020

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C-Space
Tech South, Aria Hotel

January 6, 2023

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Immersing Brand Executives With VOICE AI Strategy and Implications of ChatGPT

Located in the heart of the C-Space programming zone at the Aria Resort, VOICE Live From CES will include keynotes and fireside chats with leading brands at the forefront of conversational AI, synthetic media and will share their insights on the impact of ChatGPT.   

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  1. Purchase your pass(es) to CES on the CES website
  2. Add the conference track "VOICE AI and ChatGPT Strategy for Brands" during the registration process
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Our Sponsors

RAIN Agency
Attn.ive
Open Voice Network
Joshua 10 Ballroom

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Join us in Joshua 10 at the prestigious Aria Resort to discover the biggest trends in Voice and how they're about to change the future of business, content, and marketing in your industry.

Connect with 400 Executives

VOICE @ CES will comprise of a full day of keynotes, brand case studies, fresh research and where investors are placing their bets across all platforms including Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Siri, Samsung Bixby, custom integrations, IoT and more.  

Located in the heart of the C-suite programming zone at the Aria Hotel, VOICE is sure to be a main attraction at this years CES Conference. Vertical industries will include Healthcare, Retail, Transportation, Smarthomes, Entertainment and Gaming, Enterprise and more. 

Meet Our Speakers

Executive Director, Open Voice Network
Founder/CEO, Modev
Founder, ATTN.live
Chief Metaverse Officer & CEO, Metaverse Growth Strategies
Woman of Color AI, CreateLabs.IO
President & Co-Founder, Veritone
Tech Access Lead, United Spinal Association
Founder/President, Dream Center
Founder, Wild and West NFT
CEO, Educated Industries
Co-founder, CreateLabs.IO
Entreprenuer in Residence, ATTN.LIVE
Sr. Director, Azafran Partners
Founder, LUKSO

Speakers

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Sean King

SVP, General Manager Commercial Enterprise
Veritone

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Tobias Dengel

CEO
WillowTree

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Dominique Essig

VP and GM of Conversational Commerce
Walmart

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Yan Zhang

COO
PolyAI

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James Poulter

CEO
Vixen Labs

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Joti Balani

Founder and Managing Director
Freshriver.ai

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Ian Utile

CEO
attn.live

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William Harvey

Global Digital Innovation Manager
Diageo

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Vincenzo Piscopo

President and CEO
United Spinal Association

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Kaushik Bhatta

President
Modev / VOICE

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Jim Terpstra

VP, Corporate Development
Cameo

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Brent Weinstein

Chief Development Officer
Candle Media

Agenda

Session Time
All session times are PST time zone
Speakers
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Joti Balani, Sean King, Brent Weinstein, Jim Terpstra

Sean King

Sean King oversees the Commercial Enterprise division at Veritone including SaaS technologies and managed services for advertising, licensing, synthetic media, and metaverse. His forward-thinking marketing and operational insights have solidified Veritone’s subsidiary, Veritone One as the leading AI-powered audio and influencer advertising agency in the world, and has grown Veritone Licensing as North America’s premiere AI-based content licensing firm — setting the stage to take on the next frontier of synthetic media and metaverse solutions with Veriverse.

Over the past 20 years, Sean has held various senior level management positions focusing on sales management, technology operations, and strategic partnership development. He is passionate about finding new ways to refine operations, create new opportunities, and applying practical uses of AI and synthetic media to the metaverse.

How can brands and content creators give personalized messages to global audiences while still remaining authentic, on brand, and protect their IP? Connecting with fans and consumers is at the pinnacle of every content creator's aspirations –– yet with a reach so vast, it seems impossible to do in a way that is meaningful, realistic, and scalable. In this panel, leaders from Cameo, Candle Media, and Veritone will discuss how brands and IP owners can extend their reach beyond human bounds with secure artificial intelligence solutions and highlight an example that is catching the attention of audiences across the globe, Cameo Kids.

Sean King
SVP, Commercial Manager Enterprise

Sean King oversees the Commercial Enterprise division at Veritone including SaaS technologies and managed services for advertising, licensing, synthetic media, and metaverse. His forward-thinking marketing and operational insights have solidified Veritone’s subsidiary, Veritone One as the leading AI-powered audio and influencer advertising agency in the world, and has grown Veritone Licensing as North America’s premiere AI-based content licensing firm — setting the stage to take on the next frontier of synthetic media and metaverse solutions with Veriverse. Over the past 20 years, Sean has held various senior level management positions focusing on sales management, technology operations, and strategic partnership development. He is passionate about finding new ways to refine operations, create new opportunities, and applying practical uses of AI and synthetic media to the metaverse.

Jim Terpstra
VP, Corporate Development

As a new(ish) dad - and very new dad of 2 - this project was special for me. Huge congrats to all involved and excited to see CameoKids.com get to market. Epic work on this across so many teams, including Candle Media, Moonbug Entertainment, Veritone and Mindshow. We at Cameo are grateful for all the hard work and very excited to continue building on this. More to come and can't wait to see all the magical moments that families will be able to create for kids of all ages!

Brent Weinstein
Chief Development Officer

Brent Weinstein is Chief Development Officer at Candle Media, helping to drive the next-generation media company’s corporate and business development efforts. Recognized as one of the entertainment industry’s leading innovators, Weinstein has long been on the forefront of creating and driving iconic, groundbreaking deals across all forms of media. Prior to Candle, Weinstein spent nearly 20 years at United Talent Agency, most recently as Partner and Chief Innovation Officer.

The adoption of voice devices has started to level out, but voice is far from dead. Consumers have demonstrated they want voice, but how can we course correct to make voice the medium of choice?

Tobias Dengel

Tobias Dengel is CEO of WillowTree, LLC. a leading mobile strategy, design and app development company servicing Fortune 500/5000 clients and large government agencies. He is a seasoned technology executive with 20+ years experience in Mobility, Digital Media and Interactive Marketing.

James Poulter, CEO of Vixen Labs and Dominque Essig, VP and GM of Conversational Commerce for Walmart, to discuss the retail giant's latest innovations

Dominique Essig

Dominique (who also goes by Dom) is a creative and passionate product and operations leader with more than 18 years of online experience both in North American and Global product management, customer experience and operations, and software development. She has led and managed the product management, UX design, engineering, data science, IT, analytics and insights, and customer service functions with revenue and cost directed responsibilities.  

Currently, Dom oversees the Conversational Commerce team for Walmart. In this role she is responsible for all parts of Walmarts conversational experiences including Voice and Text Commerce. Responsible for changing how people interact and shop with Walmart.  She was previously the Chief Product Officer of Jetblack, a members-only shopping service that was the first portfolio company within Store Nº8, the incubation arm of Walmart. She joined Walmart through their acquisition of Bonobos where she was the Chief Experience Officer. Prior to that she was VP of product and user experience at Gilt Group, and spent 12 years leading product teams at Travelocity.

Dominique graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Duke University where she also served as captain of their NCAA Women's Varsity Volleyball team. She currently lives in Larchmont, NY with her husband and two sons.

James Poulter

James is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vixen Labs, Europe's leading full service Voice Agency.  Previously as Head of The LEGO Group’s Emerging Platforms & Partnerships team as part of the Digital Consumer Engagement division, James Poulter is pursuing new technologies, platforms and partners to build digital consumer engagement with LEGO customers, shoppers and consumers on a global basis.  

James previously was the Head of Social Media for LEGO’s social network for Kids, LEGO Life – which launched globally in 2017 and has since grown to over 2m active users regularly posting their content to the world’s first global and safe social network for kids.   Prior to joining LEGO, James worked for a number of the world’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations firms including Edelman and Ogilvy leading digital marketing, mobile and social campaigns both in EMEA and globally as well as new business efforts for clients such as Diageo, Unilever, Bose, PayPal, HP and Adobe.  

James is an innovation and strategy consultant with over 10 years experience specialising in Voice, Conversational AI Technologies and emerging platforms such as Immersive AR/VR, 5G and Blockchain.   Outside of work James is an advisor to the Church of England’s digital board as well as well as a number of other charities, entrepreneurs and startups.  James is a father to Hazel and Willow and husband to Holly and lives in Surrey, UK. He can be found on all good social media as @jamespoulter.

Ian Utile, CEO of Attn.Live takes us on a brief exploration of how industries are evolving around content and asks the question about the future of AI, Web3 and Metaverse serving our needs.

Ian Utile

Ian Utile believes that humanity is thriving in new ways because of technologies like NLP and NFTs. As a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 20+ years, he and his teams have launched seven companies together.  One of their start-ups, Kukui, was acquired by a PE firm in 2019 after exceeding $10M ARR bootstrapped. Because of their 3,943% growth rate, Kukui was ranked by the Inc. 5000 as the #1 fastest growing private company in San Jose. Ian’s ancestor, José Joaquin Moraga, founded the City of San Jose in 1777. This unique heritage is a great inspiration to Ian.  Today, he’s focused on co-producing events like NFT.NYC as well as creating wealth for content creators and their communities with attn.live’s NLP/NFT “Sonic Streaming” platform. Ian lives in Santa Cruz, CA inside a treehouse with his two sons (Malakye 12, Kenton 9). Connect with Ian directly on all social media sites @ianutile or @attnlive.

Vincenzo Piscopo, CEO of United Spinal discuss the important role of Conversational AI in improving accessibility

Vincenzo Piscopo

Vincenzo Piscopo began his tenure as United Spinal’s president and CEO on November 16, 2020 replacing James Weisman, who retired after 40 years of service to the disability community as an advocate for disability rights and accessible transportation. Piscopo, a wheelchair-user who was paralyzed from a herniated disk in 2010, previously worked at The Coca-Cola Company for 25 years in a variety of strategic roles both in the US and internationally.

In his most recent position as the Community and Stakeholder Relations Director at The Coca-Cola Company, Piscopo managed and cultivated company relationships with disability, veteran and Hispanic organizations and advocates for these communities. Piscopo has based much of his work on the belief that people with disabilities are assets for corporations because of their resilience, perseverance, and creative problem-solving skills.

Piscopo is also the founder and board member of the opens in a new windowWheels of Happiness Foundation which helps people with motor disabilities in disadvantaged areas of the world, and a member of the board of directors of the organizations opens in a new windowRespectability and opens in a new windowFriends of the Disabled Adults and Children. Born in Venezuela of Italian immigrants, Piscopo currently resides with his wife and four children in Atlanta, Georgia. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters in Creativity from Buffalo State College.

Joti Balani

Joti Balani, founder of Freshriver.ai, is a creative architect designing and delivering complex enterprise, human and systemic transformations with her multidimensional framework blending AI, Data Science, Engineering and Social Sciences. She leads transformative innovations at Fortune 100 enterprises to create emotional, economic and brand value with her team, who represent the empowered human race in all dimensions.

Consumers interact with products on a daily basis as they seek information, support, recipes and more. Will explores the 2-3 horizon of how we can lay the foundation for success, through experimentation with new and emerging technologys across Diageo brands.

William Harvey

Will Harvey is Global Digital innovation Manager, as part of the Futures Team that sits within Diageo’s CoDe, assuring that Diageo stays at the forefront of all things digital.  With the focus on leading the Test and Learn agenda exploring new and emerging technologies, behaviours and Startup’s, to then Deploy and Enable Sustainable and Scalable Digital Innovation.  He advises as one of the directors at Innovation Social, was part of BIMA 100 and HClub 100 in 2017, and has previously worked at both VCCP and Ogilvy looking to find the intersection of Creativity and Technology.

James Poulter

James is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vixen Labs, Europe's leading full service Voice Agency.  Previously as Head of The LEGO Group’s Emerging Platforms & Partnerships team as part of the Digital Consumer Engagement division, James Poulter is pursuing new technologies, platforms and partners to build digital consumer engagement with LEGO customers, shoppers and consumers on a global basis.  

James previously was the Head of Social Media for LEGO’s social network for Kids, LEGO Life – which launched globally in 2017 and has since grown to over 2m active users regularly posting their content to the world’s first global and safe social network for kids.   Prior to joining LEGO, James worked for a number of the world’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations firms including Edelman and Ogilvy leading digital marketing, mobile and social campaigns both in EMEA and globally as well as new business efforts for clients such as Diageo, Unilever, Bose, PayPal, HP and Adobe.  

James is an innovation and strategy consultant with over 10 years experience specialising in Voice, Conversational AI Technologies and emerging platforms such as Immersive AR/VR, 5G and Blockchain.   Outside of work James is an advisor to the Church of England’s digital board as well as well as a number of other charities, entrepreneurs and startups.  James is a father to Hazel and Willow and husband to Holly and lives in Surrey, UK. He can be found on all good social media as @jamespoulter.

PolyAI creates enterprise voice assistants for some of the world’s leading brands. Automated voice experiences often cause frustration when they fail to account for how customers actually speak. In this talk from PolyAI Chief Operating Officer, Yan Zhang, learn how they are combining AI with design principles to create “trust-led” conversations to achieve customer engagement and business results.

Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang is the Chief Operating Officer of PolyAI. PolyAI creates enterprise voice assistants for industry-leading companies in hospitality, financial services, retail, and healthcare. PolyAI’s proprietary technologies enable natural, customer-led conversations that build trust in our clients’ brands.

The VOICE AI, Metaverse and Web3 Industry Reception

Join industry leaders from around the world with a shared interest to connect and unwind at CES. This special event will follow the programming session in the same room that is transformed into a reception space. Please RSVP here as space will be limited.

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Apply to speak, sponsor or grab a pass to attend VOICE Live From CES. Space is limited to the first 250 registrations so please act quickly.

Global Audience, Intimate Space

CES is the one place where your brand will reach a global audience instantly and with maximum impact. Sponsor a session, meal, reception or attendee gift and we'll make your message heard in the room and well beyond.

Covering The Entire Voice-First Frontier

Track topics including transportation, home automation, health, gaming and retail will be represented throughout the day.

Sponsors

Veritone
PolyAI
Willowtree
Uneeq

Presenting Brands

Walmart
Diageo

Sponsor VOICE @ CES

CES is the one place where your brand will reach a global audience instantly and with maximum impact. Sponsor a session, meal, reception or attendee gift and we'll make your message heard in the room and well beyond. 

Ready to join VOICE Live From CES®?

Here's how it works:

  1. Purchase your pass(es) to CES on the CES website
  2. Add the conference track "Conversational AI and the Customer Experience Revolution" during the registration process
  3. Tweet us to let us know you're coming!

 

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