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Monday, March 12, Vendor Day (FREE attendance)
11:30-12:30 AM Lunch Buffet
12:30 -1:30 PM
Trends in mobile and contact center voice technology and applications (expand / collapse)
Mobility and voice technology drive business opportunities, Bill Scholz, President, NewSpeech, LLC, and President, Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS)

The "tipping point" for speech technology: Strategic impact and company opportunities, Bill Meisel, President, TMA Associates and Editor, Speech Strategy News
1:30 - 5 PM
Company Presentations
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Openstream
Sensory
Nuance
Angel
Command Speech
…More to be announced
1:30 - 5 PM Option for one-on-one with vendors
Tuesday, March 13
8:00 AM Welcome to the conference
8:05 AM Keynote: Expanding Voice as a Mainstream Mobile Interface through Language Understanding, Vlad Sejnoha, Chief Technology Officer, Nuance Communications
  Track 1 Track 2
9:00 AM
Network-based speech resources: Voice technology in the cloud

From IVR VUI to Smartphone VUI, Ahmed Bouzid, Senior Director, Product, Angel

Rich Communication Suite services as complement to voice CRM, José M. Recio, Co-Founder, Solaiemes

Speech technology creates new opportunities
Voice and Predictive Input Transforms the Digital Living Room, Gary Clayton, Chief Creative Officer, Nuance Communications,

Integrating speech technologies: Speech-to-speech translation and more, Hassan Sawaf, HLT Director and Chief Scientist, SAIC,

Mobile Outbound Speech Applications and Options, Dave Rich, CEO, LumenVox
10:00 AM
Can design be a science? Results of the AVIxD workshop on the use of data in speech application design (Panel)
Moderator: Susan Hura, Principal, SpeechUsability Participants: Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, Speech Solutions, Fluential; Jonathan Bloom, Senior VUI Designer, SpeechCycle
Speaker authentication and identification: Security and personalization

Mobile Payment, Mobile Physical access… Mobile authentication for everything!, Priit Salumaa, Development Partner, BIOMETRY

Top Multi-factor Voice Biometrics Strategies and Ramifications of the Cloud, Valene Skerpac, President, iBiometrics, Inc.

Voice Biometrics: Validating Identity via Voice, Ariel Freidenberg, Director, Voice Biometric Solutions, Nuance Communications, Inc.

10:50 AM Break
11:10 AM
Tools for creating multimodal customer service: Using all the capabilities of mobile devices
Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools, Deborah Dahl, Principal, Conversational Technologies

Talking and Walking: Adaptive Mobile Voice User Interfaces, Samrat Baul, Manager, VUI Design and Analytics, Voxify

Tools for creating multimodal customer service: Using all the capabilities of mobile devices, Nagesh Kharidi, Technical Director, Openstream
Speech and mobility
Siri: 6 Months Later, Ahmed Bouzid, Senior Director, Product, Angel

Take your favourite into the car - and use it safely while driving, Thomas Scheerbarth, Senior Expert R&D, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

Visual voicemail delivers an improved mobile experience, Alex Quilici, CEO, YouMail
12:00 AM Lunch
1:15 PM
Talking to your car: Speech technology in the automobile
Mixing Speech and Vision in the Connected Car, Tom Schalk, VP, Voice Technology, Agero

Automotive voice applications: Hands-free and intuitive, Brigitte Richardson, Global Lead, Voice Control Technology/Speech Systems, Ford

Connected Car Technology: Why Consumers and Content Need Voice, Brian Radloff, Director, World Wide Embedded Solutions Architect of the Mobile Speech Division, Nuance Communications
Contact center deployments: Problem-solving and results
Preempt. Perform. Predict: Ensuring a high-quality voice experience, Bob Hockman, Vice President of Product Management, Empirix

How To Leverage ALL Smartphone Capabilities for Enhanced Customer Service, Alan Pan, Vice President Product Management, SpeechCycle

The Forgotten Media. Why Capturing Conversations Improves Business Results, E. Kelly Fitzsimmons, Co-founder & CEO, HarQen Inc
2:15 PM
Hosted and managed contact center solutions
Outsourcing the Management of Advanced Speech Applications, Peter Voss, CEO, Smart Action Company, Terry Saeger, Senior VP and General Manager, VoltDelta

Managing the Mobile Customer Experience in the Contact Center, Terry Saeger, Senior VP and General Manager, VoltDelta
Innovative uses of speech technology
Understanding Caller Interactions to Deliver Better Customer Experiences with End-to-End Call Analytics, Laura Marino, Sr. Director, Product Management - Enterprise, Nuance Communications

Speech Recognition and Broadcasting
Lin Weaver, Producer , Capital Public Radio inc., (NPR)
3:05 PM Break
3:25 PM
Advanced speech technology options
More data or more knowledge? How to move speech recognition forward, Marie Meteer, Principal, MM Consulting

Breaking down the world’s language barriers with AT&T Spectra, Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, Technical Research, & Srinivas Bangalore, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs
Voice search, personal assistants, and their evolution
SingTel deF!ND: Localized and targeted mobile voice search deployment in Singapore, Adeline Tang, SingTel; Melvyn Hunt and Yoon Kim, Novauris , Novauris, Roberto Pieraccini, Director, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, CA,

From AUDREY to Siri: is speech recognition a solved problem?, Roberto Pieraccini, Director, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, CA, ,
4:10 PM
Keynote Panel: The smartphone revolution - Will there be convergence of mobile platforms and apps, or just more diversity? (expand / collapse)
Raj Tumulari, President & CEO, OpenStream
Michael Phillips, Co-Founder and CTO, Vlingo
Rob Chambers, Principal Group Program Manager, Speech @ Microsoft, Microsoft
Todd Mozer, CEO, Sensory
August Lopez, Vice President Information Design, Agero
5:30 PM Sessions close
Weds., March 14
8:00 AM Keynote: Put the Blame on VTR: When will Video and Audio Replace Text?, Marti Hearst, Professor, UC Berkeley
9:00 AM
Mobile speech interfaces: Alternatives and effective design
Maximizing the value of speech recognition on Mobile devices, Adithya Padala, President & CEO, UmeVoice

Taking speech mainstream: Bringing it to the mobile development community, Heath Ahrens, CEO, iSpeech

Multimodality: From Mobile to the Living Room of the Future, Michael Johnston, Researcher, AT&T Labs Research
Voice-based solutions

The Road to Voicemail-to-Text in Germany, Joachim Stegmann, Research & Innovation Director Future Communication, Deutsche Telekom AG

Flash-based HD Voice and Two Way Video Improves Collaboration and Speech Search, Valentine Matula, Director Multimedia Research, Avaya

Using smartphone-based voice biometrics to replace passwords, Travis True, Vice President Business Development, Voice Vault

10:00 AM
Considering mobility in contact center speech applications
Things To Consider When Adding a Voice ‘Contact Us’ Button To Your Mobile App, Prasanna Perera, Mobility Product Manager, Angel

Meeting Demands of Today's Mobile Customers, Scott Kolman, Senior Vice President of Marketing, SpeechCycle
Mobile personal assistants: Current status and goals
Building Portable Context-aware Multimodal Mobile-Assistants , Raj Tumuluri, President, Openstream

Personal Virtual Assistants: Art or Science?, Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, Technical research, AT&T Labs
10:50 AM Break
11:10 AM
Embedded speech solutions: Making it work on the device
Handsfree Mobile Voice Control, Todd Mozer, CEO, Sensory

Technical challenges in speech recognition in vehicles and in other noisy places, Gabi Ilan, CEO, Command Speech
Changing expectations for contact centers in a mobile world: Friendly automation
Mobile Means Cross-Channel: Speech in Customer Care, Phillip Hunter, User Experience Design, Microsoft

Transforming the Customer Conversation with Natural Language Technology, Dena Skrbina, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Enterprise Division, Nuance Communications
12:00 AM Lunch
1:15 PM
Platform and development options in enterprise applications

Automated caller experience tracking, Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, Speech Solutions, Fluential

Rising to the Multimodal Design Challenge, Mike Monegan, Vice President Applications, Voxify

Personalized customer self-services in a multichannel environment, Lupo Pape, CEO and Co-founder, SemanticEdge

Mobile apps: Creativity required
The demand and the challenges of speech offerings in emerging markets, Sara Basson, Worldwide Program Director - Services Innovation Lab, IBM and Sachin Gupta, IBM Research-India, Business Development Executive

Technology Inspires Creative; Creative Challenges Technology Ron Croen, Consultant, Founder and Former CEO, Nuance Communications

Voice Powered Web Services Data Mashups on All Platforms, John Alfano, Strategic Consultant, Pioneer ZYPR
2:15 PM
Text-to-speech synthesis: Options and tradeoffs

Text-to-speech: Personify your mobile, Paul Welham, CEO, CereProc

Quality in Text to Speech: Text without meaning is but the ruin of the speech, Antoine Kauffeisen, VP Marketing, Acapela

How far can we take the personal assistant model?
The Next Leaps in Personal Assistance: Context-Aware, Personalized, Proactive, Sunil Vemuri, Chief Product Officer, reQall

The Use of Virtual Speech Agents in Healthcare, Farzad Ehsani, President and CEO, Fluential
3:05 PM Break
3:25 PM
Natural language interaction

Delivering Smarter Multichannel Interactions by Understanding the Intent of the Caller, Kevin Chatow, Director, Product Management - Enterprise, Nuance Communications

Natural Language Interaction
Should intelligent agents listen and speak to us?, James A. Larson, Vice President, Larson Technical Services

Automated customer service: Making it work for customers and the company
Building an Effective Customer Feedback Program for Speech Applications, Peter Leppik, CEO, Vocalabs

Using Statistical Language Model Speech Recognition to Improve Call Automation, Peter Voss, CEO, Smart Action Company

Driving Usage and Self-Service Capabilities with the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Apps, Robert Gary, Vice President & General Manager, Mobile Care, Nuance Communications


4:25 PM
Making the most of mobile user interface options: Technical issues and solutions
Multimodal Behaviors in Mobile Local Search, Patrick Ehlen, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T

Mobile Voice standards, Daniel C. Burnett, Director of Standards, Voxeo

Things About Adding Speech to Smartphone Apps That You Were Afraid To Ask About, Larry Murphy, Senior Consulting Manager, Convergys
Patents: What's new?
Evolution of Patent Litigation in the Telecommunications Industry, Brent Bersin, Director, IPFC Corp.

The America Invents Act and How It Will Affect the Speech Industry, Ria Farrell Schalnat, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Attorney at Law
5:25 PM Sessions close

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