Inside VOICE

In this episode, VOICE creator Pete Erickson and Podcast Host Teri Fisher of Voice in Canada talk about why they love voice technology and what to expect from Teri's sessions at the VOICE Summit this July.

Here's another episode of The Voices Behind VOICE series hosted by Keri Roberts. In these episodes, you'll get to hear from our attendees of the VOICE Summit. Each guest is either creating something within the voice space, looking for ways to use voice in their business or investing in companies within the voice space. Listen in for about 15 minutes as each person talks about how they got into technology, what they're creating or wanting to create within the voice space, why they're attending VOICE and who they're looking to connect with plus why voice is important.

This episode features Gary Mann, Managing Director of Jasfel Analytics, helping companies gain value from their data.

Did this person peak your interest? Reach out to them online and at the event and find ways you can help one another in the world of VOICE.

Today, Voice Summit Programming and Content Director, Janice Mandel, welcomes Shane Mac to the Inside VOICE Summit podcast. Shane co-founded Assist, a conversational solution platform for chatbots and voice applications, in 2015 with Giovanni Vatieri and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, who made headlines when he sold his product support company to Best Buy and become the first CTO to integrate and mine the data from messaging support provided by over 100,000 employees. Assist became known for deploying Facebook Messenger chatbots for leading brands, including its first customer, 1-800-flowers, whose CMO will take the main stage with Shane at this year’s VOICE Summit. Last March, Conversocial, a UK-based social media management and customer service software provider, acquired Assist and named Shane its Chief Automation Officer. In this conversation, you’ll learn what led Shane to his first major exit, why he says he was “overly passionate, completely ignorant, and way too confident,” how he’s grown to collect the right people, and hear his take on the convergence of diverse players that make today’s voice community so cool.

Here's another episode of The Voices Behind VOICE series hosted by Keri Roberts. In these episodes, you'll get to hear from our attendees of the VOICE Summit. 

Each guest is either creating something within the voice space, looking for ways to use voice in their business or investing in companies within the voice space. Listen in for about 15 minutes as each person talks about how they got into technology, what they're creating or wanting to create within the voice space, why they're attending VOICE and who they're looking to connect with plus, why voice is important.

This episode features John Goss and Mark Phillips, the Co-Founders and Partners of Simplispoken, where voice enables businesses and delights customers.

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In this episode of Inside Voice, Voice Summit programming and content director, Janice Mandel, speaks with Steve Keller, the Sonic Strategy Director for Pandora, the largest streaming music platform in the US. Prior to joining Pandora, Steve was the founder and CEO of iV, an audio consultancy based in Nashville that specialized in the strategy, content, research and management necessary for successful audio branding initiatives. What does someone with over 25 years of experience in the music industry and a BA in Psychology do when his heart says sonic expression and his head seeks out data? Like an alchemist, he blends science and art to explore how sound affects mood and behavior. When it all works, he says, it seems like magic. Here's just a preview of what you'll hear from Steve as he takes the main stage at VOICE Summit this July. Don't miss his panels though -- that's where the inside scoop on what Pandora's up to is bound to come up.

We have a new series on Inside VOICE called The Voices Behind VOICE hosted by Keri Roberts.

In these episodes, you'll get to hear from our attendees of the VOICE Summit. Each guest is either creating something within the voice space, looking for ways to use voice in their business or investing in companies within the voice space. 

Listen in for about 15 minutes as each person talks about how they got into technology, what they're creating or wanting to create within the voice space, why they're attending VOICE in 2019 and who they're looking to connect with and why voice is important.

This episode features Alex Eremia, the Founder of BingeWith, where great stories should be heard.

Did this person peak your interest? Reach out to them online and at the event and find ways you can help one another in the world of VOICE.

In this episode of Inside Voice, Voice Summit programming and content director, Janice Mandel, speaks with voice pioneer and author, Ann Thyme-Gobbel. Ann is currently the Voice Design Leader at Sound United and co-author of the new book: Voice-First Development: Designing developing, and deploying conversational interfaces. A Swedish native who fell in love with California, Ann put her PhD in Cognitive Science & Linguistics to work as a Voice Design practitioner in the emerging voice community that bonded at Nuance Communications in the early 2000s, and has remained connected throughout the years. Ann has been an invaluable member of the VOICE Summit board and served as one of 22 proposal reviewers . At VOICE, you'll find Ann discussing her new book on the author's panel, teaching a conversational design workshop called "What Users Really Want," and moderating the panel that she named: "Linguists Who Localize: How to succeed in multi-language design and deployment." In this conversation, you'll learn some tips of the trade that help business owners, designers, and developers understand what users really do want -- and will use.

In this episode we catch up with Maarten Lens-FitzGerald who has recently been appointed as global head of voice at development Nodes Agency based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In this discussion with a recorded live at the next web conference in Amsterdam, James and Maarten discuss what the black mirror future voice could look like, and the recent developments at this weeks Google I/O conference.

Dave Isbitski is Amazon Alexa's Chief Evangelist - so if he doesn't know what's going on with Alexa, who does? Dave is coming back to Newark this Summer for VOICE 19 as our keynote speaker and in this chat with Pete, he goes into some of the trends of what he sees coming this year to his keynote, as well as reflecting on some of the growth in the #VoiceFirst market compared to previous tech revolutions. 

This week we check back in with Pete Erikson, CEO and Founder of Modev, the team that is brining you VOICE Summit in Newark on July 22-26th and the London VOICE Meetup on May 16th.

In this episode we give you some updates on speakers and sponsors that will be coming to VOICE in NJ as well as some special info on upcoming events and opportunities for the community to get engaged.

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