Introduction
Speakers and jury
Introduction to platforms, tips, tricks and jury members
Peter Friese, Google
Peter is a Developer Advocate on the Google Assistant team, working with developers to build amazing conversational experiences. He loves his tea hot, with milk.
Sascha Wolter, Cognigy
is a professional developer and user experience enthusiast at Cognigy.AI. His true passion is to improve the human-computer interaction: He loves to build conversational and multimodal experiences with text (chatbots) and voice (aka Alexa).
Andrey Esaulov, BotTalk
is Co-Founder of BotTalk.de, the platform that allows you to create complex voice user interfaces with simple markup language.
Karen Kaushansky, Robot Futures Consulting GmbH
is an Experience Design Consultant working to define and design interactions 5-10 years before they are on most radars - speech recognition, conversational UIs, autonomous vehicles, mixed reality, and human-robot interactions. She started working on designing voice experiences in 1996 and is currently consulting for multiple companies pushing the boundaries in these areas. Past employers and clients include: Tellme/Microsoft, Nuance, Jawbone, Samsung, Zoox, and LEGO.
Paul-Louis Nech, Algolia
seeks digital solutions to human problems. R&D Engineer at Algolia since a couple years and author and maintainer of InstantSearch Android, the leading tool to build search interfaces on Android with Algolia. These days he is exploring the intersection of search engines and conversational interfaces.
Liz Myers, Tech Evangelist
is a former Alexa Evangelist and was the first person to build skills with developers in Germany. A veteran UX designer of 20 years, Liz is now focused on the intersection of Voice UI, Cloud, and Physical Computing. She will demo two of her most popular “Alexa meets IoT” projects during the conference.
Jan König, Jovo
is one of the founders of Jovo, the most popular open source development framework for Alexa Skills and Google Actions. Jovo was one of 8 voice companies to go through the voicecamp accelerator by betaworks in NYC.
Tilmann Böhme, Future of Voice GmbH
is an entrepreneur with the mission to build an outstanding user experience using cutting-edge technology. With Future of Voice he founded a company to help enterprises to leverage voice assistants in customer care, sales and marketing. He was awarded Alexa Champion by Amazon in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Nadine Rothkamp, Amazon
is Marketing Manager for Amazon Alexa. In this role, Nadine's focus is to educate and enable developers to successfully build third-party Alexa Skills. As B2B and developer marketing specialist, Nadine earned her professional experience in various positions throughout tech start-up and corporate world. When not spreading the love for voice as UI, she enjoys running, travelling the world, photography and green tea.
Adva Levin, Pretzel Labs
is a conversation designer and the founder of Pretzel Labs, an award-winning voice design studio that creates voice-first games. Her game Kids Court, an Alexa based judge that settles kids’ fights won the grand prize in Amazon’s kid skill challenge. Adva has 8+ years of experience in content and product roles for global start ups. She holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and Economics from Tel Aviv University, and an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from Columbia University.
