AMIT DESAI is a product leader in Conversational AI for voice/multimodal assistants. He has deep experience in product strategy, management and UX design of conversational AI assistants across modalities and surfaces. Amit has built winning conversational AI products in different consumer verticals. He has made advances in conversational AI techniques for multi-turn dialog, multimodal interactions, optimized decision-making, and user education. Amit works with executive stakeholders to define product vision and strategy, and then leads product design and engineering teams towards winning end-user experiences.Amit brings strategic, analytical and creative expertise to the product development process. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science at MIT, and has a background in visual arts and creative writing.• Track record of pioneering and building conversational platforms and user experiences for multimodal AI assistants with millions of users on mobile and telephony products. Executive leadership in startups and larger organizations. • Expertise in product marketing, PR, marketing strategy, and marcom for AI assistant products.• Patent holder in VUI and speech recognition. Deep expertise in conversational AI, multimodal interaction design, VUI design, dialog management strategy, optimized system behavior (user cost-based optimization), prompt design, persona design, NLU, ASR, TTS, voice biometrics. Education: Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science at MIT.• W3 Gold and Telly awardee. Experience in creative direction, writing, scripting, illustration, storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, storytelling, persona, studio coaching, media production, public speaking, product marketing, product strategy, branding, PR.