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Adam Cheyer

AI Pioneer, Creator of Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s Bixby AI Assistants, Top Technology Speaker, Founder of 5 Successful Start-ups, VP of AI Experience at Airbnb, Award-Winning Magician

A pioneering visionary, inventor, thought leader, and technological innovator in the world of AI and computer human interfaces, Adam Cheyer is best known as a creator of Siri, later acquired by Apple. A serial entrepreneur, he has been a co-founder or founding member of five successful tech start-ups including Siri, Change.org, Viv Labs, Sentient, and GamePlanner.AI. Now transforming the AI experience at Airbnb, Adam holds 39 patents in the areas of AI, human computer interfaces, conversational assistants, machine learning, and more.

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Adam Cheyer Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
Please Inquire
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
California, USA

Why Adam Cheyer?

Even if AI isn’t an integral part of your present, it will soon transform your future. And no one prepares you for what’s coming next like Adam Cheyer. As an AI pioneer, visionary inventor, and successful serial AI entrepreneur, Adam has spent his meteoric 30-year career at the intersection of tech innovation and business/commercial success. His highly engaging talks cover the evolution, fast-changing capabilities, and seemingly limitless potential of AI, future trends in technology, and building successful start-ups. Renowned as a technological translator for business, Adam’s customized talks take audiences on a fascinating journey that informs, enlightens, and captures imaginations—providing an invaluable foundation for the technological revolution that will forever change our lives—and our world. An award-winning magician, Adam will often include a bit of contextually-relevant magic into his AI and technology presentations to surprise and delight the audience.

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About Keynote Speaker Adam Cheyer

Best known as a creator of Siri, Apple’s AI assistant, Adam Cheyer is a visionary pioneer in AI and computer human interfaces, an inventor holding 39 patents, and an engineering executive. He is one of the world’s most authoritative and engaging speakers on AI, the future of technology, and entrepreneurship/building successful startups, appearing before audiences from Cisco, Google, Dell, Visa, and other leading companies.

Adam’s more than 30-year career has been marked by both commercial success and his passion to use technology to make the world a better place. He has been a co-founder or founding member of five successful startups, four of which were acquired for their breakthrough AI technology. These include Siri, (sold to Apple where, working alongside Steve Jobs, he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, where as VP R&D, Adam led product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant, Bixby), Sentient (massively distributed machine learning sold to Cognizant), and Gameplanner.AI (sold to Airbnb as their first acquisition as a public company). He also co-founded Change. org, the world’s largest petition platform, empowering more than 500 million people in 197 countries to drive change in their communities.

Currently, Adam is VP of AI Experience at Airbnb, where he is working to use generative AI to radically transform the platform into an intuitive “travel concierge.” He is also an advisor to several companies including Project Voice Capital Partners, Otter.ai, Riva Health, Evolv Technology, Disruptel (acquired by Samba TV), Brilliant Labs, AI Sprouts, and Spatial Labs. Previously, Adam was VP Engineering at Verticalnet (enterprise software) and Dejima (mobile software). Adam also spent more than a decade at SRI International, where his most recent role was as Chief Architect of CALO/PAL, the US government’s largest-ever funded AI project.

More About Adam Cheyer

Adam Cheyer has authored more than 60 publications and served on numerous boards and committees. He holds 39 granted patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces, distributed computing, machine learning, conversational assistants, collective assistants, and more.

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In addition to his pioneering work in technology, Adam is an award-winning magician who sometimes incorporates magic and mentalism into his keynotes. He has performed in front of heads of state, stadium crowds, and some of the most recognized magicians in the world, including David Copperfield, David Blaine, and Shin Lim. Adam also appeared before millions on TV as a guest on Penn & Teller Fool Us.

He graduated with the highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” award from UCLA School of Engineering.

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“He was FANTASTIC! I had a mental note to reach out to you yesterday – he was VERY well received, very professional and very prepared – HIGH MARKS – some said it was the best keynote we have had to date – after 7 years!”

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“Adam presented to 700 of our top IT clients. They had a great experience as he explained the past present and future of AI. Adam was funny, engaging and even did an incredible magic trick that we still can’t figure out.”

Finnur Oddsson

CEO of Nýherji