Announcing the Cerebral Valley Voice Summit, Featuring Sierra's Bret Taylor, Abridge's Shiv Rao & More Top Founders
The summit will be on May 6 in San Francisco. Applications are now open.
The technology is finally here. Humans can talk to machines without the halting speech and constant mix-ups that defined past approaches.
That capability leap has spawned new voice infrastructure providers and all sorts of compelling voice applications.
The rise of voice as a natural interface with machines feels like a true paradigm shift nested in the broader AI awakening that we’ve been tracking with our twice-annual Cerebral Valley AI Summits.
People started nudging us to think about a dedicated event focused on what’s happening in voice.
So we’re doing just that.
On Wednesday, May 6, in San Francisco we will be hosting a one-day, invite-only event dedicated to voice as a computer interface.
We’re calling it the Cerebral Valley Voice Summit.
The event will have the same high-caliber founders, investors, AI leaders, and members of the media you’ve come to expect from our summits. We’ll just be deeply focused on voice as a computing interface and an unlock for all sorts of new ideas.
Voice is a horizontal technology. It doesn’t belong to any single industry or use case. Voice is how consumers will interact with their wearable devices. It’s how patients will navigate their healthcare. It’s how gamers play alongside their friends and how they will interact with non-player characters in the future. It’s how customer service reaches thousands more callers.
We’ve already locked in a stacked speaker lineup, including:
Bret Taylor, co-founder of Sierra and Chairman of the OpenAI board
Jake Saper, General Partner at Emergence Capital
Dylan Fox, founder and CEO of AssemblyAI
Shiv Rao, founder and CEO of Abridge
Anastasis Germanidis, founder and co-CEO of Runway
More speakers will be announced over the next few weeks.
I host the Cerebral Valley AI Summit with my good friends Max Child and James Wilsterman. Max and James are the founders of Weekend, which has been building voice-native products since before it was fashionable. They’ve hosted all of our CVAI summits with me — this one will just be especially in their wheelhouse.
We encourage you to apply to attend the summit. We’re eager to have ambitious AI startup founders, general partners at top venture capital firms, members of the media, and other AI insiders in the room. Raise your hand and let us know you want to be there.
Regular tickets are $699. Founder tickets are $99. Sales and Professional Services tickets are $999. Media passes are free. Startup employees and select other junior roles will only be offered half-day admission for $399. To learn more about pricing, click here.
Special thanks to our first sponsor, Felicis, for helping us bring together the premier leaders in AI voice.
More speaker and sponsor announcements coming soon.
To see Newcomer’s full event calendar, click here.
To reach out with questions or to sponsor the event, email newcomer@newcomer.co.
To learn more about our past Cerebral Valley AI Summits, go to cerebralvalley.com. We’ll host our mid-year summit in London and then will be back in San Francisco with our anchor event in November.