Jeff Kunins

Jeff is a respected industry leader in the fields of voice application networks and VoiceXML technology. He is a frequently invited speaker at leading trade conferences, and is often quoted in press articles focusing on voice technology. Jeff regularly contributes articles to publications including VoiceXML Review and WirelessDevNet.com, and is currently co-authoring one of the first books on VoiceXML development. Upon joining Tellme in early 2000, Jeff co-conceived, built, and managed the debut of Tellme Studio. Tellme Studio is the world's first and most popular VoiceXML resource suite that now supports a community of over 10,000 developers and 1,000 publicly deployed appliations. Currently, Jeff's team helps define and articulate Tellme's strategic direction for meeting the needs of Enterprise customers, and is responsible for all technical marketing, sales tools, and enterprise pricing structure. Previously during a four year tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of platform and consumer efforts including Microsoft Passport, Microsoft SILK advanced Web server technology, and Microsoft Cinemania. He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies for distributed Web authentication and key management, and helped drive Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail and Firefly Networks. Outside of work, Jeff is a critically acclaimed composer and sound designer for live theatre..

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Pilar Manchón

Pilar Manchón is the senior computational linguist at NetByTel, Inc. She studied English Philology at the University of Seville, Spain and specialized in Translation and Interpretation in Ghent, Belgium. Sponsored by The British Council and La Caixa, she received her Master of Science degree in Cognitive Science and Natural Language, with a focus on Speech from Edinburgh University in Scotland. The Fulbright Commission then sponsored her research at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar, and at the same time as an International Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Department, Spoken Dialog Systems Group, SRI International.

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Rob Marchand

Rob Marchand is Director of Products and Services Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999, and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com), and new products and services development. Rob is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee, and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the VoiceXML Forum.

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Dr. George White

Dr. George White is chief scientist at NetByTel. His primary interests are in spoken language processing (especially automatic speech recognition), the psychology of human interfaces, interfaces to telecommunications networks and organizational behavior. Previously he was Director of Magic Labs and Director of Speech Technology at General Magic, Inc. While there he led design of the Voice User Interface for General Magic's virtual assistant telephony services. Mr. White studied computer science at Stanford University. After leaving Stanford in 1970, he joined the Xerox PARC Research Center. He subsequently worked with Apple Computer where he helped create and then managed the Apple-ISS Research Center in Singapore. After that he was Director of the Industrial Affiliates Program of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and was founder and CEO of NETalk, Inc., which was acquired by General Magic.

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