Alexa & Friends

Rob Stanbridge, Vocala & VoiceLab

Join host Jeff Blankenburg in his conversation with Rob Stanbridge as they discuss many of the successful games that have come out of his agency, Vocala, as well as his history evaluating comedians, and what the future of voice analytics will be!

Shilp Agarwal, Blutag

Join host Jeff Blankenburg in his discussion with Shilp Agarwal as they discuss the future of voice commerce and how his company, Blutag, looks to the future of selling products using this technology.

João Paulo Alquéres, Iara Digital

Join host Jeff Blankenburg as he chats withJoão Paulo Alquéresabout his beginnings as a voice developer, his path to creating his agencyIara Digital, and what it means to be recognized as an Alexa Champion.

Angel Calvo, Alexa Smart Home

Join host Jeff Blankenburg for an interview with Angel Calvo, Director of Software Development for Alexa Smart Home.  They discuss the future of devices in our homes, the ways that people use these devices, and some of the challenges that smart home devices present.

Pradeep Natarajan, Amazon Science

Pradeep Natarajan, Amazon principal applied scientist, discusses his work with Alexa, and the significance machine learning has had in the field computer vision and deep neural networks. He also covers his career, and his participation in the ICCV 2021 workshop "Instance-level recognition", which focused on artworks, landmarks, and products.