Dr. David M. Horowitz is a speech scientist who has led a distinguished 40 year career in industry on chatbots as a C-Level Director, Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist. He has worked for fortune 500 companies to solo operations motivated by a single minded drive for innovation and technical excellence. Dr. Horowitz has worked with U.K. start-up companies helping companies transform their theoretical concepts into usable technology. His roles in industry began as a Lead Software Engineer responsible for several product ‘firsts’ in language, conversational personal assistants and music (sold the first speech and language app, VoiceRAD to Kurzweil AI). Dr. Horowitz was the Scientific & Technical Cooridinator of FASiL a 6.3 m Euro grant for chatbot development 2002-2004. Most recently he was the innovator and Technical Director of SpeechXRays, a 5.5 m Euro grant on speaker recognition (2015-2017) and is now focussed on integrating speaker identification with chatbots.