Nicolle Merrill works at the intersection of business, AI, and design. At Intuit Nicolle works across product, design, engineering, and data science teams to build Intuit Assist, a new generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant that will provide personalized, intelligent recommendations to help consumer and small business customers make smart financial decisions. Over the past year, Nicolle has built generative AI products, led efforts to upskill design teams for generative AI, and taught prompt engineering across Intuit.

Julie Wall is a Professor of AI and Advanced Computing at the University of West London. She is a member of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and serves as an expert in the field of AI. Her research focuses on designing intelligent systems to process and model temporal data, with a particular emphasis on speech and language applications

Yoav Barel is the Founder and CEO of Chatbot Summit and a Partner at Sunrize Research. He is a seasoned tech executive with senior positions at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and LivePerson, where he pioneered customer experience innovations. Yoav believes that conversational experiences powered by Generative AI (Chatbots) will dominate how we interact with technology and businesses. He also advises startups and provides research services to corporations and investors.

Maria is a Greek-expat experiencing the London life… and weather! With a Data Science degree and a lot of curiosity about how coding and data can unlock new ways of solving problems, her journey to the data world started. Maria has worked as a Data Scientist and an ML engineer for the past 5 years, where she experienced how data actually challenges and transforms the way we think and operate.

Henry leads Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer Advisory Team. His expertise in low-code conversational AI platforms is unparalleled, enabling businesses to quickly develop intelligent bots using generative AI. Follow Henry on LinkedIn for the latest insights on Microsoft’s conversational and generative AI announcements, and transformative stories about low-code solutions.

With over 18 years of experience in IT working for companies both small and enterprise size, I`ve spent the last 3 years as the lead enterprise architect for KATE - ČSOB`s virtual assistant. In this role I was responsible for formulating the product vision and making sure that both the technologies and the culture of our company is at the right level to allow us to deliver a data driven virtual assistant.

As a CX Advocate and seasoned Marketer, Aura is at the forefront of advancing Conversational Automation in her role as a CX Automations Specialist at On. She brings over a decade of global digital expertise, and has dedicated over 5 years to the Conversational AI industry, with a focus on elevating customer-brand interactions through the application of AI technologies.

Passionate about creating meaningful conversations, Aura is highly engaged in understanding UX and cross-cultural consumer behavior, reflecting her dedication to fostering impactful and innovative solutions.

Clara is a dynamic professional with a robust background in customer service, driving global transformative solutions for customer service teams. Her efforts are dedicated to understanding the unique needs of customer service teams from an automation perspective across the diverse landscapes of EMEA, NA, and APAC regions, shaping the automation strategy alongside CX.

Thomas Neumann is passionate about using new technologies to enhance customer experiences, focusing on digital channels to generate the "wow" effect. A driving force behind the global chatbot and voice assistant solutions, Thomas is fascinated by innovations in the field, recognizing their potential to boost NPS and customer satisfaction. Drawing from over 15 years of experience in the mobile industry, Thomas combines his international experience, diverse roles, and strong interpersonal skills to navigate various business circles and tackle the transition from the app world to the conversational world.

Juan Martin Maglione is a ECT Project Lead in the Madrid office of The Boston Consulting Group. Prior to joining the firm, Juan Martin was a Product Transformation Manager at Santander Group. His four-year tenure at Santander included building the Global Cognitive Conversational Solutions Programme, becoming the first cloud artificial intelligence project in the group. Previously, Juan Martin created a startup in Amsterdam, focused in implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions.