Brian Garr is a conversational AI speaker, author, and subject matter expert with over two decades of experience in developing, researching, selling, and evangelizing natural language technologies, including machine translation and speech recognition. He studied at The Smithsonian Institute and Washington and Lee University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater. He has held various leadership roles such as CEO at LinguaSys, Chief Operating Officer at Cognitive Code, and Chief Revenue Officer at GoVivace. He is currently a Senior Creative Technologist at Virgin Voyages and Chief Revenue Officer for Speech Recognition and Speech Verification company, GoVivace. Additionally, he has delivered speeches at various events like Digital Enterprise Show 2019 in Madrid, SpeechTek 2018 in Washington, D.C., and Contact Center World 2018 in Las Vegas. Garr has expertise in artificial intelligence, speech dialog, natural language technologies, and conversational artificial intelligence. He is interested in enhancing speech dialog with emotional intelligence and creating a digital strategy around artificial intelligence.