Adam Cheyer

Not only is Adam Cheyer an Entrepreneur, AI expert and top technology speaker but he's also an award-winning magician who has performed on TV and for presidents. Impressively Adam is the co-founder of Siri used by Apple and Viv which became the voice assistant Bixby on Samsung phones, TVs, watches, and more. 

Adam has an exceptional track record of innovation in business and has provided huge ideas to the market which on a whole hs impacted hundreds of millions of people. Co-founder of AI company, Viv Labs, which was later acquired by Samsung in 2016, Adam now resides as Vice President of R&D at Samsung.

A career highlight was his role within Apple where he co-founded and VP Engineered Siri which Apple acquired in 2010 to build their personal assistant. This feature was distributed on more than 1.5 billion devices. Once joining Apple he became Director of Engineering in the iPhone/iOS group which saw him lead all AI aspects of Siri assistant. 

Adam holds huge importance within the technology industry, spending more than a decade at SRI International as Chief Architect of CALO. This was the largest government-funded AI project which the aim to create an intelligent assistant that can learn and self improve in the wild. Former positions include VP engineer at software business, Verticalnet, and then mobile software business, Dejima. 

Adam has also used his abilities to create positive social change for over 300 million members with Change.org, a premier social network to which Adam is the founder and advisor of. He also co-founded Sentiment Technologies which was put in place to discover novel solutions to complex problems using distributed machine learning algorithms. 

A versatile individual, Adam is a member of the prestigious International Brotherhood of Magicians, Magic Castle in Los Angeles and the Academy of Magical Arts. Performing on stages for thousands and on TV in front of millions on the likes of Penn and Teller Fool Us show. Adam has wowed heads of state with the mentalism and close up magic and fooled some of the top names in business. 

The author to more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and 25 issued patents Adam has impressively received his bachelor’s degree with highest honours from Brandeis University as well as his master's degree with an outstanding masters student award from UCLA. 

Conquering the technology world and bringing such important ideas to the markets is what makes Adam such an exceptional speaker with unique perceptions and experiences. His expert knowledge exceeds many as he unpicks the future of AI and business and how he founded Siri.