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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Rod Rivera is a Professor of the Practice in AI at ITAM and a Developer Relations Engineer at Rasa. With over 15 years of experience across three continents, Rod specializes in Sovereign Agent Architectures — autonomous, always-on AI systems designed for operational leverage. He has led ML initiatives for global technology leaders including Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and Samsung. Rod focuses on educating the next generation of builders on how to build and operate persistent, credentialed, and auditable AI digital employees.
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Voice isn’t text with audio glued on. It’s a concurrent system with no “send” button, where silence is a signal and every word is irreversible. We’ll walk through various common failures and the architecture that fixes each.
These are problems you own, not model limits you wait out. We’ll show what the fixes look like and how Rasa makes them first-class with runnable examples and what’s changed for voice in 2026.
You’ll leave able to diagnose why your agent feels broken and how to fix it.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
Ignite what is an Ignite Talk?
Ignite is an innovative and fast-paced style used to deliver a concise presentation.
During an Ignite Talk, presenters discuss their research using 20 image-centric slides which automatically advance every 15 seconds.
The result is a fun and engaging five-minute presentation.
You can see all our speakers and full agenda here