Top 2020 Voice Conferences
In 2020, we look forward to supporting a growing community of voice practitioners & enthusiasts. We’re especially excited to see existing and newer conferences in this space and for this reason we’ve created a list of voice conferences happening this year!
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CES
🗓 January 7–10th, 2020
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada
▹ Being consumer tech focused, CES showcases more than 4,400 exhibiting companies, including manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery systems and more.
Project Voice
🗓 January 11–15th, 2020
🇺🇸 Chattanooga, Tennessee
▹ Known as the #1 event for voice tech and AI in America by bringing together 3,000+ executives, marketers, developers, strategists, media, analysts, VCs, and more. Sharing best practices, gathering intelligence on voice ecosystems, and networking across diverse sectors and industries.
Conversational Interaction Conference
🗓 February 10–11th, 2020
🇺🇸 San Jose, California
▹ Known for delivering exciting and useful insights — this conference covers the state of underlying NLU and speech recognition tech for commercial use, tools & services that help companies use conversational technology, best practices for the successful use of NLU technology and more.
Voice-Connected Business
🗓 February 25–26th, 2020
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon
▹ Focused on the business side of voice this event brings together Decision Makers and Leaders in IT, Digital Transformation, Marketing & Digital Strategy, Hardware & Software Development and more. While also covering a range of topics from Conversational AI, VUI, Marketing & Digital Strategy, Third-Party Apps & Services, Audio Branding, Speech Recognition & NLP and more
The Voice of the Car Summit
🗓 April 7–8th, 2020
🇺🇸 San Jose, California
▹ Focusing on the integration of vehicles with voice assistants and associated tech — this summit covers best practises, who’s leading this industry evolution, and how different companies approach this fascinating, complex frontier.
SpeechTEK
🗓 April 27–29th, 2020
🇺🇸 Washington, D.C.
▹ Known as The World’s Leading Speech Technology and AI Conference — This event brings together executives, engineers, developers, designers and users and adopters of speech technologies to learn, share, and push the industry forward. It’s a must-attend event for anyone who wants to learn about deploying speech technology for business applications.
The Chatbot Conference
🗓 April 28–29th, 2020
🇺🇸 New York City, New York
▹ This conference brings together top enterprises & brands using chatbot & AI as well as speakers from the top bot & AI startups. A range of topics are covered from conversational UI to AI & NLP Fundamentals to voice UX and more.
Google I/O
🗓 May 12–14th, 2020
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California
▹ Attracting thousands of developers and designers from around the world — This event is when Google Design makes a number of its biggest product announcements of the year. Last year’s conference topics ranged from Google Assistant, Gmail, Google News, Google Search, Android, Google Play, and Chrome OS, to Google’s video game-streaming platform, Stadia, and more!
Connected Customer Summit
🗓 May 18th, 2020
🏴 London, England
▹ Focused on the emergence of voice technology in the commercial world — This summit provides practical, take-home advice in the form of case studies, development stories and panel discussions. Attend to understand how your company can benefit from voice tech & gain the tools you need to turn your ideas into realities.
Conversation
🗓 May 28th, 2020
🇫🇷 Paris, France
▹ Focused on building the future of conversational experiences — This conference brings together pioneering professionals from all over the world. Past speakers include world-renowned experts from Facebook, TUI, AdBlock, IBM, Air France, Happy Socks, The Kooples and WeChat who have shared their experience and vision of the future of marketing and customer experience.
CogX
🗓 June 8–10th, 2020
🏴 London, England
▹ Focused on AI and Emerging Technology, this festival brings together over 150 exhibitors from startups, to huge enterprise vendors and everything in between. With diverse programming attendees can expect to hear from incredible speakers, learn of disruptive tech startups, discover thought-provoking displays and immersive experiences from major corporations and more.
VOICE Global
🗓 June 9th, 2020
⦿ Online Livestream
▹ A free 24-hour livestreamed conference with keynotes from industry leaders, talks from pioneering thinkers, practical workshops, insightful panels, and more. The event will cover 24 industries including healthcare, fintech, entertainment, and transportation — with topics ranging from software engineering, conversational design, UX and marketing.
Conversational User Interfaces
🗓 July 23–24th, 2020
🇪🇸 Bilbao, Spain
▹ CUI aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with specific interest in theory based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text based conversational user interfaces.
The Voice of Healthcare Summit
🗓 August 5–6th, 2020
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts
▹ Focused on the growing intersection between modern healthcare and voice-first technology — This summit brings together healthcare professionals, voice practitioners and more to discuss the evolution of this industry.
Nashville Voice Conference
🗓 August 7th, 2020
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee
▹ Focused on helping businesses become more efficient and effective with the knowledge, tools and resources to integrate Voice Applications into their Marketing and Operations toolkit. Did you know? — last year the conference donated all registration fees collected to a Nashville-based Non-Profit supporting over 25 kids as they fall in love with reading.
Conversational Conference
🗓 September 24th, 2020
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
▹ Focused on chat, messaging, voice and AI and chatbots — This conference helps organizations create a future-proof customer service, marketing and sales strategy. Attendees can expect inspiring keynotes, workshops and demos.
VOICE Summit
🗓 October 5–8th, 2020
🇺🇸 Washington, D.C.
▹ Known as the meeting place for those passionate about developing, designing and marketing voice, chat and intelligent agents — This summit brings together the best and brightest in the Voice-first industry to share their methods for success, lessons learned, and predictions for where the industry is headed. Attendees can expect to discover startups and chat with global companies including Amazon Alexa, Samsung, Audible, Prudential and Sonos.
All About Voice
🗓 November 20th, 2020
🇩🇪 Munich, Germany
▹ Known as Europe’s largest Voice Assistant conference — This event brings together executives, product & project managers, developers and marketing professionals involved with smart speakers & voice technology. It offers deep insights and best practices from voice experts and features speakers from large corporations including Amazon and Google.
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