Daniel Tapias

He has over 30 years experience in AI, particularly in research and product implementation, in training data preparation, and in using AI in real-world applications. He was associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and received his PhD in Telecommunication from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Expert in Speech and Language Technologies, where he researched for fifteen years. He was visiting scientist in AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) and in Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). He is co-author of a number of books, published over 50 papers, and has taught over 30 courses.

Previously, Dr. Tapias was Senior Strategy Consultant of Telefónica on Innovation, and created and managed the User Experience Area at Telefónica Movistar. He led and managed the Speech Recognition and NLP team in the Research and Development Center of Telefonica. He also founded, co-founded and managed other Artificial Intelligence Companies such as Agnitio and Sigma Artificial Intelligence in the US, Spain and the UK.