William Tunstall-PedoeIf you do not have the budget for his commercial rates he does a maximum of ten per year on a free or costs-only basis in exceptional circumstances. These situations are typically causes he cares about (e.g. encouraging entrepreneurship), particularly interesting or prestigious events or to help organisations or people he already has a strong relationship with.
Please note though that he gets several hundred such invitations per year so only has the bandwidth to do a small percentage.
Cognition X: Language and Intelligence.
(London) 12th September 2023
Founders Forum: Generative AI: Advancements, Breakthroughs, Trends, New Paradigms, Problems, and Applications
(UK) 15th June 2023
firstminute Investor Summit: Panel Discussion on Gen AI
(London) 13th June 2023
Sifted Interview: What the 'Father of Alexa' did next.
(Online) 10th May 2023
Capital One: Invest in Yourself Day Event with William Tunstall-Pedoe.
(Online) 29th October 2021
Global Business Blockchain Council. Annual meeting
(Davos) 22nd January 2019
How to change the world (with AI and startups). Howto: Academy.
(London) 6th December 2018
BAML Consumer Conference. Voice Ordering and Artificial Intelligence to change the way we shop.
(Paris) 28th November 2018
FashMash Pioneers: the future of voice beyond Amazon Alexa.
(London) 25th September 2018
One Story of British Engineering and Enterprise.
Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub Annual Showcase. Keynote speech.
(London) 31st May 2018
Cognition X: Let’s Chat about Chatbots. Keynote.
(London) 22nd February 2018
Pivoting to Success. Enterprise Tuesday. Cambridge University.
(Cambridge) 13th February 2018
Cognition X: The Impact of AI on the Customer Experience.
(London) 21st June 2017
BBC Blue Room Insight Talk: Will Our Children be Talking to Machines?
(London) 29th March 2017
Winton Labs demo day Keynote: William Tunstall-Pedoe.
(London) 9th February 2017
Entrepreneur First: An Evening with William Tunstall-Pedoe.
(London) 1st December 2016
Cambridge Angels: Investing in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence companies.
(Cambridge) 11th October 2016
Carnegie Mellon LTI Colloquium:
Answering any question, in any language, in one second or less.
(Pittsburgh) 17th April 2015
Enterprise Tuesday 2015: Make It Brilliant & They Will Come.
The Story of Evi. Cambridge University.
(Cambridge) 10th February 2015
Evi (An Amazon Company) Tech Talk:
Answering any question, in any language, in one second or less. Cambridge University.
(Cambridge) 27th October 2014
Seattle AVIOS. Speech Technology Meetup.
Talk by William Tunstall-Pedoe, Founder and Inventor of Evi.
(Seattle) 13th February 2014
Official Biography and Approved Photos
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Biography (Under 100 words):
William is an entrepreneur with a focus on AI. He is currently the founder and CEO of Unlikely AI.
He previously founded voice assistant startup Evi which was acquired by Amazon and was then a key member of the team that defined, built and launched Alexa.
William has been involved with many 100s of other startups as a mentor and angel investor. William also wrote the AI software that created the anagrams in the Da Vinci Code and once got lots of press for calculating that April 11th 1954 was the most boring day in history.
Biography (Under 200 words):
William is an entrepreneur with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. He founded the AI start-up Evi which built a voice assistant with the same name. After seven years, Evi was acquired by Amazon (in 2012) to create Alexa. After acquisition, William was a leader in the team that defined, built and launched Alexa. Evi is now a subsidiary of Amazon, employing many hundreds of scientists and engineers.
Following his success with Evi, William founded Unlikely AI 2019, where he currently serves as CEO. Unlikely AI is a deep tech start-up working on safe and effective general AI.
William has been involved with many hundreds of other start-ups as a mentor and angel investor. He is a full member of Cambridge Angels and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
William also coded the AI software that Dan Brown used to create the anagrams that appeared in the Da Vinci Code novel and movie. His name appears in the credits of all 80 million copies sold. He also once got lots of press for calculating that April 11th 1954 was the most boring day in history.
