Adam Cheyer

Adam is an expert in entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and scaling startups. With over ten years of experience founding and exiting companies, he was a co-founder of Siri, which Apple acquired, co-founded Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung, and Gameplanner.AI, which was Airbnb’s first acquisition since going public.

Through Siri and Bixby (Apple & Samsung’s voice assistants), Adam has created key technology in over 1.5 billion devices. A founding developer of Change.org, he’s helped unite 500M+ members to create social change across the globe. After his most recent acquisition, he leads all AI efforts at Airbnb as the VP of AI Experience. Adam is a 30+ year veteran in Artificial Intelligence, initially starting as a researcher at SRI International. With 39 patents and 60+ publications, his technical expertise and visionary approach to entrepreneurship are widely recognized across the globe. Before Siri, he co-founded Sentient Technologies, which applies distributed machine learning algorithms to discover novel solutions to complex problems.

Beyond his success in technology, Adam is also an award-winning magician. He’s performed on some of the most prestigious stages in magic, including the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and the hit TV show “Penn and Teller Fool Us.” As a bonus, Adam usually includes a magic trick as a way to entertain and delight during his keynotes.