Voice technology has come such a long way and according to my interview with Edward Miller, the Founder and CEO of LumenVox, we still have so much opportunity ahead with speech software. I love his vision for speech and voice biometrics in our contact centers. What makes LumenVox unique in the industry? As a company, we are focused on delivering speech-enabling software that is easy to use, reliable, highly scalable, and future-proof. LumenVox is the only pure speech technology player that is truly agnostic in the market today.

Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting, globally recognized as a subject-matter expert on Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, sees the coming proliferation of IoT devices as expanding the threat landscape. His experience helps to put it in perspective. In government, he has received two Presidential appointments, by George W. Bush to a legislative position at the Department of Homeland Security, and by Ronald Reagan as an assistant to the director of Voice of America. In industry, Chuck has served in executive roles for General Dynamics, Xerox, Rapiscan Systems, and SRA. Today, Chuck is on the Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University's Graduate Applied Intelligence Program and the Graduate Cybersecurity Program, where he teaches courses on risk management, homeland security, and cybersecurity. He has an MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, a BA in Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law. He recently spent a few minutes with AI Trends Editor John P. Desmond to discuss the state of cybersecurity today.

I could spend the remainder of our time on this concept of job roles for artificial intelligence; it's a favorite topic for me. I am a big proponent of the discipline of data science being a team sport. We currently have our engineers and our analysts and our operators. And the roles and disciplines around data science and data engineers have been morphing out of an additional duty on analysts and engineers into its own sub sector, its own discipline. We're looking at a cadre of data professionals that serve almost as a logistics function to our operators who are doing the mission-level analysis.

Robert Joseph, Director, Industry Strategy for Industry 4.0, Stanley Black & Decker, is a data scientist working on implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) at Black & Decker. His career spans experience at AT&T Bell Laboratories, US West, Sony, Freshwater Software, and for school districts across the country. Also, as a university professor for 10 years, he has taught over 3,000 students in all levels of computer science and mathematics. He holds a Pd.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS and an MS from MIT in electrical engineering. He recently spent a few minutes to talk with AI Trends Editor John P. Desmond. AI Trends: Thank you, Robert, for talking to us today.

Beena Ammanath is the Founder and CEO of Humans For AI, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing diversity in tech leveraging AI. She is a recognized lead and industry expert who has driven pioneering technology changes in the use of AI, Data and Analytics for several market-leading companies. She has worked as a mentor to help women and minorities enter the new economy. She started Humans for AI in 2017 to help make AI understandable to the non-tech community. Beena is also an Industrial Board Member of Cal Poly University, where she brings the industry perspective to influence curriculum engineers.