Adam Cheyer

Adam Cheyer is currently VP or AI Experience at Airbnb, coming through the acquisition of GamePlanner.ai, where Adam was co-founder and CEO. Previously, Adam was co-founder and VP Engineering at Viv Labs, a company that simplifies the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything. Viv Labs was acquired by Samsung in 2016. Previously, Adam was co-founder and vice president of engineering of Siri Inc., and, after Apple acquired the company, a director of engineering in Apple’s iOS group. Adam was also a a member of the founding team at Change.org, an international community of more than 500 million members who fight for what’s right locally, nationally, and globally. Adam also co-founded Sentient Technologies (formerly Genetic Finance), which distributes machine learning algorithms across a massive distributed cluster to discover novel solutions to complex problems. As a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at SRI International, Adam authored more than 60 publications and 39 patents. He was Chief Architect of CALO, the largest AI project in US history. Adam graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” from UCLA’s School of Engineering.