Professor Wahlster provides an invaluable overview of research in European universities and company laboratories in the areas of speech, multimodal, and multilingual technologies, looking forward to technologies that will be available in the market place within two years. His keynote will help attendees develop plans for the types of applications they will be able to build and deploy in the future.

Professor Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany). In addition, he is the Head of the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab at DFKI. He has published more than 170 technical papers and 8 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces.