Amit Desai

Amit Desai is a veteran innovator in user interfaces for wireless, phone, and speech recognition products. An accomplished software entrepreneur and visionary, he has successfully launched three companies whose solutions are in wide public use, and employed by Fortune 2000 companies in retail, travel, healthcare, and other industries. Leveraging his expertise in user interface and speech recognition technology, Desai continues to design and develop innovations that bridge the gap between the online and mobile worlds through voice-activated location-based services. Long Bio to be Placed On Speaker Profile Page: (no word limit within reason - guide 250 words) (you may opt to simply keep it the same as the Short Bio if you wish) Amit Desai is a veteran innovator in user interfaces for wireless, phone, and speech recognition products. An accomplished software entrepreneur and visionary, he has successfully launched three companies whose solutions are in wide public use, and employed by Fortune 2000 companies in retail, travel, healthcare, and other industries. Leveraging his expertise in user interface and speech recognition technology, Desai continues to design and develop innovations that bridge the gap between the online and mobile worlds through voice-activated location-based services. Currently, Desai is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Dial Directions, the first company to provide free voice-activated location-based services to all cell phones. The Dial Directions platform blends groundbreaking voice interface, navigation, and speech recognition into a simple cell phone call that has met enthusiastic consumer adoption. By just calling DIR-ECT-IONS (347-328-4667), any cell phone user can instantly ask for driving directions to any destination address, intersection, or store location. Desai leads overall strategy for Dial Direction's technology platform, which provides first-of-its-kind location-based services (directions, locations, reservations, invitations) to the consumer public and industry partners. Previously, Desai co-founded and led product strategy at Voxify, a successful voice-activated products provider for Fortune 1000 contact centers worldwide. Voxify's product team was responsible for designing and developing innovative, award-winning contact center applications currently in public use by leading international airlines, hotels and retailers. Before Voxify, Desai co-founded Anubis, a CRM software provider that created an award-winning platform used by more than 40 multinational companies, prior to the company's acquisition. Desai holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MIT.