The Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) will host an in-person meeting at a NEW LOCATION on Wednesday, August 12th, at 6:30 pm MT on “AI Voice Technology.”
Please note the new location below for our August and September meetings. We expect to return to our usual CU Boulder location in October!
Voice is rapidly becoming one of the primary ways we'll interact with AI. Whether it's your phone, your car, customer service, or workplace tools, voice interfaces are becoming more capable, more natural, and more common. But what does it take to build voice AI that people actually want to use?
This month, we'll explore three real-world voice AI applications spanning patent law, education, and career development. Along the way, we'll discuss the practical challenges of building conversational AI, including latency, cost, system architecture, user experience, and evaluating AI agents.
Three very different applications. One common thread: designing voice AI for the real world.
You'll leave with a better understanding of where voice AI is headed, how production systems are built today, and practical insights you can apply as voice becomes an increasingly common interface for AI.
A special thank you to 5-POINT LIFE Center Innovation Campus for generously providing our meeting space. Full details and link below!
The 5-POINT LIFE Center Innovation Campus is purpose-built for the next generation of AI, high-performance computing, and advanced technology companies.
We need a pizza sponsor! Please email dan@rmaiig.org with "Pizza Hero" in the subject line.
AI Voice Technology
NEW LOCATION: 5-POINT LIFE Center Innovation Campus
1025 Eldorado Blvd., Broomfield, CO 80021
Wednesday, August 12th
6:30 - 8:30 PM
5:30 PM Free pizza (if we find a pizza sponsor!)
Parking: onsite and free
Our first speaker, Christine LaBerge, is Head of Innovation and Engineering at Landfall IP, the only AI-native patent law firm. Rather than bolting AI onto a traditional legal practice, Landfall was built around AI from the ground up, developing its own tools in-house. Christine leads that effort, turning the judgment of experienced patent practitioners into software that inventors can actually use.
Christine will showcase the Discovery Agent, a voice-powered AI system that interviews inventors the way an experienced patent practitioner would, understanding technical conversation in real time and asking intelligent follow-up questions to surface details that would otherwise be missed. Available in English and Spanish, it lets inventors describe their ideas naturally, in their preferred language. The interview then feeds a prior art search that returns a free patentability report to the inventor, taking them from a spoken idea to a written assessment of how their invention stands against existing art.
Our second speaker, Eli Wood, will present Teaching Partner, a voice-based AI platform deployed in dozens of school districts across the southern United States. Built on more than 40 years of education research, the platform helps teachers and school leaders engage in more effective, evidence-based collaboration.
Eli leads Black Flag Design, developing AI solutions for the National Center on Education and the Economy and other industries. He also serves as a Principal Facilitator with Voltage Control, leading innovation workshops for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and has led technology and design projects for organizations including Mastercard, Cisco, Credit Suisse, CBRE, and LAX.
Our third speaker, Pam Portman, is Head of Product & Partner at Destiny Studios, where she helps organizations build AI-powered products using large language models and emerging AI technologies.
Pam will share practical lessons from building a multimodal, agentic AI voice career coach for U.S. workers without four-year degrees. She'll discuss the product decisions behind deploying voice AI in the real world, including tradeoffs around cost, latency, user experience, system architecture, and evaluating conversational AI agents.
A seasoned product leader with more than 15 years of experience, Pam has led AI and product strategy across education technology, career marketplaces, and other industries. She has built and mentored product teams around the world and is passionate about creating AI-powered products that deliver meaningful customer value.
Venue Sponsor: The 5-POINT LIFE Center Innovation Campus
Beyond flexible offices, conference rooms, and collaborative workspaces, the campus offers infrastructure that is difficult to find elsewhere, including secure on-site data center space, private colocation environments, AI and high-performance computing deployments, future-ready quantum computing space, and direct access to dark fiber connectivity.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, startup, researcher, or established technology company looking for a secure, scalable home for your team or computing infrastructure, the campus is designed to help organizations innovate and grow.
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