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Topic

Using Natural Language Understanding To Map The World

Abstract

Billions of pages, posts and comments on the web have been written about Places. Desti's journey to using all this data to create a searchable knowledge-base will be described.

Profile

Nadav is a serial entrepreneur who's been working on personal assistant, natural-language understanding and machine learning applications in travel, search and mapping for over 10 years. As Founder & CEO of WorldMate (acquired by Carlson Wagonlit) he built the first contextual personal travel assistant for business travelers. In 2011 he joined SRI International, birthplace of Siri and Nuance, as an entrepreneur-in-residence and created Desti, a start-up company that built an AI-driven travel planner that used conversational UI and semantic search to help consumers plan perfect vacations (Desti was acquired by Nokia Here). Nadav is a founder of Servo Labs, a conversational UI company, and an executive with German Autolabs who's building your AI assistant in the car.