Speaking Highlights
New Behavior for a New Reality: What Does the Future of AI Look Like? || Mobile World Congress, 2023 Keynote
Artificial Intelligence—All Industry Integration || CES, 2020
How to deprogram homicidal sex robots || TEDx San Francisco, 2019
Chatting with Machines: Strange Things 60 billion Bot Logs say about Human Nature || O’Reilly Strata Big Data Keynote, 2019
On Bots and Bias: When What Machines Learn is Wrong || SXSW, 2019
Consumers and Natural Language Interfaces || Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, 2018
Radiolab Presents: Robert or Robots? || Radiolab live @ The Greene Space at WNYC, 2018
Chatbots and the Future of Customer Engagement || Mobile World Congress Keynote, 2017
Ready Or Not, The Bots Have Risen! || SXSW, 2017
Top 10 AI Battle Scars and How to Avoid Them || VentureBeat Transform, 2017
Chatbots and AI Fireside with Phil Libin and Lauren Kunze, moderated by Loïc Le Meur || Singularity University Global Summit, 2016
How to deprogram homicidal sex robots (TED, 2019)
Strange Things 60 billion Bot Logs say about Human Nature (O’Reilly, 2019)
Speaker Request
You may use this contact form if you’re interested in having me speak at your event (thank you!). Please note: due to finite bandwidth, I tend to limit keynotes to 1-2 per year and major conferences only, and remote panels or firesides to one per month. I love developer-centric events and am happy to drop by local (SF Bay) meetups.
My company does not sponsor events, nor do we cover speaker travel expenses.
Podcasts & Television
AI and Virtual Characters in the Metaverse with Lauren and Kuki || The Simulated Universe with Riz Virk, 2021
Metaverse Marketing Podcast (Series) || Adweek with Cathy Hackl, 2021
Lauren Kunze, entrepreneur and technologist. Kuki, AI chatbot || Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People Podcast, 2021
Lauren Kunze CEO of Pandorabots on Chatbots and Virtual Humans || The Voicebot Podcast, 2021
TheFeed: Acoustic Sheep; Pandorabots; & Gadget Match || The Feed with Amber Mac & Michael B, 2020
The Future of AI Conversations with Lauren Kunze of Pandorabots || VR/AR Association Podcast, 2020
Speaking Frankly: Dating Apps (Documentary Film) || CBS News Originals, 2019
More or Less Human || Radiolab, 2018
The Bot Podcast - Lauren Kunze, CEO of Pandorabots || The Bot Podcast, 2018
Bot Or Not || Mozilla IRL Podcast, 2018
Lauren Kunze and The Future of Chatbots || Pensive, 2016
Speaking Archives
A mostly complete/chronological list to keep track of past panels, developer meetups, firesides, and keynotes
Hype vs. Fright: Managing Consumer Perceptions and AI Experiences || Reuters MOMENTUM AI Summit, 2023 Panel
The Next Industrial Revolution: Future Use Cases for Generative AI || Reuters MOMENTUM AI Summit, 2023 Panel
New Behavior for a New Reality: What Does the Future of AI Look Like? || Mobile World Congress, 2023 Keynote
AI-powered Avatars: from today to 2032 || USC Entertainment Technology Center, 2022
Tomorrowing your Metaverse: How the Bot Economy Changes Everything || Future Congress @ BMW World, 2022
Synthetic Style: How the Metaverse and synthetic media are transforming fashion || Synthetic Futures, 2022
Digital Fashion: Modeling in the Metaverse || Realtime Conference, 2021
Building Embodied AI for the Metaverse || Enter the Metaverse, 2021
Digital Humans: How AI-Powered Humans Can Transform Our Daily Interactions || Agora RTE2021
The Future of Conversational AI & XR In the Metaverse || Live on Clubhouse, 2021
AI and the Future of Influencers || VidCon Now Asia, 2020
Artificial Intelligence—All Industry Integration || CES, 2020
Making Room for All of Us: Redefining D&I in the Workplace || Equality Lounge @ Dreamforce, 2019
Chatbots: From Novelty to Mainstream || Scaletech, 2019
How to deprogram homicidal sex robots || TEDx San Francisco, 2019
Product Management for Assistants Panel Discussion || Rasa Developer Summit, 2019
Conversational Computing: the Future of Customer Engagement || Norway Summit, 2019
Technology Showcase Award General Session Main Stage || digitalNow Executive Summit, 2019
Building Enterprise-Grade Chatbots || AI and Big Data Expo London, 2019
Chatting with Machines: Strange Things 60 billion Bot Logs say about Human Nature || O’Reilly Strata Big Data Keynote, 2019
On Bots and Bias: When What Machines Learn is Wrong || SXSW, 2019
Steps to Build, Optimize, and Scale Enterprise Grade Intelligent Agents || Business of Bots, 2019
Ecosystem Panel || The Chatbot Conference, 2018
Failing the Turing Test || IEEE MetroCon, 2018
Mastering Deployment with Trulia, Intel, Dell, and Pandorabots || VentureBeat AI Summit, 2018
Consumers and Natural Language Interfaces || Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, 2018
Radiolab Presents: Robert or Robots? || Radiolab live @ The Greene Space at WNYC, 2018
VUI Strategy and Design || London Chatbots Meetup, 2018
AMA: Fundraising for your AI Startup || Startupfest Montreal, 2018
Conversational Commerce Panel || Startupfest Montreal, 2018
Future of Chatbots Panel || CogX 2018
Chatbot Industry State of the Union Fireside Chat || Monage, 2018
AWS .BOT Launch Panel || AWS Loft, 2018
Enterprise Chatbot ROI: Monetization Strategies || Dashbot Superbot, 2018
AI Reality Check Panel || The Female Quotient at SXSW, 2018
Sentry Scouts Monthly Meetup #6: Bots || GitHub HQ, 2018
Future of Chatbots with Facebook, IBM Watson, and Pandorabots || French Tech Hub, 2017
Chatbots and the Future of Customer Engagement || Mobile World Congress Keynote, 2017
Ready Or Not, The Bots Have Risen! || SXSW, 2017
Customer Engagement Roundtable with Pandorabots, IBM & Microsoft || VentureBeat AI Summit, 2017
Fireside with Coca-Cola and Pandorabots: Coca-Cola reveals AI-powered vending machine app || VentureBeat MobileBeat, 2017
Deep dive into ROI: How the retail industry embraces bots and AI || VentureBeat MobileBeat, 2017
Top 10 AI Battle Scars and How to Avoid Them || VentureBeat MobileBeat, 2017
IEN Enterprise Chatbots & Virtual Agents with Nationwide and AirBnB || IEN, 2017
Monetization Strategies Panel with Ebay and Fandango || Dashbot Superbot, 2017
Chatbots & Customer Engagement: History, Future, Reality || Monage, 2017
“Brand Bots” @ Botness NYC with Slack, Google, IBM, and Facebook || Microsoft Research, 2016
Leade.rs of Chatbots Fireside Chat with Ellen Huet (Bloomberg) || Linkedin HQ, 2016
Chatbots and AI Fireside with Phil Libin and Lauren Kunze, moderated by Loïc Le Meur || Singularity University Global Summit, 2016
Expedia, Booking.com, Chatfuel, & Pandorabots debate the future of smart bot design || MobileBeat, 2016
The Future of Chatbots || Leade.rs Paris, 2016