Alex Spinelli (@liveperson) is an AI expert, the former head of Alexa OS for Amazon and current CTO of LivePerson and Maven, an AI-powered conversational commerce company, helping brands like Delta, HSBC, and Home Depot leverage AI bots
Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup â one of the worldâs largest marketing organizations with 24,000 employees across more than 100 countries â and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling. At Thomson Reuters, he oversaw product and technology for news and media, including real-time, AI-driven news curation for financial professionals. He has also held executive technology leadership positions at TheStreet.com and MTV Networks as CTO of Comedy Central.
In todayâs episode we discuss:
- How Alex and his team built Alexa into a juggernaut
- What the future of voice computing holds
- Why Alex is more worried about Facebook and Google than Amazon
- What automation will do to jobs and the economy
- How Amazon wins in the markets they attack and why Alex says they arenât a monopoly
- The issue with IoT and huge security risks
- Why educating consumers/citizens is the MOST important
- Is privacy dead and what do we do about it?
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why Alex is worried about privacy and data transparency
- Thoughts on corporate responsibility
- When will we have a post-money world
- Whatâs the status of autonomous vehicles in 10 years