Primary Job Title Co-Founder, Partner and CEO Primary Organization Sigma AI
Location Miami, Florida, United States Regions Greater Miami Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Serial AI entrepreneur and researcher with over 30 years of experience in the field, Daniel Tapias believes that AI is only worthwhile when it’s helping people. With a focus on speech and language technologies, he applied his expertise from years of research to some of the first real-world applications of speech recognition in telephone services in
the early 1990s. Daniel lead major AI initiatives as Head of UX at Telefónica Movistar and Innovation Strategy Consultant at Telefónica before breaking out as a founder, with ventures including Agnitio, Sigma.AI, and Sigma Cognition.
Daniel holds a PH.D. in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is co-author of three books on speech and language technologies, published over 50 papers, and taught more than 30 courses as an adjunct professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
