The Sound of Intelligent AI – Palo Alto Happy Hour

From real-time multilingual voice agents that translate and dub with perfect cultural accuracy to emotionally intelligent audio systems that detect tone, intent, and even unspoken context, the frontier of AI is expanding into the auditory world. But building speech and audio AI is not just a modeling challenge. It requires massive advances in high-quality audio data, multimodal fusion, on-device inference, and real-world evaluation at scale. Join Centific for an evening exploring the emerging stack powering the next generation of voice and audio intelligence. Dr Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland - College Park) and contributor to Nvidia's Audio-Flamingo Speech Models, will be a speaker and panelist. Other panelists TBA Agenda: 6:00 – 7:00: Cocktail Hour and Networking 7:00 – 7:05: Welcome and Introductions 7:05 - 7:15: Dr. Manocha's talk "Flexible and Open Audio-LLM Models" - GAMMA Lab UMD 7:15 – 8:00: Panel Discussion 8:00 – 8:05: Q&A 8:05 – 9:00: Networking and Cocktails About our host: Centific helps model labs and enterprises build, train, deploy, and govern intelligent systems through high-quality data, human expertise, and end-to-end platforms that turn complexity into scalable, real-world impact. Learn more about Centific at www.centific.com.