Raj Tumuluri , is an inventor and one of the pioneers in the field of conversational and multimodal AI. He has co-authored several international standards in multimodal, automotive & speech technologies at the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) and co-authored various reference books on development, standardization and commercialization of conversational and multimodal AI, cochaired several IEEE and ACM conferences of international repute on multimodal interaction and cloud computing and his talks and articles are regularly featured in the media. At openstream.Ai, he leads a team of world class researchers in the development of one of the first commercial Multimodal Conversational AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms ( Eva) and solutions focused on helping enterprises develop and deploy high-performing applications and has several patents issued and pending and is nominated to serve on ACM ICMI steering committee 2025-27