Daniel Kornev is chief product officer for DeepPavlov.ai which is the developer behind the open source framework for building voice assistants. The company has raised over $9 million in funding and has over 50,000 downloads and 5000 Stars on GitHub.  In addition, Kornev served as an advisor to the Alexa Prize team from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Before DeepPavlov, Daniel Kornev spent two years working as a consultant and interim executive with a variety of conversational AI startups. He also was a Senior Product Manager at Yandex where he worked on some of the core feature sets for the Alice voice assistant. Earlier, he was a technical program manager at Google and a program manager and dev evangelist at Microsoft. Daniel Kornev has an M.S. in computer science and has done extensive research in human-computer interaction.