Karen Kaushansky

Karen Kaushansky is an Experience Designer/Consultant working to define and design interactions 5-10 years before they are on most radars - speech recognition, conversational UIs, autonomous vehicles, mixed reality, and human-robot interactions. She started working on designing voice experiences in 1996 and is currently consulting for multiple companies pushing the boundaries in these areas. Past employers and clients include: Tellme/Microsoft, Nuance, Jawbone, Samsung, Zoox, and LEGO. Karen recently moved to Switzerland from San Francisco, and is trying to get Alexa to recognize her very basic German.