
The Sound of Intelligent AI – Palo Alto Happy Hour
🎙️ The Sound of Intelligent AI – A Happy Hour with Centific
What does the future of voice and audio intelligence sound like? From real-time multilingual voice agents capable of translating and dubbing with cultural precision, to emotionally aware audio systems that pick up on tone, intent, and even unspoken context — AI is rapidly expanding into the auditory frontier.
Yet building truly capable speech and audio AI goes far beyond modeling alone. It demands breakthroughs in high-quality audio data, multimodal fusion, on-device inference, and rigorous real-world evaluation at scale.
Centific invites you to an evening dedicated to exploring the emerging technology stack powering the next generation of voice and audio intelligence. 🔊✨
🧠 Featured Speakers & Panelists
- Dr. Dinesh Manocha — Professor at the University of Maryland (College Park) and contributor to Nvidia's Audio-Flamingo Speech Models. Dr. Manocha will deliver a talk titled "Flexible and Open Audio-LLM Models" from the GAMMA Lab at UMD.
- Dr. Victor Barres — PhD neuroscientist and conversational AI innovator at Sierra, joining as a panelist.
- Harshit Rajgarhia — Senior Manager of AI Research at Centific, ICML 2026 author, and creator of the MedMosaic benchmark advancing medical audio AI. Harshit will serve as panel moderator.
- Additional panelists to be announced.
📋 Agenda
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 6:00 – 7:00 | 🍸 Cocktail Hour & Networking |
| 7:00 – 7:05 | 👋 Welcome & Introductions |
| 7:05 – 7:15 | 🎤 Dr. Manocha's Talk: "Flexible and Open Audio-LLM Models" |
| 7:15 – 8:00 | 💬 Panel Discussion |
| 8:00 – 8:05 | ❓ Q&A |
| 8:05 – 9:00 | 🥂 Networking & Cocktails |
🏢 About Centific
Centific partners with model labs and enterprises to build, train, deploy, and govern intelligent systems. Through high-quality data, human expertise, and end-to-end platforms, Centific transforms complexity into scalable, real-world impact.
👉 Learn more at www.centific.com
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