Omar Tawakol

Omar Tawakol is the brains behind BlueKai, which he sold to Oracle in 2014 to become the Oracle Data Cloud, the world's largest consumer data marketplace that powered 97 of the top 100 U.S. marketers. After leading the team at Oracle for several years, Omar is now focused on bringing artificial intelligence to the workplace as the CEO & Founder of Voicea. He and his team built Eva, an enterprise voice assistant that partners with companies like Cisco WebEx, Skype, Slack and Salesforce to leverage enterprise data to make meetings more productive and enable employees to become more efficient. He earned an MS in Computer Science from Stanford (BS, MIT) where he researched and published work on AI agents.

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