Hosted by Oita Coleman and the leaders of the Ethical Use Task Force – 29 March
18:00 Central European Summer Time |12:00 Eastern Daylight Time | 09:00 Pacific Daylight Time
Introducing the TrustMark Initiative from the Open Voice Network
Join Oita Coleman and leaders from the Open Voice Network’s Ethical Use Task Force for an in-depth overview of OVON’s forthcoming TrustMark Initiative program – covering the what, why and how this program will become an instrumental piece of our mission to make voice worthy of user trust.
Hear from those responsible for creating the TrustMark Initiative, as well as industry leaders on how they’ll be working with the the program in their own organizations. We’ll discuss how you can take your first steps with the TrustMark Initiative, and we’ll also share a preview of our plans for the TrustMark Initiative at Project Voice 2023 in Chattanooga, TN this late April.
As we launch the TrustMark Initiative, we look forward to collecting feedback and hearing your questions and concerns. This is your opportunity to interact directly with the researchers doing the work.
To help us showcase the work that has gone into creating the TrustMark Initiative, the Open Voice Network is excited to welcome:
– Oita Coleman – Senior Advisor, Open Voice Network
– Valeria Barbero – Business Director, Mother Tongue (OMNICON)
– James Poulter – CEO & Co-founder, Vixen Labs
– Janice Mandel – Communications Advisor & Storyteller, Open Voice Network
– Mellini Monique – Founder & Principal Vocal Culturist, Vocal Culture Garden
The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 29 March at 18:00 Central European Summer Time / 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time / 09:00 Pacific Daylight Time.
Meet the Panelists
Learn more about the Open Voice Network’s TrustMark Initiative from this impressive selection of panelists. Please click on each individual’s name to learn more about their background.
Oita Coleman
Senior Advisor, Open Voice Network
Oita Coleman
Senior Advisor, Open Voice Network
Valeria Barbero
Business Director, Mother Tongue (OMNICON)
Valeria Barbero
Business Director, Mother Tongue (OMNICON)
James Poulter
CEO & Co-founder, Vixen Labs
James Poulter
CEO & Co-founder, Vixen Labs
Previously as Head of The LEGO Group’s Emerging Platforms & Partnerships team as part of the Digital Consumer Engagement division, James Poulter is pursuing new technologies, platforms and partners to build digital consumer engagement with LEGO customers, shoppers and consumers on a global basis.
James previously was the Head of Social Media for LEGO’s social network for Kids, LEGO Life – which launched globally in 2017 and has since grown to over 2m active users regularly posting their content to the world’s first global and safe social network for kids.
Prior to joining LEGO, James worked for a number of the world’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations firms including Edelman and Ogilvy leading digital marketing, mobile and social campaigns both in EMEA and globally as well as new business efforts for clients such as Diageo, Unilever, Bose, PayPal, HP and Adobe.
James is an innovation and strategy consultant with over 10 years experience specialising in Voice, Conversational AI Technologies and emerging platforms such as Immersive AR/VR, 5G and Blockchain.
Outside of work James is an advisor to the Church of England’s digital board as well as well as a number of other charities, entrepreneurs and startups.
James is a father to Hazel and Willow and husband to Holly and lives in Surrey, UK. He can be found on all good social media as @jamespoulter.
Janice Mandel
Communications Advisor & Storyteller, Open Voice Network
Janice Mandel
Communications Advisor & Storyteller, Open Voice Network
Mellini Monique
Vocal Culture Garden
Mellini Monique
Vocal Culture Garden
Her work at Vocal Culture Garden includes, but is certainly not limited to:
- Consulting pitch programs to create space for more Diversity in Pitching™️
- Coaching founders to move Beyond The Deck™️
- Developing corporate voice brand identities
- Crafting and curating educational and exploratory voice experiences
- Finding deep fulfillment leading private clients on a soulful voice discovery via her proprietary framework, Pathway To Phenomenal™️
Mellini Monique has over 30 years of collective experience in public speaking, theatre arts, professional coaching, and expressive therapies, and over 15 years as a medical missionary and wellnesspreneur. With a public relations and theater degree from Columbia College and a Master of Arts in Drama Therapy from New York University, Mellini is uniquely positioned to teach executives, high-achievers, entrepreneurs, and business owners how to architect and deliver their unique voice brands to create highly desired outcomes. You can connect with Mellini: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellinimonique/.
About OVON
The Open Voice Network (OVON), an open source association of The Linux Foundation, seeks to make voice technology worthy of user trust—a task of critical importance as voice emerges as a primary, multi-device portal to the digital and IOT worlds, and as independent, specialist voice assistants take their place next to general purpose platforms. The Open Voice Network will achieve its vision through the communal development and adoption of industry standards and usage guidelines, industry education and advocacy initiatives, and the development and documentation of voice-centric value propositions. As a directed fund of The Linux Foundation, OVON enjoys access to the expertise and shared legal, operational, and marketing services of The Linux Foundation, a world leader in the creation of open source projects and ecosystems.