Mati Staniszewski
CEO & Co-Founder
ElevenLabs
Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI research and product company building audio tools for businesses, developers, and creators. The company’s two platforms span creative work for speech, music, and sound generation, and a platform for voice agents that listen, talk, and act. Before founding ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir as a Deployment Strategist with Fortune 500 companies and governments, and at BlackRock, where he helped launch the Aladdin Wealth platform.
Schedule
20 mins
Meridian Hall — Main Stage
The Speed of Sound
Voice is becoming one of the most important interfaces between humans and artificial intelligence, and the race is no longer simply to make AI sound human. It is to make AI communicate with us naturally, instantly, and at scale. Mati Staniszewski explores the evolution of voice AI. From lifelike speech and voice cloning to real-time conversation, multilingual communication, and AI agents, this conversation examines how speed, expression, and trust are reshaping how we communicate with machines.