Dr. Achin Bhowmik is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey, a global leader in hearing technology, where he leads the transformation of hearing aids into multifunctional, AI-powered communication and health devices. Previously, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel, where he founded RealSense and led pioneering work in three-dimensional sensing, computer vision, interactive devices and autonomous systems. Dr. Bhowmik is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. He has authored more than 200 publications, including 3 books and over 80 patents worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences and the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance. Dr. Bhowmik has served as the President of SID and is on the boards of RealSense, Mojo Vision, Astranu and the National Captioning Institute. His work has received numerous honors, including TIME’s Best Inventions, the Red Dot Design Award and the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award.