---
title: "Amit Desai"
category: "people"
role: "Director, Voice & Assistant AI"
company: "Roku"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-v-desai/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Amit Desai

## Profile
Director, Voice & Assistant AI at [[roku|Roku]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-v-desai/)

## Biography
Amit Desai is a domain expert in voice AI assistants who has led voice AI products at Alexa and [[roku|Roku]], founded startups in customer support AI, and created Top 5 mobile apps in the App Store. He works at the intersection of voice-interface intuition and AI technical approaches, with a current focus on safer voice interfaces for AI assistants, wearables, robotics, and vehicles.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-amit-desai-act-confirm-or-stop-smarter-behavior-for-ai-assistants-wearables-and-robots]] — Act, Confirm, or Stop? Smarter behavior for AI assistants, wearables & robots (2026-06-29, 3:45pm-4:05pm)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-amit-desai-act-confirm-or-stop-smarter-behavior-for-ai-assistants-wearables-and-robots|Act, Confirm, or Stop? Smarter behavior for AI assistants, wearables & robots]]

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