AI Influencer, Entrepreneur, Investor

he #4 Influencer in Voice AI, Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is an AI, Data, and Analytics Leader internationally. She is the CEO of Clarity AI, an AI and software company building custom solutions for SMB and enterprise. She is the Host of the forthcoming Your AI Roadmap podcast, featuring guests building AI from Microsoft (Copilot), Google (Gemini), Upwork, Intuit, Rev, Latimer.ai (BlackGPT), and more. She is the Founder, President, and x-CEO of Women in Voice, nonprofit with 20+ chapters and 56k+ followers. With 10+ years of technical experience at Nuance (acquired by Microsoft for $16B), OneReach.ai (Generative AI Platform), Netavox (Spanish NLP), and VERSA Agency (APEC Digital transformation agency), she has hands-on experience in building software and AI. Examples of this work include building bots, optimizing data sets, creating custom visualizations, triangulating across data sets, optimizing NLP and NLU models, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and creating multi-million dollar upsell opportunities and case studies for Forbes award-winners. Joan is also an investor and Advisor to CleanAI, startups (AI, computer vision, NLP), and enterprise (medical hardware). She is a CES and VentureBeat speaker and Harvard Business Review published author. She holds a PhD from the University of Arizona in the field of Speech Language Technology and an MA in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis. She holds a BFA in Photomedia and BA in French from the University of Washington and she lives in Seattle, WA.