Neil Zeghidour
Co-founder & CEO, Gradium
Speaking in 5 sessions at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo
Bio
Neil Zeghidour is the co-founder and CEO of Gradium. Neil founded Gradium after a decade of building and leading frontier generative audio teams at Meta and Google DeepMind. Being frustrated by slow and brittle voice assistants , he built the engineering teams that developed the first neural audio codecs and introduced the first audio LLMs, such as AudioLM, at Google. He later created Kyutai to launch Moshi, the world's first real-time, full-duplex conversational AI , and Hibiki, the first simultaneous speech-to-speech translation system. Today, Gradium is focused on helping developers build natural, real-time voice agents by providing ultra-low latency streaming APIs that transition these breakthroughs from the research lab to production.
Sessions
- Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-TalkieTuesday, June 30 · 12:05 PM – 12:25 PM · Track 6Claws & Personal Agents
- Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 1 of 3)Tuesday, June 30 · 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM · Track 4Workshops Day 2
- Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 2 of 3)Tuesday, June 30 · 1:55 PM – 2:15 PM · Track 4Workshops Day 2
- Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 3 of 3)Tuesday, June 30 · 2:25 PM – 2:45 PM · Track 4Workshops Day 2
- Voice is the universal interfaceThursday, July 2 · 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM · Expo Stage 3 SW
For developers: this programme is open data — JSON, iCal, schedule XML and an MCP endpoint.Show endpointsHide
- JSONEvery published session and speaker, in one request./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.json
- iCalSubscribe in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.ics
- Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
- MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents
No key, no signup, CORS open. Everything here is generated from the same data the organisers edit.