Speakers

Rafal Kukliński is a Director at Amazon leading the Text-to-Speech technology team and the Managing Director of the Amazon Development Center in Poland. Rafal has been with Amazon for 9 years working on speech synthesis systems that power a wide range of Amazon products and services, including Amazon Fire tablets, Kindle Readers, Amazon Alexa and an AWS TTS service Amazon Polly.

Prior to Amazon, Rafal held a variety of technical and leadership positions at companies such as General Electric and Lufthansa, working on technologies ranging from flight planning systems to video compression and analysis systems.