Walid Saba is the Founder and the Principal AI Scientist at ontologik.ai where works on the development of Conversational AI. Prior to this he was a Principal AI Scientist at Astound.ai, and Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo. He also held various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&T Bell Labs, Metlife, IBM and Cognos, and has spent 7 years in academia where he taught computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Windsor, and the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. Saba is frequently an invited speaker at various organizations, and is also frequently invited to various panels and podcasts that discuss issues related to AI and Natural Language Processing. He has published over 40 technical articles, including an award-winning paper that was presented at the German Artificial Intelligence Conference (KI-2008). Walid holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science as well as a PhD Computer Science (AI/NLP) which he obtained from Carleton University in 1999.