![Discussion leader: Anna Abovyan](/sites/default/files/styles/persons_list_profile_picture/public/images/2019-01/abovyan.png?itok=2TaKgXgx)
Anna Abovyan leads the User Experience Design team at M*Modal, a speech technology company in Squirrel Hill. She is interested in thoughtful applications of artificial intelligence, and graceful human-computer interactions. Anna presented her talk "Designing for Speech" at the MidwestUX and TalkUX conferences in 2017. She is also the co-chair of the local IxDA chapter.