Dave Isbitski Amazon Chief Evangelist for Alexa Talks Voice Adoption - Voicebot Podcast Ep 95

Dave Isbitski became Amazon's first chief evangelist for
Alexa in 2014. That’s five years, but in smart speaker time, it’s
an eternity. Dave started out hosting office hours in Alexa
Slack, going to Meetups and more recently is most commonly seen
speaking at conferences around the world.


We caught up at the Alexa Live online conference recording
session in Seattle shortly after he finished up recording the
keynote. Prior to his role on the Alexa team, Isbitski was the
chief evangelist for the Amazon App Store. That was preceded by
six years as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and time as a
technical manager for Johnson & Johnson. We talk about
building a developer community in the early days after the Alexa
launch, how voice is changing consumer expectations and what
brands should be thinking about in building their voice
strategy.