Deborah Dahl works on innovative, practical and scalable conversational systems that push the boundary between theory and applications. She is the Principal of Conversational Technologies, which assists its clients in creating state of the art solutions using speech and natural language, technologies. Her clients include startups, large enterprises and government organizations. She has written many technical papers and three books, including Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural Interfaces to Everything, published in 2016.