Tom Shapland, PhD, is a Product Manager at LiveKit. LiveKit is an open source platform for building, deploying, and scaling realtime multimodal agents. He's passionate about the multimodal future of human-computer interfaces. Before LiveKit, he was the cofounder of a Voice AI observability platform (Canonical AI) and an agriculture technology startup (Tule, YC S14). He lives in the East Bay and coaches lacrosse for his two kids.