Jon Stine is an independent technology and business advisor and consultant, based in Portland, Oregon USA. He brings to clients more than 35 years of executive leadership in the retail and technology industries and a record of founding and leading game-changing industry initiatives. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonstine/.

Most recently, Jon founded and served as Executive Director of The Open Voice Network (www.openvoicenetwork.org), the open-source community of the Linux Foundation that is now defining, developing, and rolling out the technical interoperability standards and ethical use guidelines for the future of conversational artificial intelligence.   

His CV includes sales leadership of a national apparel brand, the creation of the Intel Corporation’s global outreach to the retail, hospitality, and consumer goods industries, and leadership of Cisco Systems’ retail-hospitality-consumer goods consulting practice.  He has developed and led client engagements in India, China, across the European Union and the Americas.