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Liesl Yearsley | acta

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Sydney, NSW

Liesl Yearsley

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Liesl YearsleySpeakers · Sydney, NSW

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Liesl Yearsley spent two decades building AI systems, taking Cognea's conversational platform to 26,000 developers and six Fortune 100 companies before IBM acquired it in 2014. She now leads aKin, developing emotionally aware AI for clients including NASA, and argues for curiosity over fear.

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