Jonathan Wheat | Head of Product Development | Nearly Human AI
About Speaker
"Jonathan Wheat is the Head of Product Development at Nearly Human. He brings over 20 years of product and application development experience. Over his long technology career, he has worked in private, education and government sectors. As a self-proclaimed “closet marketer”, he also brings a different kind of perspective to applications and systems, adding input to some of Nearly Human’s marketing and design efforts. He currently oversees the compilation of the product suite; Cortex, as well as focusing on the development, testing and deployment of Eve; Nearly Human’s conversational AI system. His introduction to AI was a course where he built and trained a “Doodle-Bot” to play tic-tac-toe on a large board on the floor with a marker, and the rest is history. Previously he has taught a college course on mobile application development and built a large- scale crowdfunding application that helped raise over $20 million in funding. He also founded VenüDesk, a conference management solution with a full admin system and mobile app for attendees, speakers and staff. Jonathan also thoroughly enjoys everything about craft beer, has been a homebrewer for over 8 years and is currently embarking on a “side-hustle” and is opening a 7BBL brewery and axe throwing facility in Jesup, GA this spring. "