Linda Ranz is currently the Sr. Director/Chief of Staff at Google responsible for building the AI Assistant. Linda was previously the Technical Advisor to the SVP of Devices and Services at Amazon. Prior to that as Director of New Products for Amazon, she was responsible for hardware and software product management of multimodal Echo products (Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Echo Look) and the future Echo product roadmap. Linda has over 15 years of experience leading projects in the high tech space in retail (Starbucks, Amazon, Google) and B2B (Getty Images) ecommerce, consumer products, and wireless. Linda currently also serves on the board of the Stewardship Foundation.