It’s been a fabulous week at ALPS-2026 - fantastic to have the opportunity to interact with so many bright young minds in a wonderful environment.

On my way to Lyon to give a talk at ALPS-2026 https://lig-alps.imag.fr

Very productive visit to the Zurich Phonetics and Speech Sciences (PaSS) doctoral colloquium yesterday- special thanks to @Allesandro De Luka for the invitation and looking after the logistics

On my way to Zurich to give an invited talk tomorrow “Towards ‘Intelligent’ Communicative Machines” at the Phonetics and Speech Sciences (PaSS) doctoral colloquium - looking forward to meeting everyone

Not a bad start to the day …

In Turin to attend the 10th Joint Action Meeting (JAM-X) - looking forward to some great talks https://www.intobrain.it/it/jamx/

2-Day UK and Ireland annual speech workshop (UKIS) well underway at York University https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/ukis2025/UKIS2025

On my way to Frankfurt for TeaP2025 (where I’ll be talking about the ‘uncanny valley’) https://coms.app/TeaP2025/xpage.html?xpage=315&lang=en

Had a great time at ICSR in Odense. Met some inspiring people, heard some super talks, and brought home a Lego robot …