A master of innovation, Dag Kittlaus has developed ground-breaking software which is now used by both Apple and Samsung. He was the Co-founder and CEO of Viv Labs and Siri, the world’s first virtual personal assistant, as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Stanford Research Institute. After Apple acquired Siri in 2010, Kittlaus was the Director of iPhone Apps at Apple running the Siri and speech recognition teams. In the fall of 2012, Dag co-founded his next AI company, Viv Labs, an open artificial intelligence platform uniquely designed for both consumers and developers and aimed at embedding a single conversational interface in everything.
Currently, Kittlaus is the CEO and co-founder of Riva Health, a company that has set out to revolutionise how patients manage hypertension and heart disease. Riva’s breakthrough cardiology technology measures and manages hypertension, all through a smartphone app and camera.
Kittlaus has held leadership roles as VP of Consumer Internet Services at Scandinavian telecom giant Telenor Mobile, and several consumer product groups at Motorola including GM of xProducts and founder and GM of Motorola’s Interactive Media Group. He conceived and launched Screen3, a breakthrough consumer mobile application currently used by millions of users and adopted by Cingular, China Mobile, and Telefonica. Kittlaus attended Indiana University Bloomington for his Bachelor’s in economics and holds a MBA in strategy & marketing from BI Norwegian Business School.
