---
title: "Neil Zeghidour"
category: "people"
role: "Co-founder & CEO"
company: "Gradium"
twitter: "https://x.com/neilzegh"
website: "https://gradium.ai"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Neil Zeghidour

## Profile
Co-founder & CEO at [[gradium|Gradium]].

- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/neilzegh)
- [Website](https://gradium.ai)

## Biography
Neil Zeghidour is the co-founder and CEO of [[gradium|Gradium]]. Neil founded [[gradium|Gradium]] after a decade of building and leading frontier generative audio teams at Meta and Google DeepMind. Being frustrated by slow and brittle voice assistants , he built the engineering teams that developed the first neural audio codecs and introduced the first audio LLMs, such as AudioLM, at Google. He later created Kyutai to launch Moshi, the world's first real-time, full-duplex conversational AI , and Hibiki, the first simultaneous speech-to-speech translation system. Today, [[gradium|Gradium]] is focused on helping developers build natural, real-time voice agents by providing ultra-low latency streaming APIs that transition these breakthroughs from the research lab to production.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-your-voice-agent-is-just-a-walkie-talkie]] — Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie (2026-06-29, 12:05pm-12:25pm)
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-1-of-3]] — Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 1 of 3) (2026-06-29, 1:30pm-1:50pm)
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-2-of-3]] — Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 2 of 3) (2026-06-29, 1:55pm-2:15pm)
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-3-of-3]] — Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 3 of 3) (2026-06-29, 2:25pm-2:45pm)
- [[2026-07-01-kwindla-kramer-voice-is-the-universal-interface]] — Voice is the universal interface (2026-07-01, 11:40am-12:00pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-your-voice-agent-is-just-a-walkie-talkie|Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie]]
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-1-of-3|Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 1 of 3)]]
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-2-of-3|Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 2 of 3)]]
- [[2026-06-29-neil-zeghidour-everybody-gets-a-digital-clone-part-3-of-3|Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 3 of 3)]]
- [[2026-07-01-kwindla-kramer-voice-is-the-universal-interface|Voice is the universal interface]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo`: engineering, future, brig, team, google, translation, great, hove.
- Evidence links for `youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo`: [[youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo]], [[youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo-slides]], [[youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo-dense-slides]], [[youtube-P_RI1kCkRbo-reconstructed-slides]]