Laurent Pilati is AI Software Engineering Manager at NXP Semiconductors where he leads the development of AI software pipelines for MCU, MPU and NPU based platforms. His team focuses on enabling intelligent edge systems across domains such as vision, voice, audio, generative AI, physical AI and agentic AI. With a strong background in embedded systems, Laurent has extensive experience in wireless audio technologies, signal processing and machine learning for speech and audio applications. Over the years, he has contributed to the development of acoustic context recognition and high-performance voice algorithms for Bluetooth, mobile and VoIP devices. Laurent is also an active contributor to the research community, with publications in leading international conferences and multiple patents in audio processing and communication systems.