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The Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA) was founded by a team of audio industry experts committed to furthering the knowledge and skills of professionals involved in the development of audio products. The Alliance will focus on promoting methodologies, practices and technologies involved in developing and bringing audio products to market.


The Alliance concept was originally founded within the scope of the Audio Engineering Society to expand the reach of the Product Development Track of the AES Conventions. Beginning in Los Angeles at the 137th AES Convention in 2014, lead by Scott Leslie, AES Convention Product Development Track Chair, the education track continued to grow to become one of the most attended tracks during AES conventions. In 2023, the founding team decided to pursue the APDA initiatives independently of the AES and work together with multiple associations and institutions to broaden its scope of activity with a larger focus on the consumer electronics industry.

The Audio Product Development Alliance is composed of long-term professionals in the audio product development area who saw the dramatic increase in audio products leveraging voice interfaces, and a new generation of wireless, network, signal processing technologies, and other advanced technologies, creating a huge demand for development professionals with multidisciplinary and highly specialized skills. The APDA aims to offer the audio-specific and hands-on development skills that developers, manufacturers and supply chain partners need to advance at the demanding pace of new audio application segments. As Audio has entered as a major component into many new product areas, APDA will also offer specific audio training and the opportunity to learn best practices to new and seasoned professionals from any product areas.


AES's APEI roadmap intends to focus on the following educational pillars
Voice and DSP
Supply Chain and Sourcing
Modeling and Measurement
Product Management
Automotive Audio
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Business Management