As part of its role as a leading institute of higher education training the next generation of engineers with an emphasis on maintaining social involvement, The Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering encourages active dialog between the academia and the industry. In line with this goal, the Afeka Academic College of Engineering and the Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP), organize and host the annual Afeka Conference for Speech Processing. The conference offers the Israeli academic and industrial speech communities a unique forum for coming together, raising relevant issues, sharing accomplishments and establishing collaborations.