The 2018 Interspeech Conference was held in Hyderabad, India, attracting over 5,000 delegates from around the world to discuss the latest developments in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and its future trends. The conference saw presentations on numerous research papers, discussions with other researchers, and a technical demo of Speechmatics' ASR, highlighting the importance of end-to-end solutions and addressing challenges such as far-field and noisy ASR, under-resourced languages and domains. Key learnings included discovering interest in end-to-end solutions but uncertainty regarding its superiority to other approaches, and witnessing speech technology being applied to more real applications and domains. The conference also saw notable recognitions for Speechmatics as one of the most accurate speech companies in the world, according to an Adobe Research paper.