We have three presenters for our second meetup that will present on varying areas of the Alexa ecosystem.

Suman Deb Roy, a data scientist at betaworks, will be presenting an Alexa skill called Dynamic Adaptive News Agent (DANA). DANA is like the Alexa news skill on steroids, with the ability to get news by topic, domain, and set preferences for personalized news.

Donn Morrill, a senior solutions architect for Amazon Alexa, will demonstrate how you can link Alexa to If-This-Then-That (IFTTT) to automate tasks without writing any code. Using IFTTT, you can configure your Alexa to trigger "find my phone" or add notes to Evernote.

Sbastien de la Bastie, managing director at Invoxia, will be presenting Triby, the first Alexa-powered portable speaker. His presentation will focus on creating hardware that integrates with the Alexa voice service to bring Alexa to third-party devices.

Pizza and beer will be provided!

Agenda

6:30-7:00 - Networking + Free food and drinks

7:00-7:15 - Dynamic Adaptive News Agent (DANA) skill by Suman Deb Roy, data scientist at betaworks.

7:15-7:30 - Automating Alexa with IFTTT by Donn Morrill, senior solutions architect for Amazon Alexa.

7:30-7:45 - Triby: The first Alexa-enabled portable speaker by Sbastien de la Bastie, managing director at Invoxia.

7:45-8:15 - Networking + closing.