For our March meet-up, we have an excellent line-up of speakers from IBM Watson and X.ai's product teams . Oscar from IBM will provide an overview Watson's bot development toolsas well as best practices involved in building bots. Laney from x.ai will provide a great case-study on how x.ai has made some of their key design decisions in build their scheduling email bot. As always, we'll also have members of our community present the bots that they have been working on. We currently have a slot for one more botdemo which you can apply for here.

The timeline for this event is as follows:

6:00pm -Networking and Pizza

6:30pm - Chatbot News Updates

6:35pm -Presentation of Bots from our members (WeBot)

6:50pm -IBM's overview of their bot framework - Oscar Kafati

7:20pm - Designing x.ai's personalassistant scheduling bot - Laney Caldwell

~8:20pm- Extended Q&A and Open Member Discussion

More about Oscar

Oscar Kafati joinedIBMWatson as aproductmanager and helped launched the Watson Conversation Service for bot development. Before that, he was a product manager at AOL working on Mapquest, Moviephone, AOL Yellow Pagesbefore moving on to AOL Search to create related searches, "did you mean" spelling corrections and a query classification system. After AOL acquired Relegence, a text analytics and news aggregation service, he was tapped to lead the organization. He transformed Relegenceinto a semantic technology and machine learning group within AOL that powered multiple consumer facing and advertising products across the AOL network.

More about Laney

Laney Caldwell is a Product Manager atx.ai, a New York startup building a personal assistant who schedules meetings for you powered by artificial intelligence. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Political Science.