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Lessons from the Front Lines of the Voice & Bot Frontier
We're bringing together experts in the voice space, chatbots, & the amazing communities of www.botsandai.com & voicebot.ai for a night of learning & fun connections.
Voice-first adoption this year is growing at the same rate as iPhone adoption in 2007.What is so compelling about voice? How are forward-thinking companies designing successfully for voice? Learn from our expert guests & stay until theend forchance to win top rated books in voice & bots design.
Event Schedule
4:00 pmSpecial Pre-Event: Build Your Own Facebook Bot Workshop by IBM (separate ticket required, see below for more info)6:00 pmFood / Meet & Greet6:30 pmIntros6:40 pmSaySpring - Voice design/prototyping/best practices7:00 pmFood Network -Case Study on creating voice-first & multimodal skills for Alexa7:30 pmVoicebot.ai - Data Insights on voice assistant adoption by the numbers7:45 pmExpert Voice Panel8:30 pmOpen discussion & networking
Before the main event, we're even having a limited seating chatbot building workshop!
Speakers & Panelists
Mark Webster,Mark Webster is founder & CEO of Sayspring, a startup that helps designers prototype applications for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, & other voice-based interfaces.
Food Network, TBD
Bret Kinsella,CEO/Founder at Voicebot.ai
Suzy Schulz, SVP at Cumulus. Suzy Schulz is senior vice president of marketing for Cumulus / Westwood One. She previously held management roles at Citadel Broadcasting & iHeartMedia. More recently she has been instrumental in driving the Cumulus & Westwood One move into distributing content through voice assistants. In 2017, Ms. Schulz was named by Radio Ink as one of the most influential women in radio.
Matt Hartman, Partner at Betaworks & curator of Hearing Voices.Prior to joining betaworks, Mr. Hartman built ReferBoost (licensed to Apartments.com), & was at Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook). Betaworks recently completed its Voicecamp accelerator class that included eight voice technology startups leveraging AI. Mr. Hartman is also the inventor of Patent #8189781 related to the protection of digital images.
Ahmed Bouzid, CEO/Founder at Witlingo & author of Don't Make Me Tap!Witlingo is a McLean, VA based startup focused on delivering Voice First products & solutions to the market. Dr. Bouzid was previously Product Head at Amazon & lead the launch of the Alexa Smart Home offering. He is also a co-inventor & holder of 12 patents in the field of Voice Automation & Conversational Technology.
Your Hosts
Alec Lazarescu, Organizer of www.botsandai.com & MoNage Chatbots SummitAdelyn Zhou, Organizer of www.botsandai.com & CMO at TOPBOTSBret Kinsella, Editor/Publisher of www.voicebot.ai & CEO/Founder at Act with Edge
Sponsors
This event is made possible with the support of IBM Watson & Yext.
**Special Pre-Event: Build Your Own Facebook Bot Workshop by IBM**
Come with your laptop & a Facebook Page & leave with a chatbot.No prior coding background needed. We get you started with a simple JavaScript bot that you can further extend visually or with code as you need.
Background:
The special pre-event chatbot workshop will be taught by a trainer from IBM & we will get you up & running with a Facebook Messenger chatbot powered by IBM Watson Conversation by the end of the session.
Chatbots are an exciting & growing space spanning across all business sizes: solo, startup, SMB, & enterprise as well as industries from entertainment to finance & everything in between. Whether you are looking to bring a chatbot use case back to your enterprise or want to become a freelance bot builder or agency this workshop will kickstart your journey.
Event Information:
This workshop will help you get on the path of having a base chatbot AND knowing how to make it effective. Built using IBM Watson Conversation, your bot can match the user's intent even when they don't type exactly what you expect & it's highly extensible so you can keep making your bot smarter as you learn about your usersWe'll also go over a checklist of good design practices so you can sidestep the usual pitfalls early bots run into.
This pre-event has limited seating & includes a nominal additional fee to ensure those most interested can attend. The workshop starts at 4:00pm.Mac, Windows, or Linux all fine. Additional pre-event information will be sent to all registered attendees.
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