Voice and Bots Extravaganza
from Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:00PM to Thursday, November 30, 2017 8:00PM
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Lessons from the Front Lines of the Voice and Bot Frontier We’re bringing together experts in the voice space, chatbots, and the amazing communities of www.botsandai.com and voicebot.ai for a night of learning and 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 and stay until the end for chance to win top rated books in voice and bots design. Event Schedule 4:00 pm Special Pre-Event: Build Your Own Facebook Bot Workshop by IBM (separate ticket required, see below for more info)6:00 pm Food / Meet & Greet6:30 pm Intros6:40 pm SaySpring - Voice design/prototyping/best practices7:00 pm Food Network - Case Study on creating voice-first and multimodal skills for Alexa7:30 pm Voicebot.ai - Data Insights on voice assistant adoption by the numbers7:45 pm Expert Voice Panel8:30 pm Open discussion and networking Before the main event, we’re even having a limited seating chatbot building workshop! Speakers and Panelists Mark Webster, Mark Webster is founder and CEO of Sayspring, a startup that helps designers prototype applications for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and 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 and iHeartMedia. More recently she has been instrumental in driving the Cumulus and 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 and curator of Hearing Voices. Prior to joining betaworks, Mr. Hartman built ReferBoost (licensed to Apartments.com), and 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 and author of “Don’t Make Me Tap!” Witlingo is a McLean, VA based startup focused on delivering Voice First products and solutions to the market. Dr. Bouzid was previously Product Head at Amazon and lead the launch of the Alexa Smart Home offering. He is also a co-inventor and holder of 12 patents in the field of Voice Automation and Conversational Technology. Your Hosts Alec Lazarescu, Organizer of www.botsandai.com and MoNage Chatbots SummitAdelyn Zhou, Organizer of www.botsandai.com and CMO at TOPBOTSBret Kinsella, Editor/Publisher of www.voicebot.ai and CEO/Founder at Act with Edge Sponsors This event is made possible with the support of IBM Watson and Yext. **Special Pre-Event: Build Your Own Facebook Bot Workshop by IBM** Come with your laptop and a Facebook Page and 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 and we will get you up and running with a Facebook Messenger chatbot powered by IBM Watson Conversation by the end of the session. Chatbots are an exciting and growing space spanning across all business sizes: solo, startup, SMB, and enterprise as well as industries from entertainment to finance and 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 and it’s highly extensible so you can keep making your bot smarter as you learn about your users We’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 and 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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