The Chatbot & AIConference

8:50 - 9:00 AM

Opening Remarks with Stefan Kojouharov

Welcome Speech

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Keynote: 5 Stages of AI & NLP with Alex Weidauer

Latest developments on AI/NLP with RASA.

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Ecosystem Overview Panel

How is the space evolving, emerging trends, etc.

10:05 - 10:35 AM

How Google is Revolutionizing SMS: Rob Lawson

Deep dive into Google's Rich Business Messaging

10:35 - 10:40 AM

Coffee Break

Enjoy a refreshing cup of coffee :)

10:40 - 11:05AM

How TurboTax plans to save millions with Chatbots: Casey Phillips

Intuit Case Study

11:05 - 11:35AM

How Bots are Revolutionzing E-Commerce: Austin Arensburg

11:35 - 12:00PM

How Brands are Winning with Bots: Shane Mac

Featuring CTO of 1-800 Flowers 

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Enjoy a delicious lunch :)

1:00 - 1:30 PM

Fireside Chat: Stefan Trockel & Nadine Weiskircher 

Using Chatbots to Create Deep User Profiles for High Precision Media Targeting

1:30 - 1:55 PM

Using Chatbots to Capture Leads & Sell: Joseph Holguin

Two case studies featuring National Geographic & University of People

1:55 - 2:20 PM

The #1 way to Achieve Explosive Growth and Outperform your Competition in 2019 with Samir ElKamouny

Chatbot Marketing Case Studies

2:20 - 2:45 PM

Natural Language Generation for Conversational AI with Sander Wubben

Look at Natural Language Generation (NLG) for conversational AI.

2:45 - 3:15 PM

Chatbot UX & Copywriting: Dustin Dye & Rob Lubow

Deep Dive into Bot Design & Copywriting

3:15 - 3:40 PM 

VOICE: Insights from Google Voice with Tanya Kraljic

Deep dive into Voice and how it is impacting business.

3:40 - 4:05 PM

The Rise of Conversational VoiceBots: How Human-sounding Bots will shape your Sales, Marketing & Support Calls: Ricardo Garcia-Amaya

4:05 - 4:30 PM

Idea to Launch Panel

Putting it all together and insights on going from idea to launching your first bot.

4:30 - 6:30 PM

After Party

Enjoy a glass of wine and mingle!

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Chatbot Design

• 4 Parts of a Bot

• IDEO’s Design Process & Creating Value

• Chatbot Design Principles: fallbacks

10:00 - 11:00 AM

Starting our Project: Lead Generation Bot

• Overview of our Project

• Designing our Conversational Flows

• Using Plugins, API Calls to connect to 3rd party services

11:00 - 12:00 PM

Launching & Testing our Bot

• Launching our Bot on Messenger

• Test Bot with friends

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Enjoy a delicious lunch & network.

1:00 - 2:00 PM

AI & NLP Fundamentals

• Intent Classification

• Entity Extraction 

• Dialogue Management

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Building using Rasa Stack

• Understand how the open source Rasa Stack works 

• Transfer your designed assistant into Rasa

• Coding our bot in an online sandbox