Product Hunt NYC: Bot Summit

Botheads assemble!

The bot revolution has gone mainstream but it's still in it's nascency. What have we learned so far? What's up next? Meet bot and chat innovators at the Product Hunt NYC Bot Summit.

Agenda

6:45 - 7:00pm: Mix and mingle with fellow Product Hunters. Pizza and refreshments.

7:00 - 8:45pm: Founders share their experiences building and growing their bots. Less demos. More lessons learned.

9:00pm - midnight: Keep the party going at the Brass Monkey (https://foursquare.com/v/brass-monkey/4101a680f964a5205a0b1fe3) rooftop.

Keynote Speakers:

Chris Messina - Developer Experience Lead, Uber (https://developer.uber.com/)

Chris is a product guy and open-source advocate who has become a thought leader in the bot space. You may know Chris as the inventor of the hashtag (original proposal (http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-a-proposal-for-twitter-tag-channels/)) but recently he is known for coining the term "Conversational Commerce (https://medium.com/chris-messina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-conversational-commerce-1586e85e3991)." He just launched his own Messina Bot.

Amir Shevat - Director of Developer Relations, Slack (https://api.slack.com/)

Amir heads the team responsible for making sure developers thrive on the Slack platform.

Paul Gray - Director of Platform, Kik (https://dev.kik.com/#/home)

Paul works closely with Kik partners – brands, agencies and developers – as well as the sales, engineering and community teams to help guide new product development. Prior to working at Kik, Paul was co-founder of game studio Bubble Gum Interactive

Bot Innovation Panel:

Mike Gozzo - Co-Founder & Head of Product, Smooch (https://smooch.io/)

Mike co-founded Smooch, multi-channel messaging for businesses, bots and software makers.

Jesse Rose - Head of Product, Infatuation (http://theinfatuation.com/text-rex) (Text Rex)

The Infatuation is a platform and resource dedicated to offering curated, trustworthy restaurant reviews and guides. In May 2015, they launched Text Rex (http://www.fastcompany.com/3046497/tech-forecast/the-next-big-breakthrough-in-algorithm-driven-recommendation-services-humans), a messaging service that provides personalized restaurant recommendations.

Christian Brucculeri - CEO, Snaps (https://makesnaps.com/)

Snaps building messaging bots and keyboards for the world's leading brands including Burger King, Dove and Comedy Central.

Esther Crawford - Co-Founder / CEO, Olabot (http://olabot.com/)

Easiest way to build a personal bot that showcases your unique personality. She has written about bots for Venture Beat and Fast Company.

Disclaimer: This is a community organized event by Drinkeasy (http://www.drinkeasy.co). We're friends with the Product Hunt guys but they're not directly organizing this event (they do stop by sometimes).