Dynamic Talks Silicon Valley "Voice Platforms, Conversational Commerce, and NLU"

Come join us at the fourth event of our free technical meetup series, "Dynamic Talks," in Silicon Valley!

This is an ongoing meetup series featuring technical talks from some of the leading experts in tech in major cities around the US. Enjoy talks about the most innovative subjects in big data, AI, ML, voice platforms, the Cloud, search, and more. Every event is free, with complimentary food and drinks.

This event is being sponsored by Procopio

Topic: Voice Platforms, Conversational Commerce, and NLU

Agenda

[6:00 pm - 6:30 pm]: Guests arrive, food and drinks are served.

[6:30 pm - 7:10 pm]: The first talk by Victoria Livcshitz on "Flower Genie: how to build cool and useful Alexa enabled e-commerce applications using Dialog Flow," followed by a Q&A.

[7:10 pm - 7:20 pm]: Networking break

[7:20 pm - 8:00 pm]: Second talk by Ahmet Gyger on "Conversational AI - The Future of Voice," followed by a Q&A.

[8:00 pm - 8:10 pm]: Networking break

[8:10 pm - 8:50 pm]: Third talk by Mohamed El Geish on "The AI Industry in 2020-2030," followed by a Q&A.

[8:50 pm - 9:00 pm]: Networking, closing remarks, and event conclusion.
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Talk details:

Victoria Livshitz's talk details:

Title: "Flower Genie: how to build cool and useful Alexa-enabled e-commerce applications using Dialog Flow."

Abstract: In this talk, we describe how to build conversational e-commerce applications for the growing market of voice-powered AI devices using Dialog Flow. This talk demonstrates the capabilities of "Flower Genie," a teaching-oriented chatbot that can recommend a bouquet for any occasion, then take an order and deliver the flower arrangement via Alexa. We present the overall architecture of a voice application developed with Dialog Flow, including dialog management and NLU, and then discuss the finer points of testing and publishing a voice application for Alexa.

About Victoria Livshitz:

Victoria Livschitz founded Grid Dynamics in 2006 to bring big, new ideas — open-source, clouds, and big data — to large enterprises. Under her leadership, Grid Dynamics became a successful, fast-growing engineering IT services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for the retail, finance, and technology sectors. In 2015, Victoria transitioned to the role of Chief Technology Officer.

Ahmet Gyger's talk details:

Title: "Conversational AI - The Future of Voice"

Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss building a Virtual Customer Assistant with Conversational AI.

About Ahmet Gyger:

Ahmet has deep experience in managing machine learning products, including Einstein, Siri, Azure ML, and Bing. He is currently Director of Product Management for Einstein at Salesforce, where he works on conversational AI.

Mohamed El Geish talk details:

Title: "The AI Industry in 2020-2030"

Abstract: The last five years have been transformative in the AI industry, how will the next ten look like? We've seen an explosion in IoT devices and the data flowing through them — ubiquitous computing is here to stay. How would this change the ecosystem with respect to hardware, solution development, testing, copyrights, privacy, etc.? And finally, a prediction of what all of this means for businesses, current and new, in light of advancements in the NLP domain.

About Mohamed El Geish:

Mohamed is the Director of AI for Cisco's Contact Center solutions. Cisco has recently acquired Voicea, where Mohamed was a co-founder and chief architect; he led architecture and a team working on ASR, NLP, and interacting with EVA (the Enterprise Voice Assistant). At LinkedIn and Microsoft, Mohamed led AI and big data teams that served hundreds of millions of users; he co-authored a book, Computing with Data (https://computingwithdata.com/), that explores the big data industry. Mohamed has also been teaching Deep Learning as a teaching assistant at Stanford.