Shopify App Developers NYC: Meetup #1 Feat. Amazon Alexa

If you're interested in building ecommerce functionalities, and/or you’re actively developing ways to improve Shopify, join us on August 31st for the first-ever Shopify App Developers Meetup in NYC! For our first meetup, Amit Jotwani will be joining us from Amazon Alexa to share a story of how he created an Alexa integration that shared birthday greetings with his father in India. He'll also share some of the exciting ways Alexa can be used in ecommerce. It'll be heartwarming way to walk you through an Alexa integration and inspire you to build your own.

AGENDA

6:00-6:30 - Networking, snacks and drinks

6:30-6:35 - Introductory remarks

6:35 - 6:55 - Amit Jotwani (http://www.twitter.com/amit), Senior Developer Evangelist, Amazon Alexa (http://twitter.com/alexadevs)

6:55 - 7:05 - Q&A

7:05 - 7:30 - Community lightning talks:

• Rhian Beutler, COO of Venntov (https://venntov.com/)

• David Wagoner/Aanarav Sareen from Pollen (http://www.poln.co/)

7:30 - 8:00 - Finish up drinks, snacks and networking

8:00 - Bye bye!

We’ll have a variety of alcoholic and non alcoholic beverage options, as well as vegan and gluten-free snack options.

Attendees of our event agree to abide by our Code of Conduct. The Shopify App Developer community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

If you are being harassed by a member of the Shopify App Developer community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please alert the organizer immediately or email appdevcommunity@shopify.com .