Meetup #9 - Chatbots for the workplace

For our 9th meetup, we are delighted to welcome Slack and IBM for two amazing talks about the latest trends in the conversational workspace.

Slack’s platform team is coming to Europe to bring together programmers, founders, and bot builders who are building the future of work. You’ll learn how to leverage our platform for your team or Slack’s millions of users. You’ll hear about the latest security, technical, and design best practices for interactive Slack apps. And you’ll get plenty of time with our developer relations team to ask questions, share ideas, and give feedback on our roadmap. Come show us what you’re working on!

Spots are limited, so register today.

PROGRAM

Rethinking interactivity: How your app can make messages come alive in Slack

Conversational UX can be more than a back-and-forth exchange between user and bot. Messages in Slack can be your canvas to facilitate smarter workflows for your users. In this talk, Slack developer advocate Jason Roche will teach you best practices for building interactive messages that increase engagement and help people complete more complex tasks. You’ll learn what qualities make a workflow a good candidate to bring into Slack, and you’ll come away with strategies for making it happen – whether you’re building just for your company or the Slack App Directory.

Jason Roche, Developer Advocate, Slack

Twitter: https://twitter.com/roach?lang=en

Jason Roche is a developer advocate on Slack's developer relations team, building SDKs and developer tools that make the experience building a Slack app as enjoyable as possible. In a previous life, he was an engineer and API policy specialist at Twitter. He spends too much of his time mining the internet for great animated GIFs, which he pronounces with a hard “g.”

Enterprise-ready chatbot development

Learn the best practices in chatbot development for enterprises. What constraints should you consider? What solutions can be proposed ?

Javier Gonzalez Helly & Yan Georget, co-founders, Botfuel

Twitter: https://twitter.com/botfuel?lang=en

Create your Slack bot in 5 minutes

Everyone heard about chat bots but till now, it's not obvious how to create one.

With this live coding demo, I will show you how to develop your own one without coding skills.

You don't have to be a developer, just a curious and creative person. At the end of the presentation, you'll be able to play with Node-RED, the visual programming tool from IBM and Slack API, the simplest yet amazing chat platform for your bot.

Yacine Rezgui, Watson Developer Advocate