9+

Hours of content

29

Speakers

4

Interviews

Overview

The second annual Virtual Assistant Summit took place in San Francisco on 26-27 January 2017. The program included: Anjuli Kannan, Software Engineer at Google; Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO at x.ai; Rachael Tatman, PhD Candidate at University of Washington; and Justin Woo, Developer Evangelist at Jibo.

Topics at the summit included: Virtual Assistants in Healthcare; Advancements in Deep Learning and Speech Recognition; Building Virtual Assistants; and the Personalization and Characterisation of Virtual Agents.

Featured Presentations

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AI Assistant in the Job of Home Security

George Platon, CTO & Founder at Buddyguard

Protecting your home is not longer only the job of the police or a good dog. In the new social era we are living, we need smarter solutions, smarter assistants, that can recognize and identify easily our friends, from intruders or unwanted presence. Such solutions should adapt to the home...

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6 Month Highlights Montage

The first 6 months of 2017 have been jam-packed for the RE•WORK team, with thirteen events having taken place across three continents, covering an array of topics in Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Here is a compilation of some of the highlights of the first half of the year here...

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Personalization of Virtual Characters and Assistants

Oren Jacob, Co-Founder & CEO at Pullstring

As an increasing number of bots come to market, we’re challenged to personify virtual characters and assistants to create experiences that audiences want to continually engage with. But true character cannot be algorithmically derived. As the platform behind bots for Activision’s Call of Duty, Marvel’s Doctor Strange, and Amazon’s The...

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How Chatbots Will Revolutionize the Way We Get Things Done

Stefan Kojouharov, Founder and Editor at Chatbot’s Life

Why is AI Back in the Spotlight?

Jordi Torras, CEO & Founder at Inbenta

The Emergence of Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA)

Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO at x.ai

Interview with Dennis Mortensen, x.ai - Virtual Assistant Summit, San Francisco 2017

Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO at x.ai

PANEL: Virtual Assistants in Healthcare: Will They Assist or Replace Humans?

Cathy Pearl, Google; Arturo Devesa, MedWhat; Alex Brokaw, Independent; Pawan Gupta, Curofy

The Human Future of Machine Intelligence

Rick Collins, Presidnet of Enterprise at Next IT

VPA for Infotainment and Seamless Driving Experience: A Vision for Renault Cars

Lionel Cordesses, Innovation Project Manager at Renault

Conversational AI, A Use Case on the Path to Generalized Artificial Intelligence

Jack Crawford, CEO at datalog.ai

Social, Affective Virtual Characters: Augmenting Rapport and Customizability through Personality

Ulysses Bernardet, Postdoctoral Researcher at Simon Fraser University

Bot Toolkit Overview

Amir Shevat, Director of Developer Relations at Slack

Smart Reply: Learning a Model of Conversation from Data

Anjuli Kannan, Software Engineer at Google

What it is like to Raise an AI Friend

Eugenia Kuyda, Co-Founder & CEO at Luka

Importance of Accurately Labeled Data for Topical Machine Learning

Stephen Scarr, CEO at info.com & eContext

A Virtual Personal Finance Specialist for the 99%

Sam Artioli, CTO at Abe.ai

The Making of Jibo, the First Social Robot for the Home

Justin Woo, Developer Evangelist at Jibo

Can You Lend Me a Hand? Helpers of the Future

Elena Corina Grigore, PhD Candidate at Yale University, Social Robotics Lab

Technological Unemployment: Fact or Fiction?

Bart Selman, Professor at Cornell University

Interview with Elena Corina Grigo, Yale University, Social Robotics Lab

Elena Corina Grigore, PhD Candidate at Yale University, Social Robotics Lab

Bots Have Feelings Too -- How I'm Building an Emotionally Aware Bot

Danny Freed, CEO & Founder at Joy

Interview with Arte Merritt, Dashbot.io

Arte Merritt, Co-Founder & CEO at Dashbot.io

Predictive Commerce Technologies and Shopping Assistants

Phillip Bückendorf, CEO and Co-Founder at Hiro

Leveraging Insights from Human Speech Perception for Speaker Dialect Adaptation

Rachael Tatman, PhD Candidate at University of Washington

Got Data? Build a Better Bot with Analytics

Arte Merritt, Co-Founder & CEO at Dashbot.io

One Step Further for Family Robots -- Voice Programming in Daily Life Applications

Tin Lun Lam, Founder & CEO at NXROBO

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