Own The Conversation - Issue #20
Martyn Redstone
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Own The Conversation of 2022!
Own The Conversation is a weekly, manually curated newsletter with all the news in the world of Conversational AI.
From interesting articles to funding news and the latest jobs. I hope you get everything you need, and more, from this newsletter.
New Year, New Job? Conversational AI jobs at bot-jobs.com are exploding. 434 jobs live now. Last year there were over 8600 applications made across over 1500 different jobs. Conversational AI is a fast-growing specialist industry and the skill sets are in hot demand.
Want to have your news featured? Do you want to tell us about a project you are working on, or maybe a new role, product release or piece of juicy news? Get in touch to have it featured in the newsletter.
Cheers,
Martyn @ bot-jobs.com
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you.
Voice AI Predictions for 2022 from 25 Industry Leaders - Voicebot.ai
How will voice AI develop in 2022? More than 25 voice industry pros offer your predictions for the coming year…
7 new skills to learn for conversation designers in 2022
Maaike from Convocat starts 2022 off with a bang with this fantastic article on skills that Conversation Designers should be thinking about in 2022.
Chatbots for good: A chatbot could help prevent eating disorders, new study finds
A chatbot helps reduce weight concerns in women at risk for an eating disorder, a new study found. The chatbot was deployed through texts and Facebook Messenger.
Amazon is putting an Alexa on the Orion spacecraft Lockheed Martin is building for NASA
Alexa may soon be going to space for real. Lockheed Martin, which has built the Orion spacecraft that NASA hopes will fly astronauts to the moon within a couple of years, is partnering with Amazon to put Alexa in the capsule.
Chatting with my own HereAfter
HereAfter AI’s Legacy Avatar is an AI-powered digital twin. But what’s it like to talk to yourself?
Companies Are Betting on a New Form of Conversational Commerce
Startups want to sell to consumers through text messages and chat windows.
Paradox - The Recruitment Conversation AI Platform - raised $200 million in Series C funding from a dream list of investors. But why raise $200M?
MeetKai: leading the AI speech race with pioneering features
AI Magazine looks at MeetKai, the startup leading AI and conversational search and its plans to launch its first Conversational AI
Fluent.ai and Knowles showcase wireless earbuds and voice biometrics-controlled devices
Fluent.ai’s ‘speech-to-intent’ technology is both multilingual and accent-agnostic and can enable voice commands to trigger a variety of TWS actions.
NVIDIA DRIVE IX for Self-Driving Vehicles from NVIDIA Automotive
DRIVE Concierge is built on NVIDIA® DRIVE Orin™, DRIVE IX, and Omniverse™ Avatar and uses conversational AI, natural language understanding, and recommendation engines to meet every passenger’s need.
Bavard Announces its Conversational AI Platform is Now Powered by AWS for Seamless Partner Integrations & Scalability
Latest Jobs from Bot Jobs
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
Featured Role: Conversational Designer @ Botpress - Bot Jobs
As Conversation Designer and reporting to the Head of Product, you will be responsible for designing the user experience of Botpress virtual assistants/chatbots (both for our customers and our customer-facing templates).
Senior Product Manager - Conversational AI (RX & MX) @ Phenom - Bot Jobs
In this role, the Senior Product Manager will drive the continued development of the Phenom Conversational AI platform, focusing specifically on the Recruiter Experience and Manager Experience.
Manager, Artificial Intelligence and Messaging Products @ IHG Hotels & Resorts - Bot Jobs
As a Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence & Messaging, the candidate will possess an imaginative mind set and extensive experience with delivering AI/ML driven solutions. This person is comfortable working in an innovation-focused environment – in particular, evaluating emerging trends and technologies to assess their feasibility, viability and functioning effectively in a fail-fast environment.
Sr. Conversation Designer (Chat) @ Allstate - Bot Jobs
The Senior Conversation Designer crafts, plans, develops, and evaluates new product and service concepts, enhancements to existing products and services or strategic product extensions, often working in high-profile and complex projects. They partner with research insight teams to gather and understand data and insights to inform products and services as well as test prototypes with end-users. This role is unique in its emphasis on conversation design (including chat, voice, and virtual assistant) and creating consistent, innovative experiences across channels.
Conversational Designer, Knowledge Management @ Coinbase - Bot Jobs
As Conversational Designer within the CX organization, you will be responsible for helping design world-class conversational experiences that drive customer-centric solutions and educational outcomes, helping to support our messaging platform (LivePerson), helping to establish processes and best practices for the Chatbot and tools according to developing business needs. You will have the opportunity to be part of the team shaping this important strategy.
Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts and Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Amit Gandhi, Founder and CEO, NovelVox
This is an exclusive interview with Amit Gandhi, Founder and CEO, NovelVox, who has enlightened the functions of the company with AI platform, CXInfinity, and sentiment analyzer, InfiBot, to multiple industries.
Voximplant, Interview With CEO Alexey Aylarov
Voximplant is a provider of a cloud communications platform based in Palo Alto, California. In connection with the end of the year, Alexey Aylarov, CEO, answered some questions about his background, the company, the solutions they offer, their growth path and future plans
Upcoming Events
Conversational AI-Chatbots Online Networking Event from Botrepreneurs
Online Networking Events About Conversational AI & Chatbots! Walk around in the virtual conference room and meet inspiring people! Only when you’re close enough to each other you can have a conversation. Go for “serendipity”, meet people from your country or check out “topic areas" like Conversation Design, NLU, Copywriting, Platforms & Voice to meet the professionals you’re looking for.
#Convocollective presents: New Year, New Bot - Wed, Jan 19, 2022
Hear from conversational AI experts on how they’re enhancing and leveling up their conversational products in 2022.
In this panel, we’ll discuss:
Trending use cases, tools, and strategies for voice, messaging, and multimodal products. Impacted industry sectors including Health and Wellness, Customer Service, and more.
OpenDialog Opens their events doors!
You’re into conversation design? You’ve heard of OpenDialog?
YES! Well, that means you check all the boxes to attend our virtual Advanced Conversation Design Workshop on 18th January 2022.
In this workshop, Maaike Coppens will teach you to transform a high-level use case into a dynamic, sophisticated conversation using OpenDialog. You will learn about key concepts like ‘Conversations to be had’, turn-switching and more! Oh, and did we mention we have a little surprise announcement for those that attend the workshop!!! It’s one not to miss.
THE EUROPEAN CHATBOT & CONVERSATIONAL AI SUMMIT 2nd EDITION
March 1st & 2nd 2022
Online & Hybrid!
Chatbots, AI & VOICE Conference 2022 @Metaverse
Join us in the Metaverse and network with the top industry experts from companies like Google, Amazon, Walmart.
Advantest VOICE – Advantest Developer Conference
Each year, the VOICE Developer Conference unites semiconductor test professionals representing the world’s leading integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), foundries, fabless semiconductor companies and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers to exchange information about the latest technology advancements, express new ideas, share best practices and network with one another.
4th World Chatbots Summit | Luxatia International
Join us and global executives as we return for our 4th Annual World Chatbots Summit in Berlin, Germany on May 19th and 20th. This edition will focus on expanding the range of chatbot’s internal and external use cases, adding a human touch into NLP technology and overcoming ethical and security issues.
Conversational AI Summit | RE•WORK
Discover advances in NLP, and how application can help create digital assistants, chatbots and conversational interfaces to improve customer experience & increase engagement
PEVoC14 Conference will take place live on 24-27 August 2022
The 14th Pan-European Voice Conference has been postponed and will take place on 24-27 August 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference will take place in the new building of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
What are you up to?
This is a new feature dedicated to showcasing what some of you readers are up to. Get in touch to get some airtime around what you are up to.
Nobody took the opportunity to tell us about any interesting projects, job moves, research or other activities.
This is your space to tell the Conversational AI world what’s new and exciting with you, so please let me know by DM or email.
Closing notes
So, it seems that the Metaverse is the big buzzword news at CES2022 this year. I’ve been jumping more and more into my Oculus Quest2 recently. Not only testing out Horizon Workrooms but also getting really addicted to the Lady Gaga Beat Saber music pack.
I’m hoping that this newsletter keeps building and improving with every issue. Let me know your thoughts, feedback and ideas of what you want to see by DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or even TikTok (not that I have worked that one out yet!).
Martyn, Founder @ bot-jobs.com
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