Own The Conversation - Issue #6
Martyn Redstone
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you
Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 - BBC News
Firstly, a tribute to computing pioneer and one of my childhood heroes, Sir Clive Sinclair. Some of us grew up playing on and tinkering with his computers and dreaming of using one of his cars when we were old enough!
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How to sell cars in the digital era? Possibly through a chatbot - ŠKODA Career
Great article by Michal Reichl, who is responsible for Skoda’s chatbot, Laura.
Humanly.io announces $4.2M momentum raise
Great news coming from our friends Humanly.io. The recruitment conversational AI startup announces a successful momentum raise to continue company growth and product development.
Why Some Consumers Prefer Chatbots to Humans? | Landbot
Our buddies at Landbot knocking out of the park with an amazing article. Stats say human representatives are still more popular than bots. But what about that smaller percentage? Find out why some people prefer bots!
New Book | Conversational AI ♥ Chatbots that work
A new book released by Andrew Freed of IBM. It feels like a new book is released every week at the minute. I think we all need a couple of weeks on the beach to get through the ever-growing reading list.
Ex-Googlers raise $40 million to democratize natural-language AI
Their startup, called Cohere, is backed by AI luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li.
Latest Jobs
Our friends at Intuition Robotics are hiring QA engineers. You’ll be joining this amazing R&D team who are at the forefront of technology and AI, based in Israel. You get to work on the world’s coolest companion bot. And with happy hour every Thursday with beer and (probably) falafel, what’s not to like? Check out these fantastic roles here and here.
Drift is the new way businesses buy from businesses. With its quickly evolving set of tools and playbooks, Drift is the world’s leading conversational marketing platform, trusted by top enterprise businesses like Marketo, Okta, Outreach, Ellie Mae, and over 150,000 other businesses. Sales and marketing teams rely on Drift to connect now with the customers who are ready to buy now. Based in Boston, Drift was founded by serial marketing technology entrepreneurs David Cancel and Elias Torres and is backed by leading venture capitalists including CRV, General Catalyst, and Sequoia.
Senior Director, Product AI Conversational Design
Drift is the Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value, faster. More than 50,000 businesses use Drift to align sales and marketing on a single platform to deliver a unified customer experience where people are free to have a conversation with a business at any time, on their terms. Our mission is to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.
CX Conversational AI Specialist at GENERAL MOTORS
Apply for CX Conversational AI Specialist job with GENERAL MOTORS in WFH_City, Michigan, United States of America. Marketing, Sales & Service at GENERAL MOTORS
Conversation Designer, Assistant Features - Google Careers
Apply for Conversation Designer, Assistant Features via Google Careers. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts and Interviews
294 Peter Voss Your customers need a chatbot with a brain - by Bill Cushard - Helping Sells Radio
Peter Voss is a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), and he coined the term ‘Artificial General Intelligence.’ He is also the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai. For the past 15 years, Voss and his team at Aigo have been perfecting an industry disruptive, highly intelligent and hyper-personalized Chatbot, with a brain, for large enterprise customers.
An interview with Joshua Schechter, Director of Cognitive Delivery and Implementation for Amelia.
Radical Research 11 - Insights into Conversational AI for Talent Acquisition - HR Podcasters
On this episode of Radical Research, Madeline Laurano is joined by Josh Secrest, VP of Client Advisory at Paradox and former Head of Global TA at McDonald’s. As companies look closely at talent acquisition technology to help lift the administrative burden of recruiting teams and engage with candidates in a more meaningful way, conversational AI checks every box.
Upcoming Events
The AI Summit London | The World's Largest AI Event For Business
This week people! Get on it, UK-based folks. 22 - 23 September
NVIDIA DLI offers selected instructor-led workshops to the general public. Individual developers can gain access to world-class, industry-leading courses in artificial intelligence, accelerated computing, and data science.
Conversation Design Festival 2nd Edition 2021 - Nov 30 | Hopin
The 2nd edition Conversation Design Festival was announced this week by the Conversation Design Institute. Sign up early, while you can.
Closing notes
I’m in the UK, currently battling the changing seasons. The weather here is changing as much as the government policy towards travel restrictions.
As the nights are getting darker earlier, I’m finding myself hunting through Netflix for my next boxset.
I hope you enjoyed Issue #6. Hoping that this builds and improves with every issue. Let me know your thoughts (or boxset recommendations) by DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or even TikTok (not that I have worked that one out yet!).
Have a great week ahead!
Martyn, Founder @ bot-jobs.com
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