After the successful inaugural Conversational Interfaces Conference, it can now be confirmed that Webio is backing the second ‘bigger and better’ ConverCon conference in Spring 2018.
Webio 'The Conversational Interface for Enterprise'™ company -- announces its partnership with ConverCon to host the second Conversational Interface Conference.
ConverCon in conjunction with Webio, put on an impressive inaugural event in the Dublin Science Gallery in May this year. For a first-time outing ConverCon curated an industry event that certainly had people talking with an impressive line-up of speakers from the world's leading tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. Leading Irish companies Intercom, LogoGrab and Voysis shared a stage and contributed their thoughts and concerns for the future touching on topics such as how to design for real human experiences, and how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of our interactions.
At its heart, ConverCon brings together thought leaders from platforms, design companies, and the developer community to discuss, debate and learn from each other. "Webio is delighted to be partnering with ConverCon again on this unique event. The overwhelmingly positive feedback we received from delegates and speakers, the natural thing to do was to commit to bringing ConverCon back for a second run, says Cormac O'Neill, CEO Webio.
The 2018 event will see an evolution in that it will now run over a whole day with delegate size doubling. "Convercon 2017 was oversubscribed and we need to offer this event to a wider audience" says Paul Sweeney, Co-founder of Convercon. "We will take a deeper dive into the core themes of conversational UI, artificial intelligence and design thinking, combined with an expanded number of practical workshops in response to the feedback from the software development community".
"There are now over 100,000 bots on Facebook messenger and Amazon Alexa is nothing short of a game changer, we are at the leading edge of another technological evolution" says Sweeney. "As Marc Andreessen, General partner at Andreessen Horowitz, has said software programmes the world, and with chips in everything, the world becomes highly addressable through voice, messaging and mixed reality applications. While it might take longer than people expect to be adopted, the effects of these changes could be far more dramatic than anyone anticipates. When we were planning for broadband we thought we would get video on demand, instead we got cloud computing, a mobile workforce and huge social change".
Convercon is the place where the industry can explore these themes, challenge the assumptions, and build a future that works. ConverCon 2018 location and dates have yet to be announced.
