Artificial intelligence - How voice is going to be the next disruptive technology. We have moved from Web first to Mobile first, now we are moving ahead from Mobile first to Voice First. I have always displayed a model architecture on building a voice bot for multiple channels. Slides were presentation by me at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) n Singapore, details of the event can be found at http://bit.ly/AI-voicebot-2018
Victor Hernandez
News Futurist, CNN Worldwide
Victor Hernandez is a news futurist with CNN Worldwide, charged with shaping critical vision and strategies around emerging technologies against CNN’s journalistic endeavors.
Prior to this role, Hernandez served as CNN’s director of national coverage where he oversaw the network’s domestic newsgathering operations including the handling of strategic response to breaking news and in-depth coverage.
His work with new media, emerging technologies and convergence is amongst the most innovative and cutting edge at CNN. Hernandez is viewed as an organization leader in the areas of new media, social networking and multimedia journalism. His leadership with the CNN All Platform Journalism initiative ensures the global news organization remains at the forefront of exciting, evolving storytelling opportunities. He has won Peabody awards for the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.
Mobile trends & how to embrace mobile to enrich the offline shopping experienceBrechtje de Leij
Keynote for the NRW Marketing Conference, 5 april 2018. This keynote is about mobile trends and the impact on the offline shopping experience. It details how you can embrace and use mobile to bridge online & offline in the right way.
"Shortened" presetation given by Geoff Peterson at ERE Expo in San Diego and First Interview event in New Orleans, March 2010. Full presentation available with FREE mobile consultations.
This presentation gives an overview of mobile technologies and the mobile recruiting landscape.
Victor Hernandez
News Futurist, CNN Worldwide
Victor Hernandez is a news futurist with CNN Worldwide, charged with shaping critical vision and strategies around emerging technologies against CNN’s journalistic endeavors.
Prior to this role, Hernandez served as CNN’s director of national coverage where he oversaw the network’s domestic newsgathering operations including the handling of strategic response to breaking news and in-depth coverage.
His work with new media, emerging technologies and convergence is amongst the most innovative and cutting edge at CNN. Hernandez is viewed as an organization leader in the areas of new media, social networking and multimedia journalism. His leadership with the CNN All Platform Journalism initiative ensures the global news organization remains at the forefront of exciting, evolving storytelling opportunities. He has won Peabody awards for the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.
Mobile trends & how to embrace mobile to enrich the offline shopping experienceBrechtje de Leij
Keynote for the NRW Marketing Conference, 5 april 2018. This keynote is about mobile trends and the impact on the offline shopping experience. It details how you can embrace and use mobile to bridge online & offline in the right way.
"Shortened" presetation given by Geoff Peterson at ERE Expo in San Diego and First Interview event in New Orleans, March 2010. Full presentation available with FREE mobile consultations.
This presentation gives an overview of mobile technologies and the mobile recruiting landscape.
Emerging Technology and Experience Design Trends 2016Mike Parsons
Discover a world of Emerging Technology and Experience Design Trends for 2016. The deck covers Mobile, Network Effect, Sharing Economy, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, and Chat & Voice as an Interface.
BOLO Social Super Forum - Tim Hayden "Mobile Impacts to Social Media"Tim Hayden
From the 10-11-11 BOLO "Social Super Forum" with Jay Baer and Tom Martin, these were my slides presented to discuss the impact that mobile behavior and smartphone proliferation have on social media in marketing and advertising.
Uncle Sam Wants You (To Optimize Your Content For Mobile)Karen McGrane
President Obama recently directed all government agencies to optimize their content for mobile, saying "Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device." Government has a responsibility to make its content available to all Americans equally. What about your organization? If the government has mandated its agencies to develop a content strategy for mobile, isn't it time you did too?
In this session, Karen will discuss why it's important to think holistically about publishing your content in whatever channel or device your customer wants to consume it — and what the risks are in not making content accessible to mobile users. Already convinced it's important? She'll also explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy, defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
The annual NMC Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education over three time horizons — one year or less, two to three years, and four to five years. This presentation gives a visual overview of the contents of The NMC Horizon Report > 2008 Higher Ed Edition. The presentation was shared at conferences all over the world in conjunction with the release of the accompanying report.
Harbor Research - The Internet of Things Meets the Internet of PeopleHarbor Research
We have entered an era where people, businesses and social organizations are beginning to understand the profound impacts awareness, collaboration, and intelligence will bring. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions, then billions, of individuals and businesses, with billions, then trillions, of smart, communicating devices, will stretch the boundaries of today’s business and social systems and create the potential to change the way we work, learn, entertain and innovate.
2014 Trends Digest Deck for Digital LeadersIan Crocombe
I summarized all the marketing trends so you didn’t have to!
- Frog Design tech trends 2014
- Most Contagious 2013
- LeWeb Paris December 2013 “The Next 10 Years”
- Journalism, Media and Technology predictions 2014
- eMarketer Key Digital Trends for 2014
- CES 2014 roundup
The last few weeks of 2013 saw a huge number of predictions, trends and lists of priorities for marketing in 2014.
I wanted to understand the digital shifts that are happening, so I digested all these 2014 marketing trends so you didn’t have to!
The big theme I’ve identified for 2014 is going to be “Marketing for a Connected World”, let me know what you think or if you’ve got any comments or questions.
Virtual Partner, Tiffany Odutoye Discusses Mobile Technology in the Meeting a...Tiffany Odutoye
Consumer experiences are very different today and necessitate a change in how we plan for, attend, and engage after events.
The mobile web plays a part. This presentation highlights a few tools that should be in your bag of tricks to make your event experiential!
Presented in collaboration with Will Burrus (247 Interactive), Nate Riggs (Social Business Strategies), and Eric Leslie (Be On Scene) at Skyline Exhibits - Columbus, OH.
Emerging Technology and Experience Design Trends 2016Mike Parsons
Discover a world of Emerging Technology and Experience Design Trends for 2016. The deck covers Mobile, Network Effect, Sharing Economy, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, and Chat & Voice as an Interface.
BOLO Social Super Forum - Tim Hayden "Mobile Impacts to Social Media"Tim Hayden
From the 10-11-11 BOLO "Social Super Forum" with Jay Baer and Tom Martin, these were my slides presented to discuss the impact that mobile behavior and smartphone proliferation have on social media in marketing and advertising.
Uncle Sam Wants You (To Optimize Your Content For Mobile)Karen McGrane
President Obama recently directed all government agencies to optimize their content for mobile, saying "Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device." Government has a responsibility to make its content available to all Americans equally. What about your organization? If the government has mandated its agencies to develop a content strategy for mobile, isn't it time you did too?
In this session, Karen will discuss why it's important to think holistically about publishing your content in whatever channel or device your customer wants to consume it — and what the risks are in not making content accessible to mobile users. Already convinced it's important? She'll also explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy, defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
The annual NMC Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education over three time horizons — one year or less, two to three years, and four to five years. This presentation gives a visual overview of the contents of The NMC Horizon Report > 2008 Higher Ed Edition. The presentation was shared at conferences all over the world in conjunction with the release of the accompanying report.
Harbor Research - The Internet of Things Meets the Internet of PeopleHarbor Research
We have entered an era where people, businesses and social organizations are beginning to understand the profound impacts awareness, collaboration, and intelligence will bring. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions, then billions, of individuals and businesses, with billions, then trillions, of smart, communicating devices, will stretch the boundaries of today’s business and social systems and create the potential to change the way we work, learn, entertain and innovate.
2014 Trends Digest Deck for Digital LeadersIan Crocombe
I summarized all the marketing trends so you didn’t have to!
- Frog Design tech trends 2014
- Most Contagious 2013
- LeWeb Paris December 2013 “The Next 10 Years”
- Journalism, Media and Technology predictions 2014
- eMarketer Key Digital Trends for 2014
- CES 2014 roundup
The last few weeks of 2013 saw a huge number of predictions, trends and lists of priorities for marketing in 2014.
I wanted to understand the digital shifts that are happening, so I digested all these 2014 marketing trends so you didn’t have to!
The big theme I’ve identified for 2014 is going to be “Marketing for a Connected World”, let me know what you think or if you’ve got any comments or questions.
Virtual Partner, Tiffany Odutoye Discusses Mobile Technology in the Meeting a...Tiffany Odutoye
Consumer experiences are very different today and necessitate a change in how we plan for, attend, and engage after events.
The mobile web plays a part. This presentation highlights a few tools that should be in your bag of tricks to make your event experiential!
Presented in collaboration with Will Burrus (247 Interactive), Nate Riggs (Social Business Strategies), and Eric Leslie (Be On Scene) at Skyline Exhibits - Columbus, OH.
MBA in Social Media by @JoeyShepp of @EarthsiteEarthsite
The Internet is having a profound impact on all areas of business. In this presentation, learn a to leverage social media media technology to power all aspects of your start-up or small business.
For years, we've been telling designers: the web is not print. You can't have pixel-perfect layouts. You can't determine how your site will look in every browser, on every platform, on every device. We taught designers to cede control, think in systems, embrace web standards. So why are we still letting content authors plan for where their content will "live" on a web page? Why do we give in when they demand a WYSIWYG text editor that works "just like Microsoft Word"? Worst of all, why do we waste time and money creating and recreating content instead of planning for content reuse? What worked for the desktop web simply won't work for mobile. As our design and development processes evolve, our content workflow has to keep up. Karen will talk about how we have to adapt to creating more flexible content.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
6. 6
Web
Search
Social
MOBILE MEANT CUSTOMERS HAD
ACCESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE – ON
THEIR OWN TERMS. WE HAD TO CREATE
EXPERIENCES THAT COULD ADAPT TO AN
INFINITE NUMBER OF CONTEXTS
10. 10
U.S. smart speaker
sales doubled in 2017
Estimated # of speakers
Shipped globally in 2017
Amazon and Google lead with
70% and 24% market share
Amazon
Google
million2016 2017
ADOBE CANALYS VISUAL CAPITALIST
13. 13
46% OF AMERICANS USE
DIGITAL VOICE ASSISTANTS
VOICE TECH IS BEING INTEGRATED
EVERY WHERE - SHOWERS, MIRRORS,
LIGHTS, SWITCHES AND EVEN TOILETS
ADOBE VISUAL CAPITALIST
15. 15
ALEXA, GOOGLE
HOME OR CORONA
BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VOICE TECH, THEY ARE MORE THAN WI-FI
SPEAKERS
16. 16
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
HARDWARE
Design
Thinking
VOICE TECHNOLOGY SITS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ALL THREE
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
USER EXPERIENCES
Play some
music
What’s the
traffic like?
How long will it
take to airport?
Set a
timer
Tell me a
joke
We see Voice as the natural next step evolution of the web let me explain it
Every wants to create a website
millions of people built web sites in an effort to capitalize on this transformative medium
When search engine arrived – We have to optimize our website to optimize to be found. How to make it discoverable.
Remember when mobile search came on the scene and were telling to get their site mobile optimized.
We first optimzed for desktop and mobile then as more and more devices started to appear, we adopted responsive design.
Once Google started favoring mobile sites in its index and de-ranking those that were not optimized, businesses started scrambling, and the ones who waited until the last minute were at a disadvantage because earlier adopters gained momentum.
Now it is the turn for voice technology.
Ok, With this in perspective, let us see where it is heading to.
Voice technology is not just a trend; it’s a paradigm shift from Mobile First to Voice first
Even in 2017 we see that the number of voice user are 35mill and in 2018 the figures are going to increase quite substantially.
IN 2018 Q1 Google is topping smart speaker sales with 3.2 million on its google homea nd min devices. While Echo was at 2.5million
Alibaba – poplin aladdin. it’s meant to be mounted on the ceiling, where it serves as a light, a smart speaker, and a projector all in one
CES 2018 - Alibaba – smart speaker, smart lamp and a product called PopIn Aladdin which has projecter, light and smart speaker which can be mounted on wall
If you’ve used it, you know it as Siri, Alexa, Google, or Bixby. But these are just the interface. Underneath it all is the software — many layers of it — from voice recognition to artificial intelligence to voice-enabled apps.
When we are talking about hardware we are talking about Smartphones, speakers, laptops, cars, Robots/toys, applicances ,wearables, TV
Next we have AI, we have amazon alexa, UBM watson, Microsoft cortona, Apple Siri and Samsung Viv
Experience – User experience we get from the devices.
Voice technology is a the intersection of all three
Voice technology is the three-way intersection of IoT (devices), AI (services), and UX (interactions).
2 kinds of development kit
ASK,- Amazon software development kit, what we use for creating skills.
AVS - This is what enables, hardwares to connect to Alexa. Say you have a raspberry pie with mic and speaker, with some AVS code, you can convert it into an Echo.
When we talk at UX – this is a separate skill all together.
Designing Voice systems becomes more important as generally users have a much higher bar for voice system compared to telephone screen or browser- you need to understand the human part of of the process and understand voice technology
Once of the concept is on reducing the ‘Cognative Load’ -
CATHY PEARL – Principles of Conversational Experience would be a good start
In comparing both channel integrations, we see some overlap. They both support Twilio, Skype, Kik, and a few others. Now Bot Framework also has Skype for Business, GroupMe, Microsoft Teams, and a few others that DialogFlow doesn't have. On the flip side of that, however, DialogFlow has Viber, Cisco Spark, Google Actions, Twitter, and a few others that Bot Framework doesn't have. Now into details of these framework exposes some surprising details. For instance, they both support Cortana, but they support Cortana in two very different ways. DialogFlow creates an export file that you can download and install into your Cortana-enabled native mobile or desktop app, where Bot Framework has the latest Cortana skills integration, thus no app is required. So if you want to take advantage of the new Cortana Skills Kit that plugs into all Cortana-enabled devices, then the Bot Framework is a must. Now together, they comprise of over 20 channels that we could plug our bot into, which is awesome. The problem is neither one plugs into Amazon Alexa directly. Good news is DialogFlow has an export feature for Alexa similar towards Cortana Export Tool. This works out great because we can start in DialogFlow, design all of our intent models, soup to nuts, then export the intent schema and sample utterances we need to cut and paste into the Amazon Developer Portal. This way we manage all of our intents in one place and just deal with the manual export/import process with Alexa. It's not ideal, but at least we don't have to maintain two different intent schemas, so I'd say that's a win.
Let take a look at few earlier adopters in different industries
KidsMD is an Alexa skill created by Boston Children’s Hospital which used Thermia.io, This skill enables users to request health information for common ailments and medication dosing, allowing for more informed decisions. KidsMD is an alexa skill which provides information about common illness and medical dosing.
We have other apps like Dr.A.I from HealthTap Inc - which engages with users in an empathetic conversation about your symptoms and immediately translates your symptoms into possible medical explanations that are personalized to your age, gender, possible conditions, medications, and other relevant aspects of your health and well being
Health Care Genius - providing easy-to-understand explanations of common healthcare related questions
Alexa diabetes challenge – 125k – Sugarpod from Wellpepper - Sugarpod is a comprehensive diabetes care plan solution that provides tailored tasks based on patient preferences.
Capital One has developed apps for Alexa and Cortana, and British bank Santander lets customers make payments via voice in its iPhone app.
UBS wealth-management clients in Europe can ask Alexa for the chief investment office’s answers to financial and economic questions
JP Morgan about the target price or tear sheet of a company. You can also ask about the bio data of an analyst or the latest research report published by an analyst
Gia from Emagia is a competiror for alexa in financial domain. - ON Financial operations
Alexa skill developed for the City of Los Angeles offers information about public events, and the city plans to connect 311 services to the skill in the future.
Mississippi and Utah are also having skills for Alexa, and at the federal level, the GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology program is exploring solutions for making government services available via digital assistants.
RTG dashboard – Govt of Andhrapradesh - provides information in areas of development and districts.
Hyundai Blue Link,
Ford was early to voice in 2007 with the launch of Sync, a communications and entertainment system that lets users make phone calls and control music. The company predicts that “nearly 90 percent of all new vehicles will have [voice recognition] onboard by 2022
With the rise of self-driving cards, auto makers are going to make use of the voice technology to add more and more functions to the voice applications.
If you go into AIS shop you will be greeting by Robots – voice technology (alexa)
Announcements from Google about Google Assistant and Google Home indicate Google’s search experience is transitioning from a mobile search experience to a Voice First experience.
Voice will play a huge role in changing the face of search, for both organic and paid traffic
We are likely moving from a ‘mobile first’ to a ‘voice first’ future. Voice is going to stay and the question is are we prepared to adopt.