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Derek Top, Principal Analyst & Research Director, Opus Research
Derek Top is Principal Analyst and Research Director for Opus Research, a diversified analyst firm tracking Conversational AI, Generative AI, and Conversational Intelligence technologies. For more than 20 years, he has been covering how transformative technologies improve businesses and the customer experience.
Prior to Opus, Top was senior editor and program director at GreenBiz Group. There he helped produce the VERGE conference series and wrote about how the convergence of mobile and information technologies are driving innovation for smart energy and sustainability.
Previously, Top served as senior associate editor with Optimize magazine and InformationWeek covering enterprise IT trends for CMP Media. Before joining CMP, Top was managing editor with Streaming Media, Inc.
Contact: [email protected]
Twitter: @derektop
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Opus Research Report: “Conversational Voice Response: Bringing the Best Tech Forward”
In this white paper, Dan Miller outlines how taking a Conversational Voice Response (CVR) approach augments basic IVRs with the latest technologies to create a new category of self-service platforms.
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Alight’s “Lisa” Empowers Self-Service Customer Decisions for HR Benefits Enrollment
A global provider of outsourced benefits administration and cloud-based HR, Alight turned to an automated intelligent assistant to handle complex customer conversations and create a positive business impact.
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Twilio’s AutoPilot: Toolkit Write-Once-Render-Everywhere Intelligent Assistants
Twilio, a company chartered in 2008 to support standards-and API-driven telephony apps, has launched “Autopilot”, a development platform that serves, in part as the Rosetta Stone for conversational intelligent assistance.
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Why Consumers Are Rapidly Turning to “VoiceFirst” Assistants Across All Devices
In this panel discussion from last month’s Conversational Commerce Conference, SoundHound’s Katie McMahon, VUI Inc.’s Pino Di Fabbrizio and Pullstring’s Oren Jacob discuss design and implementation considerations for “VoiceFirst” strategies.
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How Voice, Big Data and Machine Learning Are Connecting the Dots for Conversational Commerce
In a keynote conversation at last month’s C3 San Francisco, John Chambers, former CEO and Chairman with Cisco, sits down with Uniphore’s Umesh Sachdev and Opus Research to discuss how AI technologies are accelerating business opportunities.
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Autodesk’s Customer-Centric Approach In Launching a Virtual Agent (AVA)
In this featured case study from last month’s Conversational Commerce Conference in San Francisco, Autodesk presents why they launched a conversational intelligent assistant (AVA) for customer service and what they learned along the way.
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Webinar: Multifactor Password-Free Security for Computer Access
On October 11th, Ravin Sanjith (Intelligent Authentication, Opus Research) and John Spencer (Chief Product Officer, Veridium) discuss how to leverage the power of mobile biometrics for continuous seamless authentication.
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USAA, Royal Bank of Canada, Alight Solutions Named 2018 Conversational Commerce Award Winners
Opus Research Awards are intended to showcase excellence and achievement for real-world enterprise customer deployments of conversational technologies.
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Conversational Commerce Conference San Francisco 2018 – Agenda & Presentations
C3 San Francisco (#C3SF2018 – Sept 12-13, Four Seasons Hotel) was designed to help organizations unlock the power of machine learning, natural language processing, AI, continuous authentication and intelligent assistance.
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Opus Research Report: “Global Survey: Drivers For Deploying Speech Analytics (Year 3)”
Key findings from this global tracking study on speech analytics, in its third year sponsored by Uniphore, include: adoption trends by region and industry; impact of compliance regulation; growing interest in real-time applications, business objectives, virtual agents.