[UPDATE: Submission Deadline Extended to August 19] The IAAs recognize conversational intelligent assistants for mobile apps, e-commerce, self-service, and messaging-based chatbots that deliver business value and superior customer experience.
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Global Brands and Enterprises Gearing Up for IA-Squared 2016
Samsung, FedEx, USAA, Kaiser Permanente, Amazon, Nationwide and Toyota are among many firms interested in learning about how intelligent assistants and intelligent authentication improve the customer experience.
When Bots Go Bad: Why We Need Bot Authentication
As witnessed by Microsoft’s infamous chatbot, Tay, bad bots can become cyberbullies generating offensive tweets and potentially learning how to spam, scam and steal. How do we develop secure and safe bots?
New Watson Conversation Service Makes it Simpler to Build an Intelligent Assistant
Big Blue added IBM Watson Conversation Service to the Watson Developer Cloud in BlueMix.
Expedia’s New Chatbot Represents a First Step in Messaging-Based Intelligent Assistance
By typing a message to @Expedia within Facebook Messenger, the bot immediately responds with an offer to help you find a hotel.
Announcing Intelligent Assistants & Intelligent Authentication Conferences San Francisco (Sep 12-13)
Call for speakers for executives involved in digital commerce, customer care, emerging technologies, self-service, fraud reduction, chatbots, continuous authentication, strategy & innovation.
BetterBrand Provides Chatbot Platform for Marketing Teams
UK-based BetterBrand offers a powerful graphical conversation manager where you can build out the entire conversation, constructing possible user inputs and scripting the chatbot’s responses.
Microsoft’s Bot Framework: Platform for Conversational Intelligent Assistants
Introduced at the recent Build 2016 event, Microsoft’s Bot Framework offers a complete set of development and deployment services for building and hosting conversational agents.