Intro to Voice with Amazon Alexa
Event Information
Description
This is the first meetup of the Exeter branch of the Amazon Alexa Voice Skills Group! This group is open to all abilities and backgrounds, and we're delighted to welcome Benoit Nachawati from Amazon Alexa, to tell us about the latest updates.
You'll also learn about how Voice can boost customer experience and interaction, swap ideas, and meet others with an interest in the development of Alexa skills.
We'll be serving pizza and drinks from 18:00, before the talks start at 19:00. You are also welcome to join us earlier for an Alexa Skills 101 workshop - details below.
Intro: A welcome from the organisers, members of the Met Office Informatics Lab and Environmental Futures and Big Data Impact Lab.
Talk: Latest Updates from Alexa ~ Benoit Nachawati from Amazon Alexa
Demo: Building a live bot in 20 minutes! ~ Simon Timary & Terry Dixon from Sparck
"Was that Lorne Road or Lawn Road?" - Talking to machines about where ~ Tom Blaksley from what3words
Ahead of the meetup, there will be an afternoon event to introduce businesses to the commercial opportunities of voice apps, including a technical workshop with the Alexa team from 4-6pm. If you'd like to also join the day-time event, you can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amazon-alexa-workshop-building-voice-apps-for-your-business-tickets-65521768373
Organiser The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab
Organiser of Intro to Voice with Amazon Alexa
The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab is a £6.4m partnership of seven Devon-based, world class organisations, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
The partnership consists of the University of Exeter, Exeter City Futures, the Met Office, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, the University of Plymouth and Rothamsted Research.
We offer free support to businesses looking to capitalise on Big Data and Environmental opportunities and create new products and services. We also help academics and scientists to commercialise their expertise.
Our objective is to boost inward investment and productivity-led growth by positioning Devon as a national and international centre for Environmental and Big Data analytics. We do this by bringing together the area's world-class research & development assets and data, within a business-focused innovation ecosystem; providing support and facilitating the development of new products and services.
