Monday, April 24, 2017
                
                        
								
                                    
                                    Speeding to Success: Quantifying the Customer Experience
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Building Cross-Platform Conversational User Experiences
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Conversational AI in the Gaming Industry
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Has Tom Cruise Ever Won an Oscar?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    The Conversational User Interface Is a Minefield
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Do-It-Yourself IVR?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Solution Sessions - Interactions
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Achieving Digital Transformation Through Intelligent Virtual Assistance
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Defining the Digital Customer Journey & Owning the Micro-Moment
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Modernize Your IVR, Get Ready for Digital Self-Service
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    IVR to Digital Journeys—The New Landscape
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Chat Is the Failure of Digital Self-Service
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Solution Sessions - Convergys
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    An Intelligent Assistant for High-Level Task Understanding
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Driving Enterprise Success through Conversational Virtual Assistants
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Creating an Effective Company Digital Assistant
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Hey Siri, Should I Have My Own Branded Intelligent Assistant?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Making VUI Designers Out of Thousands of Developers
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Solution Sessions - Omilia
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Can You Trust Them?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Will Digital Assistants Kill Our (Remaining) Privacy?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Latest Achievements in Speech Recognition, Full Speaker Diarization, Bird Song Recognition, and More
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Extracting & Using Gender, Age, Emotion, & Language From Speech
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    The Deep Learning Breakthrough & How It Will Revolutionize Conversational AI
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Solution Sessions - Empirix
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
                    
             
        
            
                Tuesday, April 25, 2017
                
                        
								
                                    
                                    Chatbots vs. Voicebots
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Standards for Virtual Assistants
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Are We Close to Really Universal “Speech as a Service”?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    KEYNOTE PANEL - The Way Forward: Keeping Speech in the Conversation
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    What Is So New About Chatbots?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Unified Natural Language for Messaging Bots and IVRs
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Voice Services in the World of Bots
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Speech in the Connected Car: Embedded Versus the Cloud
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Medical Case Studies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Should I Add Voice Interaction to My Hardware Product?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Spoken Language Interaction With Autonomous Devices
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Voice Biometric Speaker Verification Fused Into Voice-Enabled Devices
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Why You’ll Want a Robot
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Digital Transformation Case Studies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    The Cooperative Principle in Conversation Design
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    In Conversation, There Are No Errors
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Digital Assistant With Co-Pilot Expertise
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Conversational Turn-Taking & Social Robotics
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Business Case Studies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Are SLMs the New Panacea?
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Keys to Measuring an NLU Implementation
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Why Some Conversational Apps Actually Work, and How to Build One
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Enterprise Use Cases for Speech Technologies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    IVR Case Studies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
                    
             
        
            
                Wednesday, April 26, 2017
                
                        
								
                                    
                                    Grammar Tuning for Newbies
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    A Hike on the Slopes of Uncanny Valley
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Patent & IP Update
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    KEYNOTE PANEL - The Future of Conversational Robots
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Speech Analysis Detects Early-Stage Diseases
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Speech Technology for Augmenting Language Learning Experiences
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Blending Self-Service & Assisted Service
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Adding Visuals to Voice
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    PANEL: Explaining Tuning Data to Managers
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Business Intelligence: The Most Meaningful Metrics
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                                
                                            
                                    
                            
                    
                        
								
                                    
                                    Now Trending: Voice Biometrics
                                
 
                                
                                        
                                    
                            
								
                                    
                                    Unknown Unknowns in Call Centers