Events
From developer meetups to the biggest tech conferences in the world, here are some of the places we’ve presented and will be speaking — come say hello!
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ENTER2020 — University of Surrey — UK — (Jan 9th)
Steve Worswick will be giving his first public appearance of the year on Thursday at the ENTER2020 conference. He will be giving a short presentation and appearing on a panel discussing using chatbots in the travel industry at the University of Surrey.
CES 2020 — Las Vegas (January 6th)
Lauren Kunze (CEO of Pandorabots) — will be appearing at CES Las Vegas next week. Catch her on Monday at 1pm where she will be speaking in the Artificial Intelligence — All Industry Integration session.
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Futuras In Res — Berlin (November 21st — 22nd)
Steve is both presenting and also appearing on a panel discussion in Berlin in November. Under the umbrella title of “What’s the IQ of AI”, Steve is featured in the artificial communication section of the event discussing whether chatbots can really understand us?
AI & Robotics — London (October 31st 2019)
Steve is presenting at the AI & Robotics conference in London this Halloween. Don’t be “spooked” by the unbelievable over hyped claims of AI. Come hear the truth from someone who’s been in the business for nearly 15 years.
Scaletech Conference— Toronto (Oct 23 2019)
Join Lauren in Toronto as she discusses how chatbots have gone from being a novelty to being essential for the success of your business.
TEDx — San Francisco (Oct 3 2019)
Lauren will be giving a TEDx talk in San Francisco on October 3rd. Come along to hear some amazing insights on how humans interact with chatbots.
Loebener Prize — Swansea, Wales (Sep 12–15 2019)
This Thursday through Sunday (September 12–15), Steve Worswick will be at Swansea University Computational Foundry for AISB. This year’s event incorporates the Loebner Prize — the world’s longest running AI Turing test — and a Friday open house for businesses interested in bots.
Pandorabots’ Mitsuku, which has been widely recognized as the best open-domain conversational AI in top tier press like Wired, NYT Magazine, and Radiolab, will compete for a record-breaking fifth Turing Test win.
Contact us to find out how you can license Mitsuku as the chitchat backend in your application, or visit Steve in person at Swansea on Friday, 9/13 to discuss current trends and future opportunities for bringing responsibly designed automation technology to your enterprise.
*EDIT* Mitsuku won the Loebner Prize 2019 for the 5th time!!!
Rasa Summit— San Francisco (September 24)
Lauren Kunze, CEO of Pandorabots, will be speaking on a panel covering team collaboration for building chatbots. Learn the skills and key human resources required to build a successful conversational AI strategy, tools for planning and iterating, and best practices in chatbot product management.
Stick around for the after party to meet Lauren and chat all things bots.
Norway Summit — Stavanger, Norway (June 5 2019)
Lauren is presenting an overview of the current chatbot landscape on messaging and voice channels, where organizations are in terms of adoption and use cases driving real business results, and what executive leaders must do to prepare for the coming Conversational AI revolution.
CogX — London (June 10–12 2019)
Both Lauren and Steve are speaking at the upcoming CogX festival in London. Pandorabots has also been nominated for an award, so fingers crossed!
More details coming soon.
AI and Big Data Expo — London (April 26 2019)
Lauren has a busy schedule as she delivers a keynote on how to build enterprise grade chatbots and also appears on a panel discussing chatbots in business.
Strata — San Francisco (March 28 2019)
Lauren will be keynoting at the Strata Data Conference later this month. She will discuss what 60 billion chatlogs says about human nature and our interactions with chatbots.
{develop: BBC} — Manchester, UK (March 15 2019)
Steve was invited to keynote at the internal training sessions for the technical department of the BBC. He discussed the technical side of how Mitsuku works and what goes on under the hood.
SXSW — Austin, Texas (March 10 2019)
Join Lauren Kunze in March at SXSW, as she takes part in a panel discussion on how we can control what bots learn, especially when using internet sources such as Reddit or Twitter as training sources. Also, why are most chatbots female?
This will be discussed among other bot related issues. Click below for more details.
QCon — London, England (6th March 2019)
Steve explained how he developed Mitsuku to be an ethical product. How does he deal with users who want a romantic relationship with Mitsuku or those who talk to the bot about suicide and other sensitive subjects?
More details available here: https://qconlondon.com
Business of Bots — San Francisco (Feb 5–7 2019)
Lauren presented to a packed house at the Business of Bots conference about showing steps to build, optimize, and scale enterprise grade intelligent agents.
NamesCon— Las Vegas (January 28–29 2019)
We’ll be in Las Vegas with Amazon Jan 28–29. Come by the Botathon on the 29th or drop us a line if you want to meet!
Strauhof — Zurich, Switzerland (12th and 13th January 2019)
Steve appeared at the Strauhof Museum in Zurich on the 12th and 13th of January, as part of the closing weekend of an exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein.
MetroCon — Fort Worth, Texas (11.7.2018)
Lauren discussed the Turing Test at MetroCon 2018. More details below.
VentureBeat AI Summit — California (10.23.2018)
Lauren Kunze recently appeared at the VB AI Summit in two roles. She facilitated a panel session discussing “Mastering Deployment” with panelists from Trulia, Intel and Dell. Representatives from Google, Salesforce, and Facebook were also in attendance and they talked about challenges and best practices to deploying AI in production.
Lauren also interviewed Andrew Siemion from Berkeley about SETI, which is a project to detect alien life!
More details of the interview can be found here.
Sheffield Machine Learning — England (9.18.2018)
Steve will be presenting Mitsuku to the Sheffield Machine Learning meetup on 18th September. He might even bring along a Loebner Prize for you to see!
Mobile World Congress — Los Angeles (9.14.2018)
The CEO of Pandorabots, Lauren Kunze, will be appearing on a panel discussion entitled Consumers and Natural Language Interfaces at MWC.
More details here.
Bots4U — Brazil (8.30.2018)
Steve Worswick is headed to Brazil to present at the Bots4U Conference alongside Facebook, Google and IBM and Microsoft. Details here.
Chatbots Meetup — London (7.31.2018)
Lauren will be presenting at the ever popular London Bot’s Meetup on Tuesday 31st July.
Startup Fest — Montreal (7.14.2018)
Lauren headed off to Canada to be part of a panel discussion about Conversational Commerce and how to run a successful startup.
Coed:Ethics— London (7.13.2018)
Steve Worswick presented about the design decisions underlying Mitsuku that allow her to stay good despite the constant efforts of the ethics hackers that that took out Microsoft’s Tay. Find out more in our blog post here.
Cogx 2018 — London (6.12.2018–6.13.2018)
Lauren Kunze appeared on a panel discussion talking about the future of chatbots at the recent CogX 2018 festival. Find out more about the event here.
Radiolab Podcast Mixtape (5.7.2018)
We brought the bots to Radiolab for “Robert or Robot?” — an interactive live event in NYC. You can still check out the livestream.
Details about the event can be found here.
Zukunftsatelier, Freitag (5.11.2018)
Steve Worswick is headed to Switzerland to talk chatbots: specifically giving your bot a persona, and interaction design.
MONage (4.17.2018–4.19.2018)
Lauren Kunze sat down for a Fireside Chat with Mark Stephen Meadows (Botanic) in a wide ranging “State of the Union” on the chatbot industry.
“Twenty years into the Internet Communications Revolution, Jeff Pulver saw a shift happening once again. This time the shift happened from the continued evolution of Internet Communications, AI and Computing. In May, 2016 the MONage conferences were envisioned and our first event took place in Boston in September 2016. Our second event took place in March 2017 in San Jose. Our third event was in Boston at the Boston Public Library. MONage has become the place where people who are interested in the future of the Conversational Web join together and explore. MONage returns to Silicon Valley in 2018 on April 17–19 at the Computer History Museum with 100+ speakers expected.”
AWS .BOT Launch Event @ AWS Loft (4.5.2018)
Dashbot Superbot (4.3.2018)
Lauren Kunze discusses enterprise chatbot ROI
Couldn’t make it to Superbot? Watch the video to catch what you missed!
SXSW (3.9.2018)
REALITY CHECK — PANEL CONVERSATION IN THE GIRLS’ LOUNGE
Date: Friday, March 9
Time: 2PM — 3PM
Location: The Girls’ Lounge @ SXSW — Palm Door on Sabine
Topic: Reality Check
Artificial Intelligence is expected to make big leaps in 2018. And women are playing a major role in its rise. At the AT&T Foundry and Lab locations across the country, female engineers and scientists are exploring ways to leverage AI and other technologies to improve our lives. This panel of peers explores how AI is changing the game, as well as perceptions of women in STEM.
Chatbots and Voice Assistants London (2.20.2018)
Steve Worswick’s presentation on Mitsuku, a.k.a. “the most humanlike chatbot,” was extremely well received at this regular London meetup.
French Tech Hub Future of Chatbots (12.13.2017)
Pandorabots had the pleasure of moderating an amazing group of panelists at the French Tech Hub from IBM, Facebook, Ebay, and Winnovation during a deep dive on the current and future state of the chatbot industry.
Mobile World Congress (9.14.2017)
Lauren Kunze delivered a keynote entitled “Chatbots: The Future of Customer Engagement” (video here) at the inaugural MWC Americas in San Francisco.
VentureBeat AI Summit (10.24.2017)
This amazing and intimate executive series curated by VentureBeat started off with a round table discussion on Customer Engagement led by Pandorabots, IBM Watson, and Microsoft. Then, later in the day, Lauren sat down with Stewart Rogers and Jana Eggers of Nara Logics for the AI Expert discussion after glimpsing the future from some very promising startups in the space.
MobileBeat (7.31.2017)
VentureBeat throws some of the best events. MobileBeat 2017 was a whirlwind. On day one, during a fireside chat with Coca-Cola, we were thrilled to announce some exciting projects underway with the brand.
We also had the pleasure of moderating a retail panel with another awesome partner, American Eagle Outfitters, and other brands like GAP and TGIFs.
Finally, Lauren Kunze and Clara de Soto closed out the conference with an epic presentation on AI “DON’T’s,” a.k.a. “Top Ten Battle Scars and How to Avoid Them” for your overall enterprise artificial intelligence strategy.
IEN Enterprise Chatbots & Virtual Agents (5.15.2017)
Panel discussion with Nationwide, AirBnB, Pandorabots, and Pullstring. Check out this coverage and video from TechTarget.
Dashbot Superbot (5.9.2017)
Dashbot threw an excellent two day conference including our fun and insightful panel on monetization with Ebay, Fandago, Swelly, and moderated by Ellen Huet of Bloomberg news.
Monage (3.23.2017)
Presented at Monage in sessions on Customer Engagement — including our Yamato Transport Case Study — and real business results in the enterprise.
SXSW — Ready or not, the Bots have Risen (3.11.2017)
Botness (SF & NYC)
Botness is a biannual gathering in which industry insiders, including tech giants like Slack, Google, IBM, and Facebook and industry leaders and trailblazers, discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement. We work together to shape the evolving technologies to support innovation and open collaboration.
At Lauren’s talk in NYC, we dug deep on why Customer Service chatbots often fail, as well as what is working with some real customer examples and KPIs.
Leade.rs of Chatbots @ LinkedIN HQ (9.13.2016)
Enjoyed a fireside chat with Ellen Huet from Bloomberg at LinkedIN.
Singularity University Global Summit (8.28.16)
Lauren reunited with Phil Libin (formerly CEO @ Evernote and investor at General Catalyst, now at All Turtles AI startup studio) on stage for a fireside keynote on chatbots and AI moderated by the one and only Loic LeMur.
MobileBeat (7.13.2016)
MobileBeat 2016 was all about the bots. We gave a short, lighting round presentation and Lauren Kunze joined panelists from Chatfuel, Booking.com, and Expedia in a fascinating discussion monitored by SmarterChild’s creator.
Leade.rs Paris (5.13.2016)
Had a blast at the inaugural Leaders conference in Paris! After a short talk on the future of the industry, Lauren Kunze sat down with Phil Libin for a fireside chat on chatbots and how the technology with revolutionize computing.
