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Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 13 & 14, 2018Session

Introduction to Chatbots

This session will introduce the anatomy of a dialog and then we will build a chatbot together and deploy to slack and other social media channels using IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Functions and IBM Cloud.

  • When 1:00 PM Saturday
  • Where Town Square C

About This Session

Chatbots are the new craze, but it takes a good understanding of dialogs and communication to design and implement a usable chatbot. We will learn the underlying principles of a chatbot in this talk and then build one from scratch.

In this talk, you will learn the anatomy of a good chatbot and how the various pieces fit together. We will look at - Intents: to convey purpose or goal - Entities: make logical decisions based on user input - Dialogs: design a conversation - Slots: collect important information to fulfill an intent - Digressions and Handlers: handle unexpected conversations - Analytics: improve chatbot on an ongoing basis using metrics
  • Time 1:00 PM Saturday
  • Room Town Square C

The Speaker(s)

Upkar Lidder

Upkar Lidder

IBM

Upkar Lidder is a Full Stack Developer and Data Wrangler with extensive experience in Python.