BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T020000 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190223T063743Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190223T063743Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190223T063743Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475130 DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the kick-off of Dynamic Talks in Portland! D ynamic Talks is an ongoing meetup series featuring technical talks from some of the leading experts in tech in major cities around the US. Enjoy talks about the most innovative subjects in: AI\, ML\, voice platforms\ , the Cloud and search. Every event is free\, with complimentary food an d drinks. In Portland\, the topic of our first event will be “Voice Plat forms\, Conversational Commerce and NLU”. The speakers for this event wi ll be Victoria Livschitz\, Founder and CTO of Grid Dynamics\, and Eugene Steinberg\, Technical Fellow at Grid Dynamics. Come enjoy a night of te chnical talks and networking opportunities at CoLab Coworking Portland i n Tigard. We hope to see you there! Agenda [6:00PM - 6:30PM]: Guests arr ive\, pizza and drinks are served [6:30PM - 7:15PM]: First talk will be presented by Victoria Livschitz on “Conversational commerce: emerging ar chitectures for smart &\; useful chatbots"\;\, followed by a Q&am p\;A [7:15PM - 7:30PM]: Networking break [7:30PM - 8:15PM]: Second talk will be presented by Eugene Steinberg on "\;Not your fathers search engine: deep learning applications for e-commerce search"\;\, follow ed by a Q&\;A [8:15PM] - 9:00PM]: More networking and the event ends Talk details: Victoria Livschitz's talk details: Title: "\;Conversat ional commerce: emerging architectures for smart &\; useful chatbots& quot\; Abstract: Smart speakers and messaging apps are increasing in pop ularity due to their convenience\, intuitive usage\, and new user experi ences. Companies are racing to develop voice interfaces and AI technolog ies in order to utilize smart speakers and messaging platforms as a sale s channel. We are introducing Grid Genie\, a completely open source\, mu lti-device\, conversational commerce platform. With this technology\, we can help you engineer a powerful platform to combine your Alexa skills\ , Google actions\, and Facebook Messenger into a single seamless experie nce. Eugene Steinberg's talk details: Title: "\;Not your fathers sea rch engine: deep learning applications for e-commerce search"\; Abst ract: In this talk\, we will discuss how recent advancements in artifici al intelligence are transforming traditional search technologies. Deep l earning-based image analysis and natural language processing open exciti ng new horizons for search and recommendation applications across the in dustries. We’ll talk about how deep learning models can help conventiona l search engines to achieve better relevance. We will share our experien ce implementing innovative solutions for online retailers\, finance and high tech customers.\n\nTags: meetup:event=258073772\, meetup:group=Dyna mic-Talks-Portland\, Artificial Intelligence\, open source\, cloud compu ting\, big data\, natural language processing\, machine learning\, data analytics\, devops\, data science\, ecommerce technology\, continuous de livery\, big data analytics\, microservices\, enterprise application dev elopment\, natural language understanding\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250475130 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Dynamic-Talks-Portland/events/258073772/ SUMMARY:Dynamic Talks: Portland - Dynamic Talks: Portland "Voice interfac es\, conversational commerce\, and NLU" LOCATION:CoLab Coworking Portland: 11481 SW Hall Blvd #201\, Tigard OR 97 223 us SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR