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This episode features Noam Fine, co-founder and CEO of Hear.ai. Noam is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, having most recently founded Over.ai, which was acquired by Vonage in 2019.

In this conversation, we delve into the transformative potential of generative AI in the contact center. Not for automating conversations with customers, but for turning these conversations into insights. Insights that can lead to tremendous improvements in customer experience, and business growth.

We explore how generative AI can enable new mindsets and move beyond incremental improvements, fundamentally reshaping the way organisations approach customer service and support.

At the heart of the conversation is the concept of the "Customer Value Exchange" (CVX) - the idea of turning contact centers from traditional cost centers into strategic value centers that can provide invaluable insights to drive business growth.

We discuss the details behind the hear.ai platform and how it leverages a unique blend of small and large language models, as well as fine-tuned models, to achieve reliability and cost-efficiency in analysing customer interactions.

This episode offers a glimpse into the transformative power of generative AI in the contact center industry, showcasing how innovative solutions like the Here AI platform can redefine the customer experience landscape and drive tangible business impact.

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Join us as we dive into the evolving landscape of customer experience with Alannah Martin, Value Owner at Ovo Energy.

From applying Lean Six Sigma principles to tackling inefficiencies, to scaling conversational AI for real-world impact, we explore how technology and human-centric design drive innovation in service industries. Discover the secrets behind successful chatbots, operational alignment, and reducing cognitive load for both customers and employees.

Whether you’re a CX enthusiast or an automation advocate, this episode is packed with actionable insights and forward-thinking strategies for the new age of customer engagement.

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Every big tech company is working on foundational generative AI models and promises that the future will be different. Yet…

Large Enterprises have generative AI policies in place now that prohibit the usage of the technology. There is a gap in the middle on an opportunity emerging surrounding quality assurance and governance for generative AI applications that will enable the technology to meet its potential whilst satisfying the concerns of enterprise.

The company that is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this is Cyara. So I sat down with CEO Rishi Rana to discuss this and much more.

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Generative AI is often marketed as a magical tool—just upload your data and let the model do the heavy lifting. But the reality is far from simple. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) doesn’t work without thoughtful preparation, clear strategy, and, most importantly, quality content.

In this episode, we dive deep into the critical role content plays in the success of AI systems like RAG. Join us as we speak with seasoned content strategists and AI industry experts who have been on the frontlines of managing and optimizing knowledge bases for AI use cases. We’ll explore why the future of AI isn’t about replacing writers—it’s about empowering content designers, technical writers, and knowledge architects to create structured, optimized, and actionable information that AI can truly work with.

If you’ve ever wondered why your AI project underdelivered or how to transform legacy content into a powerful AI resource, this episode is for you.

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Dmitry is the CEO of MindStudio, an AI automation platform that's raised $36m in funding to bring AI automation into the hands of businesses. With a background at Google and ServiceNow, Dmitry has a wealth of experience in building product teams that delivery immense value. He joins me today to share how MindStudio is enabling AI transformation across the board.

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Join us as Stephan Schuessler dives into the exciting world of AI in the enterprise. In this discussion, we explore how to effectively launch AI initiatives within organizations, navigating the challenges that often arise. Whether you're just starting your AI journey or looking to optimize existing projects, this conversation will provide actionable strategies for driving AI adoption and long-term success in the enterprise.

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Jeremy Kahn has reported extensively on #technology and business covering #AI for the last years, first at Bloomberg and currently at #Fortune with excellent contacts across the field. Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future, by Kahn, is a timely exploration of the transformative impact of #ChatGPT and the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. We chat about AI's potential to disrupt industries, reshape society, and challenge our understanding of human intelligence. As AI becomes an integral part of our world, Kahn's expertise offers a crucial perspective on navigating both its benefits and risks.

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Martyn Redstone is a long-standing member of the conversational AI community and is the Founder of Bot-Jobs.com, the go-to jobs board for AI. Martyn joins me to share some new insights on the conversational AI jobs market, the impact that generative AI is having in the #recruitment space and some examples of use cases and value being explored in the sector. Bot Jobs

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Nick Allgaier is the Product Manager for Digital Assistants and Conversational AI at Lufthansa Group, and has taken the Lufthansa AI program from zero to 10 million interactions per year over chat, with more than 1 million interactions per year on voice. Nick joins me to share his learnings on scaling an AI practice to extraordinary heights. 

We cover Lufthansa’s journey and where it all began, right through to how it's operating at scale today. You’ll learn how Lufthansa is utilising generative AI and the specific use cases it’s working well for, with some of the numbers to back it up. You hear about Nick’s Golden Triangle for conversational AI use case selection and how missing any one of those crucial ingredients leaves you destined to fail. You’ll also learn Nick’s 5-step process that ensures customer experience excellence and the crucial role AI plays in that (and it’s not what you think). Finally, you’ll learn how to operate an AI service that spans multiple brands and languages.

Lufthansa is Europe’s biggest airline from a revenue generation perspective, second biggest in terms of numbers of passengers carried, and 4th in the world in terms of revenue. It houses Lufthansa, SWISS, Discover, Eurowings, Austrian, Brussels airlines and has over 60,000 staff. Getting an AI programme off the ground in an organisation of this size requires a skill and a solid approach. We’ll cover all of that and more in this episode of VUX World.

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In this episode, we explore the rapidly evolving world of #AI processors; the firepower that makes everything from training, inference and processing possible. We’ll uncover what makes these AI processors so unique and crucial in today’s tech landscape. From CPUs, GPUs and NPUs to Intel’s latest innovations. Learn how these chips work, the importance they have, and why they’re in such high demand globally. Featuring exclusive insights from leading experts at Intel, this podcast is your gateway to understanding the silicon that’s shaping our future.

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WellSaid is at the forefront of AI-generated voices and has been proving bleeding edge voice technology since late 2018. Brain took over as CEO in January 2024 and is leading the charge to scale WellSaid to new heights. Brian joins me to discuss the voice generation market, use cases, ethics surrounding voice cloning and where all this is headed.

Check out WellSaid

Be sure to read about 'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them'

WellSaid Labs Creates NPR’s First AI Podcast Episode

Go back and listen to - Speech-to-speech synthesis with Alex Serdiuk, CEO, Respeecher

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In this episode of Agony Agent, Ben McCulloch welcomes conversation design experts Ilana Meir and Peter Isaacs to tackle pressing issues faced by conversation AI designers. Ilana, a freelance conversation designer with extensive experience in AR, VR, and healthcare, and Peter, a senior conversation design advocate at Voiceflow, share insights on improving bot interactions, overcoming organisational challenges, and leveraging large language models (LLMs).

Key topics include how to navigate archaic systems when designing seamless user experiences, managing sentiment analysis in conversation design, and balancing the demands of impulsive sales teams with technical developers. They also discuss the impact of context switching for designers managing multiple brands and the challenges of fine-tuning LLMs for scalable AI solutions.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone in the conversational AI industry, offering practical advice on how to combine technical and creative expertise to build better, more human-like interactions. Whether you're refining chatbots or introducing generative AI, you'll find valuable strategies to implement right away.

00:00.0 Intro

04:58.5 Creating beautiful interactions with archaic solutions

11:05.2 Learn sentiment analysis and do emotionally sensitive conversation design

17:19.6 Educating user to speak so the NLU understands

21:17.1 Using LLMs for intent recognition

22:54.1 Meaningful success metrics

27:49.1 Advocating for a holistic view between competing stakeholders

32:38.2 Balancing Gen AI obsession with its abilities

37:30.0 How to build a chatbot that matches ChatGPT

39:19.6 Preparation before building

40:47.1 Think about frameworks where conversations will happen

41:56.6 Finetuning LLMs

44:33.6 Making people see value of CAI and experts

46:17.6 Is chatgpt a good way to show what CAI can do?

47:47.1 CXD for SaaS services with LLM solutions

51:52.1 How to advocate for your role

54:19.6 Context switching multiple brands in a services organisation as a manager

58:24.6 How to go beyond information provided by client when training an assistant

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Martin Musiol is the founder of Generativeai.net, an online learning platforms that teaches data scientists and others about generative AI. Martin joins me to chat about his experience and the value of generative AI for businesses.

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Today I'm joined by one of the founding team members of Google Assistant and all round AI legend, Vlad Vuskovic.

Vlad has been instrumental in Google's AI efforts from a product management perspective and joins us to share more on the AI tools and capabilities Google offers enterprises, as well as some practical advice for implementing successfully based on years of experience in the field.

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Falene McKenna is arguably the most charismatic member of the conversation design community. With a wealth of experience in conversation design particularly as it pertains to robots!

Falene join me to share lessons learned in designing conversations for robots and specifically about the uncanny valley: what it is, why it matters and whether we can or should cross it.

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Richard Smullen is the CEO of Pypestream, an AI automation platform making waves with its approach to design and operationalising conversational experiences.

Tune in to find out why CSAT and NPS are dead, why happiness should be your true north KPI, the future of the contact centre and what we’ll do with all the jobless call centre workers **grits teeth**. Learn the 4 missing pieces of your AI strategy and why you’re struggling to fill them.

Myself and Richard share so many similar perspectives on how to do AI right in the enterprise. This will be a bone shattering journey of cognitive dissonance if you’re not open to change. Be open. Dive in.1

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The loveholidays AI team join us to share their lessons learned from implementing the award-winning AI assistant, Sandy.

Eugene Neale, Director of Business IT and CX Engineering, and Tom Smith, Telecommunications Operations Manager at loveholidays, the UK's fastest growing and largest online travel agent, share use cases, lessons learned and best practices from years spent designing and building Sandy with Google DialogFlow.

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Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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Hazel Savage is the VP Music Intelligence at SoundCloud and the founder of Musiio; a tech company using AI to make music easier to catalogue and find.

Hazel joins us to discuss the role of AI in music, the opportunities, challenges and future.

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Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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From the granular details of measuring intent and LLM-based chatbot effectiveness to the strategic implementation of AI across business units, Eric provides an in-depth analysis on the importance of data-driven decisions in the era of AI transformation.

Join us as we discuss how businesses can leverage analytics to optimise customer interactions, the common pitfalls in current AI strategies, and the future of AI in customer service.

00:00 Introduction and UNPARSED conference - Find out more at https://unparsedconf.com

4:32 Welcom Eric Griffing

7:25 Best practice for measuring LLM agents

12:10 Differences tracking ML and LLM bots

14:00 Goal completion

19:00 What's missing

22:00 How to set up tracking on chatbots

24:50 Tracking LLM chatbots

30:37 Air Canada's chatbot issues

33:38 LLM guardrails

37:00 Using data to inform your AI strategy

41:00 Effort over satisfaction

44:30 Tracking customer effort in chatbots

48:40 Market demand for AI analytics

55:40 Wrap up

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Learn more from Dashbot:

https://www.dashbot.io/blog/360-bot-framework

https://www.dashbot.io/blog/inside-the-black-box-analyzing-your-llm-bot

https://www.dashbot.io/blog/navigating-the-shift-from-intent-based-to-language-model-chatbots

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Ofer Ronen is an ex-Googler with some immense experience in deploying AI systems for large enterprises including the infamous example of Agent Assist at Verizon. Ofer’s third startup is tomato.ai, a company that has AI technology that’ll strip away your accent! Or soften it, rather.

Ofer joins us to share his lessons learned from years of deploying AI in the enterprise, as well as the use cases, value and technicalities of this new breed of AI technology: voice filtering and accent softening.

Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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Chris Ezekiel is founder and CEO of one of the longest standing conversational AI platforms, Creative Virtual. Chris joins us to discuss the changing landscape of conversational AI and the recipe for longevity and long term success.

Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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How can AI make your job search easier? I'm joined by Head of Product - Conversations at Total Jobs Group, Somnath Biswas to discuss.

Som has immense experience in project management and AI and knows what it takes to make AI work at scale. He joins me to share some lessons in implementing conversational AI in a highly stressful and emotional situation: the job search.

Do customers want this? What conversations do they want and need? How can you make sure you can serve those needs at scale? What people, process and technology do you need to make it happen? What's the role of generative AI and large language models? And what does the future of job hunting look like?

Let's dive in!

00:00 Introduction

04:27 Welcome Somnath

09:25 Organised groups

11:50 Conversational interfaces

17:45 Measuring lifetime value

20:15 Next steps after conversational formats

28:00 Making improvements

36:00 Model producing responses

38:55 Multi agent

46:40 Augmented retrieval

52:22 User / response input stage

58:50 Different prompt criteria

1:04:40 Outro

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This immersion into the world of contact centre technology coupled with extensive operational experience has formed the backdrop to Nerys carrying out regular Contact Centre audits, Delivering Transformation programmes; Judging prestigious awards like the European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards; Chairing the DMA Contact Centre Council for 3 years and being a regular on the webinar, keynote and podcast circuit talking all things Contact Centre.

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Welcome Nerys

05:30 Managing contact centres - what did they get right?

07:40 Barriers to getting things right

12:00 Mandating self service options

16:25 The voice channel

25:00 Better service models

31:15 What the future of the market looks like

36:40 Labour market in contact centers

49:50 Context of conversations

57:00 Responsible AI

1:00:20 The next 12 months

1:01:50 Outro

Vist Nerys LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/neryscorfield/

Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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Join us for a thought-provoking episode of VUX World, with Brandon Nott, CPO, Amelia, and Nick Orlando, Director of Product, Amelia. Amelia is an enterprise conversational AI platform at the forefront of integrating Generative AI (GenAI) within the AI ecosystem.

We'll dive into how GenAI revolutionises dialog systems for transactional tasks, emphasising its role as a tool that, when combined with classical AI, unlocks unparalleled efficiency and creativity. We will cover the essentials of deploying conversational interfaces, the strategic balance between GenAI and classic platforms, and the nuanced decisions behind selecting the right mix of AI solutions based on context, risk, and operational requirements.

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Scott Hamilton is the Principle, Banking and Lending Strategy Leader at Prodigal Tech, an actionable intelligence platform for consumer finance.

Scott's background is in lead six sigma and joins me to speak about why for most organisations, your AI automation journey is in fact one of process design and how lean six sigma can help businesses create the automation strategies they're dreaming of!

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Join us on VUX World for an enlightening episode with Ian Robertson from the Forum, where we delve into the dynamic world of Customer Experience (CX). In this discussion, we'll explore the critical successes and oversights of today's CX leaders, unraveling the common challenges and emerging trends that are shaping the industry. A key focus will be on speech analytics and its interplay with AI - understanding its potential, limitations, and why it hasn't yet become a mainstream tool. We'll discuss the importance of linking what customers say to their actions and outcomes, emphasizing the need to start with identifying the problem rather than jumping to solutions. Ian will shed light on the right questions CX leaders should ask for AI success and why AI solutions often end up isolated. We'll also touch on the significance of silence in speech analytics, the hurdles in acting on data insights, and the balance between striving for perfection and accepting reality. This episode promises to offer a deep dive into the complexities of CX, enhanced by real-world case studies from Capita, The Times, and Anglian Water.Join us as we dive into the details.

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Pete Kemp is a Principle Consultant at FSP, a consulting firm aimed at accelerating digital transformation for brands. Pete was previously the Managing Director of EBM, an enterprise conversational AI platform providing AI automation technology and services. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the practicalities of implementing AI at scale and now works pretty much exclusively with implementing Microsoft Copilot within large enterprises.

This episode is all about the lessons learned from this journey of enabling large brands with Microsoft Copilot.

For those that might not know, Microsoft announced Copilot in 2023; an AI assistant that integrates with Bing, Edge, Windows, Microsoft 365. A one stop shop for all your productivity needs. It also announced Copilot Studio, a development environment where you can build your own Copilots and custom GPTs for your enterprise use cases.

No doubt this is an exciting area for Microsoft customers and those interested in the practicalities of implementing generative AI.

Join us as we dive into the details.

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Byron Reese is a serial entrepreneur with a quarter-century of experience building and running successful technology companies, with multiple acquisitions, IPOs and patents along the way. He is an award-winning author of books such as Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think, and; The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, a book that tackles artificial intelligence, robots, automation, and the future of work. He’s a speaker and futurist, with a strong conviction that technology will help bring about a new golden age of humanity.

Byron currently serves as the CEO of JJ Kent Incorporated, a venture-backed technology company that recently launched Scissortail.ai, a proprietary artificial intelligence tool set to inform new product and listing strategy, and delight consumers.

I’m honoured and delights to be joined by Byron for this episode where we’ll look at the unavoidable future of AI and its impact on our lives.

Why does your belief in a monistic or dualistic reality determine your view on what computers can or can’t do?

Unparsed, the world's most loved conversational AI conference returns with more punch, more passion and more impact! Buy your tickets now here - https://www.unparsedconf.com/

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What can we expect from AI over the next 12 months? What kind of use cases will make it to production and add value? What will the impact be for businesses that leverage it? What will be the challenges and hurdles we’ll need to overcome to make it work? And what does one of the market leading AI automation platforms plan to do about it?

Join me as I speak with the CEO of Cognigy, Philipp Heltewig, and dive into the year ahead in AI..

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Liz Stokoe is an author and professor at the London School of Economics

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A few months ago we reached out to conversation designers to ask what challenges they struggle with. The idea had come from a conversation with Ilana Meir at Unparsed, who thought an ‘agony aunt’ for Conversation Designers could be useful and fun, just like Dear Abby helps people with personal problems. 

Why would we want that? Well, this role isn’t well defined. We have some trailblazers in the industry to inspire us, and we have some great books and courses, but still there’s a lot of questions that a conversation designer might not be able to answer. Someone may be a team of 1 at a large company for example, where they can’t ask a mentor for advice.

So, we’ve got two leading lights of the industry to answer crowdsourced questions from the conversation design community! We have Rebecca Evanhoe, who is an experienced conversation designer and co-author of Conversations With Things (which is hands-down one of the best CxD books), and we have Wally Brill, who has been at the coalface of conversation design at companies like Nuance and Google.

So, consider this to be the mentoring session you always wanted but could never arrange. When else are you going to get advice from Rebecca Evanhoe and Wally Brill, answering the specific questions that many conversation designers are struggling with, right now? 

Get yourself a warm beverage and tune in.

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What a wild year it’s been in AI. Every second minute, there’s a news story. If it’s not Open AI burning down, then reassembling, it’s more funding, more breakthroughs, more products and more capabilities. Businesses across the world have finally woken up to the disruptive potential of AI, but what are they doing about it?

I’m joined by Frank Schneider, AI Evangelist, Verint, to run through some of the highlights of the year, appraise the AI Naughty and Nice List and discuss the past, present and future potential of AI in the enterprise as we swing towards 2024.

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First, CEO Sam Altman was fired from Open AI. Then, VP Greg Brockman fled. They both then joined Microsoft and now, news is coming out about 710 staff petitioning the board, threatening to resign and join Microsoft if the board don't leave!

I'm joined by Matt Taylor, CPO, Knowbl to dive into what's going on. Also, Matt will share some new research and techniques to help enterprises make the most of large language models.

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JP is the Co-Founder and CTO of SmartBots, a platform that's making the most of Amazon Bedrock Foundation Models and enabling developers and brands to build generative AI applications. Find out about the biggest opportunities and considerations for brands seeking to use generative AI in customer experience, as well as how you can use the SmartBots platform to accomplish just that.

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Make sure to check out - Smartbots.ai

Visit JP's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaya-prakash-kommu-a1b7a911/

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Andrew Moorhouse has worked with the world’s leading consulting firms and household name brands to understand what’s really going on with CX performance. Is live chat really all it’s cracked up to be? Is NPS any good? Can it be predicted based on common conversational markers? What should you really be focusing on in order to move the needle with your customer experience automation programmes? Andrew shares all.

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Check out some of Andrews articles below!

Predicting NPS using AI and 10,000 LivePerson Transcripts

Death of Live Chat

It’s time to rethink Conversational AI

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Mara Cairo, Product Owner at Amii, joins me to chat about how businesses be thinking about AI, how you should be implementing it, what your blind spots and challenges are likely to be and how to develop your AI literacy.

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Gartner recently forecast that by 2025, 50% of digital communications will be driven by AI avatars. A company that's been using AI avatars for years to deliver AI-mediated healthcare services is Sensley.

Co-Founder and CEO, Adam Odessky, joins me to share the pros and cons of AI-mediated Avatars, as well as the Sensley story, AI in healthcare case studies and the shape of the AI market in healthcare.

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Ronald Rubens, CEO, Sentio CX joins us to share the current issues with live agent escalations and how Sentio CX AI-based routing is helping make sure that every AI agent conversation that requires escalation to live humans, is done so efficiently and effectively.

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It’s common for teams to have both programmers and conversation designers. You need both to get a solid result. They’re both aiming to create the same thing (a robust conversation with a machine) but they approach that from different angles. 

While the programmer ensures that the software is solid, and has all the right connections, the conversation designer needs to make sure that it is purpose designed for the people who will use it. Both of those roles are vital.

I wanted to get a better understanding of what a programmer thinks about! What do they need to know, and why, and how do they see the collaboration with conversation designers?

There was nobody better to ask than Justin Randall. He’s got 20 years of experience in telecoms, he’s knowledgeable, and he’s the programmer I work with every day!

We discussed collaboration for an hour. This is the part of the job that gets too little attention - how can we work together to get the best result?

Listen up to see what Justin has to say.

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Tim Friebel is the Global Experience Transformation Lead at Genesys and brings a wealth of experience in customer journey analytics; a crucial and underserved element of conversational automation. Tim joins me to share the insights and tips that'll help you understand your customers better and improve customer experience using customer journey analytics.

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Kim West is the Director of Product Marketing at Uniphore, one of the leading conversational automation technology and service companies. Kim joins us to share some of the top use cases for conversational automation across industries and shares some best practice in getting it right.

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You've seen and heard of the value of conversational AI such as chat, voice and messaging assistants for customer service, but what about using the channel as part of your content strategy? We're joined by Nick Martin, co-founder, Direqt, to discuss how media and entertainment companies are embracing messaging as a core part of their content delivery offering, and how you can too.

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Sham Aziz, Selfridges, Head of Customer Service at Selfridges and long-time customer experience expert, joins me to share his perspectives on the current and future trajectory of AI for customer experience and enterprise automation.

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Designers love to talk design. Often people focus on their favourite tools, processes, hacks and gripes. It all matters. The technical aspects are just as important as well. We’re designing conversations with technology - we need to get intimate with the benefits and limitations of machines so that we can succeed.

What about the social/collaborative side of the job though? We all know that’s a huge part of the job, but so few people seem to be talking about it.

That’s why Millani Jayasingkam is such a great person to talk to. She’s a senior conversation designer who knows the power of a good community. She hosts the Voice This! Podcast and runs events focused on conversational AI. 

Why does being part of a community matter to your work? What has Millani done to build communities? How did it help? 

Listen up to find out

00:00 Intro

11:43 What's Millani's favourite bot?

13:29 What conversational AI jargon do you struggle with?

19:00 Which synthetic experience would you most like to have?

21:39 With interviews we need to break the ice

23:39 Finding the right time to ask a question

26:01 People know the result, not what you'd imagined

27:12 On Voice Tech Global (formerly Voice Tech Toronto)

30:15 We're part of communities that evolve

33:52 We need communities to learn from

37:35 Tech and design isn't enough, we need communication

42:56 We all contribute to the community

46:04 The tables are turned - Millani asks Ben

49:12 The Conversation Designer's Links board on Notion

52:33 People respond well to genuine curiosity

54:20 How does Ben keep up to date?

56:10 How does Millani keep up to date?

57:10 Conversation designers need to keep talking

59:42 An observer to a recorded conversation also participates

01:01:02 Outro

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Are we coming to the end of the hype cycle with Large Language Models? Are we finally finding where they fit best in enterprise automation? Are are we still rolling through the hype? Matt Taylor, Co-Founder and CPO, Knowbl, joins us to shine a light

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Braden Ream is back on VUX World for the third time after some pretty big changes at Voiceflow. Raising another round of funding and repositioning the platform in light of significant adoption in the wake of the large language model attention, has Voiceflow making moves to become the leading conversational AI platform.

I chat to Braden about the new direction of the company, the recent additions to the product and how designers and developers are using Voiceflow to design and build LLM-powered applications.

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