Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 13 & 14, 2018

Upkar Lidder

IBM
About Upkar
Upkar Lidder is a Full Stack Developer and Data Wrangler with a decade of development experience in a variety of roles. He can be seen speaking at various conferences and participating in local tech groups and meetups. Upkar went to graduate school in Canada and currently resides in the United States
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Speaking Sessions

  • Introduction to Chatbots

    1:00 PM Saturday   Room: Town Square C
    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