Learn To Build Engaging  Voice Experiences With Alexa Skills Kit

Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events produced by Amazon. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences, hear the latest on UI design, and industry trends. Join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers.
 

Kindly carry your laptop and charger.

An Amazon Developer account is recommended.

 Event Details

When:

17th Sep 2019
9:00am - 5:00pm

Where:

ITC Gardenia
45, Lavelle Road, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar
Bengaluru,  KA

Course Level:

Basic / Intermediate

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Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Registration

https://alexadevdayblr2019.splashthat.com/

Check-in for the event. (Don't forget to bring your email confirmation for the event

9:30 AM TO 10:15 AM

Keynote - Alexa Everywhere

Amazon's Vision of Alexa and how you can be part of the voice technology era.

10:15 AM TO 11:30 AM

Skill Building 101

- Build your first Skill (English/Hindi)

- Adding the Hindi language model to an existing Skill

- Guidelines and Best Practices (English/Hindi Skills)

11:30 AM TO 11:45 AM

Tea Break

Network with participants and interact with speakers

11:45 AM TO 12:30 PM

Response Building with Alexa

- Voice Strategy for your skill
- Using Polly Voices
- Using SSML to create engaging experiences

12:30 PM TO 1:30 PM

Lunch

Meet fellow developers over lunch and start building your skill.

1:30 PM TO 3:45 PM

Situational Design

- Shifting from screen to voice
- Voice Design Jam
- Demos

3:45 PM TO 4:00 PM

Tea Break

Network with participants and interact with speakers.

4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM

Event Wrap

- Get Sticky: How to Keep Customers Coming Back for More
- New Releases and Next Steps with Alexa
- Conclusion

Speakers:

Sohan Maheshwar

(Alexa Developer Evangelist)

Sohan is an Alexa Evangelist at Amazon. His role involves inspiring and helping developers build incredible voice experiences using Alexa. Sohan has earlier worked as a developer evangelist for Gupshup and InMobi. In his spare time, you will find him either consuming pop culture or tossing a frisbee around.

Amit Jotwani

(Alexa Developer Evangelist)

Amit is an Alexa Evangelist at Amazon. His role involves inspiring and helping developers build incredible voice experiences using Alexa - the voice service that powers groundbreaking Amazon devices like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and more. Passionate about beautiful design, and elegant code. An ice cream craver, cricket fanatic, and a chai latte addict. By day you can find him at his desk cooking up beautiful Ruby, Python, or JavaScript. By night, he loves catching up on the re-runs of Seinfeld.

Akersh Srivastava

(Sr. Alexa Solutions Architect)

Akersh Srivastava leads Solutions Architects at Amazon Alexa who connect with creators, developers, and entrepreneurs to trail blaze in the new world of intelligent, voice-enabled user interfaces. Akersh has driven innovation and launched cutting-edge platforms across Fortune 500 retail and telecommunication companies as well as startups. Akersh firmly believes that in order to thrive, as a business, as individuals, or as a team conventional wisdom needs to be challenged, and change must be embraced.

Karthik Ragubathy

(Solutions Architect, Alexa Skills Kit)

Karthik is a Solutions Architect for Alexa Skills Kit at Amazon. At his role, he works closely with developers and helps them build their ideas for the Voice First revolution. Before Amazon, he worked with Dabble Lab, another voice first company - where he worked with Enterprises and built Alexa Skills for an Enterprise setting.