About
Lingofest is an annual two day conference that gathers technologists, students, and academicians who are interested in the emerging field of voice based technology (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana). The conference aims to accomplish the following: introduce students and young professionals to the field of voice technology, share concrete insights on building voice based products and solutions, and reflect on the impact of the mainstreaming of voice technology, and High Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, on how we live our lives as individuals and as members of a rapidly changing society.
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Lingofest overlaps with The Sundance Film Festival, which is held January 18-28, 2018, in nearby Salt Lake City. For those interested in joining us for a night at the movies, send an email to lingofest@witlingo.com
Lingofest 2018
ABOUT
Witlingo, a McLean, VA based startup focused on delivering Voice First products and solutions on platforms such Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortana, is holding its inaugural conference at Weber State University, in Ogden, Utah. The two day conference will take pace on January 25th and January 26th, 2018, and will overlap with the Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place in 2018 from January 18th to January 28th.
According to Dr. Ahmed Bouzid, Founder and CEO of Witlingo and Co-Chair of the Ubiquitous Voice Society, “the aim of the conference is to promote interdisciplinary, cross-pollinated dialogs and conversations between technology practitioners, consumers, students, writers, academicians in the arts, the humanities and the social sciences, entrepreneurs and investors in information technology.”
The Venue
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Our Speakers
9:00 am
Check-in
9:30 am
PHILLIP HUNTER (AMAZON)
Voice Interaction as Past and Future
ENTREPRENEURS ROUNDTABLE
Ahmed Bouzid (Witlingo)
Mark Tucker (VoiceXP)
Oscar Merry (Opearlo)
10:35 am
12:00 pm
LUNCH
Thursday,
Jan. 25, 2018
Friday,
Jan. 26, 2018
WEIYE MA (UVS)
Speech Recognition 101
12:30 pm
KYREE HOLMES (COMCAST)
Findings from the Field
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
Closing Remarks
5:00 pm
DEAN DAVID FERRO (WEBER STATE)
Welcome Remarks
9:00 am
Check-in
DEAN DAVID FERRO (WEBER STATE)
Welcome Remarks
9:30 am
PROF. BRETT FRISCHMANN (VILLANOVA)
Reengineering Humanity & The Reverse Turing Test
9:45 am
THE INTERVIEW
LISA FALKSON (STANFORD)
Interviewed by Ahmed Bouzid
10:35 am
AHMED BOUZID (WITLINGO)
The Elements of Voice First Design
12:30 pm
9:45 am
1:00 pm
NAVYA YELLOJI (WITLINGO)
Workshop: Ideating for Voice First
3:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: DESIGNING FOR VOICE FIRST
Moderator: Lisa Falkson (Stanford)
Brielle Nickoloff (Witlingo)
Kyree Holmes (Comcast)
Simonie Wilson (Pindrop)
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LUNCH
12:00 pm
BRIELLE NICKOLOFF (WITLINGO)
Workshop: Designing Voice First Experiences
1:00 pm
OSCAR MERRY (OPEARLO)
Findings from the Field
2:00 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: THE HUMANITIES IN THE NEW AGE OF HIGH AI
Moderator: Dean Scott Sprenger
Dr. Ahmed Bouzid
Prof. Julia Panko, English
Prof. Brian Rague, Computer Science
Prof. Luke Fernandez, Technology and Culture
3:30 pm
5:00 pm
Student Vision Essay Contest & Voice Experience Presentations and Demos.
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Prizes will include Amazon Echo Dots and Google Home Minis.
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2:30 pm
Closing Remarks
PANEL DISCUSSION: IDEATING FOR VOICE FIRST
Moderator: Ahmed Bouzid (Witlingo)
Mark Tucker (VoiceXP)
Neil Epstein (Comcast)
Praphul Kumar(Genesys)
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4:15 pm
4:15 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: SOCIAL THEORY AND HYPER TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Moderator: Dean David Ferro
Dr. Ahmed Bouzid
Prof. Eric Swedin, History of Science
Prof. Mark Stevenson, Anthropology
3:00 pm
PRIYANKA VERGADIA (GOOGLE)
Building Chatbots On Google Dialogflow
PRAPHUL KUMAR (GENESYS)
Automating the Enterprise
Allred Theater, Browning Center
Wildcat Theater, Student Union
The Schedule
3848 Harrison Blvd, Ogden, UT 84408
Lingofest 2018 will be held on the campus of Weber State University, in Ogden, Utah, and will overlap with The Sundance Film Festival.
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