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Amir will share his analysis of the bot ecosystem on Slack from his unique perspective, with insights into bot adoption, retention and other metrics.

Information design leader and expert researcher Erika Hall discusses her practices as applied to creating bot experiences that work for all kinds of users.

The QZ app for iPhone is a fresh, message-based news experience. Hear about the content editor that Quartz built to simplify workflows for their team of writers to deliver news in this new context.

The team from Facebook Messenger will present unique opportunities for developing on their platform and give tips for successful interactions with their massive userbase that is now over a billion active users.

Don loves living in the interfaces between layers, whether it’s bridging languages, systems, or developers. He enjoys statically typed languages and sailing, and lives with his wife and daughter in California.

Co-founder of Howdy and creator of Botkit delves into the architecture and design of today's bot applications.

Ilya will demonstrate some cutting edge NLP tools available for bot builders to create robust, conversational experiences. The Api.ai platform, which has over 65k developers, offers one-click integrations for painless, cross-platform deployments and is now a part of Google's product family.

As one of the bots that launched at Facebook's F8 conference this year, weather bot Poncho has certainly been in the spotlight. The product team will talk about the launch and their continued work on the popular bot.

Esther created a successful personal bot to act as a resume and talk to recruiters. We’re excited to hear about the founding of Olabot and why she thinks everyone should have a personal bot assistant.

Max was the primary engineer for Marsbot, a bot that delivers contextually-aware, proactive recommendations based on Foursquare data.

The team from PullString will discuss their artful approach to design and character building from their experience building Hello Barbie, a conversational toy for children.

Lauren designed Ghostbot, built by her company for the privacy app Burner to safely manage online dating contacts through bot interactions over SMS.

DC brings his experience developing a language-learning chatbot for WeChat. By identifying features and tools not obvious on the surface, he'll talk what could be coming to western platforms and implications for developers.

eContext built the world's largest semantic classification engine. Their chatbot, which classified Wal-Mart's product library via its public API, demonstrates how semantic understanding supports a more fluid experience for consumers.

Kip is an AI chat assistant for team shopping. These founders will present their bot and talk about developing a strong visual language for your bot interface from their experience.

Abe is a bot that talks to you about your finances across many platforms. Rob will talk about continuing a cross-platform conversation with human intervention.

Mica was one of the first bots approved by Facebook Messenger's bot platform. Barbara will share insights to her design, development and release process.

Hear Christian outline unique marketing opportunities in the messaging space and give insights into his company's most successful campaigns for global brands.

Tom explains that bot builders can't afford to just think about building for one or two platforms; they need to think about cross-platform deployment given the highly fragmented nature of the ecosystem.

AdmitHub co-founder Drew Magliozzi will share the impact of their SMS-based chatbot aimed at improving enrollment and student retention in higher education.

Andy and his team at Automat are obsessed with making bots better than the phone-based IVRs and virtual assistants they’ve spent the last 15 years building.

Mitch and Gavin will talk about Watson's journey from a Jeopardy winning research project to a suite of cognitive services that allow anyone to give anything a conversational interface.