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Learn to build more natural and complex interactions in the Advanced Voice track.

  • Building Rich and Satisfying Alexa Games

    How can we use different techniques and AI dialog management systems to deliver on the promise of natural voice experiences? This session will reveal how Alexa Conversations can unlock new kinds of customer experiences. Join this session to hear from Steven Arkonovich, Alexa Champion and Nick Cuneo, Lead Developer at iRobot.

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  • I Want It All! Engage Customers with Skills that Combine Audio and Visuals

    Customers love immersive voice experiences. Learn how to build compelling, visually rich Alexa skills that bring customers in to your experience. Respond to voice, touch, and remote input with audio and dynamic visuals that come to life with animation. Join this session to hear from Ethan Richardson & Mohan Raj, Co-founders of APL Themes, Kristy Caster Software Development Engineer at Amazon, and Mebz Qazi, Solutions Architect from Audible.

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  • Acquiring and Managing Skill Traffic

    Learn how to capture more skill traffic, monitor your improvements, and acquire traffic from new sources. Hear from Alexa Champion, Nick Schwab about how he's leveraginga analytics to make improvements for his customers.

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  • Improve Your Alexa Skill Building Workflow

    Maintaining your code, and your productivity, whether you work alone or on a team, is paramount to creating experiences that your customers will enjoy. Learn to scale with the latest in automation, the SDK, plugin integrations, and the Command Line Interface (CLI). Join this session to hear from Dustin Coates, Alexa Champion and Federico Block from Spanish Voice Sudio, Mindgeist.

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  • Fresh Air for Alexa Skills: Take Your Voice Experience Out the Door

    Customers are now taking Alexa out of the house and expecting skills to support a new set of use cases. This session helps you build skills for devices like Echo Buds, Echo Frames, Echo Loop, and Echo Auto. Hear from Dr. Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist of Uber.

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  • Integrate Mobile Apps with Alexa Skills

    Voice can be used to quickly and naturally access the content users want. Mobile apps provide a rich multimodal interface to complete tasks with touch. Join this session to learn how to bring Alexa skills and mobile apps together seamlessly.

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  • Acquiring and Managing Skill Traffic

    Learn how to capture more skill traffic, monitor your improvements, and acquire traffic from new sources. Hear from Alexa Champion, Nick Schwab about how he's leveraginga analytics to make improvements for his customers.

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  • Improve Your Alexa Skill Building Workflow

    Maintaining your code, and your productivity, whether you work alone or on a team, is paramount to creating experiences that your customers will enjoy. Learn to scale with the latest in automation, the SDK, plugin integrations, and the Command Line Interface (CLI). Join this session to hear from Dustin Coates, Alexa Champion and Federico Block from Spanish Voice Sudio, Mindgeist.

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  • Use Alexa Connect Kit to Connect Devices to Alexa More Easily, Quickly and Economically

    Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) enables developers to quickly and easily create Alexa-compatible smart devices without managing cloud services, writing complex networking and security firmware, or even creating an Alexa Skill. In this session, attendees will learn how to build an Alexa-connected device with ACK. Join us and learn how to significantly reduce your development time and go to market faster with ACK. Hear from Leslie Hermanson, President of Mr Christmas Inc about how they used ACK to go from prototype to market.

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  • Build Your First Alexa Built-in Device

    In this session, we will learn how to create an Alexa built-in device using AVS Device SDK, Smart Screen SDK, and AVS Integration for AWS IoT. Alexa built-in is a category of devices created with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) that have a microphone and speaker. You can talk to these products directly with the wake word “Alexa,” and receive voice responses and content instantly. With the launch of AWS Integration for AWS IoT, device makers now have a new cost-effective way to bring Alexa voice capabilities to all types of connected devices.

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  • It Just Works! How Frustration-Free Setup Can Reduce Devices Setup Friction

    Frustration-Free Setup (FFS) is an Amazon program which enables device makers to incorporate technology that can make device setup as easy as simply opening a box and plugging in the device. FFS works with Wi-Fi, Zigbee, and Bluetooth-enabled devices, and we offer a variety of implementation options across these connectivity options. In this session we will dive deep into the different implementations options for FFS, examine the end to end flow of Zero Touch Setup (ZTS), and demonstrate using the SDK to quickly accelerate creating a sample ZTS enabled device. Hear from Chok Lam, CTO of TP-Link about how Frustration Free Setup has changed things for their customers.

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  • Best Practices and Tools for Creating Seamless Device Control Experiences with Smart Home Skills

    Customers are now engaging with Alexa smart home millions of times each week. How do you make your smart home product experience stand out and delight customers with great experiences using Alexa skills? In this session, we’ll discuss some best practices on how to build a high quality smart home skill, common errors to avoid, and tips to improve your latency and reliability so that you can increase engagement. Join this session to hear from George Yianni, Head of Technology at Philips about how they optimized their experience for customers.

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  • Where Do We Begin? Leverage Our Solution Providers to Build Engaging Alexa Experiences

    Interested in voice, but don’t know how to start? Join us to learn how leading companies are engaging our diverse network of solution providers (systems integrators, original design manufacturers, agencies, consulting, and professional services providers) for guidance, technical building blocks, pre-integrated solutions, and full product design services.

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  • Simplify Integrating Alexa into Your Device through System Integrators (SIs)

    Too many moving parts in your device plan? In this session, you’ll learn how systems integrators work across hardware, software, and services to bring it all together. We'll dive into how Guy Cohen, Director of Electronics Engineering at simplehuman developed their Alexa Built-in devices.

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  • Develop a Voice Strategy with Our Agency, Consulting, and Professional Service Providers

    Voice empowers your company, when you’ve got the right strategy and partners. In this session we’ll dive into examples with Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A and its partners ART S.p.A and BdSound, the voice agency Skilled Creative, and professional services provider Kilka Tech.

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  • Get to Market Now with Tested Solutions from Qualified Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs)

    You don’t need to build your Alexa-enabled device from scratch, because we’ve worked with leading ODMs to build pre-tested solutions for you. In this session you’ll learn how companies are using these solutions, and which ones are right for you.

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