Building Chatbots with Amazon Lex and Slack

It seems everywhere you turn these days there's a chatbot eagerly awaiting the opportunity to perform tasks on your behalf and answer your questions. Do you want to get in on the action? Learn how to leverage AWS Lex (the same Natural Language Processing technology that powers Amazon Alexa) and Slack (the premier cloud-based collaboration platform) to develop conversational interfaces for your users and applications. The presenter will cover the basic concepts of developing the conversational model for a chatbot and integrating it into a platform (e.g., Slack), and will demonstrate a real-world chatbot being used in UITS to find and reserve rooms in Office 365.