Join the Alexa Skills Workshop for hands-on experience using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), learn to design an engaging voice user interface (VUI), and build a custom Alexa skill.

Kindly carry your laptop and charger.

An Amazon Developer account is recommended.

Agenda

Timings Sessions
8:30am - 9:00am Registration
9:00am - 10:45am 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)
10:45am - 11:30am Response Building with Alexa
- Voice Strategy for your skill
- Using AWS Polly
- Using SSML to create engaging experiences
11:30am - 1:00pm Situational Design
- Shifting from screen to voice
- Voice Design Jam
- Demos
1:00pm Session ends (Lunch will be served)

Speakers

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.

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.

Event Details:
Bengaluru
Date: Thursday, 19 December 2019
Time: 8.30 am – 1.00 pm
Venue: ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru