Learn the fundamental concepts behind creating a chatbot that can have meaningful and natural conversations. You will learn about the Watson Assistant service and the building blocks of a conversation including intents, entities, slots, digressions, handlers and dialogs. We will also use context variables to remember our users and not get too annoying!

Your speaker, Upkar Lidder, is a Full Stack Developer and Data Wrangler with strong experience in NodeJS and Python. Current passions include enjoying various kinds of Ramen, hiking, tennis and learning the magic behind ML. Always up for a chat over good coffee and/or beer.

Anatomy of a chatbot and building a meaningful conversation