Fast recovery from network failures has been always in the focus of network architects and designers. It is especially important, as many new application (voice/si …

CIRA is currently investigating the need and feasibility of creating Multi-Media SIP Peering Exchanges in Canada. The goal would to create a minimum of 3 Multi-Med …

Voice UIs like Amazon's Alexa can make systems management simple, intuitive, and delightful. The virtual private assistant feel of a VUI, coupled with the abstraction that voice commands bring, break the tedium of management tasks. Karthik Kirupanithi demonstrates how to put together an Alexa skill that can perform tasks using the EC2 Systems Manager.

Join Munira in this discussion about how technology plays a vital role in bringing magical worlds to the silver screen. In this talk, Munira will discuss her journey from growing up as a minority in …

The SUSI AI project is inspired by personal assistants like Alexa Echo or Siri. However, the Open Source AI is programmed with Skills (AI Conversational Rules) by women in Vietnam and across Asia. Our …

Rana el Kaliouby lays out a vision for an emotion-enabled world of technology, sharing the inner workings of a multimodal emotion sensing platform that identifies emotions through facial expressions and tone of voice. Along the way, Rana explores the broad applications and ethical implications of this technology.

This talk will share the story of how Red Hat utilized an open collaborative approach to promote inclusion within our global teams. We identified 4 key themes for improving team dynamics; including ot …

Creating sophisticated, intelligent applications that listen and respond in natural language is getting easier. Greg Bulmash walks you through building a cross-platform application that works on both mobile and desktop clients and uses Amazon's Lex and Polly services to perform a number of useful tasksand a few entertaining ones.

"Earl Grey, hot." We are closer than ever to the promised land of the Star Trek computer. There have been huge strides recently in the technology of speech recognition, but the new era of speech-enabled devices (such as those with Siri, Ok Google, or Amazon Alexa integration) is in its infancy. Cathy Pearl shares key design principles to help you design the best VUI possible.