With the latest trends surrounding Voice as an interface, the way interactions happen within enterprises, and how they do business with consumers will never be the same again.

Are you interested in building voice applications? Or perhaps you may be keen on extending your existing digital user interfaces to include voice? Come and join us at this event to learn more about designing for voice interfaces, and how you can leverage it for your enterprise needs or engagement with customers!

As part of the series of UI/UX Mixers at PIXEL, this event will present trends in the voice UI space, design considerations, and explore priority areas which voice interfaces are poised to take of first.

Our speakers have experience building voice applications, and will share on their learnings and observations.

Programme:

6.30pm – 7.00pm Networking Dinner

7.00pm – 7.20pm Designing for Voice

7.20pm – 7.40pm Taking chatbots to next level

7.40pm – 8.00pm Voice Assistants - Learnings from developing voice products

8.00pm - 8.10pm Enabling Voice Applications in Singapore with the National Speech Corpus

8.10pm onwards Networking

Speakers:

Yi Chiao Cheng
Yi Chiao has worked in enterprises and start-ups across different industries including healthcare, audit, telecommunications. Presently he is building an automated farm to help strengthen the food security in Singapore.

Kester Poh
Co-founder and CEO of AiChat

Kester Poh is the Co-founder and CEO of AiChat, a conversational AI company providing bot-as-a-service platform designed for business users to easily manage chatbots across popular messaging channels for ecommerce, customer service, marketing, CRM and data analytics. Within less than a year since AiChat was launched, the solution has already been widely adopted by brands across South East Asia with clients such as Philips Lighting, Omron Healthcare, Pernod Richad, Shimano, Cheetah Mobile, Marina Bay Sands, ArtScience Museum, Jimoto Ya restaurant and many other SMEs. Prior to founding AiChat, Kester has worked with one of the world’s largest advertising network, the WPP Group, where he led multiple award-winning digital campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Kester is passionate about emerging technology, AI and entrepreneurship. He believes that AI will make people’s lives easier and ultimately contribute to the success of business.

Toh Keng Hoe
General Manager, Gowild Singapore Pte Ltd

Keng Hoe is the General Manager of Gowild Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore based Artificial Intelligence & Robotics startup. He is leading the team to build the next generation voice interface platform and is hoping to create exciting applications with it. Prior to this, he was a Product Line Manager with Thales where he led the team in developing the next generation maritime security software. He also spent 18 years with the Republic of Singapore Navy where some of his key achievements include participating in the 2004 tsunami relief operation, two tours in the Arabian gulf and numerous operations in Singapore and the region. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Bahasa Indonesia and can speak French when he is drunk. He is married with two boys.

Kevin Khoo
Manager, Digital Services Lab, IMDA