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Editors
Matt Schlicht
CEO of Octane AI, Founder of Chatbots Magazine, YC Alum, Forbes 30 Under 30, product at Ustream for 4 years (sold for $130mil), did digital for Lil Wayne.
Ben Parr
President & Co-Founder of Octane AI | Author of Captivology | BoD of Samasource | Formerly CNET, Mashable | Forbes 30 Under 30
Writers
PokerBot
Top 1 bot in Telegram Bot Store with over 22 000 monthly active users and 85 000 registered accounts.
Boris Wertz
Entrepreneur turned investor. Co-founder AbeBooks (sold to Amazon), early-stage investor through @versiononevc, board partner @a16z. Husband and dad of 4.
Matthieu Varagnat
Helping freelancers as CTO of https://www.wemind.io, and letting teams connect with shared Slack channels at https://www.smooz.io
Cameron McGrane
Tough Certification Junkie 😵🥊. Dad. Founder bot agency @Fosterlabs & bot marketing platform @Backchatio
Ollie Maitland
Entrepreneur and product designer in collaborative web technologies applied to business. Co-founder @capitalisers, Previously @byngsystems
Chris Messina
Head of West Coast Biz Dev @ Republic. Inventor of the hashtag. Product therapist. Previously: Google, Uber, On Deck, YC W’18.
Elaine Lee
Designing for AI at Twilio. Product designer with experience in psychology, advertising, marketplaces, edtech, and hacking at whatevs. 🦁
Mariya Yao
Chief Technology & Product Officer at Metamaven. Editor-In-Chief at TOPBOTS. Read more about me here: mariyayao.com
Maxi Ferreira
JavaScript Engineer @helpscout. First of his name, Breaker of Builds, and Father of Dogs. @charca
Syd Lawrence
I’m CEO & Co-Founder of The Bot Platform. The trusted platform for building bots on Messenger.
Jin Tanaka
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Shogun Capital. Born entrepreneur, a growth master, and a hustler. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jintanaka/
Terence Channon
Helping small business owners, founders, start-up employees, and investors understand entrepreneurship issues & investing in alternative & undeserved venues.
Sapho
We are on a mission to ensure every employee has relevant and actionable information at their fingertips to make the best possible decisions for their business
Benjamin Merritt
Co-founder & CEO @itsaliveapp #CREATIVE #DIGITAL #STRATEGY #CHATBOT #GROWTH #IOT #VR EX #TBWA #INSEEC #REPUTATIONSQUAD
Sulakshana Iyer
Wanna know me? I am Communicator, Content Writer, Copywriter, Keen Observer, Love Talking About Human Psychology, Live Simply, Pure Feminist & 'A Mother'.
M. Dorsett
Hi I’m M. An aficianado of loving life. I live mostly in Miami, & write from wherever. Like Nadura. Do Chibur. Believe #whynot!? Necessito practicar mi espanol.
Christina Zaprudskaya
Marketing Angel and Digital Strategist at Digiteum, digital technology agency http://www.digiteum.com/chatbot-development/
michael
Thinks about messaging at work. Talks about messaging at The Chat Bubble Podcast (thechatbubble.com)
Paul Baron
AI, IxD, Startups, Edtech, Fitness. Using voice to make technology disappear @Snips. Co-founder: @tokyoartbeat_jp @AQworks
Todd Terrazas
Creative Technologist, Social Entrepreneur, Student of Institutions, Co-Founder/CEO @BrainItchUSA, Father to @LadyofDTLA
Jacopo Mangiavacchi
Microsoft Senior Data Scientist — Google Machine Learning Developer Expert (ML GDE) — Former + IBM Senior Architect and Engineer
Tom Griffiths 头马
Sinophile. 笑点低. Once Ming literature historian then strategy consultant, now building a fund to take brands to China. Digital trends in Asia interest me.
Eric Rems
Entrepreneur and product leader who creates conversational AI-driven digital health tools. Learn more at ericrems.com
Sérgio Passos
Unlocking the Digital Transformation through Messaging, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence | Cofounder and CTO @ Take
Shane Saunderson
Robot sympathizer. HRI PhD @UofTMIE. Writer @misc_mag, @DgtlCulturist, @chatbotsmag. Vocals & guitar @TheNobleRogues & @HailRobot. Plays well with others.
Alex Debecker
Founder and CGO of @ubisend. We are the leading AI-driven chatbots building company. I write about #chatbots, #growthhacking and #marketing. Come say hi!
Mathew Lowry
Piloting innovative online communications since 1995. Editor: medium.com/Knowledge4Policy. Founder: MyHub.ai. Personal Hub: https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/
Sceriff
Storyteller following my narrative self — Freedom is my middle name — “Be Open” Guest Curator
TalKing
We develop chatbots for every kind of business: you got an idea, we make your dreams come true! Visit us on www.tlk.ng
Sarah Marion
Startup Partnerships @CommitDev. Ex-VC @iNovia, @SmithBusiness, @BalsillieSIA, @YDCanada alumna. I like startups, policy and running.
Umair Qureshi
B2B SaaS Marketing Technologist — He loves combining creativity with skills and marketing with technology. @cloudways
MATTHEW BLACK
Founder of @BlackOpsNY. #Hackerpreneur. Helping hackers, entrepreneurs and brands build dope chatbots. Digs style, travel, fitness & the future.
Tryolabs
Helping companies build amazing Machine Learning powered solutions to improve their KPIs. 🚀 Sharing ML resources & experiences. https://tryolabs.com
Henk Pelk
Social Media Manager @ LINKIT, Editor of ITNEXT. Fan of chatbots, sci-fi, cycling and rock/wall climbing.
Anna Iurchenko
UX Designer at Google Health, board member IxDA San Francisco. I’m curious to understand people and I’m driven to build great products for them. Love sketching!
Jerry @Rocketbots.io
CEO and founder of Rocketbots (www.rocketbots.io), a Hong Kong based company specialized in developing AI-powered Chatbot solutions for enterprises.
Dragos Grozavu
Visionary business developer & marketer | Outworking everybody else since 1992 | Passionate about entrepreneurship, politics, AI, technology and sales |
Sajid Saiyed
UX leader @ Google. Passionate about leading & mentoring teams that design and ship game changing products that delight the users.
Yuriy Plugatariov
Elixir developer, experienced ruby on rails developer, occasionally write node.js and javascript code. Investing time in building smart ml driven applications
Impossible Labs
Innovation group and incubator. We use design and technology to solve social and environmental issues. www.impossible.com
valery briz
Data Engineer at ManoMano, Pythonista, Co-organizer of @MXPyladies, Co-founder of @PythonGuatemala.
ultan
Oracle UX Director. PaaS & SaaS UX dev relations. Brompton biker, runner, Glass Explorer, wearable techie. Proud dad. Opinions mine, not necessarily Oracle's.
Abhishek Anand
Helping businesses grow 10x faster, and scale efficiently. Top Writer — Quora, Medium. Drop in a line if you’d like help with yours. mail@abyshake.com
Marcel Pociot
Laravel Evangelist, PHP Dev, Open Source Lover, Father and Husband. Working on @botman_io
Vijay Umapathy
Product Director at Heap, formerly PM on Google Inbox and Calendar. I love making tools that give people superpowers.
Nidhriti Bhowmik
Infometric Design@Sprinklr | Classic Rock Sponge | Helping B2B facing SAAS companies own the internet https://www.nidhritibhowmik.com
avadh patel
Tech enthusiast, loves to tinker with new tech, Comp-Sci Ph.D., Founder of Butler AI (butlerai.site)
Ted Wu
Life-long learner. ENFP. My mission is to invest in relationships and seek harmony within my career, financial, social, physical, and community wellbeings
Julian Howard
Interested in writing about chatbots and their application in modern industrial and commercial settings.
Vittorio Banfi
CEO at botsociety.io On a mission to democratize conversation design. Italian. #500Strong
Sawaram Suthar
Entrepreneur, CMO at Acquire, and Founder of TheNextScoop. Chatbot, NLP, Customer Service & Digital Marketing Are Favorite Niches
Vincent C. Huang
I consume digital content like I eat pork belly. VP Product @springboard. Frmrly: Consulting, gaming, OKRs, and enterprise SaaS. Dad of 3.
Arun George
Sr. AI Consultant @ Nuance. I design interfaces for mere mortals. http://twitter.com/arungeorge_ | Inst: http://instagram.com/arundivine
RapidValue Solutions
RapidValue is a leading provider of end-to-end mobility, Omni-channel, IoT, AI, RPA and cloud solutions to enterprises worldwide.
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Annie Dai
A designer and writer, Love Thinking, Writing, Traveling, Designing and Eating😄 Visit my site: https://lnkd.in/faur_zR
Sajat Shrestha
Project Director @ ConvergeTree Technologies. Mix business with technology. All contents can be found @ https://www.convergetree.com/blog/
Stéphane . Pandore
Auteur turbulent & fondateur de l’Institut Pandore. Sur Medium, je publie certaines lettres que j’envoie à mes lecteurs.
Adam Kiss
Senior Innovation Manager and advocate for #fintech #Innovation💡 at #Finastra Labs. #Chatbot🤖 #DigitalAssistant🗣️ and #AI🔮 enthusiast.
Adam Greenwood
CEO of Greenwood Campbell. Spending my time understanding emerging technology and how it can affect brands and consumers.
ELEKS
Your technology partner for software innovation and market-leading solutions: https://eleks.com/
Ira Michael Blonder
35 years non stop experience marketing & selling IT products to very large organizations. MA in English. Technical Writer. MARCOM & PR writer. Product Mktng.
Rodolfo Ferro
👨🏻💻 ML Engineer · 👨🏻🏫 Sherpa Digital de #IA para Microsoft México · 🧠 Google Developer Expert en ML · 🚀 Future Lab co-founder · 🐍 Pythonista
Josefine Fouarge
I’m a Sr. Principal Solutions Marketing Manager in the Nuance Enterprise Division, focusing on automated and human assisted interactions for customer engagement
Eldon Alameda
Thoughts, reviews, & tutorials on emerging tech such as VR, AR, Voice UI, AI and the intersections of how those technologies will augment our lives.
Elina Arponen
Serial entrepreneur from Finland, co-founder CEO of a game studio called Quicksave, chat games developer
Vinish Garg
A guardian of an intent. For the right investments in product teams for 360-Perspective on UX and CX. Co-founder Outcome conference. http://www.vinishgarg.com/
Funderful
We believe that messaging is the new email so we’re helping colleges and universities open up Facebook Messenger as the main form of communication with alumni.
YJ @ kono.ai
The person who likes cabernet sauvignon, traveling, warm weather, and many creative products, services & tech. CEO @ https://kono.ai
Jake Stanley
Product Manager @ Capital One. Previously founder, head of Product and Technology @ Vocool.
Filip Mishevski
A designer, leader, creative thinker. No matter the title, I design brands & digital products with people in mind. Working at ING as Mobile UX Lead.
Rafi
Marketing Operations Manager at a technology startup. Interested in psychology, chatbots, marketing, and data analytics.
Trust Onyekwere
I help individuals and business owners take the leap into the world of digital transformation | Building @rad5academy
Daniel Thomas
Conversation Designer. Chatbot Enthusiast. I spend my free time watching old TV shows. Follow @yekaliva to know more.
Pragnakalp Techlabs
Chatbots Development, Python Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning Solutions. https://www.pragnakalp.com
Ethan Koch
Developer Advocate at IBM Watson. Formerly a Machine Learning Engineer on IBM Watson’s Natural Language Understanding product.
Springboard
We’re building a new kind of educational institution. One that empowers people to thrive in the new digital economy.
Bindy Egden
A former commercial lawyer, Bindy is now JRNY’s Head of Marketing with particular interest in digital growth, emerging technologies and sustainable business.
Bharat S Raj
Conversational AI @ Sutherland Labs | Data Science — NLP/NLU (Kaggler) | MBA (3 x Gold Medalist) | GCP | TEDx Organiser
Dean Goddette, Ph.D.
Science, Sales, and Marketing. Scientist with a background in scientific computing, speech recognition, and machine learning. And that other stuff.
Hsin-Jou Lin
Senior UX Designer | Reviewer of alt.CHI, CHI, CSCW and INTERACT | Feel free to connect on LinkedIn| Open for work
Matt Bell
Full stack growth specialist. Founder @ AirTeam — Helping startups achieve disruptive growth through paid and organic growth. Airteam.co
Ruth Zive
Metrics driven marketing strategist, mother to 5, special needs advocate, yoga enthusiast, dog obsessed chocoholic. Head of marketing at www.ada.support.
Rosie Harman
Rosie Harman is a senior content strategist at CGT Staffing, specializing in Technology.
Himanshu Rauthan
Entrepreneur. Co-Founder at MakeWebBetter | BotMyWork | CedCommerce | CedCoss. Writer at Search Engine Watch | E-Commerce and Marketing. 🙂