Name: Alexa Dev Day - Portland
Start: 2017-12-19T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2017-12-19T17:30:00-05:00
Location: The Leftbank Annex

December

19

,

2017

Alexa Dev Day

Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events from Amazon and sponsored by Intel. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences and hear the latest on UI design and industry trends. Join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers.

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Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events from Amazon and sponsored by Intel. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences and hear the latest on UI design and industry trends. Join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers.

Advanced Course Prerequisites

Coding

You will need basic familiarity with coding concepts. Learn on your own by using our Alexa skill tutorials to build and submit a skill.

Get Started

Voice Design

You will need some experience building for voice. Learn the basics by reading through our Alexa Voice Design Guide.

Get Started

Advanced Course Prerequisites

This course assumes that you have basic familiarity with both coding concepts and voice design. In lieu of experience, you can complete the following prerequisites:

Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events from Amazon and sponsored by Intel. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences and hear the latest on UI design and industry trends. Join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers.

Advanced Course Prerequisites

Build a Skill

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Event Details

When:

12

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19

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17

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8:30am

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5:30pm

Where:

The Leftbank Annex

Course Level:

Advanced

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Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration

• Check in

• Grab your badge

• Enjoy some breakfast

9:00 Am - 9:15 Am

Intro to Alexa

• The future of voice-based experiences

• Overview of Echo, Alexa, and the tools used to build Alexa skills.

9:15 AM - 10:15 Am

Skill Building Basics

• Recap of Intents, Slots, Samples
• Recap of Handling Requests with AWS Lambda and Node.JS
• Installing two demo skills

10:15 am - 11:45 am

Voice Design

• Designing for Voice
• Brainstorming and flow diagrams
• Remembering with Session Attributes

11:45 am - 12:30 pm

Lunch

• Open Hacking

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

New Features & APIs

• New Alexa Skills Kit features and APIs
• Calling public APIs

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Open Hacking

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Best Practices

• Calling Cloud services
• AWS DynamoDB, AWS IOT

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Open Hacking

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Attendee Demos

• Show the group what you've built

5:00 pm

Event Concludes

Speaker

Rob McCauley

Alexa Solutions Architect

Rob McCauley helps developers build voice-enabled applications in his role as an Alexa Solutions Architect. Rob’s background is in data analytics and he recently worked as a data warehouse developer at Amazon Robotics. A lifelong Bostonian, Rob has built database applications for HP, Cognex, TJX, and Oracle.