{"id":5838,"date":"2020-07-15T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2020-07-15T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:14:10","slug":"lucas-lovell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wdw\/icscib\/lucas-lovell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Lovell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-Founder &amp; CEO at Hopstay, France<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucas is an Australian smart city entrepreneur &amp; expert based in Paris, France. He is Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Hopstay, a conversational AI platform that helps cities optimise citizen support &amp; improve access to urban services through smart digital assistants. He is a laureate of the French Tech Ticket, Paris&amp;Co&#8217;s Welcome City Lab and is currently a resident in Europe&#8217;s leading startup campus, Station F in Paris. He works with cities around the world on urban automation tech, leading an international team at Hopstay. Lucas has appeared as a speaker on TedX.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Session: H<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ow smart digital assistants (chat &amp; voice automation using machine learning artificial intelligence) can improve service standards and unlock new frontiers in accessibility<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making Cities Talk &#8211; Chatbots &amp; Voicebots for Smart Cities<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a hyper-urbanised world, cities must adopt technology to optimise citizen support &amp; improve accessibility to urban services. I will discuss the emergence of chatbots &amp; voicebots as a way to achieve these two things, driven by the power of collective intelligence &amp; the clever use of urban data. This is key to building robust, sustainable cities of the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Learning Outcomes:<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand how natural language processing (a branch of machine learning) works<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See real-life examples of how chatbots &amp; voicebots are already being used by cities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Identify key consumer trends in the messaging &amp; smart speaker space<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have tangible use cases for urban data<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional information and International Conference on Smart Cities, Smart Infrastructures and Smart Buildings programme \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icscib.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Founder &amp; CEO at Hopstay, France Lucas is an Australian smart city entrepreneur &amp; expert based in Paris, France. He is Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Hopstay, a conversational AI platform that helps cities optimise citizen support &amp; improve access to urban services through smart digital assistants. He is a laureate of the French Tech Ticket, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}