A curious mix at ConverCon

Now in its third year, ConverCon, the conversational interface conference, hosted a sold-out crowd at Dublin’s Light House Cinema on October 17. The programme featured a diverse line-up, including software engineers, chief executives, voice interface designers, and even someone appointed ‘studio head of mixed reality’, all of them specialists in the rapidly-evolving field of conversational AI.

For the uninitiated, conversational artificial intelligence is already widely in use in marketing, customer service and even ...