AI & The Customer: Sales, Support, & Success

WHY ATTEND?

From data-mining for prospects, sales team augmentation, and customer support chatbots, artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how businesses and organization interact with their customers.

Join us at Top Hat HQ (Bloor and Bay) for casual networking, real life case studies, and the opportunity to ask questions to our panel of local experts.

Our special speakers and guests include founders and C-level employees from Ada Support, Nudge AI, Layer 6 AI, Salsa AI, and MarS.

The event will also host the launch of the new Ask AI podcast, and co-hosts Heather Evans and Jaxson Khan will be at the event sharing this insider's window into Canada’s burgeoning AI sector.

From 6PM we'll be recording questions to be answered on the podcast so please bring your AI-related questions !

Pizza and refreshments will be available from 6PM.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Ask AI is an inclusive event that welcomes a range of attendees from Toronto’s academic, student, small business, startup, public, and corporate communities.

People working or interested in the following areas should attend "AI & The Customer":

Sales, Marketing, Customer Services, Operations, Service Delivery, Product Management, Customer Success, Account Management, Business Development, Strategy, Privacy.

EVENT PROGRAM:

6PM: Pizza, refreshments, podcast question recordings, and casual networking

630: Welcome and community update from Chris McLellan from Ask AI (http://askai.org)

645: Top Hat welcome

655: Podcast launch announcement with Heather and Jax

710: Presentation: Mike Murchison, CEO of Ada Support (https://www.ada.support)

730: Stretch break

735-800: Expert AI panel

Moderator: Gina Uppal, Partnerships & Venture Talent, Studio Y, MaRs (https://www.marsdd.com)

Panelists: Benji Sucher, COO, Layer 6 (https://layer6.ai), Hessie Jones, CMO and Co-founder, Salsa AI (http://salsaai.org), Steve Woods, CTO and Co-founder, Nudge AI (https://nudge.ai)

800-830: Audience questions

OUR SPONSORS:

Ask AI would like to thank the following companies for their generous support of Ask AI 02:

Top Hat is the most advanced teaching app in higher education. Visit: https://tophat.com

Nudge AI provides access new accounts, analyzes deal risk, and measures account health - all powered by relationship intelligence. Visit: https://nudge.ai

EightyEight is a communications agency focusing on growing startups, technology firms, and large brands looking to reach those audiences. Visit: http://eightyeightagency.com

Botmock lets you create and test chatbot prototypes and mockups for Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Actions on Google, Slack and more. Visit: https://botmock.com

ChangeJar is a mobile commerce platform offering 0% processing fees, multiple payment solutions, a rewards engine, and chat-based interface. Visit: https://www.changejar.com

By supporting these Canadian companies you're helping Ask AI volunteers build a more inclusive Canadian AI sector.

ABOUT ASK AI:

Ask AI is an educational nonprofit with a mission to increase learning, participation, and inclusiveness within Canada’s artificial intelligence sector.

We assist Canadian workers and employers with opportunities to learn about the opportunities and risks associated with AI and job automation. Visit: http://askai.org/