Watch the video recording: https://youtu.be/NmlM1SdYFFo You’ve heard the buzz around cognitive technologies. You may have even experimented with them on your own, but you’re not sure how they fit in your app development toolbox. Sound familiar? Don’t let another year pass without unlocking the true potential in your unstructured text, speech, images, and more. In this webinar, James Governor of Redmonk and Marcus Boone of Watson will share their predictions for what will be hot (and not) when it comes to application development in 2017. From massive data growth to conversational commerce and beyond, learn why cognitive app development is poised to accelerate in 2017 and how Watson cognitive APIs can help you successfully build your own breakthrough cognitive app.

1. Application Developer Predictions, 2017
Edition: It’s All About Cognitive

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• Webinar slides and live recording will be emailed
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Our Experts:
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James Governor,
Analyst and Co-Founder,
Redmonk
@monkchips
Marcus Boone,
Program Director,
IBM Watson Ecosystem
Strategic Partnerships

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AI, cognitive, deep or machine learning
(ACDM)

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1. “Data science” for developers
• AzureML, CNTK
• HP Haven OnDemand
• Google Tensor Flow
• IBM Watson

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2. The new “hello world”

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3. #chatops takes off

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4. Consolidation kicks in

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5. #conversationalcommerce

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6. Messaging pwns apps

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7. Designing for headless

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8. Pervasive speech recognition

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9. Rise of the bots

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10. Humane computer interfaces

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11. Date handling

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12. Bot vs bot

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Are you ready to get started?
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http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/getting_started/
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Q&A

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What’s next?
• Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these slides, a recording of the
webinar, Q&A recap, and additional resources
• The series will resume on January 25, 2017, and continue bi-weekly on
Wednesdays @ 1pm ET / 10am PT
• Watson Discovery Service: A Technical Introduction (January 25)
• Network Visualizations with Watson Discovery Service (February 8)
• PubNub BLOCKS: Streaming Data Enhanced with Watson (February 22)
• Advanced Audio Transcription with Watson Speech-to-Text (March 8)
• Easily Deploy your Chat Bot to Multiple Channels with Stamplay (March 22

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