Beginning & Advance Amazon Alexa Skill Development

This workshop, presented by Amazon and Code District is intended for anyone interested in learning how to program voice controlled devices. Amazon Alexa is a great place to start learning. 

Hands-on labs will teach you how to code cool skills for Alexa.

Lucky participants will win a free Amazon device!

The need for Alexa Skill Developers is growing rapidly, as many companies move toward adding Alexa voice control to their products and services.  

Join Code District and Senior Solution Architect at Amazon and trainer, Justin Jeffress for this 2 day training event. You will learn how to build Alexa skills that reach millions of customers that utilize Alexa-enabled devices, including Amazon Echo, Fire TV and more!  Both seasoned and beginner developers are welcomed and encouraged to participate. 

Workshop Dates and Times

Saturday, April 21 - Beginning Alexa Skill Development
Sunday, April 22 - Advanced Alexa Skill Development
Cost: $30.00 for 2 days of expert training from an Amazon Alexa instructor

What you will learn:

• Introduction to Alexa Skills Kit

• How to setup your development environment

• Introduction to basic concepts like intents, utterances, and slots

• How to build your first skill

• The development of template based, custom, smart home and flash briefing skills

• How to leverage AWS Lambda

• Best practices for voice user interfaces

• Complex Conversations

• Persistent Data Storage

• State Managment

• Testing

• How to set your skill up for successful certification

• And more!

Requirements

1. Be sure to bring your laptop/notebook computer.

2. Get a developer account: developer.amazon.com (free)

3. Get an aws account:  aws.amazon.com (free - but CC required for signup)

4. Download sample templates to your desktop from github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js  

Why Attend? 

Take your experience to the next level! Amazon Echo and the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) open new doors of opportunities to build voice-enabled apps without deep knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This course, Developing Alexa Skills for Amazon Echo, will get you started working with voice-enabled devices. 

Justin Jeffress
Senior Solutions Architect, Alexa Hackathons. at Amazon