Bot Designers, Developers & Marketers Hackathon

Chatbots are an increasingly "googled" term, more people now use messaging apps than social media apps on a regular basis.   Companies want to be present wherever their customers are and chatbots offer a great solution to this.

Yet the chatbot industry is still in its infancy, chatbot user experiences hasn't yet been perfected.

Chatbots can engage users across Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, on a Webpage or within an App and are able to assist with processes like lead generation, customer support, customer onboarding, meeting 

Hu:toma AI - an NLP chatbot builder & marketplace have teamed up with Sage & Ironhack to shed some light into the process of building chatbots. 

The focus of this hackathon will be designing and building a chatbot. We have a team of conversation designers, API experts and Bot Developers on hand to guide you through the process, with a number of workshops throughout the day.  You'll also be able to leverage Hu:toma's NLP engine to make your bots smart. 

Prizes 

1st Prize - €300 

2nd Prize - €200

3rd Prize - €100 

All Three winners:

Entry into a Bot Building competition with Top prize of €5,000.

Coaching / consulting to turn their bot into a successful business over the next three months.

All participants: 

Unlimited API calls until end of the year 

Workshops:

Introduction to Conversation Design

Building a webhook in Node.js on Google Cloud Platform 

Partners:

Hutoma AI - an NLP Bot builder + marketplace

Sage - Making accounting easier than ever before, with a focus on next generation cloud solutions including chatbots

IronHack - Preparing the next generation of digital creators through Intensive Web Development & UX/UI courses