Sep.30, 11amWhere: AA6214**************Messaging is the top habit on the smartphone with the top 4 messaging apps having over 3 billion users. With brands becoming a part of interactive part of this experience, messaging apps are becoming the new browser with AI becoming the new user interface. This is the biggest shift in digital commerce since the smartphone.**************
About the speaker
Puneet is the Founder and CEO of msg.ai. He spent much of his career as a tech executive on Wall Street, building predictive engines to power large-scale trading bots. Puneet has been named to Advertising Age’s Creativity 50 list, Business Insider’s “The Silicon Alley 100” and “35 Up-And-Coming Entrepreneurs You Need To Meet.” Puneet started his career at IBM TJ Watson Research Center and actively comments on the topics of bots, personalization and conversational ux. In his spare time, he rides and works on his vintage motorcycle, mixes music, studies minimalist industrial design, and volunteers for a non-profit.
About msg.ai
msg.ai is a Y-Combinator and VC-backed AI platform for conversational commerce. With $7.7mm in seed financing (not fully announced yet) from tier one VCs and some of the top AI entrepreneurs (e.g. founders of Google DeepMind, founders of OpenAI and others), msg.ai board and advisors include the last CEO of twitter and the last head of search for Google. Customers include various Fortune 500 companies that are using msg.ai platform to build messaging bots for marketing, sales and service. Consumers have an incredible appetite to interact with brands through one-on-one conversations, and our platform is the AI dialog system on all the popular messaging platforms.
With offices in San Francisco, New York City, and India, msg.ai is now opening a Deep Learning research lab in Montreal, where all of company’s R&D would be performed.--Sungjin Ahn
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
University of Montreal
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