Presented by Expert Marcus P. Zillman

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Agenda
7:00am - 7:45am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45am - 8:00am	Introduction Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,A.M.H.A., Creator/Founder, BotSpot.com; CEO, BotTechnology.com; Producer, BOT2000, BOT2001 West and East
8:00am - 8:30am	Understanding Legal Aspects of the Invention and Use of Bots and Intelligent Agents Bots and Intelligent agents raise a great many legal issues. This presentation will provide an overview of the application of patents, trademarks and copyrights to bots and intelligent agents, their development and use. This session will provide practical information and advice for bot developers and the businesses which utilize bots. Learn how to protect your own inteltectual property rights and how to avoid infringing the rights of others. This session will also address business method and software patents and the application of trademark law to metatags, keywords and domain names. Donna A. Tobin, Partner, Cooper & Dunham LLP
8:30am - 9:00am	What Artificial Intelligence Can Give To The Web, and What The Web Can Give To Artificial Intelligence Intelligent software, from speech recognition and language understanding software to computer vision systems to intelligent bots, must be trained with large amounts of data, such as speech sounds or common sense facts. In many cases this data cannot be obtained by traditional data mining. The Open Mind Initiative (www.OpenMind.org) is a framework for collecting such data openly contributed by very large numbers of non-expert web users or "netizens." While web-computing projects such as SETI@home harvest distributed computer power, Open Mind instead harvests distributed human brain power. I shall discuss this new model of collaboration and how the collected data through the Initiative is used in intelligent software. Dr. David G. Stork, Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.
9:00am - 9:30am	Enterprise Intelligence The explosive growth of the Internet has created new opportunities for corporations to become smarter in understanding customer needs, competitive information, and market dynamics. Learn how intelligent agents or bots are transforming the vast information resources on the Internet into actionable intelligence for the Enterprise, enabling them to build better brands and nurture and protect them. Mahendra B. Vora, Chairman and CEO, Intelliseek
9:30am - 10:00am	The Last User Interface: Raising Turing's Child Machine Building machines that pass the Turing Test has been the holy grail of AI researchers for decades. Unlike existing approaches to creating software entities that can converse like humans, Artificial Intelligence NV (Ai) is raising a Child Machine that learns language through interaction with its trainers. In this way, a new breed of bots is brought to life: conversational agents that gradually evolve into adult speakers, which will eventually replace the prevailing paradigms of human machine relationship. Jack Dunietz, President, Artificial Intelligence NV (Ai) Research
10:00am - 10:30am	Morning Coffee Break
10:30am - 11:00am	Rapid Agent Development with Network Query Language This presentation will introduce Network Query Language and provide a guided tour of NQL's many features. Rapid development of bots and agents will be demonstrated using NQL's building blocks for communication, conversion, automation, and intelligent behavior. Attendees will receive NQL on CD. David Pallmann, Chief Technology Officer, NQL Inc.
11am - 11:30am	Using Bots To Create A Self Organizing, Living Database For Volatile Data There are many areas of technology where information is changing and expanding so rapidly that it becomes extremely expensive to maintain a reliable database. This calls for a completely new approach to storing and accessing information. This session will explain the basis of a living database, which is inexpensively built and maintained by Bots and clones. Peter Small, Author, The Entrepreneurial Web, United Kingdom, Genome EDC
11:30am - 12:00pm	Virtual Representatives as the First Line of Effective Online Service NativeMinds is a pioneer in the development of self-service interaction management software to build and maintain automated online customer service and support agents called vRepsTM. Created with NativeMinds' flagship product, NeuroServer®, vReps answer customer questions via two-way, conversational dialog and rules-based display of relevant content from pre-existing information sources including Web site search, CRM knowledge bases, and customer-facing databases. This session will include demonstrations and discussions of how real-world vRep developments have provided significant ROI for Global 1000 customers including Nissan, Oracle, Ford Motor Company, Convergys, One 2 One (Deutsche Telekom), and GlaxoSmithKline. Walter Alden Tackett, Ph.D., Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, NativeMinds
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Networking Lunch
1:00pm - 1:30pm	The Next Step in NLP: From Chatterbots to Automated Communication Centers In the past, most NLP applications have been "nice-to-have" add-ons to websites. In the future, they will take a much more central role: As the main, universal user interface that connects customers through various online and mobile media to a company´s information and process control systems. The presentation will show how "automated communication centers" can streamline and improve the whole communication process with customers, from gathering information via order processing to support. Karl L. von Wendt, CEO, Kiwilogic.com, Inc.
1:30pm - 2:00pm	The Client-Side Bot has No Clothes The client-side bot is intrinsicly limited when compared it to its server-side analog. This presentation identifies those limitations and describes the MANY advantages of the server-side approach. Learn how BrightPlanet is successfully harvesting quality hidden content from hundreds of thousands of databases - offering collaborative information retrieval and sharing across an enterprise (server-based) via a Web browser. Jerry Tardif, Vice President, Information Systems & Services, BrightPlanet LLC
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Introduction to Alicebot.Net and AIML This is an introduction to Alicebot.Net, the open source natural language chatbot technology and AIML, the XML language powering the chatbots. An exploration of current case studies based on people and companies using the technology and personal research into using it with speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis to form a natural spoken dialog. Jon Baer, Lead Developer, Alicebot.Net
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Creating Bots that Talk Recent developments in the voice technology space have made it possible to create bots that can engage in life-like conversations with humans. This is expected to have a huge impact automotive services and customer care solutions. Danny B. Lange, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Vocomo Software Corp.
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Bots for the Wireless Web The utility of the wireless web has thus far not lived up to users' expectations: slow connections, small screens and poorly designed interfaces often lead to a frustrating user experience. This talk presents novel Bot technology designed to bridge the apparent gap between promise and reality of the Wireless Web. Bots that automatically learn user preferences can greatly simplify access to information anywhere and anytime. Daniel Billsus, CTO, Ph.D., AdaptiveInfo.com
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Enabling a World Brain The TCP/IP nodes of the Internet, converted into an artificial neural network cascade, will form the basis of the ultimate BOT, a so-called "World Brain." In this presentation, Dr. Stephen Thaler describes the enabling technologies behind this profound concept and proceeds to demonstrate a growing suite of fascinating spin-off products. Dr. Stephen Thaler, CEO, Imagination Engines, Inc. and Creator of DataBots
4:30pm - 5:00pm	LifeFX Stand-Ins: Humanizing and creating the best Customer Experience on the Internet Next generation web sites will emotionally connect with users, bring them back, make them feel comfortable, included, and valued. LifeFX Stand-InTM Virtual People are dynamic online personalities that create emotional bonds with users. Stand Ins enhance and facilitate customer interaction, satisfaction and loyalty addressing the new web site metric of personal connectivity. In this session, learn how companies today are getting a competitive advantage through raising their market visibility and brand recognition and offering better online sales support and services. Stand-Ins are revolutionizing the front-end of applications. Steve Ardire Senior VP, LifeFX.com
5:00pm - 5:45pm	Assessing The Future Of Bots For Business And Research Moderator: Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,A.M.H.A., Creator/Founder, BotSpot.com; CEO, BotTechnology.com; Producer, BOT2000, BOT2001 West and East Panelists: Steve Ardire, Senior VP, LifeFX.com Jon Baer, Lead Developer, Alicebot.Net Daniel Billsus, CTO, Ph.D., AdaptiveInfo.com Jack Dunietz, President, Artificial Intelligence NV (Ai) Research Danny B. Lange, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Vocomo Software Corp. David Pallmann, Chief Technologist, NQL Inc. Peter Small, Author, The Entrepreneurial Web, United Kingdom, Genome EDC Dr. David G. Stork, Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations, Inc. Walter Alden Tackett, Ph.D., Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, NativeMinds Jerry Tardif, Vice President, Information Systems & Services, BrightPlanet LLC Dr. Stephen Thaler, CEO, Imagination Engines, Inc. and Creator of DataBots Donna A. Tobin, Member, Cooper & Dunham LLP Dr. Karl-Ludwig von Wendt, CEO, KiwiLogic.com, Inc. Mahendra B. Vora, Chairman and CEO, Intelliseek
5:45pm - 6:45pm	Cocktail Reception
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Testimonials "Excellent mix of topics, well timed, and great window on the state of the art" - Chris Maby, Inago Corp. "Very useful Seminar. Great speakers & panelists. Glad I came." - Ian Nanomra, FINDBASE LLC. "See what Marcus Zillman said about using bots as a business tool in a May 13th article of The Boston Globe"

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