All slides, podcasts, decks and write-ups of the first Open Voice event in Amsterdam
The kick-off of the new event series Open Voice was a smashing success. Over 130 attendees, raving reviews and awesome press. So many were infected with the Voice Virus and ready to explore the new realm of conversational channel. Next one is July 3rd.
Enjoy all the slides, podcasts and write-ups so you can easily find it and refer to it.
Wondering what this is all about? Scroll down and read the about section.
Introduction into the new channel of Voice: Are you talking to me?
Maarten is entrepreneur and creative executive for hire. Next to being the founder of Open Voice he helps organizations with Conversational Strategy and voice designs sprints. He is a keynote speaker on the subject of voice, teams and future of work. He (co-)founded Layar, Teamily and Mobile Monday Amsterdam.
Maarten’s three tips to stay up to date on the voice industry: www.voicebot.ai, www.thisweekinvoice.com, and voiceguidelines.clearleft.com
From screen to no screen with NOS Lab
by Lara Ankersmit
Lara Ankersmit heads the New Media department of the NOS. Her goal is to transform the NOS, a traditional media company, into a full fledged digital organization. She helps journalists find their new role in bringing news to new and young audiences. She started her career as a journalist in 1994, after which she worked in advertising and publishing.
Diageo: The Bar
Daniël has opinions for a living. As Founder and Executive Creative Director of Studio Kraftwerk, Linked by Isobar he works on the intersection of design, branding, and innovation with forward-thinking brands like Volkswagen, Philips, Porsche, Adidas, Vodafone and Diageo.
He was responsible for the latest voice assistant work Isobar has created for Diageo: The Bar is a skill for Amazon Alexa that helps aspiring mixologists to create cocktails at home and order missing ingredients straight from the skill.
Daniël is an advocate of digital design, as speaker, jury president, and teacher. His work has been awarded at the Webby Awards, Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Red Dot, Art Directors Club, FWA, and Awwwards. In 2015 he was named Design Professional of the Year.
His deck wasn't sharable but the podcast is:
Conversational Channels at Talpa
by Jeroen de Bakker
Jeroen de Bakker is CMO & CDO Talpa Radio and Member of the Board JUKE. Jeroen is a brand strategist and entrepreneur, at the nexus of creativity, transformation, and technology.
For 20 years, he advised top-tier European companies on branding, disruptive business planning, go-to-market, growth strategy, PR, e-commerce, technology and startup culture. He co-founded and managed several upstarts and actively contribute to the rise of startups as an angel investor in tomorrow’s economy.
Currently, he is a board advisor at several innovative companies and member of the board at Talpa Radio and JUKE, the newest and most personal music streaming service of The Netherlands.
Voice UI: the past, the future, and … what now?
By Ben Sauer
Ben Sauer is an independent (voice) design strategist and speaker. Most of the time, he works with organizations around the world to raise their design game. He’s been speaking about voice UI at events for several years, and training teams in how to rapidly prototype voice interfaces. He’s also spent many hours at home listening to his kids put ridiculous things on Alexa’s shopping list.
Photo’s
Media Coverage & blog posts
- Financieel Dagblad, Jan Fred van Wijnen: Wat wordt de stem van de NOS
- Financieel Dagblad, Jan Fred van Wijnen: Voice is het nieuwe Internet
- Emerce, Erwin Boogert: NOS: Van screen naar no-screen design
- Marketing Tribune, Cansu Dengiz: Een open brief aan Ben Sauer, de Design Strategist
- Informaat, Edwin Lieftink: De voice-(r)evolutie start vandaag
- Bas Evers: Mens en merk in gesprek, drie inzichten
- Emiel Langeberg: 3 UX takeaways from the first Open Voice Conference
- Mirabeau: First Open Voice event: Exploring the new realm of voice interface
- #openvoice on twitter for more greatness
About Open Voice
As mobile started to gain momentum ten years ago and the web 20 years ago. It now is time for the next iteration in media channels: Voice. Google and Amazon are investing billions to make it happen with the Alexa and Google Home devices. Microsoft, Samsung, and Apple are getting on the bandwagon as well.
In the last three and a half years over 55 million Smart Speakers have been sold in the US and the rest of the world. Gartner predicts that 30% of searches will be without a screen in 2020. Amazon is gearing up to add France as a new market this year. Google Assistant is said to launch in Dutch on mobile in a few weeks and their smart speaker later this year.
Founders and intent
Innovation and Meetup veterans Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (Lens-fitzgerald.com), Hayo Rubingh (Mirabeau) and Sam Warnaars (aFroqleap) are founders of the Open Voice event series. They invite all to connect people around this new emerging channel of voice. Together the new channel of voice is explored, lessons and insights shared, enabling all to gain practical knowledge, see how voice and conversations fit into the customer journey and kick-start their projects.
Target group
The meetup is for non-technical decision makers and creators. CMO’s, CDO’s, marketers, innovators, digital transformers, social media managers, creative directors, (interaction) designers and all those who thrive on the edge are welcome.
Previous event: Articles, slides, podcasts and more. (be added soon)
More information
maarten@openvoice.nl, 06–46333308
Organisation
- Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, www.lens-fitzgerald.com
- Hayo Rubingh, Mirabeau
- Sam Warnaars, aFrogleap
- Marna van Hal, Mirabeau
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