A Look Back at noHold's Top Stories of the Week: September 1st-5th

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. Per the short week, we are going to keep this 'look back' equally condensed...

1. noHold recently had the pleasure of having lunch with some of the members of the D-Link team down in Southern California. Here is a picture:

From left to right: Michael Luu, Diego Ventura, Francesco Ventura, Oscar Navarro, and Paul Pishchenko

2. In light all the Virtual Agent conference that occurred or will be occurring soon, we dedicated this weeks Throwback Thursday to past Virtual Agent conferences. Check out that blog here. Don't forget to attend the Intelligent Assistants Conference (IAC) 2014 happening on Sept. 16 in San Francisco, CA. 

To send you out of the office with a smile, take a look at this funny, yet true, meme I found online. 

Photo Credit: funmaga.com

Enjoy your weekend, and we'll see you back here on Monday! Cheers!

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Throwback Thursday: Virtual Agent Conferences Then and Now

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Around this time last year, the 13th annual International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents was held in the UK. With all the forward-thinking discussion points at this conference, everyone was excited to see what the 14th annual Conference on IVA was going to have in store.  

One of the major topics surrounding this years conference was Virtual Agents in the healthcare field, something we have been anticipating for a while. "In the conference's first keynote address, Dr. Joesph Kvedar, founder and director of the Center for Directed Health at Partners Healthcare, said projected future shortages of physicians and nurses underscore the need for more relational agents in healthcare settings. Kvedar, an internationally recognized expert in connected health and telemedicine, said virtual agents can supplement healthcare professionals' work by automating certain services, thereby increasing efficiencies and reducing costs. The onset of such avatars dovetails with the healthcare industry's trending toward preventative care and wellness. As Kvedar put it, ' How can we effectively use technology to scale out people across consumers and patients, keeping them healthy and out of the high-cost part of the system?'" Click here to find out more about Virtual Healthcare Agents.

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As the IVA 2014 came to a close, the Intelligent Assistants Conference (IAC) 2014 is approaching. On September 16th, 2014 in San Francisco, CA, Opus Research is holding an event involving all things Virtual Agents and self-service. "IA Conference 2014 is where executives responsible for improving customer experience and self-service efficiency will meet vendors of solutions that put Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytic resources into practice in the real world." (Intelligent Assistants Conference 2014). The CEO of noHold, Diego Ventura, will also be attending this conference. 

Have you attended any Virtual Agent conferences before? Will you be attending this years IAC? 
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