On June 27 – 28, 2019 International conference “Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI). Insights for business and developers” took place at St. Petersburg.

During the conference over 450 business representatives and more than 300 AI developers from leading Russian and foreign companies (Yandex, Google, Ozon, Tinkoff, Sberbank, Mail.ru Group, MTS, Megafon, etc.) presented more than 40 reports, cases and demos in the field of chatbots integration, conversational interfaces design, AI systems development for finance, travel industry, logistics and telecommunications.

Project work group representatives Svetlana Shvedova (Bologna Club), Nadezhda Kamynina (MIIGAiK), and Elena Gorbashko (SPBSUE) presented UNISON project aims and objectives and possibilities of conversational AI technologies development in the frame of university spin-off companies. They also demonstrated to the AI developers the UNISON virtual platform for spin-off companies.