TechHub Monthly Meetup: Bots, Chat-Bots and NLP

Welcome to TechHub Riga Monthly Meetup, the biggest monthly event in Latvian startup community! The meetups are free of charge, open door events for everyone interested in startups, ideas, entrepreneurship, and technology. Come to get inspired, see what's going on, mix ideas and meet great new people! REGISTER as an attendee HERE: https://goo.gl/D6Ltx0 October meetup theme: Bots, Chat-Bots and Natural Language Processing. KEYNOTES: Roberts Bernans, Co-founder at Nordigen and Žygimantas Medelis, CEO and founder of tokenmill.lt. Roberts will talk about the way the fintech startup Nordigen uses text processing to add context to financial transactions. Roberts will describe methods for processing transactions and similarities to Natural Language Processing. Žygimantas will talk about why “NLP is hard”. Chat-bots are all about language. It has to understand input text, produce output text and structure it all into a coherent narrative. He will briefly describe language technologies' inherent difficulties and what challenges chat-bot builders will have to overcome in order to build a truly chatty bot. ALSO ON AGENDA: Announcement by Andris Berzins about startup tax proposal Community announcements Talent Pitches Idea Pitches Great time guaranteed - with free beer, of course! Send your talent pitch/announcement request to kristine.kornilova@techhub.com. This meetup is supported by Altum and our wonderful strategic partner Lattelecom! See you there! TechHub Riga Team