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Conversation Design Institute was founded in 2018 by Hans van Dam and Olaf Igesz. They believed that recognizing, developing, and promoting the role of the conversation designer was crucial to advancing trust and communication between humans and AI Assistants.
The CDI Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting design standards for conversational AI Assistants. We do this through research, education and industry development.
Conversation Design Institute is the world's leading training, certification, and advisory institute for conversational AI professionals. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Amsterdam and Austin, CDI works with enterprises globally across two practices: an Academy that has certified thousands of conversation designers and AI trainers, and a consulting arm that helps organizations design, build, and scale high-performing AI assistants.
Articles published under the CDI name are written by our in-house team of conversation designers, AI consultants, and industry experts. Together, they bring hands-on experience from hundreds of enterprise deployments across industries including finance, telecom, healthcare, and government.
Their writing covers conversation design best practices, conversational AI strategy, generative AI, agentic AI, and the skills and standards shaping the future of human-AI interaction.
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