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.
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Yam Marcovitz unpacks what it takes to build predictable, production-ready AI. From human-in-the-loop alignment to test-driven development, we explore…
Hosted by CDI Founder and CEO Hans van Dam, CDI Conversational AI Consultant Jurgen Gravestein, CDI Head of Academy Michelle Parayil, and Emcie CEO Ya…
After a year of rapid change in conversational AI, the real work remains the same: building assistants that actually perform. Join CDI’s consultancy e…
Learn practical Conversation Design patterns for building AI agents that are clear, trustworthy, and customer-focused. This course gives you a reusabl…
Learn to design responsible, emotionally intelligent, and visually engaging digital humans. This course explores the design principles, psychology, an…
In this episode of Unprompted, Karen Kaushansky, UX Lead for Gemini Live at Google DeepMind, shares how conversation design has evolved from flowchart…
Explore how lifelike digital personas are reshaping AI, communication, and service—from realism and emotion to ethics and design. A must-attend for an…
In this episode of Unprompted, we sit down with Dr. Liz Rodwell, anthropologist, UX researcher, and Associate Professor of Digital Media at the Univer…
Learn a practical framework to build test cases, choose metrics, set regression tests, and add guardrails to make LLM-powered chatbots reliable, safe,…
Discover how to unlock value from your conversational data to smash through the glass ceiling of your AI assistant performance. Gain practical strateg…
In this episode of Unprompted, Hans van Dam speaks with Grace Hughes of Accenture Song about growing a conversation design practice in the enterprise.…
A candid conversation with Alan Nichol (Rasa) and Hans van Dam on what it really takes to build conversational AI platforms in the LLM era: what’s cha…
Discover how structured content fuels more effective, compliant, and scalable AI conversations. This webinar explores best practices for content struc…
Discover how structured content fuels more effective, compliant, and scalable AI conversations. This course explores best practices for content struct…
Jason Gilbert from Intuition Robotics discusses designing ElliQ, an AI companion for elderly users. He explores persona design, building trust in heal…
This course, developed by COPC and Conversation Design Institute, provides a practical framework for scaling AI agents within contact centers. Partici…
This webinar previews an upcoming in-depth course developed by COPC and the Conversation Design Institute. It’s designed to give CX leaders and practi…
Discover how generative AI is transforming voice technology—from smarter assistants to more human-like interactions. Join Verint’s Bas Hiemstra and Ja…
CDI’s Jasper Klimbie and Michelle Parayil deliver a rare, practical webinar focused on providing guidance on how mature organizations are in their Con…