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…
Conversational AI in 2025: What every team needs to know
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…
Designing Digital Humans
Learn to design responsible, emotionally intelligent, and visually engaging digital humans. This course explores the design principles, psychology, an…
Designing Multimodal AI Agents
In this episode of Unprompted, Karen Kaushansky, UX Lead for Gemini Live at Google DeepMind, shares how conversation design has evolved from flowchart…
Digital Humans: Today and Tomorrow
Explore how lifelike digital personas are reshaping AI, communication, and service—from realism and emotion to ethics and design. A must-attend for an…
IA for AI: Getting better answers from your chatbot by structuring your content
Discover how structured content fuels more effective, compliant, and scalable AI conversations. This webinar explores best practices for content struc…
Mastering Content Structure: Building Effective LLM-Powered Conversations
Discover how structured content fuels more effective, compliant, and scalable AI conversations. This course explores best practices for content struct…
Optimizing AI
Lauren Goerz of Rasa shares how teams can optimize conversational AI by blending LLMs with structured flows, reviewing conversations effectively, and…
Persona in Conversational AI
Jason Gilbert from Intuition Robotics discusses designing ElliQ, an AI companion for elderly users. He explores persona design, building trust in heal…
Scaling AI Agents from a CX Perspective
This course, developed by COPC and Conversation Design Institute, provides a practical framework for scaling AI agents within contact centers. Partici…
Scaling AI in CX: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Building for Impact
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…
Voice First, Future Ready: Designing the Next Era of Conversational AI
Discover how generative AI is transforming voice technology—from smarter assistants to more human-like interactions. Join Verint’s Bas Hiemstra and Ja…
Your next step in Conversational AI maturity
CDI’s Jasper Klimbie and Michelle Parayil deliver a rare, practical webinar focused on providing guidance on how mature organizations are in their Con…