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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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…
Learn practical Conversation Design patterns for building AI agents that are clear, trustworthy, and customer-focused. This course gives you a reusabl…
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…
Discover how to unlock value from your conversational data to smash through the glass ceiling of your AI assistant performance. Gain practical strateg…
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 generative AI is transforming voice technology—from smarter assistants to more human-like interactions. Join Verint’s Bas Hiemstra and Ja…
In this episode of Unprompted, Karen Kaushansky, UX Lead for Gemini Live at Google DeepMind, shares how conversation design has evolved from flowchart…
Yam Marcovitz unpacks what it takes to build predictable, production-ready AI. From human-in-the-loop alignment to test-driven development, we explore…
Explore how lifelike digital personas are reshaping AI, communication, and service—from realism and emotion to ethics and design. A must-attend for an…
Learn to design responsible, emotionally intelligent, and visually engaging digital humans. This course explores the design principles, psychology, an…
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…
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…
NLU Design is the missing component in most business projects and the typical Conversational Designer's skill set. As we move to a new generation of b…
In this session, we explore practical use cases of generative AI in customer support and examine UltimateGPT's capabilities. We’ll also discuss the fu…
Bret Kinsella is the biggest voice of the industry. In this fireside chat, Bret and Hand discuss what excites them about the industry, what the main t…
This session explored building brand-safe LLMs to revolutionize CX. We discussed identifying effective use cases for generative AI, ensuring its relev…
Stephen Broadhurst and Gregory Whiteside from HumanFirst show how to launch new bot styles by monitoring user input and supervising responses. They al…
Learn how ChatGPT can be used to maximise the performance of your chatbots and IVR systems and create delightful conversational experiences. The cours…
Everyone is talking about generative AI and ChatGPT. But what does it mean for conversational AI? Bret Kinsella, founder of Voicebot and Synthetic Med…
Allegra Guinan is co-founder and CTO of Lumiera, a boutique advisory firm guiding leaders in designing responsible AI strategies. With extensive exper…