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…
Fireside Chat: State of the Industry
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…
How to Launch and Supervise a Generative Chatbot
Stephen Broadhurst and Gregory Whiteside from HumanFirst show how to launch new bot styles by monitoring user input and supervising responses. They al…
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…
Implementing Better CX with Generative AI
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…
Introduction to Prompt Design
Learn how ChatGPT can be used to maximise the performance of your chatbots and IVR systems and create delightful conversational experiences. The cours…
LLMs and Rasa
Discover the exciting intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Rasa with Alan Nichol and Hans van Dam.
Latest Trends
Stay ahead of the curve with Bret Kinsella's insights on the latest trends shaping the conversation design landscape.
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…
NLU Design- Never Ignore What Your Technology and Users are Telling You
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…
Optimizing AI
Lauren Goerz of Rasa shares how teams can optimize conversational AI by blending LLMs with structured flows, reviewing conversations effectively, and…
Safe and Secure Enterprise CX
This session explored building brand-safe LLMs to revolutionize CX. We discussed identifying effective use cases for generative AI, ensuring its relev…
Synthetic Media
Everyone is talking about generative AI and ChatGPT. But what does it mean for conversational AI? Bret Kinsella, founder of Voicebot and Synthetic Med…
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…