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.
Browse the full CDI library
Explore our extensive database of courses, modules, webinars, and expert class recordings on Conversational AI. Learn at your own pace and stay ahead with the latest insights and best practices.
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…
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,…
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…
CDI’s Jasper Klimbie and Michelle Parayil deliver a rare, practical webinar focused on providing guidance on how mature organizations are in their Con…
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…
Over the last few years, dialogue systems in Conversational AI have become much more robust. But to go from an ‘ok’, to a delightful experience your t…
AI is transforming Customer Service. But what does that mean in practice? How will AI alter your strategy and the key metrics you’ll share with your C…
This class explores conversational trouble, covering both designing and producing conversational turns, and responding to misunderstandings or Freudia…
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…
In a recent insightful webinar, CDI's senior conversational AI consultant, Jasper Klimbie, guided participants through the various ways NLU and LLM-ba…
In a recent insightful webinar, CDI's senior conversational AI consultant, Jasper Klimbie, guided participants through the various ways NLU and LLM-ba…
In a recent insightful webinar, CDI's senior conversational AI consultant, Jasper Klimbie, guided participants through the various ways NLU and LLM-ba…
Discover how AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants can transform operations, enhance customer experiences, and improve efficiency. This webinar of…
This session lead by Hans Van Dam and Luke Kempen from Conversation Design Institute dives into the topic of "Crafting A Convincing Chatbot Business C…
In this webinar on “Transforming the Patient Experience with Conversational AI,” Deborah Akinyele, a speech and language pathologist, introduces the l…
The key steps in the CDI Workflow, which design patterns should be used for which type of experience, and lots of examples of how to write good dialog…