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Last year, at the LIR Seminar in Cork,\u00a0Adrian Vaughan & Michael Costello delivered a presentation entitled: Deployment of an AI-powered Virtual Librarian in CIT Library. \u00a0Their virtual librarian, which they call Berkeley, is based on IBM’s Watson. \u00a0Watson is an AI product that\u00a0that lets you train and deploy conversational interactions into any application, device, or channel\u201d. \u00a0What you may not know is that Watson is actually a suite of services that can be used for various things beyond chatbots including:<\/p>\n
We invite you to explore this new frontier with Ronan Dalton of IBM (biog. below). \u00a0To get the most out of this, you can also register for an IBM cloud account.<\/p>\n
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In this session IBM’s Ronan Dalton (@daltonology<\/a>) take attendees through the steps involved in building a virtual assistant (aka chatbot!) with Watson. We’ll get hands-on using Watson Assistant to build a bot on IBM Cloud (register beforehand with the cloud for this) and explore options to host the bot online using Watson’s web chat integration.<\/p>\n After a short break, well explore options to extend our virtual assistant with capabilities to search a document repository using Watson Discovery<\/strong>. To wrap up, we’ll look at some additional AI use cases such as image classification with Watson Visual Recognition<\/strong> and advanced text analytics with Watson Natural Language Understanding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n All attending this session should register for a free IBM Cloud account in advance (to get the most out of this session) using this link https:\/\/cloud.ibm.com\/registration<\/a>\u00a0 Ensure that you’ve verified access to IBM Cloud before the session<\/p>\n If you’d like to get a head start, you’ll find more on the services we’ll be using here:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IBM_Watson_Logo_2017.png” title_text=”IBM_Watson_Logo_2017″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.6.6″]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Register Here” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ background_color=”#ffffff” background_image=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jannes-glas-hgxAdNZ_ccg-unsplash-scaled.jpg” box_shadow_style=”preset6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.6″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_text_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n We recommend that you also register with IBM Cloud.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_button button_url=”#” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Bookings Closed” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_bg_color=”#e02b20″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/cloud.ibm.com\/registration” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Register With IBM Cloud” button_alignment=”center” admin_label=”IBM Cloud” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_bg_color=”#0c71c3″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”About Ronan Dalton” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ background_color=”#d2edf9″ box_shadow_style=”preset6″][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ admin_label=”Your Trainer” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”Ronan Dalton, FICS CITP CEng” position=”Global Markets Technical Leader & CTO – Ireland” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ronan-dalton.png” twitter_url=”@daltonology” linkedin_url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rodalton\/” admin_label=”Ronan Dalton” module_class=”et_pb_team_member_image” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_font=”||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”center” custom_css_member_image=”text-align: center;” custom_css_member_position=”line-height: 16px!important;” border_radii_image=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px” border_width_all_image=”2px” border_color_all_image=”#000000″ custom_css_main_element__hover_enabled=”on”][\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.6″]<\/p>\n November 19th, 2020 11:00 – 13:00\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Online, via Zoom<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As CTO for IBM Ireland, Ronan has a broad technology remit with a particular emphasis on cloud and AI. Ronan’s held a variety of tech leadership roles at IBM over the 20 years that he’s worked there including Cloud Leader for Ireland and Worldwide Data & AI Tech Lead. Ronan is recognised as a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (FICS), Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and Chartered Engineer (CEng). 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