Ring’s Jamie Siminoff and Clinc’s Jason Mars to join us at Disrupt SF

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Siminoff will join us on stage for a fireside chat and Jason Mars from Clinc will be demo-ing first-of-its-kind technology on the Disrupt SF
$1 billion.But the story begins long ago, with Jamie Siminoff building a WiFi-connected video doorbell in his garage in 2011
Back then it was called DoorBot
receiving goods as simple as ever, safe and reliable entry into the home becomes critical to the mission
Ring, which has made neighborhood safety and home security its main priority since inception, is a capable partner in that mission.Of
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Clinc has tried to close that gap with its conversational AI, emulating human intelligence to interpret unstructured, unconstrained
speech.Clinc is currently targeting the financial market, letting users converse with their bank account using natural language without any
pre-defined templates or hierarchical voice menus.But there are far more applications for this kind of conversational tech
As voice interfaces like Alexa and Google Assistant pick up steam, there is clearly an opportunity to bring this kind of technology to all