AI Assistant Summit
London

Consumers could develop closer personal relationships with their digital assistants, if plans to make Google Assistant more personalised and proactive come to fruition.

Kriti Sharma is VP of bots and AI at Sage. She was recently named in Forbes magazine's 30 under 30. She built her first robot at the age of 17, designed to bring chocolates to its controller. The software bots she works on at Sage today are designed to helping business builders do less admin, and more of what they love.

Meet Luka, a messenger for bots and humans. Luka is enhancing its AI-powered messaging service with a variety of smart bots to help users get whatever they desire. Luka will connect users with a bot for restaurant-based questions, weather reports, news reports, bots to help you find images and gifs, bots that play adventure games, and trivia game bots.

In the UK, one business, Cera, is using technology to offer care services for older people who require assistance with day-to-day living and would benefit from professional home care. Find out more about Mahiben and how he feels it is important that the business continues to maintain a quality, consistent service as the organisation grows.

Peculium is a fully transparent and decentralized savings platform built on machine learning that aims to maximize profits and savings. It also aims to help its users overcome the risks of today’s investments industry. Peculium also provides the monitoring and management of cryptocurrency assets for users.

London-based venture capital firm Atomico will double down on investments in US and European startups with two new venture partners. The new hires reflect rising investor interest in startups outside the UK, with France and Spain looking like particular hotspots.

YOU DON'T READ privacy policies. And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers' diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers.

Robotics has traditionally been associated with industrial applications such as manufacturing, but according to a robotics market forecast report by Tractica, the market is shifting to rapidly growing segments such a consumer, enterprise, military, healthcare, and vehicle applications.