Category: Talk

My public speaking activities

Sense of Community: what transform a group into a community, CLSXItaly

During this talk I spoke about latest behavioral science theories describing the essential elements able to transform a group of people into a community, in person or online, commonly known as Sense of Community. Studies and practical cases to understand how a community builder can have even more success doing their work.

(Talk in Italian)

(Community Leadership Summit “X” Italy, 25 November 2017)

Exploring Google Assistant, Codemotion Rome

How does Google Assistant work? How to design and add new capabilities? In this talk, we’ll see how to interact with the Assistant in Google Home and other devices, how to add custom Actions and how to understand what users are saying and reply to them using API.ai service.

(Codemotion Rome, 24 March 2017)

Conversational power for Android apps, Codemotion Milan

Conversational interfaces are the new cool. During the session we’ll see how to add conversational power to any Android app: from listening to the user, understand what she said and provide voice replies. Using internal APIs, external service and a little bit of code.

(Codemotion Milan, 25 November 2016)

Conversational power for Android apps, DevFest Nantes

Conversational interfaces are the new cool. During the session we’ll see how to add conversational power to any Android app: from listening to the user, understand what she said and provide voice replies. Using internal APIs, external service and a little bit of code.

(DevFest Nantes, 9 November 2016)

Advanced dev tips for the Android Wear, Droidcon Turin

You first Android Wear app is finally complete. A working notification system, a couple of custom wear activities and an exciting voice input
control. Now what?
In this session, you’ll learn about some of the advanced Android Wear programming guidelines, code optimizations, useful community libraries, best UI patterns seen so far, brilliant watch faces, pitfalls to avoid and other “real world” Android Wear tips’nd tricks.

(Droidcon Turin, 9th April 2015)