Alexa In Canada: Amazon Alexa And Echo Skills, Tips, And Tricks For Canadians

In this episode, Teri welcomes Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist of Alexa and Echo at Amazon, and voice-technology and natural language understanding educator.Welcome Dave Isbitski!As a child who grew up with a healthy serving of 1980’s sci-fi films in his entertainment diet, Dave Isbitski naturally believed that technology was the way forward. This started him off on a winding path that led to where he is today. In the 1990’s, he offered consulting services to corporate companies. He then worked as a technical evangelist for Microsoft, in the Pharmaceutical sector. In 2008, he was asked to start a community to teach people new software. He was the liaison between engineers and developers and the marketing team. His goal was to demystify and explain software to the average “lay person.” In 2013, Amazon entered the picture. Amazon showed Dave the Kindle Fire tablets and asked him to work his magic like he had done for Microsoft. He built a community around Android apps, the Amazon TV and the Fire phone