Umni in Reach for Change 2019 by Nova Broadcasting Group
It is a great pleasure to share an important news for UMNI.
After 3 months of screening 136 applicants from 29 cities in the country, 4 assessment stages and one live cast, Nova Broadcasting Group and Reach for Change Bulgaria have selected among the 12 qualifying projects to participate in the CHANGE 2019, a joint project by Umni.co and Bio games.
We are very pleased that with our partner Bio Games we will be able to develop and present our project for children’s educational chatbots.
Kids chat in their phones. Our goal is to bring education where the children are, in a way of communication that is convenient for them, and to make it interesting.
Wish us luck 🙂
UMNI took part in Bulgarian Digital Week
The UMNI team took part in the Bulgarian Digital Week at the International Technical Fair, which took place in Plovdiv from 23 September to 28 September 2019.
The International Technical Fair is the largest business meeting in Bulgaria, which offers attractive forms for presentation and showcases new models for business development.
The UMNI’s team was invited as an expert in the field of virtual assistants, chatbots and smart tourism to share the latest in these fields with lectures on:
- Chatbot for Business: Theory and Practice
- “Smart tourism: what is it and is there soil in Bulgaria?”
- Plovdiv City Concierge – the benefits of chat for the city and business
UMNI also stood out with an TV interview in 2 languages, as well as an extensive article on chatbots in the special issue of Digital Technology magazine, which was published for the Bulgarian Digital Week event.
The Umni City Concierge was accepted into the Salzburg accelerator
Chatbot agency Umni has been accepted into a startup accelerator for technology companies in the tourism industry Next Floor Tech for Tourism Accelerator in Salzburg.
The 3-month program is organized by Next Floor Venture Capital Services and aims to support the development of promising startups in the tourism industry.
The accelerator program takes place at various well-known tourist sites in Salzburg and began with content and emotion-rich lectures and discussions in one of the halls of the Hellbrunn Palace, built by Prince Archbishop Markus Cityus in 1612.
This accelerator season involves startups from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, India and Umni from Bulgaria with projects from software for management and travel platforms to kitchen robots.
Our company caught the attention of the organizers with our City Chatbot (City Concierge Project). The program will end in late November with a Demo Day and presentation of startup projects to the Next Floor investor circle.
UMNI with 3 lectures at the 75th International Technical Fair, Plovdiv 2019
The International Technical Fair is one of the most respected business forums for investment goods and technologies in Southeast Europe. It highlights the parameters and perspectives of Industry 4.0. through innovative products offered by leading companies around the world. The largest technology meeting in the Balkans demonstrates trends in over a hundred branches of the economy, focusing on the most avant-garde areas – digitalization, automation, 3D, virtual reality, communications.
The International Technical Fair is the largest business meeting in Bulgaria, which offers attractive forms for its expression and shows new models for its development.
Bulgarian Digital Week Plovdiv 2019 within the fair provides 13 thematic conferences, master classes, presentations and meetings with leading mentors in the field of information technology. UMNI will be part of the event 3 amazing lectures.
Association of Medical Cosmetics – AMC with a chatbot from UMNI
The Association of Medical Cosmetics trusted Umni to create a chatbot to provide information on upcoming events:
- Seminar “Beauty Management” and
- II-th Nat. AMC Conference.
Through the virtual assistant you can get details about the events, the program, the lecturers, the participation rates, contact the organizers, see additional information about the seminar with Olga Khainovskaya, who is the most awarded beauty consultant in Russia and Ukraine through the last few years.
The chatbot gives you the opportunity to reserve your seat for both events, as well as to make a booking for the different workshops during the conference.
Umni guest of Travel Massive Sofia
The founder and CEO of Umni, Elitsa Stoilova was invited as a guest speaker at the Travel Massive Sofia Summer Meet Up & Panel Discussion event on August 22, 2019.
The event attracted travel bloggers, IT professionals in the travel industry, travel agents, startups and just travel lovers. The theme of the event focused on mobile applications and platforms in the travel industry.
Along with the latest data from statistics, global branding and trends, Elitsa gave details of how consumer behavior in the sector has changed.
Digitalization in tourism is present but also future, so she provided examples about what the business response is and how it is changing – through the use of chatbots, mobile applications and platforms so that the user can have maximum access to full and personalized information.