Plovdiv City Concierge in “Radiocafe”
Plovdiv City Concierge was the main subject of the interview with our CEO Elitza Stoilova and the journalists Lili Goleminova and Konstantin Lavsov in the morning radio-program “Radiocafe” at the Bulgarian National Radio.
The first city chatbot in Bulgaria is working already a month and the journalists were curious what is a chatbot, how it helps, why now, what the Plovdiv City Concierge can do. They were impressed that the virtual assistant can provide not only information about businesses, services and places in the city but also the weather prognoses, current air quality information, an exchange rate, and calculator and even the horoscope for the day.
The official presentation for the Plovdiv City Concierge will be on 11 May during the Plovdiv Wine Festival “Wine and Gourmet”, hosted by the Plovdiv Tourism Council.
Umni in the Focus of the Top LA Podcast Women in Tech for Valentine’s day
Last Autumn the popular tech podcast featuring Women in Tech took interview with our CEO Elitza Stoilova about the Umni journey from an idea to a successful business.
The #womenintech Podcast is hosted by WeAreLATech’s Espree Devora and features inspiring Women in Tech from Engineers, Female Founders, Investors, UX and UI Designers, Journalists all sharing their story how they got to where they are today. The purpose of the show is for every listener to walk away feeling ‘If She Can Do It So Can I’. It is also the 1st podcast focused on LA startups ranked #2 in all of iTunes “New & Noteworthy”. Although the interview about Elitza and Umni was published now – several customers and successful projects, and one investment later, it is about the challenges a startup founder goes through and about the vision and the mindset to succeed that makes you different.
Umni at the BW Startup Summit
On February 1st 2019 Umni participated with its own booth at the BW Start-up Summit in Stuttgart, Germany, as a member of the delegation of countries neighboring Danube river.
Our company was invited by The Accelerator, a European program for developing entrepreneurship in Danube river countries.
The 2nd start-up summit was organized by the Ministry of Economy of Baden-Wurttemberg and supported by L-Bank, and it gathered close to 400 startups from Germany and other countries, angel investors, VC funds, accelerators and other organizations and businesses interested in the startup ecosystem development.
On the air of radio “Varna” (BNR) – “Yes” for the virtual assistants
Umni began the year with several media coverage. Today our CEO Elitza Stoilova was in the studio of the Radio “Varna” for an interview with the tech journalist Dorotea Spasova about virtual assistants, the benefit for the business, the customers and the staff.
New Functionalities (Modules) Released in UmniBot
This summer the Umni team worked on enhancing the variety of offered functionalities for our chatbots.
We developed and can now offer in our chatbots the implementation of such necessary for the business modules as a reservation module (with available API of a reservation system), a search in a database, contact with the staff (live-chat with notification of the business) and others. In addition, we now offer useful modules as pre-recorded voice answers, a secret section – a section with limited access to information, weather forecast, currency calculator, zodiac forecast (currently English only), “your luck for the day” and others.