Some of us have been waiting our entire careers for better calendaring options. How many meetings do you have a week? According to Trello, the average meeting requires 3.5 emails to schedule. So if you are scheduling approximately 8 meetings a week, spending 3–5 minutes on each email, that comes to about an hour a week. If you work 5 days a week, that averages out to an entire day each month of simply scheduling meetings.

In addition to compelling keynote speakers, the Business Insider IGNITION 2016 conference included panels of experts who shared their deep, insightful knowledge. One such panel included Dennis Mortensen, CEO and founder of x.ai; Michael Roberts, head of Messenger at Kik Interactive; and Alex Wellen, chief product officer at CNN. They sat down at IGNITION 2016 to discuss smart bots and how they're affecting life as we know it. CNN is focused on making news available using bots. With the use of voice-activated digital assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Cortana, news can be delivered in new ways.

Looking back on Dennis Mortensen and x.ai's update at our PSFK conference and the future of artificial intelligence At PSFK 2015, Dennis Mortensen presented x.ai, the AI email assistant affectionately named Amy that facilitates email scheduling with the ebullient personality of a human personal assistant. Over the last couple years, the conversation around artificial intelligence has become more nuanced working its way into everything from care taking, to finance tools, to customer service. Along with this, there has been a huge proliferation of branded bots, finding their place in retail and service, and helping customers get what they need more efficiently. Amid the increasing awareness and interest in what artificial intelligence means for us, we want to look back at where this is coming from. Check out this talk from 2015 highlighting some of the challenges x.ai's assistant Amy is able to tackle and the promise AI holds for the workforce of the future.

The Digital Analytics Power HourAttend any conference for any topic and you will hear people saying after that the best and most informative discussions happened in the bar after the show. Ready any business magazine and you will find an article saying something along the lines of "Business Analytics is the hottest job category out there, and there is a significant lack of people, process and best practice." In this case the conference was eMetrics, the bar was….multiple, and the attendees were Michael Helbling, Tim Wilson and Jim Cain (Co-Host Emeritus). After a few pints and a few hours of discussion about the cutting edge of digital analytics, they realized they might have something to contribute back to the community. This podcast is one of those contributions.

X.ai is an NYC based artificial intelligence company that's raised over 30 million. I sat down with the founder Dennis Mortensen to learn more about how they're positioning and selling the product to the enterprise. Talking to him got me super curious about the rise of artificial intelligence, and I hope this interview does similar for you. SUBSCRIBE for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/alxberman?sub_conf... Need lead generation or marketing support for your agency?

For two straight quarters, deal activity in artificial intelligence has hit record highs. Dennis Mortensen is one of the biggest winners in all the craze. His startup x.ai is the creator of Amy Ingram, an AI-driven personal assistant that can schedule meetings for you. After testing Amy in beta for two years, Mortensen announced last week 23 million in Series B funding to bring Amy to market. Dennis Mortensen: AI used to be for academia only and decades-long research.

Scheduling a simple coffee meeting can take days and countless emails to complete, but Dennis Mortensen wants to change all that -- and more. In episode 623 of "This Week in Startups," the founder of x.ai show us his AI assistant, which sets meetings for you like an actual human. He also shares his thoughts on Siri, Echo, the Danish tax system, his vision for x.ai's AI assistants conquering other tasks, and the future of artificial intelligence. Throughout the episode, Jason and Dennis set up a meeting with each other using Amy, the x.ai assistant. After putting Amy to task, Dennis checks out of the email chain, and it's not at all obvious that Jason is talking to an AI.