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Welcome to my conversational AI, prompt engineering blog. As a SWE and advocate for Google, I build a lot of cool stuff, and I'm the bridge between Google's engineering team and you; chatbot developers, UI/UX designers, conversational experts, linguists, and contact center engineers.

—Lee Boonstra, www.leeboonstra.dev

by Lee Boonstra in Chatbots on Jul 1st 2021

The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI ...

After I wrote my first book (Hands-on Sencha Touch 2 — O’Reilly), people always asked me if I would ever write another book. Especially, when I started to get expertise in conversational AI. I never said ‘never’, but I knew it would probably eat a lot of my time. Fast forward to February 2020, the whole world looked a lot different, and due to COVID-19, I had to cancel all my trips. Suddenly, I had a lot of extra time, plans for a book about chatbots became real! So I started to write…

There aren’t that many books about conversational AI for technical practitioners on the market, and I wanted to write this especially for enterprise users. Thus UX designers/linguists, web/conversational bot engineers, chatbot architects but also back-end developers, project managers and business decision makers that are working on complex conversational projects. Far beyond the ‘hello world examples’, as those are the real-world use cases that I see in my day to day life, while working for Google as a developer advocate and applied AI engineer focussing on Conversational AI.

Today, I am excited to announce with you that my book:

The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI With Dialogflow and Google Cloud (Build Advanced Enterprise Chatbots, Voice, and Telephony Agents on Google Cloud) has been released by Apress / Springer this week!

ISBN 978–1–4842–7014–1 & ISBN 978–1–4842–7013–4

Lee Boonstra

Lee Boonstra (they/them) has been a presence in the tech world since 2007, wearing many hats from software engineer to prompt engineer, web developer to technical trainer, and developer advocate.

With eight years of experience at Google under their belt, they now hold the role of SWE Tech Lead at the Google Cloud office of the CTO. Leading innovation projects, Lee aims to disrupt markets and foster collaboration globally. Their expertise in Conversational and Voice technology, alongside (Generative) AI, has led to recognition as a respected public keynote speaker and published author for O’Reilly and Apress. Lee eases tech headaches and celebrates those light bulb moments.

Lee wrote a book for O’Reilly: Hands-on Sencha Touch 2 and lately: the Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with Dialogflow and Google Cloud for Apress.