Anna
Terés
Engineering Team Leader
"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
08 - 10:30 AM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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05//2026 10:30 AM
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"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
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"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
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"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
"Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!"
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Session: Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!
The global voice assistant market is predicted to attain a value of $26,872.6 million by 2030, according to PR News Wire. 75% of households will have at least one smart speaker by 2020, based on recent reports. At Ocado Technology, one of the exciting projects we work on, as we transform the future of online grocery, is hands-free shopping through voice assistants. Imagine you are cooking dinner, a homemade pizza, for instance, and you realise that you are running out of one of the ingredients. You can simply say “Alexa, add pineapple to my basket!” without stopping what you are doing. This makes life so much easier for millions of users across the globe!Key Takeaways
- Understand why voice assistants like Alexa are useful for eCommerce
- Watch a demo of a conversation with Alexa, simulating a real online purchase
- See how the Alexa infrastructure handles the question
- Understand how to handle the conversation technically
Bio
Anna Terés has 15 years of experience in Software Development. She has a strong focus on getting things done and delivering technical solutions that make customers' lives easier.Anna joined Ocado Technology 6 years ago as Software Engineer and now leads the Voice team, in charge of Voice integrations like Alexa for ecommerce. Whenever Anna is not reading, playing video games, headbanging, or training like a Spartan, you may find her studying new and challenging fields like Physics. She is happy to discuss quantum mechanics in Spanish, Catalan, English or German.
