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US: Weekly, Tuesdays @9am PDT
JP: Monthly, Thursdays @5pm JST
EU: Bi-monthly, 1st & 3rd Fridays
Join our Alexa SMEs, who address general developer questions, on demand.
Monthly
Listen to our monthly webinar series, Tech Talks, to hear valuable insight from our Alexa SMEs. They cover a new topic every month in 30 minutes or less.
Thursdays @9am PDT
Join Alexa host, Jeff Blankenburg, and his weekly guest from the voice community as they discuss some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in voice.
Alexa Champions is a recognition program designed to honor the most engaged developers and contributors in the community. Learn more about the Alexa Champions program and explore the Alexa Champion Gallery to meet the current Alexa Champions.
Join the community on Slack
Join the Alexa community on Slack to meet other Alexa developers and share learnings and best practices.
Get code samples on GitHub
Explore our library of code samples on GitHub to learn how to build Alexa skills, implement new ASK features, and understand specific use cases.
Ask and Answer Questions on the Developer Forum
Use the ASK developer forum to post your questions about Alexa skill development and answer questions from others. You can browse by topic and search existing conversations.
Join the Alexa builder community at an upcoming in-person, virtual, or hyprid event. Get hands-on learning at a bootcamp or hackathon, attend a presentation at a conference, or connect with other Alexa skill developers at a local meetup.
Led by some of the foremost visionaries in the ambient computing space, Alexa sponsors key in-person and virtual events that attract audiences across the voice community and globe. Join to watch keynotes from Alexa subject-matter experts, and Alexa Champions.
The Voice Den
Monthly, 3rd Wednesdays @ 5 pm PDT
Virtual
Join Alexa Champion, Dr. Teri Fisher, as he hosts ‘the online happy hour of voice,’ an online reality show with premium access to the Voicefluencers. Talk live with the voice leaders to get advice for your latest voice project.
Project Voice X
October 25 - 27, 2021
Hybrid | Fort Walton Beach, FL
Project Voice is the #1 event for voice tech and conversational AI in America. Project Voice X is a special edition of Project Voice, which unites these worlds with the new realm of social audio that has emerged during the pandemic.
VOICE Summit
December 6-9, 2021
Hybrid | Arlington, VA
VOICE 2021 is an Executive Summit that explores the critical role voice-tech plays across the most transformative technologies that are shaping the market — as well as how specific verticals are integrating voice as a critical part of their strategy.
Run by developers and enthusiasts, local community meetups give you the opportunity to meet with others who share an interest in developing Alexa skills. Join an Alexa meetup group near you to get notified of future community events in your region.
Jeff Blankenburg
Jeff likes to take things apart and put them back together again. He's spent the majority of his career as a web and mobile developer, but loves how much learning there is yet to do with voice as an interface.
Ryan Lowe
Ryan's career and passion has been around enabling engagement at scale. His hobbies include combining various incongruent interests together like his voice-enabled, IoT connected, solar powered, family chicken coop.
