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Development of a Virtual Assistant for Establishing New Professional Relationships

Student: Protsai Aleksei

Supervisor: Vyacheslav Zhukov

Faculty: Graduate School of Business

Educational Programme: Business Informatics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The current work is devoted to the development of a virtual assistant to establish new professional ties. The goal of the final qualifying work was to develop a virtual assistant in the form of a chat-bot on the platform of the Telegram messenger. The main goal pursued by the proposed chat-bot is to simplify the way of communication between the participants. Attending events gives visitors an excellent opportunity to expand professional ties. The value of this solution is that it simplifies networking for visitors, eliminating some of the obstacles in its process that arise in people. The main purpose of the above virtual assistant is to help users find useful acquaintances at business events. It is assumed that the user will not simply be shown, but people will be offered with whom the contact will be most useful. To do this, the digital assistant is based on a recommendation system based on user preferences and descriptions of their personal profiles. In accordance with the current goal, the following tasks were also fulfilled: 1. Analyze the industry of business events 2. Study the services presented in this niche 3. Create a business model of the product 4. To study and choose the recommendatory algorithm, which can be applied for recommendations of useful acquaintances 5. Develop a chat-bot The work was carried out successfully.

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