Meta Pronounces Audio system and Agenda for Subsequent Week’s ‘Conversations’ Enterprise Messaging Convention

Meta’s holding its first ever ‘Conversations’ business messaging conference subsequent week (5/19), the place it can showcase its newest improvements and coming upgrades for its messaging platforms, which now cumulatively have over 2 billion users.

And it’s bringing out the big guns for the event, together with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who’ll ship the principle keynote handle, together with COO Sheryl Sandberg and Uber chief Dara Khosrowshahi.

I imply, that is sensible, Uber has primarily constructed its enterprise on messaging, and Sandberg will sit down with Khosrowshahi to get his insights into how messaging platforms have facilitated Uber’s development, and fueled its connection technique.

In different classes, Meta’s inside engineers will talk about the newest messaging upgrades and enterprise instruments, which is able to possible embrace new eCommerce integrations and superior advert instruments for WhatsApp.

Meta’s been making an attempt to generate extra income from WhatsApp because it bought the platform for $19 billion back in 2014. These efforts have pressured Meta to regularly change the main target of WhatsApp, and in some features, soften its privateness options, which is at the least a part of the explanation why former WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum left the company back in 2018.

However at 2 billion users, WhatsApp presents big income potential, if Meta can get it proper.

It’ll be fascinating to see if it has any new options on this entrance to share subsequent week.

Following the keynote displays, there’ll be a spread of breakout classes and deep-dives, masking matters like ‘Tips on how to get began with messaging to assist your clients’, ‘Constructing conversational commerce experiences’ and ‘Working with Meta’s companion ecosystem’.

It might be price tuning in to glean some extra perception into how messaging can complement your online business course of.

You possibly can try the total Conversations agenda here the place you can even register to attend the only day occasion.