Alan Nichol is co-founder and CTO of leading open source conversational AI company Rasa, where he helps create the software that enables developers to expand bots beyond answering simple questions. The open source Rasa Stack enables thousands of developers worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500, to build in-house conversational AI. Alan is the author of the DataCamp course Building Chatbots in Python and was featured in Forbes 30 under 30. Alan holds a Ph.D. in machine learning from the University of Cambridge and has years of experience building AI-powered products in industry.