SIGNAL Day 2 Recap: Ships, Superphones, and Space Travel

SIGNAL Day 2 Recap: Ships, Superphones, and Space Travel

The moments after SIGNAL feel like returning home from an interstellar orbit. For anyone who’s going to $bash, that feeling will be more pronounced after you launch a spaceship into orbit.

On day 2, we saw into the future of mixed reality with Rony Abvotiz, were graced by a performance from Ryan Leslie (after he demoed his Superphone), and brought a Slack bot into the world in the /bots talks “R2D2 or Skynet? Building Slack bots”.

There are too many great moments to pack into one blog post. But, when you get home after SIGNAL I think you’ll find that the memorable moments are defined not by what you did but who you did it with.

Now, before I grab my box of Kleenex, let’s rundown all of today’s ships.

Twilio Notify

“Turns out my buddy never got that telegram I sent him,” said no-one in the year 2016.  What good is the right message sent the wrong way? Notify lets you send the right type of message, at the right time, to the right user.
Using Notify, you can send push, SMS, and live chat notifications programmatically. Sorting different users and applying messaging preferences is easy. If your clients in Seattle only want SMS and Push notifications, but your clients in New York want in-app notifications when they’re active – you can enable that easily with Notify. In fact, we’ve already got an Android tutorial ready for you.

Learn more in this blog post, and sign up for the beta right here.

Rony Abovitz Opens A Window Into VR, Ryan Leslie Opens Up On Stage

Rony Abovitz Opens A Window Into VR, Ryan Leslie Opens Up On Stage

The man behind one of the most secretive (and promising) companies in the world, appeared on stage at SIGNAL, just not the way you might expect. Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap,  beamed into SIGNAL from their HQ in Florida.

The future of mixed reality is bright. Rony Abovitz says the world’s best VR system is your brain. He wants your brain to be a “code processor” the amazing code they write. Once Magic Leap takes their product public, we can’t wait to see what it looks like — but a few lucky Twilio Developers will get a first look before others.
 

Jeff and Rony not only announced that Magic Leap will be building with Twilio in the future. They revealed that 10 Twilio Developers at SIGNAL will be the first to get access to Magic Leap’s SDK. The first developer to get this golden ticket is the winner of tonight’s $bash. To quote Rony “This isn’t science fiction. This is really happening.”
 

Magic Leap is giving 10 Twilio devs early access to their SDK https://t.co/lbVkVgxxVX by @getdonovan

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) May 25, 2016

From Myspace to Codecademy to One Million Fans and a Superphone: The Hustle of Ryan Leslie

Ryan closed out day 2’s conference with a bang. We couldn’t ask for a better stamp on an awesome morning. But here are a few other highlights from throughout the day.

Twitter Highlights

Well deserved standing ovat'n for @CrisisTextLine's Nancy at @twilio's #signalconf. Hugely worthy cause solved w SMS pic.twitter.com/ycGEp4nTQ3

— Haje Jan Kamps (@Haje) May 25, 2016

Bam. Update device color and pattern over LTE with new @twilio Wireless! pic.twitter.com/s7QIUhu11N

— Jonathan Kressaty (@kressaty) May 25, 2016

At #signalconf we have a ton of #womenfounders & female speakers ???????????? @twilio pic.twitter.com/CShyQRmye1

— Erika M Balbuena (@ErikaDMSF) May 25, 2016

The case for healthcare by SMS (or #telehealth more broadly) from @DrPreciousLunga at @Twilio #signalconf pic.twitter.com/q4JVjcfoic

— Arin Sime (@ArinSime) May 25, 2016

Closing Thoughts

Rony and Ryan are just two of many developers pioneering the future of their respective industries. You make up the community of one million developers pioneering the future of communications. If we could fit everyone on stage to celebrate them, we would.

We can’t thank you enough for coming to SIGNAL, for being a part of the Twilio family. You, the community, make SIGNAL what it is. And it was awesome. See you next year!