Send us Fan Mail Tom Morgan and Alex Baker catch up on recent Amazon Connect and contact center updates, including a blog post on the EU AI Act requiring clear AI disclosure at first interaction and strong logging/auditing by August 2, with significant GDPR-scale penalties and shared-responsibility implications for AWS customers.  They also discuss a LinkedIn video on voice models that argues data, prompts, guardrails, action execution, and testing matter more than voice choice, and disc...

ACP: The Amazon Connect Podcast

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33: News and Events

APR 21, 202626 MIN
ACP: The Amazon Connect Podcast

33: News and Events

APR 21, 202626 MIN

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Send us Fan MailTom Morgan and Alex Baker catch up on recent Amazon Connect and contact center updates, including a blog post on the EU AI Act requiring clear AI disclosure at first interaction and strong logging/auditing by August 2, with significant GDPR-scale penalties and shared-responsibility implications for AWS customers. They also discuss a LinkedIn video on voice models that argues data, prompts, guardrails, action execution, and testing matter more than voice choice, and discuss roadshows, the Amazon Connect User Group event in London on June 3, and AWS Summit London at ExCeL with multiple Amazon Connect sessions and demos.AI agent co-host Aria joins to discuss customer examples like Centrica’s reported 38% handle-time reduction and Richmond, Virginia moving 911 dispatch to Amazon Connect, plus Salesforce deprecating the CTI adapter in favour of Service Cloud Voice and new Connect coaching workflows tied to evaluations.Links:EU AI Act Article 50: What Contact Centre Owners Need to Know Before August | The thoughtstuff BlogVideo: Everyone wants to know what voice model to use for their AI Agent | LinkedInThe Independent User Group for Amazon ConnectAWS Summit London 202600:00 Welcome Back to ACP00:48 Episode Agenda Catch Up01:32 EU AI Act Deadline05:15 Compliance Shared Responsibility06:54 Voice Models Beyond Hype08:23 Roadshows and User Group10:18 AWS Summit London Preview14:57 Aria Joins News Roundup16:11 Richmond 911 on Connect18:38 Salesforce CTI Deprecation21:26 New Voices and Languages22:02 Coaching Workflows and Culture25:11 Wrap Up and SubscribeFind out more about CloudInteract at cloudinteract.io.