Live interview session with the Chief Evangelist of UiPath, Guy Kirkwood. Guy is an awesome guy, that not only said yes to spend an hour with me, but more importantly he said yes to share his wisdom with all of the RPA Community ⭐

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It will also be a session, where Guy will give career advice for aspiring RPA developers – what should we learn in order to ensure continuous growth as RPA developers? 🤷‍♂️

On top of that Guy will answer live questions, so make sure to post your question in the chat 💬

Guy Kirkwood, as chief evangelist of UiPath, is using RPA to reshape how people work. Guy was UiPath’s first non Romanian employee and was previously part of the team which was its first customer. He’s helped UiPath to become a Forbes AI 50; a CNBC Disruptor 50; #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100; #2 in the FT rankings; and #1 in the Deloitte Fast 500.

Find Guy Kirkwood here:
○ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/guykirkwood/

If you love UiPath, you should watch this:
○ UiPath Live Forum session – https://youtu.be/6DfjpxeLq8w

0:00 Welcome
Chief Evangelist of UiPath, Guy Kirkwood, joins us live from London, where he will answer questions from all you RPA developers.

0:46 What is a Chief Evangelist?
A Chief Evangelist is an ambassador for your product, service, or business and the term/job title was invented by Guy Kawaski of Apple. Kirkwoods talks about how the role is bi-directional, where you both advertise for your product and take the information that the customers give back to the company.

3:38 What technologies to focus on as an RPA Developer
Which of tomorrow’s technologies should I focus on as an RPA Developer. Guy explains the four understandings: Computer Vision (what’s on the screen), Document Understanding/Intelligent Document Processing, Process Understanding (Process Mining and Task Capture), and Language Understanding (Chatbots and Sentiment Analysis).

9:33 Specialist or Generalist?
In a big company, you can specialize, but in a small company, you probably have to be more of a jack of all trades. Guy Kirkwood talks about the build-in technologies in UiPath.

12:10 Elevator Pitch for RPA
RPA is shaping how people work. Efficiency and employer engagement. If you remove the boring mundane tasks from people, they can now do all the interesting work like engineering, customer service, etc. Regulators love automation (well structured and easy to audit).

16:46 Document Understanding Use Case
Guy speaks about a document understanding where an insurance company automated all their email processes.

18:01 Are self-building robots always behind humans?

20:04 Keep up with evolving UiPath changes
UiPath has 2 major releases a year. 2021.4 and 2021.10. UiPath Live will outline all the new improvements in the releases. The 2021.10 will be in Las Vegas, the 4th and 5th of October. You can also keep up at the UiPath Forum.

24:06 UiPath use on the Shop Floor
Guy explains about physical robots and RPA in the manufacturing business.

25:40 Required knowledge to enter RPA
You should go to the UiPath Academy, which has courses for both technical and non-technical background people.

28:12 How has COVID changed the RPA environment
With a lot of people moving towards remote work, the need for RPA automation has increased. Especially the Professional Services might never come back to the offices.

31:14 UiPath Evangelist or RPA Evangelist?
The Evangelist role has to focus on the broader view.

32:49 UiPath in 5 years?
Where are RPA and UiPath in 5 years?

37:48 Is UiPath for small or big enterprises?
Organizations below $ 5 million in annual revenue can use UiPath for free. At the enterprise level, UiPath starts to charge.

40:27 Is the best RPA Developer a business or a technical person?
The best RPA Developer is a technical person because he/she can get something solved quickly, whereas the business person has to learn it.

41:18 3 Pieces of Advice for the RPA Developer
Help your colleagues having fun with RPA. Look for the cool technologies (the Start-Ups etc.). Balance of the coding and the business.

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