General: Breakouts

Microsoft Build | May 25-27, 2021 | Digital event

Watch key segments and other general sessions from Microsoft Build 2021.

	Accessibility Conversation with Dona Sarkar Florian Beijers, Dona Sarkar
	AI at Scale - a new paradigm accelerating AI innovation Get an up-close look into Microsoft's AI at Scale initiative and how it is fueling the next generation of AI development today and accelerating innovation. David Carmona, Luis Vargas
	American Airlines joins Customer Tech Talks to discuss using PowerApps and Teams to create a better system for frontline workers. Hear how American Airlines is enabling their frontline workers to better connect and collaborate using Teams and Power Apps to bring together ground crew, pilots, gate staff and mechanics to drive on time departures. Chaitanya Kommidi, Shalini Neelankavil, Ben Walters
	Azure Communication Services with Microsoft Teams interoperability Join us to learn more about the latest on Azure Communication Services & Microsoft Teams interoperability and how you can use these services to build custom meeting experiences that interact with Microsoft Teams. Bob Serr
	Bring confidence to your cloud spending by leveraging Azure Cost Management APIs Learn about Azure Cost Management and Billing APIs that can be used to build systems that leverage cost data for in-depth analysis. Gabriel Esparza-Romero
	Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere Get a sneak peak into the behind-the-scene story of how we are bringing better developer experience for cloud native applications that run anywhere Jeff Hollan
	Build Conversational AI experiences for your customers Building enterprise-grade conversational AI experiences while maintaining control of your data is easy with Azure. Join Lili Cheng, Corporate Vice President, Conversational AI, to learn how Azure significantly enhanced Azure Bot Service to enable you to accelerate building sophisticated conversational experiences with integrated development tools. Lili Cheng
	Build differentiated SaaS apps with the Microsoft Cloud Join Charles Lamanna to discuss Developing vertical SaaS apps with Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure, and Teams. Charles Lamanna, Rick Claus
	Build real-time apps with WebSocket and Azure Web PubSub WebSocket is a standardized protocol that is key to building efficient real-time web interactions. Join this session to find out how Azure Web PubSub, a new service now in preview, enables developers to use WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern to easily build real-time web applications, like live monitoring dashboards, cross-platform live chat, real-time location on maps, and more. Ken Chen
	Build Responsibly with Azure AI Join Sarah Bird, Principal Program Manager for Responsible AI, to learn how Azure enables you to develop AI-powered apps responsibly. Sarah Bird
	Build, integrate and accelerate Multi-cloud Compliance Join this session to learn more about how you can build multi-cloud Compliance applications. Anne Raheem, Hammad Rajjoub, Jayme Singleton
	Cluster Reply and UMI join Customer Tech Talks to show how they are working with Microsoft to innovate new Autonomous AI scenarios Customer Tech Talks sits down with Cluster Reply and Urban Mobility International to discuss how they are building new solutions combining the Autonomous systems, AI and the latest robotic platforms from Boston Dynamics to deliver new assessment processes for fleet car management. Thomas Lassmann, Stephan Leininger, Markus Loosen, Marek Matuszewski, Ben Walters
	Conscientious Coding: Microsoft, Accenture and Thought Works Kick Off a Green Development Future As the world works to address the urgent carbon crisis, more companies aim to reduce carbon emissions. We are proud to announce The Green Software Foundation - a nonprofit founded by Microsoft/GitHub, Accenture, and ThoughtWorks, and established with the Linux Foundation, to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for building green software. We believe we have a responsibility to help shape a more sustainable future with industry leaders around the globe. Jeff Sandquist, Erica Brescia, Sanjay Podder, Elise Zelechowski
	Container-Based Development with Visual Studio Code In an increasingly remote world, we want to empower developers to work from anywhere and get started quickly in any new environment or project. The Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension lets you use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment. In this session, we'll explore how to create and connect to dev containers, which provide independent and reproducible environments for your work. Christof Marti
	Develop in the cloud, for the cloud with Codespaces and Bridge to Kubernetes Developers often spend an excessive amount of time configuring dependencies. Tasks, such as setting up coding environments and replicating application dependencies, hold back developers' ability to focus on writing code. These tasks should be made simpler. Join us in learning how you can develop in the cloud with Codespaces and Bridge to Kubernetes. Simplify your dependency set up and focus on your productivity from day zero. Nick Greenfield
	Developing high-quality AI models in Azure Cognitive Services Join Xuedong Huang, Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, Azure AI, to learn about Microsoft's approach to developing Azure Cognitive Services models and the latest innovations. Xuedong Huang
	Double-click with Microsoft engineering leaders Join Karuana Gatimu and senior Microsoft engineering leaders Brendan Burns, Satish Thomas, Pablo Castro, and Pierce Boggan as they dive deeper into a few select topics introduced in the technical sessions at Microsoft Build. You won't want to miss this unique engineer-to-engineer, whiteboarding-style session. Brendan Burns, Pierce Boggan, Pablo Castro, Karuana Gatimu, Satish Thomas
	Find out how customers build, deploy and manage with AKS on Azure Stack HCI Learn various patterns of how customers are using AKS on Azure Stack HCI to deploy modern applications on-premises and at the edge. Benjamin Armstrong
	Game Development with Microsoft Sarah Bond, Tammy Levine
	High velocity, cloud native, enterprise Java Open JDK, and Azure SDK to frameworks such as Spring and Java EE. Hear from the developers themselves how Microsoft is giving you Java your way on Azure. Ed Burns, Julien Dubois, Martijn Verburg
	Improved container tools in Visual Studio 2019 Join this session to see some exciting features of Docker container tooling in Visual Studio. You can now run any combination of services defined in your compose files, and enjoy improved container and image management in the Containers tool window Uche Nkadi
	Inclusion, identity, & innovation: Covering and the connection between being ourselves and being able to do our best work Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. He wrote Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, about how we downplay parts of our known identities to blend into the mainstream. Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is a corporate vice president and Chief Diversity Officer at Microsoft. Learn about the ways we cover in the workplace and what individuals and companies can do about it. Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, Mariana Atencio, Kenji Yoshino
	Join Satish Thomas to learn how to up your Industry game using Industry Clouds and Solutions from Microsoft Satish Thomas, VP of the Industry Clouds and Solutions team, will explain what makes the Microsoft Industry Clouds unique, which industries and solutions are most critical to Microsoft, and how they can make your life as a developer easier. Karuana Gatimu, Satish Thomas
	Kroger joins Customer Tech Talks to discuss how they are using Java on Azure to manage stock levels across their stores. Join us to hear how Kroger migrated their on-premises Java application to Azure to scale their stock management process across their US based stores. Learn how they planned and executed their migration, and how Java on Azure continues to drive great experiences for their customers. Ben Walters, Doug Wilson
	Microsoft Mesh: What’s coming and how to get prepared Building off the excitement from the Microsoft Mesh announcement during Microsoft Ignite, this interview will focus on continuing the momentum and share with developers and users on what they can expect from Microsoft Mesh, as well as understand the best approach to leverage Mesh + how to prepare and get started. Simon Skaria
	Microsoft Research Unplugged – Developer edition Learn how software engineering research accelerates how we develop our services at Microsoft, and how you can use these tools yourself. Our researchers will share how their work is helps improve the correctness of our concurrent systems by making it easier to write unit tests for concurrency code with Project Coyote, detect bugs using stateful REST API fuzzers in Project RESTler, and deploy proof-oriented programming at scale to improve the security of our software stack through Project Everest. Pantazis Deligiannis, Patrice Godefroid, Nikhil Swamy
	Mixed Reality Application Development: Uncovering the right tools for the right job to enable MR scenarios 25 percent of large businesses will pilot and deploy mixed reality solutions by 2021 and mixed reality hardware and software sales are expected to accelerate from $12B in 2020 to $72.8B in 2024. This session will highlight the momentum of mixed reality application development - and help developers of all backgrounds understand the right tools and resources for the right job when it comes to enabling mixed reality scenarios. Tyler Adams
	Modern testing enhancements in Visual Studio 2019 Looking for ways to improve quality and turbo charge testing without spending too much time authoring and troubleshooting? Check out enhancements we made to testing tools in Visual Studio like Test explorer navigation and accessibility, and how to work with new modern frameworks like Playwright that do functional web testing of async apps with multi browsers in a few lines of code. Kendra Havens, Mandy Whaley
	Morgan Stanley joins Customer Tech Talks to discuss operating at the speed of international finance with WebView2 Learn how Morgan Stanley is meeting the productivity needs of their fast-paced work environment by using Microsoft Edge WebView2. To future-proof their approach to bring native and web apps into one experience, Morgan Stanley is using WebView2 control as a core part of hybrid financial apps. When investing in developing an app, you want to know it's going to evolve with the next technologies. Find out how Morgan Stanley is moving forward to support their high-performance traders and clients. Dov Katz, Ben Walters
	Rap with Rohan on Azure Data Join us to hear from Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, on the latest amazing innovations announced here at Build for Azure Data. Rohan Kumar
	Secure cluster access for developers: a look at JIT and run command in AKS Are you looking for simple and secure access to your Kubernetes resources? Learn how integrating your cluster with Azure AD can bring Just-in-Time secure access to clusters. Also, get to know aks run command native command line access, as an alternative to Jump Hosts or Bastion. Michael Withrow
	Signal Customer Story Learn how confidential computing protects data-in-use in Azure and get insight into what's available now, what's coming soon. See how the free private messaging app, Signal, protects the privacy of messages and user data by employing Microsoft Azure confidential computing and tells the story about why it moved all its confidential computing workloads to Azure because of its availability, reliability, and the support the app received to maintain performance during its massive growth. Mark Russinovich, Jon Chambers, Seth Juarez, Jim O'Leary
	Supercharging Developer Velocity Developer Velocity has been an important and integral part of developer productivity for years. Microsoft is doubling down on its commitment to increase and amplify developers' work and well being with the launch of Developer Velocity Lab (DVL)- a joint effort between Microsoft, Microsoft Research and GitHub. Learn more about our most recent Developer Velocity content releases, and about how DVL plugs into our Developer Velocity journey with Erika Ehrli and Nicole Forsgren. Erika Ehrli, Nicole Forsgren
	The what of Data Integration with Azure Synapse Analytics Can you really compose data-driven workflows with steps to move and transform data from the same Synapse Studio I use to manage my enterprise data warehouse? Abhishek Narain
	Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extension with Power Platform Extend your VS and VS code APIs further with the Power Apps extension to build new or update low-code applications faster than ever before. Kartik Kanakasabesan
	What developers love about OSS on Azure Join us to learn more about how developers are using the best of Azure open source technologies to accelerate their application innovation. Luise Freese, Stephen Kihiu , Sarah Novotny
	What's coming in the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 Join us to get a sneak peek into the features coming in the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 Mads Kristensen
	What's new with Typescript? Over the last year, TypeScript's had a lot of work put into it to help build JavaScript projects at any and every scale. Come take a peek at our rich new type system and tooling features that'll make you more productive! Daniel Rosenwasser
	Why Microsoft going all in on game development with Azure? How games are developed and monetized has changed dramatically with rise of games-as-service, titles shipped in cycles of constant iteration to increase engagement and monetization of their player base. These models create sticky, high-margin games that rely on cloud-based services for analytics, multiplayer, and networking. This session digs into Microsoft's approach to empowering game creators. Come hungry to ask questions and learn how what we're doing in game development applies to you! Travis Bradshaw

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