We’re keeping you up to date with all the Microsoft 365 news and information for Build 2019! If you are attending in Seattle or watching virtually, you can use this guide as a way to stay current on all the sessions, stories, and information from Build. Check back during the event for updates as they become available.
Blog posts
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Graph
- Microsoft identity platform
- Microsoft Security
- Microsoft Teams
- Office 365
- Windows
Breakout sessions
Microsoft Identity platform
- Simplifying your app’s user sign-in and authentication using the Microsoft identity platform
- Enabling your application and services to use passwordless authentication
- Building apps that integrate, automate, and manage security operations
Microsoft Graph
- Microsoft Graph: Powering your applications with Microsoft 365 services
- Building a Microsoft Graph-powered productivity app
- Automating background processes across Microsoft 365 data using Microsoft Graph and Azure
- Microsoft Teams automation with Microsoft Graph: bots, APIs, and more
- Building a new class of insight apps with bulk datasets from Microsoft Graph using Azure services
Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams: What’s new on the platform
- Maximizing existing solutions and services in Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams automation with Microsoft Graph: bots, APIs, and more
Office 365
- Building engaging, intelligent portals and solutions with SharePoint Framework
- Accessing data from anywhere with Excel custom functions and JavaScript API
- Adaptive Cards vNext – Powering the next generation of contextual user experiences in your apps and Microsoft 365
Windows
- State of the browser: Microsoft Edge
- Moving the web forward with Microsoft Edge
- State of the Union: The Windows Presentation Platform
- Meet C++/WinRT 2.0: Faster and smarter in the open
- The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive
- Enhance your existing application with cognitive services
- Building .NET Desktop Applications with .NET Core and Windows 10
- Optimizing your applications for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Fluent Design System: the journey to cross-platform
- Building a better command line experience for developers for Windows
- DevOps for applications running on Windows
- Accessibility and your development process: Making applications for everyone
- Windows AI Platform: Fast and practical ML for app developers
- Building Progressive Web Apps to extend existing web apps in Windows and Microsoft Teams
Community submitted breakout sessions
- Automate Caffeine delivery with a Teams ‘CoffeeBot’
- Lessons learned from building Candy Crush for Windows 10
- Building UWP apps for Multiple Devices
- Building WebAssembly apps with Microsoft’s stack – Lessons from the trenches
- Leveraging your code with APIs from Excel 3.0 to Office 365, Azure, Power BI and Flow
- Leveraging WSL For DevOps and Cross-Platform Development
- Microsoft Flow & Microsoft Graph – Automated processing of information intelligently
Theater Sessions
Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams will be running events at their booth, see below for details.
Office 365
- Unlock Microsoft 365 with the Office 365 Developer Program
- Easily add files to your apps and processes with OneDrive and SharePoint
Windows
- Windows Insider Program for Developers
- Windows UI tests in your CI/CD Pipeline
- Digital Ink: Building for the Web, Fueled By Cloud AI
- Getting familiar with WinDbg Preview
Technology Sneak Peeks
There are a number of technology sneak peeks happening at Build, and they provide an opportunity for giving feedback on features and technology we are working on. Many of them run multiple times throughout the event, so make sure to check out the full list of sessions available.
Microsoft Identity platform
Microsoft Graph
- Graph Notifications – Clientless notification solutions
- The Microsoft Graph Toolkit
- GraphQL on Microsoft Graph
- Azure User Notification Service
Microsoft Teams
- Bring patient information into Microsoft Teams for clinical communications
- Microsoft Teams App Templates
Office 365
Windows
- Creating CPP shared DLLs for UWP and Windows Desktop
- DTrace on Windows
- Making Windows ready for power users
- MSIX ? Virtual Environments
- Windows SDK in Continuous integration scenarios
- Windows Template Studio – WPF Edition
- XAML Islands Future with WinUI
Build Live Sessions
Microsoft Identity platform
Microsoft Graph
Windows
- What’s new with WSL
- What’s new with the Windows Command Line
- Microsoft Edge and Chromium: A rising tide lifts all boats
- React Native on Windows
- Windows Community Toolkit
Microsoft Teams Theater
Monday, May 6
NOON Digital Asset Management in Teams: McCann/Craft
CTO Jason Snyder will discuss the complex work they are doing in the digital asset management space, as well as how they’ve found other relevant opportunities for apps that meet the needs of the agency industry.
12:30PM Bringing Notetaking to Teams with Evernote
With Evernote for Microsoft Teams, you can seamlessly share, pin, edit, and search for important Evernote notes without leaving the Teams app.
1:00PM Building A Chatbot Application for Managing Your Workforce: Kronos
Hear how Kronos built their chatbot for Microsoft Teams, including insights, advice, and best practices, so you can build a powerful chatbot for your application.
1:30PM Driving Better User Experience for Teams Users: Polly
Hear from Samir Diwan co-founder of Polly on how they successfully leverage the latest Teams platform features to keep their users engaged and ensure their integration evolves in sync with the latest Teams product innovation.
2:00PM Approve All Your Expenses in Teams with Concur Integrations
Many organizations leverage SAP solutions such as Concur expense reporting. Come hear about their new integration for Teams and how you can use it to simplify your travel & expense reporting for your trip to Build Conference!
2:30PM Sneak Peek: Sample App Templates for Teams
Building a high-quality app from scratch takes time and thoughtful approach. That’s why at Teams we are launching App Templates. App Templates are fully built sample Teams apps that are community driven, open-sourced and housed on our Office Dev GitHub link. Developer benefits include a solid code base, out of the box plug and play experience as well as detailed documentation.
3:00PM Connect your Apps & Services to Make Teams Your Notifications Hub
Your organization uses several IT systems to manage business processes. It is very difficult (if not impossible) to track updates and notifications across all systems and act on them in a timely manner. You can enable Teams to be your notifications hub and keep your project teams informed of the latest updates by building a notification bot in Teams.
3:30PM Sneak Peek: Microsoft Teams App Certification Program
In this session we will introduce you to our Partner Assessment Program for Teams partner apps – The program aims to streamline the process of gathering and reviewing 3rd party app information related to security, data handling and compliance, by making it available in one central location, in one consistent schema for all 3rd party applications in Teams.
4:00PM Building A Personal Digital Assistant in Teams: Cerner
Lead Architect, Rahul Babulal, will discuss Cerner’s journey building a personal digital assistant in Microsoft Teams. He will describe how the innovation team used Microsoft technologies to help Cerner employees perform smarter, easier, and faster day-to-day work.
4:30PM Sneak Peak: Share to Teams
Partner PM, Steven Abrahams will cover a new platform feature allowing developers to place a Share button on their website and create posts and assignments in Teams.
4:45PM Creating A Custom Clinical Experience in Teams: Northwell
Lead Developer, Nic Lorenzen, will discuss how Northwell is creating a custom clinical experience on Teams. He will speak to his journey developing the NORA app and how the Teams platform toolkit will enrich patient collaboration and user experience.
5:00PM Getting started with the Microsoft News APIs
Hear how app and Teams developers are leveraging the Microsoft News APIs to enhance and monetize their applications. To this proven mix, we have added a cutting-edge personalization engine that uses AI and ML models to precisely infer users’ preferences based on past behavior and current trends.
Tuesday, May 7
11:30am Top Tips and Tricks for Developing on the Teams Platform, from the Teams team
Learn straight from the Microsoft Teams developers their tips on making good apps for Teams….along with code samples.
Noon Sneak Peek: User Experience (UX) for Microsoft Teams apps
This is an interactive, feedback gathering session. We have been spending the past 3 months gathering user feedback on the existing app model (discovery, acquisition, and usage of apps) via user studies and testing. Our goal for this session is to get your feedback on the new app model and validate our current thinking and designs.
12:30pm Tips and Insights from A Partner Who Has Delivered SIX Teams App Integrations: Zoho
In this session, representatives from Zoho Corporation talk about their 2-year journey and partnership with the Microsoft Teams Engineering team. Get a sneak peek into how Zoho has engineered a unique, centralized and scalable model to build for Teams.
1:00pm How Microsoft Does DevOps in Microsoft Teams
Hear from the Teams engineering team how to leverage Teams and DevOps tools to run Agile processes. Teams and extensions allow you to minimize context switching and get work dome more efficiently.
2:00pm How Workday is Building an Enterprise Application for Microsoft Teams
Learn how Workday architects, designs, and develops Workday for Microsoft Teams – a new offering that enables employees in some of the largest companies around the world to accomplish their Workday HCM tasks from within Teams.
2:30pm Collaborative Software Engineering using Atlassian and Microsoft Teams
You can get more done by using Atlassian products and Microsoft Teams, the hub for teamwork. Learn how Atlassian integrations with Teams can help you keep up to date on the status of projects and communications, helping you be more efficient in your day to day work.
3:00pm Improving Collaboration & Workflows in Teams with Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe integrations with Microsoft Teams bring document workflows, creative design and collaboration together. With Adobe Sign in Teams, any team member can sign documents, send them for legally binding e-signatures and approvals. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage existing integrations and easily build new integrated Adobe experiences into Teams without code.
3:30pm Revolutionizing Meetings with Klaxoon in Microsoft Teams
In this session, Klaxoon’s Matthieu Poupard (Go-to-market Director) and Benjamin Letrou (Platform & Delivery Manager) will talk about how Klaxoon leverages Microsoft 365’s latest technology to offer an integrated and innovative teamwork and meeting experience to Teams users.
4:00pm How ADP Created a New Experience for Workers within Microsoft Teams
Learn about ADP’s approach to building the new ADP Virtual Assistant that gives employees access to pay, time off and other HR info directly within Microsoft Teams
4:30pm Sneak Peek: Microsoft Teams App Certification Program
In this session we will introduce you to our Partner Assessment Program for Teams partner apps – The program aims to streamline the process of gathering and reviewing 3rd party app information related to security, data handling and compliance, by making it available in one central location, in one consistent schema for all 3rd party applications in Teams.
5:00pm Sneak Peek: Sample App Templates for Teams
Building a high-quality app from scratch takes time and thoughtful approach. That’s why at Teams we are launching App Templates. App Templates are fully built sample Teams apps that are community driven, open-sourced and housed on our Office Dev GitHub link.
5:30pm Getting started with the Microsoft News APIs
Hear how app and Teams developers are leveraging the Microsoft News APIs to enhance and monetize their applications. To this proven mix, we have added a cutting-edge personalization engine that uses AI and ML models to precisely infer users’ preferences based on past behavior and current trends.
Wednesday, May 8
11:00am Sneak Peek: Sample App Templates for Teams
Building a high-quality app from scratch takes time and thoughtful approach. That’s why at Teams we are launching App Templates. App Templates are fully built sample Teams apps that are community driven, open-sourced and housed on our Office Dev GitHub link.
11:30am Collaborative Software Engineering Using Atlassian and Microsoft Teams
You can get more done by using Atlassian products and Microsoft Teams, the hub for teamwork. Learn how Atlassian integrations with Teams can help you keep up to date on the status of projects and communications, helping you be more efficient in your day to day work.
Noon How To Drive Faster & Better Decision-Making in Teams Using Ment
Hear from Team MENT by Epistema – an AI collaborative decision-making platform backed by Slack and Peter Thiel’s Mithril. MENT allows teams to get to faster and better decisions. Ment will share their experience building on the Microsoft Teams platform and leveraging unique capabilities such as Tabs, Personal App, Task Modules and Bot.
12:30pm From the Teams Design Group: How to Design A Collaborative Integration
Hear from Michael Forney, Teams designer, to understand best practices, tips, and lessons learned so you can build a better, more collaborative solution for your organization or the rest of the world
1:00pm Work More Efficiently With Smartsheet for Microsoft Teams
With the growth of team collaboration in the cloud, information workers often waste time switching between applications or copying and pasting information into multiple systems. To work more efficiently, business teams today require a centralized hub for communication and work processes.
1:30pm Automating Visitor Arrival Notifications with Envoy in Teams
In this session, you will learn how Envoy is shaping an ecosystem and community for workplace technologies, through integrations with Microsoft Teams and Azure Active Directory.
2:00pm Bringing a Visual Workspace to Teams with Lucidchart
Lucidchart helps teams solve complex problems, think more critically, and convey information quickly through visuals—and now you can create and collaborate on diagrams without leaving the Teams interface. Join the Lucidchart team to understand why our visual workspace is a perfect fit to integrate with Teams, hear about our experience developing on Teams, and learn what we plan to build next.
2:30pm Building Tabs vs Bots in Teams: How to Choose
Tabs vs bots? Hear from AtBot, one of the most successful Teams integrations, about their experience building for Microsoft Teams, strategies employed, insights and more!
3:00pm How Workday is Building an Enterprise Application for Microsoft Teams
Learn how Workday architects, designs, and develops Workday for Microsoft Teams – a new offering that enables employees in some of the largest companies around the world to accomplish their Workday HCM tasks from within Teams.
3:30pm Sneak Peek: Microsoft Teams App Certification Program
In this session we will introduce you to our Partner Assessment Program for Teams partner apps – The program aims to streamline the process of gathering and reviewing 3rd party app information related to security, data handling and compliance, by making it available in one central location, in one consistent schema for all 3rd party applications in Teams.
4:00pm Connect your Apps & Services to Make Teams your Notifications Hub
Your organization uses several IT systems to manage business processes. It is very difficult (if not impossible) to track updates and notifications across all systems and act on them in a timely manner. You can enable Teams to be your notifications hub and keep your project teams informed of the latest updates by building a notification bot in Teams
4:30pm How Microsoft Does DevOps in Microsoft Teams
Hear from the Teams engineering team how to leverage Teams and DevOps tools to run Agile processes. Teams and extensions allow you to minimize context switching and get work dome more efficiently.
5:30pm Getting started with the Microsoft News APIs
Hear how app and Teams developers are leveraging the Microsoft News APIs to enhance and monetize their applications. To this proven mix, we have added a cutting-edge personalization engine that uses AI and ML models to precisely infer users’ preferences based on past behavior and current trends.
