Track Name: Microsoft Development

The only thing stopping software from being inclusive is the developers. If they did these cost-effective things, they could increase their potential audience tremendously. This isn't about altruism, it's just good business practice.

Holographic devices like the HoloLens brings with it a new wave of holographic development. This talk will cover how the basics of the device, how it works, and how you can start developing holographic applications today using Unity.

We’ll build an app together and you can gain the confidence to get started. 

Microsoft Dial is an innovative extension to interact with apps, and the API is far more straight-forward than you might expect.

Managed developers now have direct access to the native graphics subsystem in Windows. enabling complex designs to be realized without compromising performance. But how? Leave this session with the confidence to build incredible apps.

In this sessions, you will learn how to apply .NET Framework best practices to .NET Core.

We've made it. Science fiction is now science fact. In this session, let's look at the approach of this new age and how to make the most with the skills you already have.

This session explores bot capabilities, design patterns, knowledge based bots, handling user actions, how bots interact with websites/apps, and how hand off to human bot works. Bot demo, and code sample will be illustrated throughout the session.

TypeScript is used to build key frameworks like Angular. How TypeScript leverages features from the current and future of JavaScript will be illustrated. TypeScript 2.x, support for Angular, React, Node and type system, will be demonstrated.

Come learn about the relationship between the threading, asynchronous function calls, the Node.js Event Loop, and performance.

Let you users interact with systems in the communication channels they prefer (Facebook, Slack, Kik, Skype, email, sms) in one integrated solution. In this session we will show you how to utilize the BotFramework to build bots for your enterprise

This is *not* a talk on proper UX design. What this talk will cover is what goes wrong cognitively (i.e. in the brain) when we try to design our own tools.