Microsoft 365 at Build 2019 – the guide

Microsoft 365 Platform team

May 3rd, 2019 0

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

Breakout sessions

Microsoft Identity platform

Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Teams

Office 365

Windows

Community submitted breakout sessions

Theater Sessions

Microsoft Identity Platform

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams will be running events at their booth, see below for details.

Office 365

Windows

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

Microsoft Teams

Office 365

Windows

Build Live Sessions

Microsoft Identity platform

Microsoft Graph

Windows

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.

 

 

 

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