Chatbot In A Day

"Azure Bot Service speeds up development by providing an integrated environment that's purpose-built for bot development with the Microsoft Bot Framework connectors and BotBuilder SDKs. Developers can get started in seconds with out-of-the-box templates for scenarios including basic, form, language understanding, question and answer, and proactive bots."

That's how Microsoft describes the Bot Framework on their homepage. The Chatbot In A Day workshop gives you a jumpstart on the matter by providing the right mix between technology overview and hands-on experience. Our agenda is split into two parts with one focusing on the basics in a more traditional teaching environment and the second part with a hackathon-style format with two possible challenges to choose from to create your very own bot. This workshop is targeted for developers and ITpros. One challenge will be solvable in a no-code way the other one will need some simple coding. 

Agenda

09:00-09:30 Checkin 

09:30-11:00 Basics of Chatbots in the Microsoft Bot Framework

11:30-12:00 Introduction to the challenges

12:00-16:30 Hackathon in teams or as a single person

16:30-17:00 Voting of the best solutions 

Please bring your own laptop. For developers please check out the prerequisites listed here:

• C# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-sdk-quickstart?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

• JS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/javascript/bot-builder-javascript-quickstart?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

Your instructors of the day will be Stephan Bisser (https://cloudguy.pro/), Michael Schrempf  and Thomas Goelles (https://thomy.tech)