I was lucky enough to be one of the many to visit the poor man's Build conference: Watching the live stream from my couch!

This post shows the main take aways in approx. 40 pictures with some comments to clarify matters.

Enjoy!

Satya Nadella Keynote Day 1

Opportunity & Responsibility

Industrial revolution -> Picture of NYC > core technologies (engines) are invisible
The world is becoming a computer

Opportunity & Responsibility
Build trust in technology
Hans Jonas - effects of your actions must be in accordance with the endurance of genuine human life
Privacy is a human right
Compliance with GDPR
CloudAct..?
Ethical AI is required. - What should computers do..?
Debias available Data that is used to train AI

Platforms:
Azure
Microsoft365

New App model:
Distributed, event driven, serverless

IOT Edge becomes open source

9 billion new compute nodes for us to program

Drones: Use when job is Dull, Dirty or Dangerous

What matters is: Can microsoft translate these achievements to empower developers?

Speech recognition SDK

Timeline: Omnichannel apps (start phone continue on desktop)

Excel: Cloud functions - Call an Azure Function directly from excel

Multi agent Apps

Digital + Physical world

High value workflows

Future meeting experience -->

Opportunity & Responsibility

Accessibility
AI For Accessibility

Aerobics with microsoft

Scott Guthrie

DevTools + DevOps

Collaborative developer experience

Github + VS App Center integration
Continuous delivery from Github

VSTS From Azure

Containers + Serverless

Mic broken

Internet of Things

Live demo coded App to post twitter message from pressing an IoT device (Button)

Run custom vision ML model + Function App on Raspberry Pi in Containers

Data + AI

Auto tag photos of celebs with Cognitive Services to provide a personal picture book

This isnt your daddy's Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build/sessions
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/events/build/content