Bots (or conversation agents) are rapidly becoming an integral part of your users’ digital experience – they are as vital a way for users to interact with a service or application as is a web site or a mobile experience. Developers writing bots all face the same problems: bots require basic I/O; they must have language and dialog skills; and they must connect to users – preferably in any conversation experience and language the user chooses. In this session, you will learn how to build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Facebook, Office 365 mail and other popular services. We will explore the Microsoft Bot Framework, which provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking. Through live demos, we’ll cover the Bot Connector in the cloud, the Bot Build SDK with C# (Node.js is also supported) and we’ll also explore how to handle natural language input from the user with the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) from Microsoft Cognitive Services. Every business needs bots to provide a more personal experience to its users and customers. Come learn how you can build your own bots in just a few hours.

1. Nick Landry
Senior Technical Evangelist – Microsoft
nick.landry@microsoft.com
Blog: AgeofMobility.com
@ActiveNick | github.com/ActiveNick
Bots are the New Apps:
Building with the Bot Framework
& Language Understanding

15. Your conversation logic
Logic
Web
Service
Your Bot
LUIS

18. Let’s build a bot!
Get started at https://www.botframework.com

19. Your bot
{
"type": "Message",
"id": "68YrxgtB53Y",
"conversationId": "DphPaFQrDuZDKyCez4AFGcT4vy5aQDje1lLGIjB8v18MFtb",
"language": "en",
"text": "You can say "/order" to order!",
"attachments": [ ],
"from": {
"name": "+12065551212",
"channelId": "sms",
"address": "+12065551212",
"id": "Ro52hKN287",
"isBot": false
},
"channelData": { SMS data here },
"botUserData": { your data here },
...
}
Bot
Connector

20. Emotion
Speaker
Recognition
Speech
Custom
Recognition
Computer Vision
Face
Video
microsoft.com/cognitive
Linguistic Analysis
Language
Understanding
Bing Spell Check
Entity Linking
Knowledge
Exploration
Academic
Knowledge
Bing
Image Search
Bing
Video Search
Bing
Web Search
WebLM
Text Analytics Recommendations
Bing
Autosuggest
Bing
News Search
Translator
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/

21. https://dev.botframework.com/
https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder
https://blog.botframework.com/
https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/raw-tech/Build-Reaction-Cortana-and-the-Bot-Framework
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-206-Bot-Framework-with-Mike-Hall

22. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B821
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B878
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B855

23. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/T620
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B834
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B833

24. http://developer.microsoft.com/cortana
http://AgeofMobility.com/Cortana

25. Online Microsoft training delivered by experts
to help technologists continually learn
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26. • Universal Windows App Development
with Cortana and the Speech SDK
• Available for on-demand viewing now:
http://aka.ms/CortanaMVA

27. • Channel 9 Show
• Visual Studio Toolbox
with Robert Green
• New Voice Commands
• Integration with Cortana’s canvas
• Background Voice Commands
• Continuous dictation
• Poutine in Montreal!
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/App-Development-with-Cortana
More Cortana Dev on Windows 10

28. Thank You!
Slides are in SlideShare. Demos are on GitHub.
Contact me and let me know what you build, I will be happy to help promote your apps.
Blog: AgeofMobility.com
Twitter: @ActiveNick
Email: nick.landry@microsoft.com
Apps: www.bigbaldapps.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/activenick
GitHub: github.com/ActiveNick
Slideshare: slideshare.net/ActiveNick