Welcome to the Virtual Assistant Template + Teams

Retail, HR, Tech Support, Financial.... Need a professional chat bot for your customers and/or users, but don't know where to start? Start here. In this session, you'll be introduced to the Virtual Assistant Template, a Microsoft OSS project that enables you to kick-start an Azure Bot Framework-based ChatBot in minutes. Turn-key, Azure cloud-native, powered by Azure Cognitive Services, with full Azure DevOps support baked in. We'll spin up, build, test, deploy, and examine an original specimen instance in C# and .NET Core, with Visual Studio 2019 during this demo heavy session. Then we'll hook it up to Teams and play with it. Join professional bot builder Jim Wilcox, The Granite State Hacker, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, to give your growing bot the head-start it deserves.