Have you ever been at the grocery store trying to decide what to buy for dinner? Well you are in luck! No more wandering around the market wondering what you should buy for your next meal, when you can build a bot that can pick your dinner for you! In this session we will dive into the Microsoft Bot Framework; where you will learn the basics of building a simple chat bot in C#, how to publish it on the proper bot platform and how to upgrade its natural language processing using LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service). After leaving this session, you will have all the resources you need to build your very own FridgeBot. Your FridgeBot will be a handy chat bot that will help you find a recipe based on the available ingredients you already have! All you will have to do is tell it you are hungry, give it a list of ingredients you have at home and it will recommend a dish containing those ingredients!

The rise of machine learning has produced an explosion of APIs to make your applications more intelligent. In this session, you will learn about the 20+ different Cognitive Services APIs that provide object recognition, face detection and identification, emotion recognition, OCR, computer vision, video services, speech and speaker recognition, language understanding, text analytics, sentiment analysis, knowledge exploration, search services, and more. You can also leverage these services in conjunction with the Microsoft Bot Framework to build an intelligent assistant. You will see powerful demos of these capabilities, experience the simplicity of calling this code, and walk away with ideas on how to leverage this functionality in your own applications.