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icrosoft Build 2026 is a two-day developer conference focused on hands-on sessions around AI, coding, and technical workflows. Attendees gain access to deep technical content, keynotes, interactive labs, demos, and direct engagement with engineers and industry leaders. The event offers in-person and online participation, with a focus on the latest AI tools,…

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27Voices
6Underwriters
48Exhibitors
23On the bill · sessions
58Companies · in total
§I

The Voices

Programmed at Microsoft, in alphabetical order.
Aditi Narvekar
Microsoft
Amanda Foster
Microsoft
Anagha Todalbagi
Microsoft
Anastasiya Tarnouskaya
Microsoft
Chip Huyen
Stealth
Damian Edwards
Microsoft
Dan Hellem
Microsoft
Dave Burnison
GitHub
David Fowler
Microsoft
Glenn Condron
Microsoft
Ion Stoica
UC Berkeley
Jared Palmer
Microsoft
Kirupa Chinnathambi
Microsoft
Marco Casalaina
Microsoft
Michael Chiang
Ollama
Neta Haiby
Microsoft
Peter Steinberger
OpenAI
Priyanka Sharma
Thiink Inc.
Rob Ferguson
Fireworks AI
Satya Nadella
Microsoft
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Shawn Henry
Microsoft

— and 5 more, by name unsung —

§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AMD
Fireworks AI
Intel
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Red Bull Basement
§III

The Programme

Selected from 23 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    Agentic RAG for fast, low-cost knowledge retrieval on Azure Cosmos DB

    A retrieval architecture that stays snappy and predictable as your knowledge base grows. (On-site only in San Francisco)

    Reducing startup costs while scaling
  • TBA

    Agent supervision is the new senior engineering skill

    As AI agents start shipping code, the bottleneck becomes trust. This talk argues “agent supervision” is the new senior skill: scoping agent work, setting constraints, designing che…

    Agents & apps
  • TBA

    AI & Agent-Augmented coding you can trust

    Agents now run real commands, modify files, and move data. This breakout highlights the full set of Windows primitives that help agents discover, reason about, and execute AI‑power…

    Windows
  • TBA

    Aspire for agents: Transform how you build and deploy distributed apps

    Aspire is an open-source cloud and agent-ready developer toolchain transforming how you build, run, and deploy observable, production-ready distributed apps. Its code centric appro…

    Developer tools & frameworks
  • TBA

    Azure DevOps meets GitHub, the path to AI powered SDLC

    Azure DevOps and GitHub are better together—and the integration keeps getting smarter. In this demo-heavy session, you’ll see how hybrid patterns that connect GitHub with Azure Boa…

    Developer tools & frameworks
  • TBA

    Breakout session with Peter Steinberger

    To be announced closer to the event.

    Agents & apps
  • TBA

    Build and host enterprise-grade AI agents with Microsoft Foundry

    AI agents are transforming how developers build software—but shipping production-grade agents demands more. This session walks through the end-to-end lifecycle of building AI agent…

    Agents & apps
  • TBA

    Build and ship faster with a developer-optimized experience on Windows

    Learn how Windows delivers a streamlined, end-to-end experience through PCs and OS experiences optimized for developers. See our new experiences in action across WSL, PowerToys and…

    Windows
  • TBA

    Build context‑aware agents at scale with Microsoft IQ

    High performance agents are built on intelligence that brings together context, enterprise data, orchestration, and governance. Learn how Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ provide…

    Agents & apps
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 58 companies show up — and 5 bet on three roles at once?

58 companies. five are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
5All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
43Exhibitingexhibitor only
9Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Fireworks AI·AMD·Intel·NVIDIA·Qualcomm

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority
  • Other roles27100%

Of 27 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Microsoft17V
  2. 02Fireworks AISpEx1V
  3. 03AMDSpEx
  4. 04IntelSpEx
  5. 05NVIDIASpEx
  6. 06QualcommSpEx
  7. 07Red Bull BasementSp
  8. 08Aikido SecurityEx
  9. 09AlgoliaEx
  10. 10AnthropicEx
  11. 11AnyscaleEx
  12. 12ApryseEx
  13. 13ArmEx
  14. 14Augment CodeEx
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions