Top sessions to follow at Facebook Developer Conference April 18–19
Our team’s top picks are focused around chatbots, machine learning and new product development
Facebook’s annual developer conference will take place on April 18 and 19 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, and the Darvin.ai team will be there. The event will also be streamed online here.
We have created our schedule to be focused around chatbots, machine learning and new product development. If you are passionate about these topics, ping us on twitter @darvindotai and meet us at the event!
Here are our top pics from the event’s full schedule which we will be following live at the event.
Tuesday — Day 1
12:30 — Boost Your Business With Messenger
Room B
Facebook Messenger connects over a billion people around the world. For marketers and bot builders, this session presents best practices and tips for engaging your audience with Messenger.
1:00 — How to Build a Great Bot
Room B
Understand the features and technology available to developers in Messenger. Engineers and bot developers, join us for a technical deep dive, including best practices on major features, and updates on the latest in the Messenger Platform.
2:00 — A Startup Journey from an Emerging Market
Room B
Gary Urteaga shares his entrepreneurial journey from his initial curiosity about Silicon Valley, various web & app projects, milestones as a startup founder, and his work helping entrepreneurs transform big ideas into startups that solve the humanity’s grand challenges.
2:30 — What can be Learned from China’s Mobile Economy Boom in Past 5 Years?
Room G
There’s been 110 billion-dollar tech startups since 2010, and behind them lies the whole route of China’s mobile economy boom. With a highly connected and digitalized social environment, it’s possible to fill big gaps of user demands in a more efficient and intelligent way — a pattern that can be repeated.
3:00 — Creating Social Presence in VR
Room LL
Achieving social presence in VR presents a host of fascinating challenges, from designing avatars that avoid the “uncanny valley” to determining what kind of tools and spaces best facilitate interaction. We’ll share best practices on how to create the best social presence in VR.
4:00 — International Research: Gaining Cultural Context for Scalable Solutions
Room B
Building products for unfamiliar markets is challenging, and there are many factors to take into consideration before getting started. Hear the process the Facebook Research team follows to guide product development for new markets.
4:30 — Measure the Complete Customer Journey with Facebook Analytics for Apps
Room LL
People use multiple channels across different devices throughout their customer journey. Learn how Facebook Analytics for Apps can help you simplify measurement with powerful omni-channel analytics.
5:00 — How We Shipped Reactions
Room F
Like. Love. Haha. Wow. Sad. Angry. Join engineers who worked on Facebook’s reactions for an inside peek at how Facebook launches a brand new feature to the world.
5:30 — Creative Ways to Conduct Research
Room LL
Insights from research guide good business decisions. In this session, we’ll discuss creative methods used at Facebook for conducting research to help you get deeper, more engaging insights.
Wednesday — Day 2
12:30 — Using Machine Translation to Remove Language Barriers on Facebook
Room G
Deep learning has profoundly shaped the translation process. Join us as we discuss the unique challenges faced in translation, difficulties with neural networks, how these challenges were overcome, and future applications of deep learning in translation.
1:00 — Natural Language Understanding @ Facebook
Room G
In this brief talk, we will highlight some of the natural language understanding technologies that have been developed at Facebook and how they are already powering new user’s experiences.
1:30 — Making the Facebook Social Graph Semantic
Room G
As media content grows on FB, we are investing in new ways for engineering teams to harness the power of computer vision for their products and services without the need for prior expertise. Come for a sneak peek into how we’re advancing this framework for video products, which has both multimodal and time complexities.
2:00 — VR Together: Adding Social Components to Your VR Apps
Room A
Interactive and fun social experiences foster greater consumer engagement in VR. This talk will focus on the APIs and features that Oculus provides to add a social layer to your app, including the Avatar SDK, VoIP, Invites, and Oculus Rooms.
3:00 — Delivering Real-Time AI in the Palm of Your Hand
Room F
As web services shifted to mobile, machine-learning was left in the data centers. We’ve moved ML to the phone, launching a full machine-learning runtime inside Facebook. Come learn what we’ve built, how it’s used, and what it means for developers.
3:30 — Building for a Billion People: Behind the Scenes with Facebook’s Product Engineers
Room F
In this talk, we will explain how we have managed to maintain a culture of speed while staying in tune with our global and diverse user base, testing and shipping new features and improvements that work for everyone around the globe.
You can explore all sessions and topics for the event here.
Hristo Borisov is co-founder of Darvin.ai @ Progress
