What to expect
14 technical sessions
The main track is 14 jam-packed technical sessions, covering everything from performance, accessibility, and test guidance, to brand-new tools and APIs for building Progressive Web Apps on Windows, adding payments and biometric authentication to your sites, and building modern layouts with new CSS features like CSS Grid.
Hallway Track
This year, we’re introducing a new Hallway Track, where you can meet with engineers from across Microsoft to solve real problems today, and build invaluable connections for the future.
Looking to reduce a troublesome performance issue? Struggling with best practices for accessibility? Eager to get started with WebVR? Curious about Bash on Windows? We’ve got you covered. The Hallway Track connects you one-to-one with Microsoft engineers throughout the day for tangible results you can take back to your site or app.
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Debug Bar
Struggling with interop bugs? Looking for test guidance? Need help with enterprise policies or legacy compatibility? Our engineers are passionate about making the web just work for all our mutual customers, and we’d love to help. Come grab a drink at the Debug Bar and we’ll take a look! We’ll provide test tips, on-site reductions of issues, and take your immediate feedback on any issues you’ve discovered.
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Performance Club
Web performance is hard. We’re here to help! Bring your site to the Performance Club and we’ll take a look using the same tools we use to build Microsoft Edge. Our team has years of experiencing helping properties around the world identify and remediate performance pitfalls across browsers, so your customers have a better experience on every device. We’ll provide actionable recommendations for your site, and opportunities to follow up with a deeper 1:1 conversation with Microsoft.
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WebVR Labs
WebVR is here! EdgeHTML 15 already supports the WebVR 1.1 specification by default, and we’ll have more updates to share soon for EdgeHTML 16. Come try out WebVR in Microsoft Edge on Windows Mixed Reality devices, learn more about building sites with tools like Babylon.js, and see how you can get started developing for WebVR any Windows PC - no VR peripherals required.
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And lots more!
That’s just the beginning! We’re partnering with teams across Microsoft and beyond to deliver opportunities to try out new experiences and learn about new tools. We’ll have representatives from ChakraCore and TypeScript, the brand-new Sonar open-source linting tool, and more.
Registration
We’re excited to meet developers around the world face to face, and look forward to seeing you here in Seattle, WA! Space is limited and reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis, so book your seat today.
Some details
A full lunch will be served along with light breakfast and dinner options. Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
Live captioning will be provided and additional accommodations are available upon request—please detail your needs in the registration form and we will reach out to make arrangements.
If you have any questions or additional needs, please contact us at edgesummit@microsoft.com.
Agenda
| 8am | Check in and breakfast |
| 9am | Keynote |
| 10am–1pm | Sessions |
| 1pm–2pm | Lunch |
| 2pm–6pm | Sessions |
| 6pm–8pm | Mixer and Hallway Track |
Full Schedule
Sessions
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Keynote: What's next for the web platform
Charles Morris
Charles Morris kicks off Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 with a whirlwind tour of what’s new in Microsoft Edge in EdgeHTML 16, and some exciting announcements about what's in store for the year ahead.
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Keynote 2: Building a modern browser for Windows
Adam Barrus and Yan Zhong
Join us for a behind-the-scenes conversation on building the Microsoft Edge client app. You'll learn our approach to developing more usable, accessible, and innovative experiences for the web on Windows. We’ll give you insight into our sources of feedback, and how they played a role in building some of the new features coming soon to Microsoft Edge.
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Mixed Reality in Microsoft Edge with WebVR
Nell Walikczek, Lewis Weaver, Frank Olivier
WebVR is the open standard bringing Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality to the web! Join us to learn how WebVR can enhance your existing sites with experiences that work cross-platform and launch straight from the browser—no download required! We’ll discuss libraries and approaches to get you started, best practices for compatibility, and what's next for the WebVR standard.
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Service Worker: Going beyond the page
Ali Alabbas
Service workers provide web apps and sites a way to stretch themselves outside the document-centric web. They provide a model fully prescribed in standards-based JavaScript to both intercept resource requests on your page and to handle push messages in the background. This will bring on a new era of web apps and sites that can draw on privileges only previously available to native apps. Join us to learn more about the enchanting characteristics of this exciting capability of the web!
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Progressive Web Apps: Life beyond the browser
Kirupa Chinnathambi
By now, all of us know what Progressive Web Apps are. These are apps that push the bar on performance, accessibility, security, and more. In this talk, we’ll go beyond the introductory technical details. We will look at our plans for taking PWAs into the Windows Store, how PWAs can be made to integrate with Bing search results, and how PWAs blur the line between web apps and native apps.
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JavaScript that Scales with ChakraCore and TypeScript
Brian Terlson
ChakraCore, the open-source cross-platform core component of the Chakra JavaScript engine in Microsoft Edge, continues to improve on its industry leading architecture delivering further performance and security improvements for code you’re writing today. Meanwhile, modern JavaScript continues to advance and both TypeScript and ChakraCore are delivering new JavaScript language features that improve JavaScript for async programming and modularity. TypeScript not only supports these features but provides a type system that prevents bugs, enables refactorings and quick fixes, and helps JavaScript applications to scale across large codebases. This talk will cover exciting new developments in ChakraCore and TypeScript as well as a look into what the future might bring.
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What’s new and beyond for the F12 DevTools
Jacob Rossi
In the Fall Creator’s Update, we’ve begun a effort to overhaul Microsoft Edge’s DevTools - from our underlying debugging components to the user experience to new tools based on user feedback. In this session, we’ll overview our multi-release journey to a modern tooling experience and introduce the new tools arriving in this release.
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Web Payments and Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge
Molly Dalton and Angelo Liao
The web has come so far since inception, but two experiences have changed very little: payment and authentication. Although these two flows are part of everyday life, their user experiences are frustrating and present security risks, resulting in lost revenue and unhappy users. But two new APIs are about to change all that. Come learn how the Payment Request API and Web Authentication API will help you change how people live and shop on the web!
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Performance on the Web: Stories from the front lines
Nolan Lawson
Recent research by DoubleClick shows that 53% of mobile sites are abandoned if they take longer than 3 seconds to load, and that the average load time on 3G is 19 seconds. Worse, a report by TwinPrime shows that mobile networks aren't always improving – in the U.S., LTE speeds actually decreased 50% in the past year. In this talk, I'll analyze the web performance crisis and show how we can combat it by using the latest advances in web tooling, as well as dusting off some forgotten best practices from our industry's past.
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CSS Grid: Bringing true two-dimensional layout to the web
Melanie Richards
CSS Grid Layout promises to revolutionize layout on the web, bringing true two-dimensional layout to the web for the first time. We'll show how Grid Layout got started at Microsoft in XAML, and through partnership with standards bodies and the community, is now shipping simultaneously across all major browsers in 2017. You'll learn how Grid can help you bring powerful, innovative, and flexible layouts to your sites, and how to manage fallback to older browsers and devices.
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sonar: A new linting tool for the web
Antón Molleda and Cătălin Mariș
sonar is a new linting tool for the web that helps developers identify best practices throughout the development process. Web development is hard: In addition to the "basics" of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you need to grapple with enormous topics such as accessibility, security, performance, responsive design, progressive enhancement, interoperability, and much more - all of which change every few months as the web platform evolves. sonar is designed to help, providing an evergreen source of up-to-date guidance as you build your sites. In this session, we'll introduce sonar, and some exciting announcements about its future.
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More sessions to be announced soon!
Location
We’ll be meeting at Block 41 in the heart of Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, blocks from the iconic Pike Place Market, Seattle Center, and more. Block 41 is easily accessible from Link Light Rail or King Country Metro and is convenient to a number of local hotels, including the Seattle Marriott Waterfront, Hyatt and Olive 8, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Courtyard Seattle, and The Westin Seattle.
Sessions will be presented in Block 41’s Bert & Tot Gallery on the first floor. Meals and refreshments will be served in the Musings Gallery on the first floor.
Things to do in Seattle
- Explore 4 square miles of Discovery Park
- Get ice cream at Molly Moon’s and people watch at Cal Anderson park
- Go hiking on one of the state’s hundreds of trails. Options very close to Seattle
- Eat at one of the many restaurants in the International District
- Peruse books at Elliott Bay Bookstore
- Learn new things at the MOHAI
- Visit marine friends at the Seattle Aquarium
If you’d like to visit the Microsoft campus while you’re here, check out the Microsoft Visitor Center, 15010 NE 36th Street, Building 92, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA 98052. If you don’t have a car, you can take the 545 bus to Overlake Transit Center; the visitor center is another 12 minute walk from there. We suggest using the OneBusAway app for checking bus times while in Seattle.
Our conference hashtag
Use the hashtag #msedgesummit to share your thoughts on the day’s sessions! #msedgesummit on Twitter
We hope to see you there! Don’t forget to register to save your spot!
Code of Conduct
At Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017, we seek to create a respectful, friendly, and inclusive experience for all participants regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, or nationality. We will prioritize marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort.
We do not tolerate harassing or disrespectful behavior, messages, images, or interactions by any event participant, in any form, at any aspect of the program including business and social activities, regardless of location.
We encourage everyone to assist in creating a welcoming and safe environment. Please report any concerns, harassing behavior, suspicious or disruptive activity to the nearest security guard or conference staff, by email at edgesummit@microsoft.com, or on Twitter @MSEdgeDev.
Microsoft reserves the right to refuse admittance to or remove any person from Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 at any time in its sole discretion.