Comment Microsoft's Build 2024 conference is underway in Seattle. As the Copilot company makes a slew of AI announcements, one question seems relevant: Is Build and Microsoft's commitment to developers starting to wither?
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The event has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels in terms of in-person attendance. About 4,000 showed up in Seattle, though Microsoft would point out that many times that number had signed up for on-demand streaming. Last year the figure was around 5,000.
That's a far cry from the more than 12,000 people who showed up in Paris for KubeCon 2024. More than half of them were also newbies.
Aimed at software engineers and developers, Build has been running since 2011. The event is the successor to the venerable Professional Developers Conference, which dates back to the 1990s. Microsoft has another major annual event, Ignite, which succeeded their TechEd conference (also originating in the 1990s) and is more aimed at IT professionals as well as developers.
