(Presented by Sarah Sexton) In this talk, we will walk you through how to create your own conversational bot and publish it online with Microsoft Bot Framework! Follow us through this lightning talk to learn about downloading the tools, building a bot, publishing to Azure, registering, and watching it come to life on a web app service shared with the rest of the world on services like Slack, Skype, SMS, Facebook Messenger, and the web. The presenter will include a CTA slide w/ the Azure Skills Initiative. This event is restricted to those registered to attend CodeMash.