Microsoft Build 2026 dates announced: Company’s biggest developer event of the year returns to San Francisco after …

Software giant Microsoft has announced dates of its annual development conference – Microsoft Build for 2026. The event will be held on June 2 and 3 instead of the typical May timing.

The company has invited 2,500 developers across the world to register for Build this year, which is less than the roughly 3,000 to 5,000 who have attended the event previously. Another change to Microsoft Build 2026 is the venue change. Unlike last year, the event will be held in San Francisco instead of Seattle. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft is moving Build to this location (San Fransisco) to capture the AI buzz of San Francisco and to make the event more intimate.

In an interview with The verge, Kyle Daigle, chief operating officer at GitHub said “There are great conferences that are enormous, and part of it is just the sprawl and scale of it, and there are great conferences that are tiny that are really a personalized experience”.

Microsoft Build 2026 returns to San Frans

As mentioned before, the biggest change coming to Microsoft build this year is its location. The event will be held at the Fort Manson Center in San Francisco.

For those unaware, Build originally moved from San Francisco to Seattle in 2017 and 2026 will mark the return of the company’s biggest developer event to San Francisco after 9 years.“I think we’re trying to fit in the middle of it where meeting with people that attend is just as much a part of the actual conference content, announcements, and using the tech,” Daigle told The Verge.“I think this venue really forces folks like us to consider the attendees and focus really on those developers coming to the event,” he said adding “They’ll be able to go see a keynote, walk into a hall and touch the demo experience, and have way more interaction with each other.”Major speakers will include Datasette founder Simon Willison, Thiink’s Priyanka Sharma, AI engineer Shawn Wang, along with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, GitHub SVP Jared Palmer, and Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Communities.“[Attendees] will be able to have access to what we’re announcing, as a developer in a hall with your laptop out,” said Daigle. “It should feel more of a community-centric developer experience where we’re learning from each other and with each other.”