Microsoft Build //localhost brings the best of Microsoft Build directly to your city — community-led, hands-on, in-person learning events for developers, engineers, and builders across India.
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Microsoft Build //localhost is a global series of community-led, hands-on, in-person learning events designed to extend Microsoft Build content directly into local technical communities.
Hosted by MVPs and Azure Tech Group leaders between June 4–26, 2026, these events bring the latest from Microsoft Build — AI, Azure, dev tools, and more — straight to developers in their own city.
No travel. No hotel. Just your community, your city, and the content that matters.
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In-Person · Hands-On Workshop · Community-Led
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AI-assisted development, agents, SDLC tooling, Next.js, Python, .NET — the stack that ships modern software.
Infrastructure, data platforms, and the services powering modern apps and AI workloads at scale.
Fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and evaluations — taking models from baseline to production-grade.
Building applications and agents from prompt to scale — with security baked in from day one.
Secure, trustworthy, and compliant AI systems — the practices that make intelligent software safe to deploy.
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More speakers will be announced closer to the event dates.
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Microsoft Build //localhost India 2026 is a community-led, in-person extension of Microsoft Build, the company's flagship developer conference. Hosted by Microsoft MVPs and Azure Tech Group leaders, the India chapter runs four hands-on events in June 2026: Bengaluru on Saturday June 6, Noida on Thursday June 18, and Gurugram on Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20. Sessions cover Microsoft Azure, AI Agents, Cloud Platform and Data, Model Training, Developer Tools and Frameworks, and Responsible AI.
The events are free to attend and designed for software developers, AI engineers, data engineers, and enterprise builders working with the Microsoft AI and Azure stack. Each event includes a Microsoft Build keynote recap, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, lunch, refreshments, and networking with the local developer community.
The Bengaluru keynotes are delivered by Priyanka Soni, Senior Manager at Microsoft, and Dhiwakar Kusuma, Senior Technical Partner Manager at GitHub. Additional speakers include Roopal Mittal (SWE II, JPMC and Microsoft MVP), Sarthak Jain (Microsoft MVP and DevAarambh community organizer), Lakshit Pant (DevAarambh community organizer), Prathap Reddy Chenchappagari (Microsoft AI MVP), Saravanan Ganesan (Microsoft AI MVP), Madan Sudarman (Founder of pronative.ai), Shivani Joshi (Cloud and AI Engineer at Microsoft, speaking in Noida), and Manisha Talreja (Data and AI Engineer at Microsoft, speaking in Noida).
Build //localhost is the official community-led successor to Build at Home, supported by Microsoft Reactor and the Microsoft Developer Community team. The program brings the latest from Microsoft Build directly to local technical communities through MVP-led, free, in-person learning days. Organized in India by Sarthak Jain (sarthak@buildinbharat.com) in partnership with DevAarambh.