How do you pimp your festival? With a chat bot!

Last week, we teamed up with 20 different developers for a hackathon to create a chat bot for the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival. Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival for new and upcoming artists with over 40,000 attendees. The purpose of our bot is to provide the attendees with near real-time answers to everything related to the festival. Together with these developers we built a fully functioning bot using the Azure Bot Framework. In this blog I'll briefly introduce the technology we h »