Microsoft to Hold its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 2-3

Microsoft is moving its annual Build developer conference from Seattle to San Francisco this year. The annual event will be held on June 2-3, which is a bit later than the company’s usual late May timeframe.

While Microsoft has yet to reveal the full Build 2026 session agenda, you can already expect an opening keynote with CEO Satya Nadella on June 2 at 8 AM PT. As of this writing, the list of featured speakers includes familiar faces like Scott Hanselman, as well as Jared Palmer, SVP of GitHub and VP of CoreAI at Microsoft.

According to The Verge, there will be room for just 2,500 developers this year, which is almost half the attendance of previous Build conferences. In an interview with the publication, Kyle Daigle, chief operating officer at GitHub, said that Microsoft picked up a smaller venue, the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, to provide a more intimate experience to attendees.

“I think this venue really forces folks like us to consider the attendees and focus really on those developers coming to the event,” said Daigle. “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.”

Microsoft priced the San Francisco in-person ticket at $1,099, but the main keynote and select sessions will be livestreamed for free. You can already register for the conference on this page.