During this session, you'll explore the differences and similarities between writing skills for Alexa and Cortana, how to setup your environment, and suggested practices for writing a skill once and deploy on both platforms. This session will also:

• Review the differences and similarities of how skills are created for each platform
• Review best practices for developing skills for each platform
• Walk through setup of the development environment for each platform
• Create a sample skill and review how to package it for deployment

You will learn:

• Alexa and Cortana skills
• How to setup your development environment to build skills
• How to cross pollinate between the platforms with very little effort