F8 Refresh 2021
2021-06-02
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as the organisers put it
Build together. Grow together. Join your global developer community virtually at F8 Refresh on June 2nd, 2021.
who it's for
platform engineers, conversational AI developers, ecommerce developers, Spark AR creators, machine learning engineers, academic researchers, platform partners
topics
Messenger API for Instagram; Conversation API and Send API; handover protocol for bots; webhooks for realtime events; Facebook Business Extension 2.0; Spark AR multipeer video calling; Wit.ai voice and intent design; PyTorch training in Colab; researcher API with differential privacy; click-to-Messenger and chat plugins
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | 01h 20m | |
Announcements list concrete tools and outcomes: messenger api for instagram goes public; a researcher api provides privacy‑protected real‑time access to public… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Driving business outcomes on Instagram with the Messenger API | Marion Boiteux, Amy Oettle, Ruben Lowenstein, Ben Lowenstein | 21m |
Messenger API for Instagram is now generally available and connects Instagram messaging to existing platforms, CRMs and automation tools, with features like… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Building experiences on Messenger API for Instagram | Swapnil Chavada, Riandy Riandy, Ryan D | 10m |
Shows how Messenger API for Instagram powers a working ecommerce demo (Original Coast Clothing) using concrete pieces: Send API for images and quick replies… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Sell and retain: Build conversational commerce on Messenger that help you drive results | Martha O'Byrne-O'Reilly, Kelsey Hunter | 20m |
Claims concrete results: a 3x increase in conversion rate and ROAS for Joybird (Apr–Nov 2020 vs click-to-site ads), an 80% average quiz completion rate, and… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Supporting academic research on Facebook | Chaya Nayak, Pratiti Raychoudhury, Raj Chetty | 15m |
Facebook Open Research & Transparency releases three datasets so far (URL shares with >100 reshares, civic product engagement, US 2020 ad targeting) and runs a… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Deep Learning with PyTorch | Joe Spisak, Oleksandr Maksymets | 17m |
Live demo builds a model in PyTorch that trains on Fashion‑MNIST with SGD and NLLLoss, logs to TensorBoard in a Colab/Jupyter notebook and gets useful… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Wit.ai: Take your customer experience to the next level with voice and natural language | Nancy Li, Pan Wangperawong | 13m |
Concrete outcomes and tools appear: Wit.ai, A‑Frame, Web Speech API. Claims include 200,000+ developers, 10,000+ weekly apps, 40+ built‑in intents and unified… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Hackathon winners announcement | Alex Himel | 07m |
A virtual hackathon awards cash prizes (top prizes $10,000 per track, up to $100,000 total) for projects built with Spark AR and Wit.ai. Winners include… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Partner Spotlight: Expanding equity through innovative products and experiences | Virginia Yang, Vidit Aatrey, Luis Butten | 20m |
Meesho builds a reseller marketplace that lets mostly women start shops from home and reports 15 million women entrepreneurs selling to 50 million consumers… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Deepening user engagement with Facebook Login | Dare Obasanjo | 12m |
A concrete feature rollout with metrics and integration steps rather than promises: Login Connect with Messenger lets people opt into messaging at account… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Helping businesses grow with Facebook Business Extension | Vietlong Le, Ayush Sood | 16m |
Claims that Facebook Business Extension (FBE 2.0) replaces many API calls with a two-step flow: an auth URL and a webhook, plus a self-serve developer panel… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Enabling AR Video Calling | Jonathan Sherman | 13m |
Announces a new multipeer api that wires a data channel between call participants so AR effects coordinate state across devices, enabling group effects, shared… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Sharing to Stories: Amplify reach and energize audiences | Winnie Ma | 11m |
Sharing to Stories shows concrete wins: over 800 developers onboard, Picu tops 10 million downloads, Muscle Booster reports 33 million installs, and B612… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Engage new players to help improve your bottom line with Facebook Cloud Gaming Platform | Mike Arcuri | 21m |
Facebook Cloud Gaming Platform runs two products: full free-to-play cloud games and cloud playable ads, live in browsers and Facebook for Android in supported… | ||
| F8 Refresh | Innovation Showcase: Meet some of the brightest startups building with Facebook | Michael Huang, Caroline Dalmolin, Pippa Yeats, Saaid Mohamed | 26m |
Startups demonstrate concrete results not promises: Turn.io runs 800 million conversations and reaches 22 million users, powering MomConnect at 400,000… | ||
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