Facebook’s F8 Conference Now Has Its Own Messenger Chat Bot

The Messenger F8 Bot will go live on the morning of April 18

Facebook debuted chat bots for Messenger at last year’s F8 developers conference, and F8 2017 will feature its own dedicated chat bot.

Manager of product support operations Jeff Gilmore introduced the Messenger F8 Bot in a blog post, saying that it will go live on the morning of April 18.

F8 2017 is set for April 18 and 19 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.

Gilmore described the process behind developing the Messenger F8 Bot:

The goal we set for the Messenger F8 Bot was to build a useful experience for attendees, highlighting the many features on our platform.

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