Meet Slack at Twilio SIGNAL

In today’s workplace ‘real-time’ and ‘access anywhere’ are the expected standards of communication. As technologies like cloud storage, virtual conferencing, SMS, and AI-powered bots become increasingly the norm, businesses need to keep pace by offering new ways to connect with everyone.

One company we admire in this category is Twilio. They provide easy tools to build for our modern communication landscape while their APIs let businesses quickly connect existing apps to every phone on earth. They’re also beloved by developers, and we look up to the way they’ve encouraged the world to look at developers as an entire, stand alone market.

Twilio’s annual developer conference, Twilio SIGNAL, begins tomorrow and we’re sending a lot of amazing team members from Slack to participate. There will be Slack representatives from our growth, platform, engineering, and developer relations teams in attendance. You can visit our booth or see us on stage at the following sessions:

Allison Craig on Developing Good Slack Apps and Custom Integrations

Don Goodman-Wilson on Combining Slack Bots with the Twilio API

Merci Grace giving a lightning talk on the Future of Messaging

We’re not just talking — this is Twilio Signal, so we’ll be showing lots of live code. We’ll demo a custom bot bridging the worlds of SMS and Slack messages. To get an idea of what’s involved, Twilio’s own Slack bot tutorial lays out the basics of how to let users send and receive Slack messages over SMS.

If you’re attending SIGNAL this year, make sure to stop by our booth and say hello! We’ll be the ones with emoji cookies.