Are you one of the lucky few who got invited to Citrix Converge? Are you on the fence about whether you’d like to be part of this elite group that will, literally, help create the future of work? We’ve got details about what’ll happen at the event once you arrive in Santa Clara that’ll help get you over the line.

Citrix Workspace with intelligence — announced earlier this year at Citrix Synergy — will be generally available in just a few weeks. And it’s going to change the way people work and the way business gets done. And microapps are going to be the fuel that makes it all go. At Citrix Converge, you’re going to get a chance to dream up and build one yourself! And so, SO much more.

Building the Future of Work — LITERALLY.

Any good geek event has some hacking in it, and Citrix Converge will have plenty of that. But that’s only the beginning! Take a look:

We’ll kick things off by asking WHY. Why are these intelligent features necessary? How will they change things? How will they make work and the employee experience better? My fellow Citrix leaders PJ Hough, Fouad ElNaggar, and Jay Tomlin will join me to lead the charge and explain how these trends are impacting users and how you can use and extend the Citrix Workspace platform to make work better.

There will be technical sessions, too! You’ll get an under-the-hood view of the Workspace architecture and explorations of concepts such as integrations, microapps, notifications, and actions. You’ll get to know the tools you’ll need to build your own microapps and connect them to various types of back-end systems. You’ll learn various techniques for creation of “API wrappers” to allow for greater flexibility in which systems can be integrated and which operations and data can be accessed via Citrix Workspace. And you’ll get to see where we’re going with Citrix Workspace extensions in the future! You’ll see what direction the technology will be moving so you can anticipate the right business opportunities and stay ahead of the curve.

But wait! There’s more!

There will be hands-on labs! You’ll get to build your first microapp in a step-by-step, guided experience, connect it to a live SaaS service, deploy, and test the it in a live Workspace. You’ll also get plenty of unstructured time to dive in, hack code, learn the Citrix Workspace system, and try integrating your own ideas into it. The Citrix Workspace dev team is flying in (all the way from Prague!) and will be available throughout these sessions to aid in learning, understanding, and troubleshooting. And just for good measure, you’ll have the chance to demo your integrations LIVE! The coolest extensions will win fabulous prizes — and bragging rights (which we all know is the real prize)!

You’ll become part of a community (and an exclusive one, at that) where you’ll be able to collaborate — long after the event is over — with developers in the Citrix Workspace ecosystem, share integrations, and discuss ways to monetize your creations. There will be interactive sessions where you’ll be able to give your feedback directly to Citrix leaders to help shape the platform to ensure the Citrix Workspace goes where you want it for your business.

There will be optional breakout sessions where you can see the latest and greatest Citrix demos, and get tips on becoming a demo master, yourself! You’ll learn how your microapps and Citrix Workspace can help drive greater employee productivity and engagement. And you’ll get a chance to check out our Executive Briefing Center and meet with Citrix executives in a free-form Q&A session.

And YES. Of course there will be a party!

All work and no play makes, Jack, well … you know. So we’ll have plenty of time for fun after hours when we Avoid Work with Vvürk! There’ll be food trucks, beer, a DJ, plenty of fun with friends, old and new, and the future of work.

Citrix Converge will be fun, but it’s serious work. It’ll be filled with hard thinking, blood, sweat, tears, and genius. We want YOU to be a part of it and to help us make history with Citrix Workspace.