Kalyan Krishna, a Senior PM on the Microsoft identity platform team, introduces Microsoft Graph for developers. He walks through the steps and coding required to access Microsoft Graph from an application registered with the Microsoft identity platform. He introduces the Microsoft Graph API, why it was built, its advantages and the fundamentals a developer should be aware of to successfully develop applications with it. And, he covers Graph's entity centric modeling, the permissions & consent framework, application types and topologies and the SDKs available to help developers with the authentication, authorization and to consume the API with the least effort on your part. This hands-on session aims for participants to walk away with working code. This is the first part of a two-part series. In the next session, he covers the advanced features of Microsoft Graph which developers can use to add more power to their applications. The second part of this series is available at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGZpRPfafA] View the PowerPoint presentation at https://www.slideshare.net/OfficeDev/microsoft-identity-platform-developer-community-calloctober-2019