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Described herein are processing operations enabling an exemplary virtual assistant to understand context for a meeting invite and execute new functionality such as automatically calling a user to connect to a meeting when the meeting begins. A virtual assistant is programmed with skills for meeting management that adapts operation of the virtual assistant to enable users to utilize the virtual assistant with meeting scheduling and meeting execution. Exemplary skills for meeting management provide a layer of intelligence over raw application data where a virtual assistant extracts electronic meeting details from an electronic meeting invite and utilizes the extracted meeting details to execute tasks for user assistance. Exemplary tasks comprise but are not limited to: automatically callinga user computing device when a meeting starts; meeting attendee detection (including status of meeting attendees; service-based messaging capabilities; and extension of virtual assistant functionalityduring a live conferencin