Seattle Pulumi User Group

MCP Academy is a full-day gathering for 200 engineering leaders and developers who want to put AI agents to work. Join the community on October 29, 2025 and learn from peers who are using the Model Context Protocol to get more value from their AI agents.
​Topics include:

• ​Overcome MCP deployment hurdles with standardized solutions. Harish Gaggar, Credit Karma
• ​MCP Auth: The conflict between standards and practicality. Remy Guercio, Tailscale
• ​Bridge agents and infrastructure to extend agents into cloud environments. Artur Laksberg and Adam Bell, Pulumi
• ​Ship your AI code with control and visibility. Andre Terron, Statsig
• ​From Documentation to Conversation: Making API Catalogs AI-Native with MCP. Ross Kukulinski, Kong
• ​Towards autonomy: Building goal-driven MCP servers. Carlisia Campos, GrokkingTech

​With additional sessions from:

• ​Nick Aldridge, AWS
• ​Denny Lee, Databricks
• ​Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana
• ​Ben Woskow, LaunchDarkly
• ​Jon Turow, Madrona
• ​Caitie McCaffrey, Microsoft
• ​Elefteria Stein-Kousathana, Stacklok

​Breakfast runs from 8:00AM - 9:00AM, and then we have a fast-paced day of 15-20 minute sessions from 9:00AM - 4:00PM (with plenty of breaks for networking, lunch and snacks). Our focus is on practical guidance that puts you closer to using MCP in production.
​An event like this is possible because of our fabulous sponsors. Shout-out to these companies that were quick to support the community and advance knowledge of MCP:

• ​AWS
• ​Kong
• ​LaunchDarkly
• ​Pulumi
• ​Statsig