Microsoft Foundry - MCP Servers Across Industries

Below is the agenda for June 11th, 2026:

Introducing MCP Servers with Use Cases across Industries

• Zachary Zurlo will take us through a discussion on different common AI use cases by industry. He will introduce MCP servers and how they can be leveraged for these AI use cases, as well as talk about best practices and common pitfalls.
• Speaker: Zachary Zurlo is a Senior Digital Solution Engineer at Microsoft, specializing in Azure Applications and AI. He works with enterprise customers to design and deliver scalable, production-ready AI solutions, with a focus on agent-based architectures and Microsoft Foundry. Zachary helps organizations move from initial AI exploration to measurable business impact. He partners closely with customers across industries, providing hands-on architecture guidance, and driving adoption of modern AI and cloud-native patterns.

Custom MCP Servers, Secured: Entra ID, OBO, and Authorization-Gated Tools

• Building a custom MCP server is straightforward — securing it against real enterprise data is where things get interesting. Using a fictional law firm as the demo backdrop, this talk covers two patterns: 1) Elicitation — a tool that doesn't have what it needs asks the MCP client to gather input from the user. We'll hit the same server from two different MCP clients and see how each renders that contract differently. 2) On-Behalf-Of authorization — a tool that returns only what the signed-in user is allowed to see, then calls a downstream API using an OBO-exchanged token so identity flows all the way through. No service accounts, no shortcuts. Stack: .NET, Blazor, C# MCP SDK, Entra ID OBO flow, and the app registrations that hold it together. If you're exposing proprietary data to an AI agent and don't want to hand it the keys to the kingdom, this one's for you.
• Speaker: Dmitri Larionov, AI-focused architect at Origin Digital. 13 years building secure enterprise systems; specializes in Azure AI, identity, and distributed systems.

If you're interested in speaking at an upcoming meetup, please email me at jsears@origindigital.com.