MCP Developers Meetup x Global AI Meetup NYC @ Microsoft Garage

The MCP Dev Summit is coming to New York and so is the community.

​Join us on March 30th at the Microsoft Garage NYC for an evening of talks, demos, and conversations around MCP.

​Whether you're building MCP servers, shipping MCP Apps, wiring up AI agents, or just diving into the ecosystem for the first time, this is your chance to connect with the people shaping how AI tools talk to each other.

​On the agenda:

• ​How MCP is being used in production: real patterns, real challenges
• ​MCP Apps: building the next generation of AI-native applications on top of MCP.
• ​What's happening at the infrastructure layer: building and deploying MCP servers at scale

​Speakers:

• ​Luigi Pederzani and Pietro Zullo: Co-founders of Manufact, the team behind mcp-use, one of the most widely adopted open-source frameworks for building MCP servers and MCP Apps (6M+ downloads, ~9K GitHub stars).
• Cassidy Fein: Cassidy Fein is a Principal Lead Product Manager at Microsoft where she leads growth for Windows Autopatch and drives cross-org AI adoption initiatives. With more than a decade of product experience spanning Microsoft, Pendo.io, Vimeo, and Echo360, she brings deep expertise in enterprise SaaS product strategy, organizational scaling, and shipping in complex B2B environments. Cassidy is an international speaker on product strategy and AI in product management, with appearances at Microsoft Ignite, Future Product Days Copenhagen, Leading the Product (Sydney & Melbourne), and Product Management Festival Zurich. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
• Patrick Hall - Practice Lead, Applied Innovation, Maureen Data Systems Patrick Hall | LinkedIn
• ​Sebastian Kowalik: Principal Solution Engineer, Cloud & AI Platforms at Microsoft. Sebastian runs the Global AI New York community.

​Hosted in partnership with the Global AI Meetup New York and Microsoft.

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