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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.
This half-day event covers MCP end to end: its role as an open standard, how it's adopted across the developer ecosystem, and hands-on sessions on building MCP servers.
It also addresses enterprise readiness including authentication, governance, and security.
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Agenda:
| Session Title | Speaker(s) | Speaker Company |
|----------------------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------|
| Welcome to MCP Live! | Liam Hampton, Pamela Fox | Microsoft, Microsoft |
| State of MCP | Caitie McCaffrey | Microsoft |
| MCP: Server, Client & Protocol at GitHub | Sam Morrow | Microsoft |
| A unified MCP layer with Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry | Viswajeeet Balaji | Microsoft |
| Building MCP servers with VS Code | Harald Kirschner | Microsoft |
| MCP Authorization: DCR, EMA, and More! | Sam Bellen, Den Delimarsky | Okta/Auth0, Anthropic |
| When chatbots grow buttons: Building MCP apps with FastMCP | Jeremiah Lowin | Prefect |
| Event-driven agents, powered by MCP | Clare Liguori | AWS |
| Closing | Liam Hampton, Pamela Fox | Microsoft, Microsoft
