Seattle AI and ML Group

Wed, Oct 29 · 8:00 AM PDT

MCP Academy PNW Conference (external registration)

Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA, Bellevue, WA, US

Important: This is paid conference ($100/ticket). Use coupon code: AICamp for 50% off. Purchase tickets here.

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:

• ​Helpful Tools for Building MCP Servers. Caitie McCaffrey, Microsoft
• ​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
• ​From Flags to Flow: Developer-first Feature Management with MCP. Ben Woskow, LaunchDarkly
• ​Putting MCP in Context: What it is and Why it Matters. Eleftheria Stein-Kousathana, Stacklok

​With additional sessions from:

• ​Nick Aldridge, AWS
• ​Denny Lee, Databricks
• ​Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana
• ​Jon Turow, Madrona

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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

Tue, Nov 4 · 5:00 PM PST

AI Meetup (November) for GenAI, LLMs and Agents

GitHub Bellevue, 10900 NE 4th St Floor 21, Bellevue, WA, US

Important: Register on the external event website is required for admision.

Welcome to the AI meetup in Seattle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and agentic AI, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
- 5:00pm~5:50pm: Checkin, food/drink and networking
- 5:50pm~6:00pm: Welcome, Community update
- 6:00pm~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 7:30pm~8:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer
- 8:00pm: closing and head to bar

Speakers/Topics:
Check the event website for Speakers and Topics.
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in Seattle and 500K+ worldwide.