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Standup comedy workshop, jokes writing and performing
10€ ENTRANCE FEE, ONLY 4 SPOTS AVAILABLE EACH WEEK, BE ON TIME.
If you book a ticket, please send us a message confirming you're coming, and if you couldn't make it at the end please do tell us so we can give
it to the waitlist.
Message us via:
INS: yellowdicomedy
WhatsApp: +39 3477302866
Hi guys, this is Delia😊, the founder of Yellowdicomedy, as many of you came to me after the show and asked how to participate as a comedian or how to write jokes, here's our workshop:
*Date*:EVERY Wednesday
*Hour*: 19:00-20:00
*Location*: Yellowsquare *La Capella* I will bring you to there from the bar.(If you're late, tell the receptionist you're here for the workshop and look for Delia, they'll tell you where are we)
*Entrance fee*: 10€ (cash or paypal at site)
*What*: zero bullshit workshop, within an hour I will let you know you can actually learn to be funny. Straight to the point, I'll bring you jokes writing structure and practice on different types of jokes to find which ones are your style, you'll have your jokes ready right after, and this is not the best part yet, *after the workshop you will get to perform at our show immediately at 21:00 to test out your jokes!*
One minute on stage, take it or leave it, discover if comedy is your thing with fully prepared material. What if I don’t want to go on stage? Well, what would hurt to become funnier than you were?
Public Speaking & Leadership - Migliora le tue abilità sul palco (IT/EN)
**Vuoi migliorare la tua capacità di parlare in pubblico, ma non sai da dove iniziare?** Unisciti a noi per una serata energica e stimolante con **The Xplorers Toastmasters Club Milano**.
Che tu sia un manager, uno studente o semplicemente una persona che vuole vincere la paura del public speaking, questa è la serata giusta per te.
**📅 COSA ASPETTARSI:** I nostri incontri sono divisi in tre parti dinamiche:
1. **Discorsi Preparati:** I nostri soci presentano discorsi su vari argomenti per allenare le loro skill (Storytelling, body language, struttura).
2. **Improvvisazione (Table Topics):** La parte più divertente! Esercizi di 1-2 minuti per imparare a pensare velocemente.
* *Nota:* Anche gli ospiti possono provare a buttarsi, ma **solo se lo desiderano**. Nessuno ti forzerà!
3. **Valutazioni:** Ogni speaker riceve un feedback costruttivo per capire cosa ha fatto bene e cosa può migliorare.
**🎒 COSA PORTARE:**
* Non serve portare nulla di specifico (penna e quaderno se vuoi prendere appunti).
* Porta solo la tua curiosità e, se vuoi, un amico!
**📍 COME TROVARCI:** Ci riuniamo presso **OiT** in **Via Nicola Antonio Porpora, 14** (Zona Loreto/Città Studi) ogni 1° e 3° mercoledì del mese.
* Arriva verso le **19:00** per fare due chiacchiere e prendere posto. Iniziamo puntualissimi alle 19:15!
**🎟️ COSTI:** L'ingresso per gli ospiti è **GRATUITO al 100%**.
Ti aspettiamo per una serata di crescita e divertimento!
A mercoledì! 👋
¡HÁBLAME MUCHO! ape en español
🇪🇸 ¡HOLA HISPANOHABLANTES!
¡Estáis más que invitados a conocer gente y pasar un buen rato en el bar Pacino!
🗓️ Fecha: Todos los miércoles
⏰ Hora: A partir de las 19:30
📍 Lugar: Café Pacino (MM Loreto/Lima)
💰 Precio: 11 euro por una bebida y una pequeña bandeja de comida
Preguntad por Samantha o Alfredo. Si hace buen tiempo, estaremos en la terraza; si hace frío, estaremos adentro. ¡No dudéis en preguntar por el evento en Meetup en cuanto lleguéis al Pacino Café!
Grupo WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ggq8xTBfTSa8IqKdtSsFo8
Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/hablamemucho
The Wednesday English Aperitivo
Let's meet at the pub and enjoy the good company, over a drink and some food.😃
You can eat (everything you want at the buffet) and take 1 drink at the cost of 12 euros 🙃 or you can just drink at the cost of the drink 🙃
☞ 🌍 INTERNATIONAL HAPPY HOUR IN MILAN
☞ 📆 ON WEDNESDAY STARTING FROM 7.30 pm
☞ 📍 NEXT BAR MILAN
Meet new English-speaking friends who are studying, living or just visiting Milan... and have fun!
I look forward to meeting you all! 😉
This event is also in facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/130192543665547/?ref=share
and other networks, like couchsurfing 🙃, so there are always more people coming, not only the people listed here. 🙂
***
Next Bar - Via Crema, 7 - Milan
(MM3 Porta Romana)
🎱 Milan Startup Pool Night – Founders & Builders
Calling all founders, operators, and startup ecosystem players!Whether you’re a pool regular or just enjoy a good game and better conversations, join us for an evening of pool, relaxed competition, and meaningful networking.
This is a social night where the strategy and focus of pool meet the energy of the startup world. No pitches, no panels — just good games, sharp minds, and authentic connections. Because some of the best ideas (and partnerships) start away from desks and screens.
🎯 What to Expect
Casual Pool Games & Mini Matches — Open to all levels, beginners very welcome.
Founder-to-Founder Connections — Meet fellow founders, VCs, operators, and creatives in a laid-back setting.
Drinks & Conversations — Easy networking, real talk, no awkward name-tag vibes.
Fun Challenges & Small Surprises — Friendly competition, nothing too serious (except pride 😉).
💸 PricingPay on the spot at the end, based on time played (around €10/hour per person).
Whether you come to play, connect, or just unwind with people who get the startup life, this night is about building community through sport and play.
FREE ENTRY English standup comedy open mic for internationals and locals
No need to book but come on time so you won't miss the show or seats!😉
It's open mic which means everyone can go on the stage to perform 🎤🎤, if you have any questions DM us on Instagram: Yellowdicomedy.
If you see on this app only you are going, don't worry about it, we have multiple channels to post our events and we've been organizing shows for three years, we always have a big crowd where you can meet lots of friends!
It is a free entry but **donation based** show, leave us your donations at the end of the show so we can keep English standup comedy going in Milan.
**Follow us on Ins: Yellowdicomedy**
Gruppo di biliardo pool 9 amatoriale
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## What we’re about
Buongiorno a tutti. Sono proprietario di un bar e dispongo di un tavolo da biliardo semi-professionale. Sto creando un gruppo WhatsApp di giocatori amatoriali di biliardo americano pool/carambola, per la maggior parte debuttanti. Cerco persone disposte a unirsi al gruppo per giocare e divertirsi nel tempo libero, il pomeriggio oppure la sera in ogni giorno. Per stimolare l'impegno di ogni giocatore, abbiamo pattuito che il vincitore di ogni "mini-torneo" organizzato nei vari giorni giochi gratis e non paghi la tariffa di tempo per il periodo di gioco (un'ora di gioco costa 10€, ma viene di volta in volta frazionata in base al periodo di gioco effettivo). Il locale si trova in zona nord di Milano, stazione Greco-Pirelli, università Bicocca. Chiunque dovesse essere davvero interessato a partecipare e unirsi al mio gruppo, non esiti a contattarmi. Cerco persone serie e disposte solamente a divertirsi, senza puntare mazzette grazie mille.
Antonio
Information Science Events This Week
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Queues for Apache Kakfa® x How MCP Bridges LLMs and Data Streams
Join us for a meetup on Thursday, February 5th from 6:15pm in Milan hosted by Bitrock!
📍**Venue:**
Bitrock
Via Tortona, 4, 20144 Milano MI, Italy. 1st Floor.
**\*\*IMPORTANT: There are limited seats, so if you cannot attend, please change your RSVP so someone else can join. Thanks!\*\*\***
🗓 **Agenda:**
* 6:15pm: Doors open/Welcome
* 6:30pm - 7:15pm: Simone Esposito, Team Lead - Software Architect @ Bitrock
* 7:15pm - 8:00pm: Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent
* 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A, Drinks, Food and Networking
💡 **First Speaker:**
Simone Esposito, Team Lead - Software Architect @ Bitrock
**Title of Talk:**
Queues for Kafka (KIP-932)
**Abstract:**
For more than a decade, Apache Kafka’s consumption model has been governed by a strict rule: one consumer per partition within a consumer group. This limitation has shaped how teams scale their systems, design topics, and plan for peak throughput. With KIP-932, Kafka breaks this long-standing assumption and introduces a fundamentally new capability: queues. Backed by the new concept of share groups, this paradigm shift allows multiple consumers to read concurrently from the same partition.
This talk explores how KIP-932 brings native queueing semantics to Kafka, enabling true work-queue patterns without over-partitioning and greatly simplifying horizontal scaling. We’ll examine how the new message acknowledgment model works, the tradeoffs introduced by cooperative consumption, and how this feature fits alongside, and differs from, traditional Kafka consumer groups.
**Bios:**
**Simone Esposito** is Software Architect & Team Lead at Bitrock. Passionate about computer science, Simone is always excited to test himself with different technologies and learn new things. He has a strong passion for writing code and sharing knowledge with colleagues and peers in the industry. He prefers working with functional programming languages, distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
💡 **Second Speaker:**
Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent
**Title of Talk:**
The Missing Protocol: How MCP Bridges LLMs and Data Streams
**Abstract:**
Nobody’s talking about this: MCP isn’t just another way to build chatbots. It’s the bridge we’ve been missing between AI reasoning and real-time data systems. Teams build AI applications that work great in demos but fall apart with production data. Your agents analyze historical reports but can’t tell what’s happening in your Kafka streams. They’re blind to schema changes and disconnected from events that matter to your business. Instead of treating streaming platforms like black boxes, you expose them directly to your agents via MCP protocol. Suddenly, your AI doesn’t just read about data—it lives inside your data flows. Learn what becomes possible when you stop thinking about AI as an external service and start treating it as part of your streaming architecture. We’ll build systems where agents subscribe to real-time events, reason about evolving schemas, and make decisions that ripple through your data platform.
**Bio:**
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about assisting architects, developers, and operators in crafting systems that are not only low in latency and scalable but also highly available.
As a Java Champion and an esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events like JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps.
Viktor has co-authored "Enterprise Web Development" from O'Reilly and "Apache Kafka® in Action" from Manning.
Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor's latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.
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NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 21.
If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! [community@confluent.io](http://community@confluent.io/)
Thursday Studio Yoga with Ozzy (Level: all levels&beginner friendly)
**How to Join**
* Add your name on Meetup to reserve your spot.
* Message me on **WhatsApp** to get information about introductory class and package options.
* Once the **payment** is completed, your booking will be **confirmed**, and all details will be shared with you.
**Thursday Studio Class**
* **Time:** 19:30 – 20:30
* **Level:** All Levels-Beginner-Friendly (International, English)
🧘♀️ Everyone is welcome – whether you’re new to yoga or already experienced. We’ll move through a Hatha yoga flow. Come connect with your breath, body, and community.
📍 **Location:** Via Melzi d’Eril , Milan
**What to Bring**
* Your own yoga mat *(limited studio mats available on request)*
* Comfortable clothes and water
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**Booking & Cancellations**
* **Spots are limited**, so please book early on Meetup.
* Reservations **without payment** will **not be considered**, due to the limited number of spots.
* If you **need to cancel**, do so on Meetup at least **6 hours before class**.
Otherwise, your booking will be counted as used.
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**Safety & Notes**
* Your safety and well-being are very important.
By attending, you acknowledge that yoga involves physical activity and accept responsibility for your own practice.
* ❗ *This class is not suitable for pregnant women.*
* If you have health concerns, please check with a doctor before joining.
***
**About Me**
I’m Ozzy, a certified yoga instructor specializing in **Hatha Yoga**.
Learn more about me: [https://linktr.ee/ozzyoga.milano](https://linktr.ee/ozzyoga.milano)
Meditazione, mindfulness e consapevolezza - Geografie del Corpo e della Mente
**Il Paesaggio Interiore - Geografie del Corpo e della Mente**
Laboratorio di mindfulness e consapevolezza, con esercizi di meditazione, visualizzazioni guidate, attività creative e condivisione.
Un’occasione per trovare nuovi punti di vista dentro di te, grazie al contatto con il corpo, la mente e le emozioni.
Cosa faremo insieme:
\- esercizi di consapevolezza corporea
\- visualizzazioni guidate
\- attività creative
\- meditazione
\- condivisione
Quando: 8 febbraio 2026, 11.00 - 13.00
Costo: 30 euro (Early Bird 25 euro entro il 25 gennaio)
Per informazioni e prenotazioni: *tilia.counseling@gmail.com*
GYROTONIC®
The GYROTONIC® (with equipment) and GYROKINESIS® (without equipment) methods were developed in the 1970s by Juliu Horvath, a professional Hungarian dancer who, after multiple injuries, sought a new approach to rehabilitation. This led him to create GYROTONIC®, an extraordinary discipline that combines elements of dance, yoga, swimming, and tai chi.
In the GYROTONIC® method, exercise sequences consist of rhythmic, circular movements that flow seamlessly from one to the next, allowing the joints to move freely and naturally, without compression. GYROTONIC® is a unique and original method that stimulates the nervous system, tones the muscles, and improves balance, coordination, flexibility, and strength.
The practice of GYROTONIC® is suitable for everyone, including those recovering from injuries who are looking for a new approach to rehabilitation. Each person can naturally adapt the exercises to their own physical condition and needs, so age or fitness level do not matter. The only goal is to regain agility and mobility, helping your body feel healthier and more balanced than ever.
**Les Amis** is a women-only community of friendly souls. We provide access to hundreds of experiences that explore your passions and connect you with other event participants. **Check our website to learn more, and apply to join our community and events**: [lesamis.cc/apply](https://www.lesamis.cc/apply)
Apéro franco 🇫🇷 - Italien 🇮🇹 - Chandeleur 2026: soirée galettes et crêpes
Jeudi 5 février à 19:30
Soirée crêpes 😋
Salut les ami.e.s ce jeudi on fete la chandeleur ! On se retrouve donc pour une soirée galettes bretonnes et crêpes au nar Manu.
Comme d'habitude ce sera l'occasion de passer une bonne soirée tous ensemble.
2 galette bretonne au choix:
1. Jambon fromage oeuf
2. Chèvre miel
3. Champignons, crème fraîche, fromage
4. Saucisses, oignons confits
2 crêpes sucrées au choix:
1. Nutella banane
2. Chocolat noir poire
3. Chocolat blanc
4. Beurre salé, sucre
Merci de m'indiquer vos choix et variations (s'il y en a) au moment de la réservation.
22€ par personne (une boisson comprise)
À jeudi✌🏿
ENGLISH Book Club Milan: Monthly Meetup
BOOK OF THE MONTH: Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
MEETING LOCATION: Otto (Paolo Sarpi) - limited spaces open, must buy a drink (alcoholic or nonalcoholic)
WHEN: February 8th, 19:00-20:30
WHAT TO BRING: conversation!!, and your copy of the book
SUGGESTED READING THEMES AND DISCUSSION TOPICS:
* PLEASE feel free to bring your own discussion topics!
* What does the title of the book have to do with the themes or metaphors of the characters?
* Do the different POVs help the reader or make the book more confusing? does this add symbolism?
* How does mental illness affect characters in the novel? does it change their relationships?
GITUP - PANORAMI SUL LAGO D'ORTA (NO)
Un bellissimo percorso fra Borghi, Natura, Scorci e Panorami meravigliosi sul Lago d’Orta.
**PROGRAMMA**
Ore 11.00 Ritrovo dei partecipanti al BelliBar, Via G. Zanotti, 3, 28010 Pella NO
Ore 11.15 Partenza per percorso
Ore 12.45 circa arrivo a Grassona tempo libero e Pranzo (al sacco o organizzandosi presso Strutture del posto)
Ore 14.30 circa rientro
Livello Medio – 1.30 h circa di camminata a tratta, 4,5km e 300 mt di dislivello circa. Non necessita di attrezzature o abbigliamento particolari, portarsi sempre cibo e acqua “tappafame" e scarpe trekking.
**N.B.1** La località di partenza della camminata viene raggiunta autonomamente (auto, bus, treno ecc.) o in car pooling mettendosi d’accordo con gli altri partecipanti nel gruppo chiuso Facebook e/o Telegram riservato agli associati (richiedi l’accesso appena in possesso della tessera associativa).
**N.B.2** Il "Parteciperò" di Meetup per noi non fa testo. Meetup è solo pagina di pubblicazione evento e per avere un'idea. Una volta associati seguire indicazioni per adesione "ufficiale" evento.
**COSTI E MODALITA’ DI PARTECIPAZIONE – MAX 45 POSTI DISPONIBILI**
Evento riservato ai soci Gitup ENAC.
Gratuito per gli associati 2026, **[richiedi il biglietto di partecipazione qui](http://www.gitup.it/iscrizione-eventi/)** (Adesioni aperte dal Martedì precedente l’uscita)
Non sei associato o devi rinnovare il tesseramento? È necessaria la Tessera associativa, **[richiedila qui](http://www.gitup.it/iscrizione/)**
In caso di Maltempo l’uscita può essere annullata ed i partecipanti verranno avvisati sui gruppi dedicati e tramite aggiornamento di questa pagina.
**P.S.** Vi ricordiamo che GitUp non è agenzia viaggi ma un’associazione no profit che cerca di aggregare persone per passare momenti di piacevole condivisione.
[www.gitup.it](http://www.gitup.it/)
[https://www.facebook.com/gitupassociazione](https://www.facebook.com/gitupassociazione)
Information Science Events Near You
Connect with your local Information Science community
IxDA Chat n Pancakes
Join members of the local UX and Digital Design community for a casual monthly breakfast. There _might_ be a little snow, but there _will_ be effectively infinite serve-yourself coffee, so it evens out if you ask me.
Just a reminder, while the other locations are great too, we’re at the Lane Ave one this time.
CBusData - Ok I Want to Get Data into Fabric - Now What?
I love my job and one of the main things I do is help customers get going with any of the data technologies at Microsoft. Right now there are a lot of my customers asking about Microsoft Fabric. It's hard to weave across all the shiny new options across the Fabric landscape, let alone figure out where it fits into your organization. In this session we'll focus on answering one question - how can I get data into Fabric? We'll talk through the "it depends" options and see some of the options in live demos.
Data & Analytics Wednesday - Compensation Data
**People Analytics 101: Making Sense of Compensation Data**
Compensation data is one of the most widely used and widely misunderstood forms of people analytics.
The session will cover where compensation data comes from, including market pricing data, internal payroll data, and benchmarking sources, and how companies think about structuring and analyzing that information. We will explore how compensation data is leveraged to set salary ranges, manage internal equity, support hiring and retention, and align pay with business strategy. A portion of the session will address common data challenges and limitations, such as market noise, inconsistent job matching, and incomplete datasets, while keeping the primary focus on practical use rather than technical depth.
The session will also look ahead at where the space is going, including the growing impact of pay transparency laws, expanding pay equity requirements, and emerging regulations in the US and Europe that require organizations to report on gender and pay gaps. The goal is to give attendees a clear mental model for how compensation analytics works today and why getting it right is becoming increasingly critical.
(note: we are back at Rev1 this month!)
**About Our Speaker**
[Alex Moore](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexscottmoore/) is the founder of [Moore Cooperative](https://moorecooperative.com/), where he advises organizations on compensation strategy, pay equity, and people analytics. His work focuses on helping organizations like the Ohio Supreme Court design, analyze, and communicate compensation systems that are data-informed, defensible, and aligned with organizational goals. Alex lives in Granville, Ohio and has three little kiddos.
More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)
AI Development Risk Case Studies and how Agentic AI is the future of Appsec
OWASP is ending use of Meetup, so I built an eventbrite for the event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-development-risk-case-studies-and-how-agentic-ai-is-the-future-of-appsec-tickets-1981450622150?aff=oddtdtcreator
AI is transforming how software is designed, developed, and deployed, dramatically accelerating velocity while introducing new categories of risk. As organizations adopt AI-assisted coding, autonomous agents, and increasingly complex model interactions, traditional application security approaches struggle to keep pace. This talk examines emerging AI-driven risks through real case studies from the field, highlighting issues such as insecure code generation, data-leakage pathways, model manipulation, and evolving supply-chain threats. We will explore how engineering teams must adapt their people, processes, and governance models to secure AI-augmented development workflows effectively. The session will then introduce agentic AI as the next evolution in application security—autonomous systems capable of continuous analysis, multi-step reasoning, and real-time remediation. Attendees will learn how combining agentic AI with modern practices can reduce developer friction, improve coverage, and create a future-ready application security strategy designed for the demands of AI-native software development
Bad Girls Book Club February 2026
**Our February novel is: Julia by Sandra Newman**
**This month is a classic, dystopian, fiction, literary fiction, women’s fiction, and science fiction novel. The book is 394 pages in print and 14 hours and 20 minutes on audiobook.**
**An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.**
Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984.
All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia.
Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell’s now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.
Azure CBUS February: Build Your Own MCP Server
### Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
The generative AI revolution has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, but the next frontier is agency: empowering models to interact with, query, and act upon the world. The current challenge is the “N x M integration problem,” where every AI model requires a custom, brittle integration for each external tool or data source. This approach simply doesn’t scale. How can we give an AI access to our sales leads, code repositories, or IoT devices in a standardized, secure, and reusable way?
This session introduces Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open-source framework designed to solve this challenge and become the universal connector—the USB-C port—for AI. MCP standardizes how AI models discover and use external tools, moving beyond simple function-calling to a robust, client-server architecture. We will dive into how this open protocol is creating a new ecosystem for building powerful, context-aware AI agents.
Join this session for a developer-focused introduction where you will learn how to:
Understand the core concepts of the open-source Model Context Protocol and its architecture.
Utilize pre-built, open-source MCP servers to instantly connect AI to tools like Git, Slack, and databases.
Build a custom MCP server to securely expose your own proprietary data and APIs as tools for any compliant AI.
Move beyond bespoke integrations and contribute to a standardized, collaborative, and open ecosystem.
Stop building one-off connectors and start building intelligent agents. This session will give you the practical knowledge to leverage MCP and create the next generation of AI that doesn’t just talk, but does.
Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!!
[https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/](https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/)




















