Liam Hampton
Microsoft
LEARN, CONNECT, BUILD
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
LEARN, CONNECT, BUILD
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
9 September, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time
Topic: Developer Tools
Language: English
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.
Get started with Model Context Protocol
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 |
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