MCP Live!

Pamela Fox and Liam Hampton host MCP Live, a half-day event covering the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data, including ecosystem adoption, hands-on MCP server building in VS Code, and enterprise topics like authentication, governance, and security.

Overview

The event covers MCP end-to-end:

• What MCP is and why it matters as an open standard for connecting models to tools and data
• How MCP is being adopted across the developer ecosystem (including Microsoft and GitHub)
• Hands-on sessions focused on building MCP servers in Visual Studio Code
• Enterprise readiness topics, including authentication, governance, and security

Agenda (as listed)

• Welcome to MCP Live! — Liam Hampton and Pamela Fox (Microsoft/GitHub)
• State of MCP — Caitie McCaffrey (Microsoft), MCP core maintainer
• MCP at GitHub — Sam Morrow (GitHub), GitHub MCP server maintainer
• MCP at Microsoft — Linda Li (Microsoft), Foundry Toolbox PM
• Building MCP servers in VS Code — VS Code Engineering Team
• MCP Authorization: DCR, EMA, and more! — Den Delimarsky (Anthropic), Sam Bellen (Okta)
• MCP Apps — Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), FastMCP maintainer
• MCP Tasks, Events, Triggers — Clare Liguori (Amazon), MCP core maintainer
• Closing — Liam Hampton and Pamela Fox (Microsoft/GitHub)

Speakers highlighted

• Pamela Fox
• Liam Hampton

Additional speakers appear in the agenda list above.