Model Context Protocol (MCP) — The Open Infrastructure for Agentic AI

Speaker: Neelam Koshiya

Room: HC 203

Time: Sun 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Format: Lecture (30 Min + Q&A) — Live Event

Difficulty: Some experience required / Expert

Track: AI / ML

Presenter Location: In-person

Experience: first time speaking

At: at lfnw

Description:

As generative AI evolves from simple chatbots into fully autonomous agents, the open‑source community faces a growing challenge: fragmentation. Without a shared way for AI systems to connect to tools, data, and infrastructure, the future risks becoming locked behind proprietary, single‑vendor ecosystems.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) — recently donated to the Linux Foundation under the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — offers a transformative solution. MCP acts as a universal adapter for agentic AI, cleanly separating business logic from prompts and enabling developers to build tool‑agnostic, vendor‑neutral agents.

This session provides a practical, grounded exploration of MCP, including demonstrations of how to build and deploy MCP servers to:

Standardize developer workflows using community‑maintained servers