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MCP Community Connect - San Francisco
This event is part of MCP Community Connect, organized by Global AI San Francisco.
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MCP Community Connect comes to San Francisco for a full day dedicated to building with and for the Model Context Protocol, the open standard connecting AI agents to tools, data, and each other.
Hosted at GitHub's San Francisco office, this gathering brings together the developers, platform teams, and agent builders shaping how MCP gets used in production. Expect hands-on sessions on building and securing MCP servers, talks on client integration and interoperability, and a community showcase of real implementations from the field.
Who's on stage
Jeremy is one of those curious folks with both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. Through technical/business roles at Neo4j, Dagger, GitHub, Twistlock, and Puppet, Jeremy has both zoomed in and zoomed out a lot, acquiring an appreciation for the details and an ever-broader sense of the big architectural picture.
Radhika Gulati is a product marketer at Prefect, the team behind FastMCP. She studied computer science at UC Davis and has spent the last three years in data orchestration. Her past lives include hackathon organizer, engineer for a campus food delivery app, and coding instructor for kids.
Cedric Vidal is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, working on agentic systems and AI evaluation. His focus is on how autonomous AI systems are designed, evaluated, and trusted as they evolve into systems that reason, decide, and act over time.
Prathmesh Patel is the CEO of MCPJam, the evaluation and testing platform for MCP and agent-native software. Previously, he led MCP technical strategy at Asana and led the company’s ChatGPT and Claude app launches in partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic. Led Asana through its public MCP security incident, one of the two biggest enterprise MCP incidents in history. Speaker on MCP evaluation testing at MCP Developers Summit NY 2026.
Thierry is a Developer Evangelist at Arcade.dev, focused on the people building production agents on MCP. Previously, he did Data Science at the DHS and Developer Relations at Qdrant. He's spoken at Haystack US, ODSC, and meetups across the AI ecosystem, covering everything from vector search to agentic systems. A former stand-up comedian, data scientist, and teacher, Thierry has made a career of making hard technical ideas land. Born in Burkina Faso, raised in Baltimore, currently based in San Francisco.
Pamela is a cloud advocate in Python at Microsoft/GitHub. She's been in the tech industry for 15 years, beginning with a role at Google as one of the company's first developer advocates. She went on to become an early full-stack engineer at Coursera and spent many years afterward at Khan Academy, both as an engineer and the creator of computer programming content.
Sofía leads partnerships & ecosystems at CopilotKit, where she's driven by a passion for making cutting edge technology more accessible and enjoyable for everyone through rich, beautiful interfaces. Before that, she was a software engineer at Google, working on bringing AI to the company's AR glasses. Originally from Mexico and raised in New York, she's now based in California and spends much of her year traveling — organizing and speaking at events from San Francisco to London, Paris, and Mexico City. Outside of work, she's an avid adventure sports enthusiast, always chasing the next challenge.
Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot AI coding experiences for tens of millions of developers. He is active in the VS Code and developer-experience ecosystem and has spoken on agent memory, MCP, and AI coding tools.
Liam works on Developer Tools (VS Code / GitHub Copilot) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) at Microsoft and GitHub, helping shape how AI agents talk to the world.
Sessions & tracks
Welcome
Pamela is a cloud advocate in Python at Microsoft/GitHub. She's been in the tech industry for 15 years, beginning with a role at Google as one of the company's first developer advocates. She went on to become an early full-stack engineer at Coursera and spent many years afterward at Khan Academy, both as an engineer and the creator of computer programming content.
Liam works on Developer Tools (VS Code / GitHub Copilot) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) at Microsoft and GitHub, helping shape how AI agents talk to the world.
Building modern MCP servers with FastMCP
Radhika Gulati is a product marketer at Prefect, the team behind FastMCP. She studied computer science at UC Davis and has spent the last three years in data orchestration. Her past lives include hackathon organizer, engineer for a campus food delivery app, and coding instructor for kids.
Building MCP servers in VS Code
Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot AI coding experiences for tens of millions of developers. He is active in the VS Code and developer-experience ecosystem and has spoken on agent memory, MCP, and AI coding tools.
Effective MCP: Building reliable stateless MCP Servers
Prathmesh Patel is the CEO of MCPJam, the evaluation and testing platform for MCP and agent-native software. Previously, he led MCP technical strategy at Asana and led the company’s ChatGPT and Claude app launches in partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic. Led Asana through its public MCP security incident, one of the two biggest enterprise MCP incidents in history. Speaker on MCP evaluation testing at MCP Developers Summit NY 2026.
What dozens of enterprise MCP rollouts taught us about security
Jiquan Ngiam is co-founder and CEO of MintMCP, building secure enterprise AI infrastructure that gives AI assistants governed, auditable access to company data, applications, and tools.
Tools, translated: Finding the optimal language for clients & servers
Drew Breunig is the CEO & cofounder of CMPND, editor of O'Reilly's "Context Management Handbook", and writer on technology and culture at dbreunig.com. He thinks AI should be more boring and more useful.
Rendering intelligence: How AG-UI and MCP Apps unlock generative UI for agents
Sofía leads partnerships & ecosystems at CopilotKit, where she's driven by a passion for making cutting edge technology more accessible and enjoyable for everyone through rich, beautiful interfaces. Before that, she was a software engineer at Google, working on bringing AI to the company's AR glasses. Originally from Mexico and raised in New York, she's now based in California and spends much of her year traveling — organizing and speaking at events from San Francisco to London, Paris, and Mexico City. Outside of work, she's an avid adventure sports enthusiast, always chasing the next challenge.
Evaluating coding agent success with MCP servers
Cedric Vidal is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, working on agentic systems and AI evaluation. His focus is on how autonomous AI systems are designed, evaluated, and trusted as they evolve into systems that reason, decide, and act over time.
Your agent has 500 tools. Now what? Using context graphs to route agents through MCP
Jeremy is one of those curious folks with both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. Through technical/business roles at Neo4j, Dagger, GitHub, Twistlock, and Puppet, Jeremy has both zoomed in and zoomed out a lot, acquiring an appreciation for the details and an ever-broader sense of the big architectural picture.
Your tool is in another castle: How five frameworks handle the same MCP server
Thierry is a Developer Evangelist at Arcade.dev, focused on the people building production agents on MCP. Previously, he did Data Science at the DHS and Developer Relations at Qdrant. He's spoken at Haystack US, ODSC, and meetups across the AI ecosystem, covering everything from vector search to agentic systems. A former stand-up comedian, data scientist, and teacher, Thierry has made a career of making hard technical ideas land. Born in Burkina Faso, raised in Baltimore, currently based in San Francisco.
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