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Talkat MCP Live! 2026 · on Wednesday, 2026-09-09· [large-language-models, ai-assisted-development]

speakers

name:Pamela Fox
website:https://www.pamelafox.org
name:Liam Hampton
github:liamchampton

resources

video:https://youtu.be/uydwDk91Y9Y
slides:none on file

summary

Overview of concrete outcomes and how to use them: the July 28 MCP 2.0 stateless/sessionless release removes sessions, replaces handshakes with server discovery and self‑describing requests to cut protocol overhead (teams measured ~50% message overhead before) and adds multi‑roundtrip elicitation and subscriptions; community metrics show 514 million package downloads and growing contributor counts; GitHub MCP server ships elicitation that asks to confirm and successfully deletes a repo in demo; SDKs and conformance tests are required; auth moves from DCR to client ID metadata (SIMD) / EMA patterns; MCP apps and elicitation via multi‑roundtrip requests and fastMCP prefab let servers return interactive HTML UIs and file uploads.

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chapters (23)

  1. 0:00Countdown
  2. 14:31Welcome & Introductions
  3. 15:12Model Context Protocol overview
  4. 16:20Today's agenda
  5. 19:28The State of MCP - Caitie McCaffrey (Microsoft)
  6. 47:09Q&A
  7. 56:52MCP: Server, Client & Protocol at GitHub - Sam Morrow (GitHub)
  8. 1:10:00Q&A
  9. 1:20:23A unified MCP layer with Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry - Viswajeeet Balaji (Microsoft)
  10. 1:39:39Q&A
  11. 1:45:54Building MCP servers with VS Code — Level up your MCP - Harald Kirschner (Microsoft)
  12. 2:14:06Q&A
  13. 2:30:50Recap of what we've seen so far
  14. 2:32:29Evolution of MCP auth - Den Delimarsky (Anthropic)
  15. 2:52:15Q&A
  16. 2:58:49MCP auth: Stop registering, start linking - Sam Bellen (Okta)
  17. 3:15:27Q&A
  18. 3:21:05When chatbots grow buttons: Building MCP apps with FastMCP - Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect)
  19. 3:36:12Q&A
  20. 3:45:08Event-driven agents, powered by MCP - Clare Liguori (Amazon)
  21. 4:01:20Q&A
  22. 4:05:05Closing Comments - Liam Hampton and Pamela Fox (Microsoft/GitHub), MCP advocates
  23. 4:09:33Get Involved, Contribute and Connect

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