Hands-On Lab Workshop: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Foundations Lab

Join us for a hands-on exploration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard quickly gaining momentum in the world of AI. Whether you are a developer, engineer, or someone curious about how AI systems connect to real tools and data, this lab will walk you through the core concepts of MCP and give you practical skills to build, run, and connect your own MCP servers. This is a fundamentals-level lab focused on giving you a solid, practical understanding of how MCP works and why it is becoming the universal protocol for AI agent tool use — often described as the USB standard of the AI world.