Cutting Through the Hype: What MCP Is, What It Isn't and Its Role in the Agentic AI Stack
AI agents—are they on your list? Whether you're building with AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs), deploying chatbots, designing intelligent agent—or just getting started, join us for a 101 session on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in the agentic AI stack.
In this talk, we’ll cut through the hype and unpack what MCP really is—starting with its foundational concepts and how MCP is enabling the next generation of AI experiences.
We’ll explore how the Progress® MarkLogic® Server can be leveraged as an MCP server, share best practices for prompt design, security and more.
What you will learn:
- What MCP really is (and isn't): Definitions presented in simple terms and with business examples that even “Joe” from Marketing will understand.
- What's the role of context?: Integration challenges MCP solves for AI-powered tools across chatbots, IDEs, browsers and agentic frameworks.
- How it works: Best practices for designing AI agent flows and securing and scaling MCP servers for your organization.
- How to get started: A hands-on demo of how to integrate MCP with the MarkLogic Server to enable agentic workflows and connect data sources.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get ahead of the curve in the AI agent wave!
Irfan Syed
Director, Quality Engineering, Progress
Biju George
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress