MCP has taken the industry by storm just one year after its appearance. And now we have an MCP Summit, run by the trend setters themselves!

That is by the founders and contributors working on the MCP project, the Architects, Advocates, Software Engineers from the big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Octa, PayPal, Open AI and, of course, Anthropic.

For the developers who want to use MCP the summit covered it all: MCP orchestration and management, security, the road map ahead and many other topics. The sessions were plenty and very interesting but we singled out a few noteworthy that we think you should watch first, since all the talks have now ended up as a YouTube playlist.

Top of our list comes the opening keynote “The MCP project 201: the protocol in depth” by David Soria Parra, one of the co-creators of MCP. If you ever had questions about how or what the MCP protocol does and is then this talk will answer them all. It's an absolute must watch.

A lot has been said about the security or better said non-existent security of the MCP protocol, with some calling it an absolute joke. But is that true? Well maybe not as in the talk “Intro to oAuth for MCP servers” we learn how to apply the favorite API authentication method to MCP too .So first by going through the oAuth protocol and how it works, the talk then goes on how to apply the principles onto MCP. As such, the talk can be watched regardless of you using MCP.

A very interesting talk was “MCP vs ACP vs A2A: Comparing Agent Protocols” with Laurie Voss from LlamaIndex. If you can't tell your MCP from your A2A, then this talk will demystify all those buzz words. The thing is that MCP is not designed to work with agent to agent communication although there are suggestions that it should do. So for this reason there are other protocols. While the talk initially was about the three protocols it was named after, it actually ended up covering 12 plus protocols. Brief, not in depth but cutting edge stuff nevertheless.

And finally a glimpse on how we will be doing our shopping in the future, in the session “Building a MCP Server for Agentic Commerce” with Brenden Lane and Nitin Sharma from PayPal.
As it says it's about an MCP server that the people of PayPal have made which automates all our shopping needs. The demonstration uses Claude Code to search, check prices, refine the search and finally make the purchase by handling all the financial details like retrieving the credit card details and postal information; all that in natural language.

To wrap it up, the Summit was both educational in discovering what makes MCP click, and as a foreseer of how the protocol will be shaping our interaction with computers in the future and subsequently the world.

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