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Visual Studio now speaks MCP. In this fast-paced session you’ll learn how the IDE’s new Model Context Protocol tooling turns agent-ready APIs into a first-class experience

The Model Context Protocol now fully embraces OAuth 2.1 conventions, bringing mature authorization patterns to AI agent ecosystems. Rather than inventing new auth mechanisms, MCP adopted proven OAuth flows, dynamic client registration, as well as the brand-new Protected Resource Metadata conventions. This session explores how the new spec significantly simplifies the developer experience for both MCP client and server implementers, as well as gives developers more flexibility around integration with existing authorization servers.

We are entering a new era of user interaction. It's being built right before our very eyes and changing rapidly. As crazy as it sounds, soon each one of us will get our own Jarvis capable of performing actually useful tasks for us with a completely different user interaction mechanism than we're used to. But someone's gotta give Jarvis the tools to perform these tasks, and that's where we come in In this talk, Kent will show how this AI assistant user interaction model is shaping out to be, help us catch the vision of what this future could look like, and our role in it.

We are entering a new era of user interaction. It's being built right before our very eyes and changing rapidly. As crazy as it sounds, soon each one of us will get our own Jarvis capable of performing actually useful tasks for us with a completely different user interaction mechanism than we're used to. But someone's gotta give Jarvis the tools to perform these tasks, and that's where we come in In this talk, Kent will show how this AI assistant user interaction model is shaping out to be, help us catch the vision of what this future could look like, and our role in it.

What if every website could talk back—understanding a visitor’s plain-English question and answering with the exact insight (or next action) they need? In this fireside conversation, Ramanathan Guha— web-standards pioneer (RSS, Schema.org) and the creator of NLWeb—joins core engineers from the project to explain how Microsoft’s new open initiative is turning that vision into reality and how MCP falls into the big picture.

What if every website could talk back—understanding a visitor’s plain-English question and answering with the exact insight (or next action) they need? In this fireside conversation, Ramanathan Guha— web-standards pioneer (RSS, Schema.org) and the creator of NLWeb—joins core engineers from the project to explain how Microsoft’s new open initiative is turning that vision into reality and how MCP falls into the big picture.

Lets take a sneak peak into the open-source MCP community registry. A publish once, consume anywhere project for Model Context Protocol servers being developed by the MCP steering committee. In this 30 minute session we'll talk to the project leaders and unpack how server authors can publish their servers and how different registries and marketplaces can stay up to date with the latest MCP servers.

Join Jay Parikh, Microsoft EVP of Core AI, as he opens MCP DevDays with an exciting look at how the Model Context Protocol is revolutionizing AI application development. Discover why Microsoft is all-in on MCP and how it's accelerating developer productivity across VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and Windows. This keynote features lightning demos showcasing real-world MCP implementations. Whether you're a developer, tool builder, or AI enthusiast, this session sets the stage for two days of hands-on learning about the protocol that's defining the next generation of intelligent

Details Our London AI DevOps Society meetup 2025 has arrived! We are delighted to partner with Microsoft on this exciting meetup, with two exciting speakers lined up.

Format of the meetup event will be as follows:

6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with food and soft drinks provided by ReVybe IT and Microsoft.

6:30pm - 7:45pm - 2X 25 minute speakers lined up with 10-15 minute break in-between

7:45pm onwards - Networking (carries on afterwards for anybody who wants to have a few drinks or just socialise at The Union, Paddington)

#1 Matteo Emili, Director of Software Engineering @ Avanade UK & Ireland

Matteo Emili is a Director of Software Engineering at Avanade UK and Ireland, leading the talent in Software Engineering and always looking at new ways of applying technology to solve business problems. He is a passionate Agile advocate and a technologist at heart, a Cloud Architect who is always driven by using technology as a vehicle for change and continuous improvement.

A Microsoft MVP since 2010 (currently in the Azure DevOps and GitHub category), he enjoys sharing back as much as he can with the worldwide technical communities – especially within Agile and DevOps. He has founded several User Groups around Europe and he is a regular speaker at meetups and conferences.

Title: Is AI going to change the role of a Developer?

GenAI here, Copilot there… AI is a once in a lifetime opportunity to significantly change the way people operate, however nobody is talking about how AI is changing the role of a developer today, and the impact in the future. Let’s shed some light on the role of a developer in an AI-assisted world and see how to make the most of the opportunity.

#2 Liam Hampton, Senior Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft Liam is a Senior Cloud Advocate and Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Developer Tools. He is passionate about Security, DevOps, automation and Go. He loves sharing his knowledge and creating simple and concise content for others to learn from. When he is not writing code in the office, he is writing it on a beach as he spends a lot of his time traveling around the globe, building communities and meeting new people.

Title: Deploying AI Agents with the Azure Developer CLI (azd) In this session you will learn about the evolution of AI Agents. Liam will take you through what they are, how they are used and how to deploy them using the Azure Developer CLI. The azd CLI is an open source deployment tool that utilises ready made templates in Bicep and Terraform to make your journey to the cloud simple and efficient. Please provide full name and email address for access to the Microsoft Reactor event space in Paddington.

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Large language models unlock exciting new opportunities - but there's still lots of hard work to do for engineers, designers and product managers to turn foundation models into products users love! In this session, you'll learn about GitHub's journey building Copilot code review, currently in public preview, and the lessons learned along the way.