​GitHub x Microsoft for Startups

​Join us for MCP Universe, a micro summit happening along side GitHub Universe, focused on building model context protocol, enabling pillars of the agentic web, and open source communities.

​This event will bring together a community of the developers across, open source, startup and enterprises to explore the Future of Agents, open protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic AI, and open innovation. Hear directly from folks leading the MCP Steering Committee, and community and startups building with MCP today.

​Learn more about the foundations of MCP and where it is going, see what people are building with real-world MCP deployments in the wild, and where they see it going in the future.

• ​Understand core foundations from MCP maintainers, core steering committee, and leading open source maintainers including:

  • ​David Soria Parra - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff, BDFL and co-creator of the Model Context Protocol

  • ​Den Delimarsky - Microsoft, Security Principal Product Engineer, Core Maintainer

  • ​Nick Cooper - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff, Core Maintainer

  • ​Jeremiah Lowin - Author, maintainer of FastMCP, founder Prefect.io

• ​Hear about real-world production use cases of MCP and agentic AI from founders and builders like:

  • ​Shannon Williams - Cofounder and President of Obot

  • ​Toby Padilla - Principal, cofounder and builder of GitHub MCP Registry and GitHub MCP Server

  • ​Vitaly Gordon - cofounder and CEO of Faros AI

  • ​Angie Jones - VP of Engineer, AI Tools and Enablement at Block

• ​See what with others are building with MCP including

  • ​Dedalus, Roboflow

  • ​Matvei Popov - MCP + Computer Vision

• ​Learn about apps and agents from Amanda Silver, Microsoft CVP of CoreAI for Apps and Agents

​Moderated by

• ​Rob Ferguson, Head of AI at Microsoft for Startups, Kevin Crosby, Sr. Dir of Open Source Funding at GitHub, and leading enterprise and AI Investors like Ursheet Parikh, General Partner at Mayfield.

​Space is limited—save your spot and join us for an evening of conversations, connections, and community.

​Agenda Highlights

• ​5:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking

• ​6:00 - 8PM: Fireside, Panels, and Speakers

• ​8 PM to 9PM: Happy Hour

​Location: GitHub HQ 275 Brannan Street in San Francisco, CA 94107

​​​​About the hosts:

​​​GitHub Open Source Funding | GitHub Fund - Accelerating innovation, sustainability, and security within open source.

​​​GitHub for Startups - Get access to the tools and support you need to go from idea to IPO on GitHub's secure AI-powered developer platform.

Microsoft for Startups - build a future-proofed startup w/ industry-leading AI services, tools & expert guidance.

​Space is limited and entry will be granted on a first come, first served basis. Arriving early gives you the best chance of joining the event comfortably. Once the space reaches occupancy, no additional entry or re-entry will be possible