How to feed your AI agents with data

​AI agents are only as useful as the data and tools they can access. In this workshop, you'll learn how to give your AI agents superpowers by connecting them to real-world web data using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Apify's Agent Skills.

​We'll walk through how MCP works and how Apify uses it to let AI agents access thousands of ready-made web scraping and data extraction tools. Then you'll get hands-on. You'll connect an AI agent to Apify's MCP server, explore existing Agent Skills, and write your own custom skill that fetches live data from the web.

​What you'll do:

• ​Set up and use Apify's MCP server with an AI agent

• ​Browse and use existing Agent Skills for web data extraction

• ​Write your own Agent Skill from scratch

​No prior experience with MCP or Apify needed. Please bring your laptop with an AI coding tool installed (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar).

​Please only apply for this workshop if you hold a valid GenAI Zürich 2026 ticket. Applications submitted without a valid ticket will be rejected. Don’t have a ticket yet? You can secure yours here.

​All applications are subject to approval by the workshop organizers. If your application is successful, we recommend arriving 10 minutes before the workshop starts to secure your seat. Allocated seats that have not been filled 5 minutes before the workshop start may be released and reallocated to spontaneous participants.