MCP is the everyone-else interface
I'm speaking again at AI Skills Conference on May 14th
A few months ago I spoke at the previous AI Skills Conference on the topic “AGI is probably here.” We have since been living in this reality with Claude Code/Cowork, Codex doing increasingly large slices of our work in the months since.
This time I’ll be speaking about a topic that is a bit more practical and bit less philosophical! There has been much talk about how MCP is dead and unnecessary, and I will explore this topic as someone who has built, released and sold MCP-first products.
Here is more information about the wider conference, and the link to register is just below:
Join 3,000+ AI professionals at the AI Skills Conf on May 14 (Zoom).
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You'll get direct insights from experts at Google, Meta, AWS, and DeepMind on how to leverage AI for career growth, product development, and business efficiency.
– 5+ hours of live content & 25+ speakers & 15+ tactical sessions on agentic workflows and the 2026 tech stack
– Interactive workshops & live Q&A with leaders from the world’s top AI companies
1. How to become irreplaceable with AI: The skills every professional needs in 2026. Dhrupad Sethi @ Meta, Ksenia Se @ Turing Post, Robin Sutara @ Databricks, moderator: Jepson Taylor @ VEOX
2. Building your AI Chief of Staff from scratch: Memory, projects, daily briefs and action priorities. Dima Zborovskiy @ DoorDash
3. Stop Trying Not To Get Fired: How to navigate the AI job market. Alexandra Tomashevskaya @ Remote
4. The 2026 AI tool stack for founders and small-business owners. Jafar Najafov @ Nextool AI, Paige Bailey @ DeepMind, moderator: Emanuel Cinca @ Stacked Marketer
5. Vibe Coding Is Real: How non-developers are shipping production apps with AI in 2026. Martin Slaney @ Bolt
6. How to Build Agentic Products with Claude Code — No Coding Required. Paweł Huryn @ Product Compass
7. The Model Doesn't Matter Anymore: Why "AI Harness," not models, will define winners in 2026. David Campbell @ ScaleAI
8. AI ROI reality check: Which use cases are delivering business value? Ankur Khare @ SAP, Merlyn Shelley @ Packt, Stuart Clark @ Spotify
9. Physical AI and Robotics: Why 2026 is the year AI leaves the screen and enters the real world. Frantz Lohier @ AWS
10. How to use Claude to get your dream job. Aakash Gupta @ Product Growth
11. From Wow to How: Putting AI to work for Creative Marketing. Sandro Gelashvili @ Google
12. From Stateless to Useful: How to design AI agents with reliable memory. JD Armada @ Elastic
You’ll also hear from: Stuart Clark @ Spotify, Seva Ustinov @ Plurio, David Smooke @ HackerNoon, Tanya Roosta @ AMD, and Andrey Skripkin @ Meta.