MCP and the Dawn of Agentic Intelligence | Gabriela de Queiroz & Shub Argha, AI By the Bay 2025

Context Is All That Matters: MCP and the Dawn of Agentic Intelligence. Every generation of AI has been limited by context. Models could reason, but not act. They could predict, but not connect. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes that forever. MCP is the connective tissue between models, tools, and data—the open protocol that lets any LLM see, know, and do. It turns isolated chatbots into context-aware agents that can sample, chain tools, browse resources, and collaborate with humans and systems alike. In this talk, we’ll rip open the MCP spec and show how: 1) Clients and servers negotiate capabilities like context streaming, sampling, and prompting. 2) Tool chaining lets models plan and execute multi-step workflows autonomously. 3) Resources give every model live, composable access to your world—files, APIs, databases, and more. 4) Sampling orchestration unleashes multi-turn, multi-model creativity inside a single session. You’ll see how MCP transforms LLMs into ecosystems: interoperable, composable, and ready to act in the real world. Forget prompt-engineering—this is protocol-engineering for intelligence. Gabriela de Queiroz is the Founder of f02 labs, a consulting studio helping startups accelerate visibility, product adoption, and developer engagement through AI Strategy and Developer Relations as a Service. Previously Director of AI at Microsoft, she advised hundreds of startups on building and scaling AI products, and before that led global AI strategy and open-source initiatives at IBM. She has also worked with startups across different stages, contribut…