Context Is King: A Hands-On MCP Workshop
One-day training session on Model Context Protocol (MCP) facilitated by Aleksander Stensby from GritAI. This training gives you the foundation to build MCP servers, clients, and AI-powered applications that connect your organizational knowledge to advanced AI models in a controlled, secure manner.
Key Topics
Foundations — Servers & Core Concepts
- Introduction to Model Context Protocol and its business applications
- Core MCP concepts: Server/client architecture, agents, resources, and tool calling
- MCPs in your development workflow
- Hands-on exercise: Building a local MCP server
Clients, Apps & Beyond
- MCP Apps: Creating interactive AI-powered applications
- MCP Clients: Building your own host applications
- RAG basics: Giving your MCP server a knowledge base
- Deployment options: Remote MCPs, cloud providers and hosting alternatives
- Security considerations for production
- Final exercise: Building an MCP App
Prerequisites
- Basic Python or JavaScript programming knowledge
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (helpful but not required)
- Laptop with necessary development environment
This training is targeted at developers and people with a medium+ technical skill level and interest for AI.
Computer setup
Bring your laptop with your preferred IDE and either Python or Node installed. We recommend an AI-coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, but not required!
Bring your favorite sauce!
You need access to an LLM provider like OpenAI or Azure Foundry, but you can also use Ollama if you would like to run everything locally and free.
After almost two decades of leading digital transformation and building technology solutions at scale, I've embarked on a new mission: making AI a force for good by making it accessible to anyone ready to build, learn, and grow.