# MCP's Official 2nd Birthday Party: Lightning Talks from Industry Leaders

A birthday party with lightning talks and demos about the Model Context Protocol and its future. It is for people interested in MCP, MCP servers, and MCP apps.

- When: Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 18:00–20:00 (America/Los_Angeles time)
- Where: San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, US, United States
- Format: In person
- Type: Meetup
- Topics: AI, GenAI & LLMs, Software engineering
- For: Software engineers, AI & ML engineers, CTOs & tech leads, Marketing & sales
- Price: Free
- Organizer: Manufact Events
- Register and details: https://luma.com/1ux794v1

## About

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear MCPPPPPP, happy birthday to you!!
Come celebrate with us. They'll be birthday cake, party hats, balloons, and talks from MCP leaders about the future of the space.
Lightning demo lineup:
Christian Glassiognon from Planetscale will share his perspective on where MCP is today and where it’s heading.
Alex Salkever from the Agentic AI Foundation will speak on why the agentic ecosystem needs to stay open, new foundation projects, and what’s next for MCP apps.
More to come :)
Nov. 25, 2026 marks two years since Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol. Back then, client support was limited and the server ecosystem was just getting started. Now coding agents are cracked, more clients support MCP, and companies are building servers so you can use their products without leaving your agent.

That shift is already showing up in how people work. In August, Linear’s Jori Lallo shared that more issues were created through MCP that week than through Linear’s app. LLMs are starting to look like operating systems, with MCP servers as the apps. For a protocol that spent plenty of time getting trashed on X, that’s a pretty good second birthday.
Location: Downtown SF, exact spot TBA shortly
Manufact is the MCP Cloud to build, test, publish, and monitor MCP servers and apps.

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