MCP in practice: lessons from Stripe, Cloudflare, Knock, Vantage

​An evening of Q&A with engineering and product leaders translating MCP into real, user-facing solutions.

​Brought to you by Stainless (stainless.com).

​🎤 Dina Kozlov – Sr. Product Manager, Cloudflare
🎤 Mat Varughese – Software Engineer, Stripe
🎤 Chris Bell – Co-founder/CTO, Knock
🎤 Brooke McKim – Co-founder/CTO, Vantage
🧑‍⚖️ Alex Rattray – Founder/CEO, Stainless (moderator)

​We’ll dive into topics like: ​

✱ Making tools more legible for LLMs
✱ Security and access control challenges unique to MCP
✱ Redesigning an API surface to make it more "agent-native"
✱ Where to draw the line between auto-generated and handcrafted tools
✱ Browsing tools and handling context window limits
✱ MCP ecosystem wishlist

​Agenda
🚪 Doors open: 6PM
📣 Panel Q&A: 6:30PM - 7:30PM
🎉 Network and mingle: 7:30PM - 9PM
🍽️ Food and drinks provided ​

​Space is limited. Please RSVP early.