Menlo - Neon poker + MCP party

​MCP = Model Context Protocol or Most Common Poker?

​Join Menlo and Neon for a relaxed evening of poker, sharp conversations, and great company - paired with delicious food. We'll gather at Menlo SF to talk MCP, the agentic future, and everything in between.

​Schedule:

• ​6:30 PM: Door open & networking

• ​7:00 PM: Kick-off lightning talk on MCP

• ​7:30 - 9:30 PM: Poker night

​Lightning talks:

• ​"MCP is First-Generation (and that's fine)" - Ted Nyman, CEO of cased.com, formerly CTO at GitHub

• ​"Smithery - Infrastructure for the Era of Experience" - Henry Mao, Founder of smithery.ai

• ​"From Prototype to Production: The Path to Real-World MCPs" - Tori Seidenstein, Co-Founder of Tadata

​Special thanks to Rho for sponsoring

Rho is a business banking platform, purpose-built for startups. Manage cash, keep burn in check, and automate finance busywork that distracts founders from building products customers want.