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# Building AI Tool Integrations with Model Context Protocol


- **Date:** Wednesday, Jul 9, 2025
- **Time:** 11:00–13:00 (120 min)
- **Room:** M7 (18 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Description

This hands-on workshop teaches you how to connect external tools and data sources to AI assistants using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). 

You'll learn why MCP is so useful as a standardized approach for giving AI systems to access real-world functionality (information, actions) through tools. 

The session covers configuring MCP servers in development environments and in Claude Desktop. You'll integrate MCP servers into agent frameworks to interact with databases, APIs, and other systems. 

We'll examine the internal structure of MCP servers, including resource, tool definitions, and prompt templates. 
The workshop discusses relevant protocol specifications aspects. 
By the end, you'll have built your own MCP server using MCP and integrated it into an AI agent workflow.

## Speakers

### [Adam Cowley](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@adam-cowley)

Developer Advocate at Neo4j
### [Michael Hunger](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michael-hunger)

Lead Neo4j Labs & Caretaker General


## Related talks at this congress

- [Hands-On MCP: Building AI-Connected Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/657-hands-on-mcp) — Patrick Schnell
- [Beyond Prompting: Building Scalable AI with Multi-Agent Systems and MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/802-beyond-prompting) — Viktoria Semaan
- [From A2A to MCP: How AI’s “Brains” are Connecting to “Arms and Legs”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/800-from-a2a-to-mcp-how) — Brad Axen
- [Building Agentic Apps with Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/511-building-agentic) — Michael Irwin