Adoption is the hard part
What it takes to get non-developers using agents on real company data: champions, demos, support, trust, and the honest adoption numbers behind the launch.
AdoptionChange
Talks
Conference sessions on production MCP, drawn from a platform in daily use at a Dutch HVAC engineering company. Each page carries the abstract exactly as the programme committee accepted it.
- MCPMetadataAgentic Engineering
Domain knowledge belongs in the MCP server
97.1% of MCP tool descriptions carry at least one smell. The maturity ladder, and the one move that changes everything: getting the domain knowledge into the tool.
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- AIMCPAgentic AIEnterprise AIReal-world adoption
Adoption is the hard part: six months of MCP in production at an HVAC company
Six months of a production MCP platform at a 300-400 person Dutch HVAC company: nine servers, 50+ tools, around 70 users, and the honest adoption numbers.
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Speaking topics
Domain knowledge belongs in the MCP server
How rich tool descriptions, schemas, and expert-validated metadata turn thin API wrappers into MCP tools an agent can actually reason with.
MCPMetadata
The agent is the new browser
How MCP Apps change frontend work: compact agent-native views, metadata-guided rendering, and controlled app-only actions for safer interaction.
MCP AppsFrontend
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