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April 2-3, 2026
New York, NY
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Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Over the 2025 holiday break, I built MARVIN, an AI assistant that connects to my email, calendar, Jira, Confluence, and meeting notes through MCP servers. The most surprising lessons came from teaching a non-technical friend in marketing to use it. Within a day, she took a task that typically required 4+ hours and completed it in 30 minutes.

In this talk, I'll share practical insights from building and deploying MCP-powered agents in real workflows:

- Architecture decisions: How I structured MCP servers for Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, and other integrations, and where I got it wrong
- The "junior intern" pattern: Why treating AI agents like trainable assistants drives real usage
- The naming problem: Why "MCP" is a terrible name for mainstream adoption and what we should call it instead
- Curiosity over mandates: Why top-down AI adoption fails, and what ground-up adoption looks like

I'll walk through 25 minutes of hard-won lessons from building something real, watching people use it, and iterating based on what actually worked.
Speakers
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Sterling Chin

Founding Developer Advocate, Inngest
Sterling Chin is a Founding Developer Advocate, where he focuses on AI-powered API development and the intersection of agents and APIs. At Postman, he lead the team that shipped 7 new products in 2.5 years including Postman's first AI Assistant, and now spends his time helping developers... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents, MCP Best Practices

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