Jul 31, 2025

Building AI agents with Claude in Amazon Bedrock | Code w/ Claude

In a presentation from Code w/ Claude, AWS advocates Du'An Lightfoot, Suman Debnath, and Banjo Obayami introduce Strands, a new open-source Python SDK for building AI agentic applications on AWS. They showcase how Strands simplifies development by focusing on three core components—models, tools, and prompts—and leverages the full reasoning power of foundation models like Claude 3.5 on Amazon Bedrock. The session includes live demos on creating a multi-tool weather agent, integrating with Modular Connected Protocol (MCP) servers for AWS documentation and diagram generation, and using Claude Code to auto-generate a complete Strands agent for AWS CDK.

Jul 26, 2025

A2A & MCP Workshop: Automating Business Processes with LLMs — Damien Murphy, Bench

A deep dive into using Google's A2A (Agent-to-Agent) framework and MCP (Model Context Protocol) to build intelligent, automated workflows. This summary covers the core concepts, strategic implementation, a practical multi-agent architecture, and critical insights on lean context management to control costs and latency.

Jul 17, 2025

From Human-Readable to Machine-Usable: The New API Stack

Sagar Batchu, CEO of Speakeasy, discusses the pivotal shift in API development as AI agents become primary consumers. The conversation covers the rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the challenges in building agent-ready APIs, and how Speakeasy provides a toolchain for creating, managing, and securing MCP servers.