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Building Agentic Systems with Protocols: MCP & A2A

Hosted by "Dr. Greg" Loughnane and Chris "The Wiz ๐Ÿช„" Alexiuk

425 students

What you'll learn

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

How to set up an MCP Server, and why you would want to.

Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)

How to build a multi-agent application using A2A, and why you would want to.

Where AI Engineers should use MCP and A2A today

Developer vs. consumer products, RAG vs. agentic apps, prototyping vs. production, internal vs. external, etc!

Why this topic matters

Everyone is talking about MCP, but should everyone be building with it? What is the role of Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, and is a competitor or supplement to MCP? Should engineers or business leaders care more, and in what contexts? Take

You'll learn from

"Dr. Greg" Loughnane

Co-Founder & CEO @ AI Makerspace

Dr. Gregโ€ Loughnaneย is the Co-Founder & CEO of AI Makerspace, where he is an instructor for their AI Engineering Bootcamp. Since 2021, he has built and led industry-leading Machine Learning education programs.ย Previously, he worked as an AI product manager, a university professor teaching AI, an AI consultant and startup advisor, and an ML researcher.ย He loves trail running and is based in Dayton, Ohio.

Chris "The Wiz ๐Ÿช„" Alexiuk

Co-Founder & CTO @ AI Makerspace

Chris โ€œThe Wizโ€ Alexiuk is the Co-Founder & CTO at AI Makerspace, where he is an instructor for their AI Engineering Bootcamp. During the day, he is also a Developer Advocate at NVIDIA. Previously, he was a Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, and ML curriculum developer and instructor. Heโ€™s a YouTube content creator YouTube whoโ€™s motto is โ€œBuild, build, build!โ€ He loves Dungeons & Dragons and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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The AI Engineering Bootcamp
"Dr. Greg" Loughnane and Chris "The Wiz ๐Ÿช„" Alexiuk
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