This talk was given at Future Tech 2026.

The Model Context Protocol is all the rage and rightly so. As the USB-C for AI it is an incredibly powerful tool that acts as a bridge between real-world systems and LLMs. But how do you get started with MCP and more importantly: how do you build your own MCP server? In this session we'll build an MCP server from scratch using the MCP C# SDK. We'll look at how to build tools, prompts and resources and how to leverage these with our own AI agent in Microsoft Foundry.

Stuart van der Lee

Software Engineer @ Sopra Steria

Stuart is a Microsoft Azure & AI MVP and software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies, AI and modern programming languages. He also keeps a close eye on the evolving world of DevOps and the tooling, practices and patterns that surround it. Stuart closely follows F1 in his free time, likes to do several sports such as cycling, golf and throwing weights around in the gym, and he tries to keep up with the endless stream of series and movies (with varying degrees of success).

Building your own MCP server

Stuart van der Lee

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