MCP Builders Summit Hosted by Featureform and Silicon Valley Bank

Description
Join us on Wednesday, July 30th, from 5 PM to 8 PM, for an evening of deep dive MCP demos, agent architecture talks, and investor insight at the SVB Experience Center, co-sponsored by Featureform and Silicon Valley Bank! MCP provides AI agents with a unified interface to discover tools, pass structured context, execute real actions across your stack, and persist state. Wire it in, and agents transition from prototype chatbots to systems that actually deliver results. At this meetup, we delve into real-world builds: long-lived memory, fast local development and testing loops for MCP servers, secure global delivery, and the infrastructure signals investors are watching as usage ramps up. We’ll also have drinks and bites available throughout the evening for everyone.
?️ Agenda
4:30 Doors open & Networking
5:30 Opening Remarks (Simba Khadder, EnrichMCP)
5:45 Lessons in Building Enterprise MCP Tools that Actually Work (Hans Ashlock, Cisco ThousandEyes)
6:05 Building an MCP Agent (Lizzie Siegle, Cloudflare)
6:20 Break
6:30 Knowledge Graphs as Local Agent Memory (Daniel Chalef, Zep AI)
6:50 Build and Deploy MCP Agents with Open-Source Infrastructure (Pietro Zullo & Luigi Pederzani, mcp-use)
7:10 VC Panel (Lightspeed Ventures, A16z, Ridge)
7:30 Closing remarks
7:35 to 8:00 Networking & Drinks

Speakers
Hans Ashlock, ThousandEyes
Daniel Chalef, Zep AI.
Pietro Zullo, MCP-use
Lizzie Siegle, Cloudflare

Investor Panel
James Alcorn, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Akriti Dokania, Ridge Ventures
Rajko Radovanovic, Andreessen Horowitz
Moderator: Simba Khadder, Featureform

Getting There
Venue: SVB Experience Center, 532 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104.
Best After-8 PM Parking (pick these)
Embarcadero Center 4 (open 24/7). Embarcadero 1, 2, and 3 also work if you leave by 9 PM. Embarcadero Center
Sutter Stockton Garage (city garage, always open). SFMTA
Union Square Garage (open daily 5 AM to 11 PM; after-hours entry on Geary with ticket). SFMTA
Portsmouth Square Garage (open daily 5 AM to Midnight; evening flat rate after 5 PM, exit by Midnight). SFMTA
Garages That Close Too Early (skip if staying for networking)
One Bush Garage valet ends 8 PM weekdays. 525 Market closes 7 PM weekdays. Mills Building garage closes 7 PM weekdays. 225 Bush closes 6:30 PM weekdays. Farella Braun + Martel LLPapi.beta.parkme.comABM ParkingParkChirp
Transit (easiest)
Ride BART or Muni Metro to Montgomery Street Station and walk to the venue; the station site lists the Dublin/Pleasanton, Antioch, Berryessa/North San Jose, and Richmond line services, and a nearby office notes the walk is about two minutes. BARTFarella Braun + Martel LLP
Rideshare / Taxi
Set destination to SVB Experience Center, 532 Market St. If Market is backed up, ask for a drop at Sansome and Market and walk the short block.