AAIF APAC Lunch & Learn : MCP in Practice

MEETING

3:00 AM - 4:00 AM GMT

September 29, 2026

AAIF APAC Lunch & Learn : MCP in Practice

Join us for the first AAIF APAC Lunch & Learn - a casual community discussion around MCP, agentic tool use, and what happens when agents can actually pay for the tools they use.

We’ll use AAIF’s latest article, “402 Payment Required: What Enterprise MCP Servers Owe the Agents That Pay Them,” as a starting point for the conversation.

We’ll explore practical questions around:

How MCP servers can expose paid tools

x402 and payment-aware MCP interactions

Who should decide what an agent is allowed to spend

Authentication, authorization, budgets, and enforcement

What enterprise MCP infrastructure needs to verify before allowing a paid tool call

Interesting implementations and real-world MCP use cases

This is an open, informal discussion - bring your MCP projects, questions, ideas, or examples and join the conversation.

Speakers

Rahul Parundekar

Founder @ A.I. Hero, inc.

Demetrios Brinkmann

Chief Happiness Engineer @ MLOps Community

Burhan Qaddoumi

ML Developer Relations Engineer @ Voxel51

Leo Walker

AI Engineer @ KaiCare.ai

Agenda

3:00 AM

3:05 AM

GMT

Opening / Closing

Welcome & Introductions

Quick welcome, introductions, and what people are currently building with MCP.

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3:05 AM

3:15 AM

GMT

Presentation

Article Kickoff: MCP + Agent Payments

Brief discussion of the AAIF article and the core idea: what changes when an MCP tool costs money?

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3:15 AM

3:30 AM

GMT

Fireside Chat

MCP in Practice

Community discussion around interesting MCP implementations, architectures, tooling, and lessons learned.

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3:30 AM

3:50 AM

GMT

Fireside Chat

x402, Authorization & Agent Spending

Discuss x402, paid tool calls, budgets, authentication/authorization, and where spending decisions should live. The article distinguishes the agent's decision about what work to do from infrastructure decisions about who is asking, what the work costs, and whether the spend is permitted.

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3:50 AM

4:00 AM

GMT

Opening / Closing

Open Discussion & Wrap-up

Questions, examples, challenges, key takeaways, and what the community is building next.

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