Building Production AI Agents with MCP & LangGraph

MCP has become the universal agent-tool connector standard in under 12 months: 97M monthly SDK downloads, 10,000+ servers, SDKs in 7 languages, donated to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (146 member orgs). ServiceNow ships an MCP server (Action Fabric), LangGraph integrates MCP natively, and every major agent framework scores MCP support. Agent reliability has jumped from 20% to 77.3% on Terminal-Bench. Meanwhile, enterprise ROI data is firming up: 171% average return, 6.4 hours/week recovered per seat, with Klarna saving $60M and JPMorgan running 450+ agents daily. This full-day workshop takes participants from agent architecture fundamentals through building production-grade agents with MCP and LangGraph (126K+ GitHub stars, used in 34% of production architectures at 1,000+ employee companies per Gartner Q1 2026).

Covers: ReAct, plan-and-execute, and multi-agent architectures; MCP server/client development; LangGraph 0.4+ state machines, conditional routing, and HITL checkpoints; tool calling patterns; error handling and retry strategies; human-in-the-loop patterns; and agent evaluation with LangSmith.

About Brent Laster

Hi, I'm Brent Laster - a global trainer and book author, experienced corporate technology developer and leader, and founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. I've been working with and presenting at NFJS events for many years now and it is always exciting and interesting.

Through my decades in programming and management,I've always tried to make time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others Regardless of the topic or technology, my belief is that there is no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to help them accomplish their goals.

In my spare time, I hang out with my wife Anne-Marie, 4 children and 2 small dogs in Cary, North Carolina where I design and conduct trainings and write books. You can find me on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/brentlaster), Twitter (@brentclaster) or through my company's website at www.getskillsnow.com.

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