James Ward

James Ward

AWS
Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS and AAIF Technical Committee member.
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Christian Tzolov
Christian Tzolov
Spring Team
James Ward
James Ward
AWS

Exquisite Evals for Skills & MCPs

The speaker built the javadocs.dev MCP server to give Java, Kotlin, and Scala agents efficient library documentation access. They created a custom eval framework showing it is up to 5x more token-effi...
Development Practices Development Practices Tools-in-Action 30 min. INTERMEDIATE
James Ward
James Ward
AWS

MCP 2.0 - Stateless, New Auth (CIMD), and Exciting Extensions

The MCP Spec & Implementations have quickly evolved since initial release almost 2 years ago. This session covers what has changed and how it impacts MCP server developers. You will learn about the ne...
Agentic Engineering & Tooling Agentic Engineering & Tooling Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE