Context Is King: Two Days to AI Mastery with MCP & RAG
Two-day training session on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) facilitated by Aleksander Stensby from GritAI. This training gives you the foundation to build intelligent knowledge bases and improve your interaction with large language models.
This hands-on workshop will equip you with practical skills to implement your own MCP servers, clients and MCP-enabled knowledge bases, connecting your organizational knowledge to advanced AI models in a controlled, secure manner.
Key Topics
Day 1: Foundations
- Introduction to Model Context Protocol and its business applications
- Core MCP concepts: Server/client architecture, agents, resources, and tool calling
- MCPs in your development workflow
- RAG fundamentals and architecture patterns
- Hands-on exercises: Building a local MCP server and RAG pipeline
Day 2: Production Implementation
- Exposing knowledge bases with MCP
- Implementing solutions in AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Preparing for production: Security considerations and optimization strategies
- Remote MCPs
- Final exercise: Exposing your Knowledge Bases through your MCP server
Prerequisites
- Basic Python or JavaScript programming knowledge
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (helpful but not required)
- Laptop with necessary development environment
This training is targeted at developers and people with a medium+ technical skill level and interest for AI.
After almost two decades of leading digital transformation and building technology solutions at scale, I've embarked on a new mission: making AI a force for good by making it accessible to anyone ready to build, learn, and grow.