Why it matters
MCP standardizes how models reach outside tools and data, and understanding that plumbing is a prerequisite to noticing where a badly designed tool call burns extra round-trips and tokens on retries or oversized context.
The tokenmaxxing angle
A code-and-demo walkthrough of how agents actually invoke tools is the right altitude for spotting where context gets bloated unnecessarily, since MCP tool descriptions and responses are exactly the kind of payload that quietly inflates every call.
From the organizers
The speaker is named as Jennifer Reif, Developer Advocate at Neo4j, and the listing notes the group is raffling off a JetBrains single-product license after the talk, plus a room change to the venue's third floor.