Roundtable by Ode with Anthropic

Ode with Anthropic is hosting its first Roundtable, and we’re doing it in Manila with the Casper Studios team at a coworking space in BGC.Roundtable is for practitioners: engineer-to-engineer, real problems, real questions.This first edition features a panel with Casper’s founders Jay and Derek and breakout Roundtable discussions across three tracks. We’re keeping the Roundtables small: circles of twenty engineers, one topic each, led by the Casper engineers who have shipped these solutions at financial, legal, and healthcare firms in NY / SF: Building MCPs is fundamentally Data Engineering. Emerson Chua, Sean Urgel, and Patrick Calulo discuss how good MCPs are built on solid data engineering, how to stop intermediate payloads from bloating the context window, and how to get data across enterprise security boundaries. What does success look like for Forward-Deployed Engineers? Allaine Tan, Derek Gibbs, and Sage Co speak on client work as a partnership in growth, why engineers now need deep product thinking, and what effective client communication and collaboration looks like. How to build, evaluate, and drive adoption of Agent Skills. Nathan Villegas, Paolo De los Santos, and Basti Ortiz share field notes on evals, harness limitations, thinking in data primitives, and what an SDLC for agent skills looks like.Dinner is on us. Bring the questions you haven’t been able to ask anyone else about running agents in production.