MCP Revealed: What it is, why it took off, and where it’s headed

As a Developer Evangelist, Ben works to help anyone use DeepL’s API to access its world-class AI translations. In 2024 he left Google, where he’d been a Product Manager on Chrome and a Developer Advocate for a better web. Previously he was a software engineer at the New York Times and AOL, and before that he was a full-time musician. He earned a BA in Computer Science at Harvard and a PhD in Music at the University of California at Davis. Ben has run conferences and given talks around the world, in locations from Pakistan to Kenya and Argentina, to audiences from 3 to 3000, to technical and nontechnical audiences alike. Highlights include BrazilJS, Vietnam Web Summit, Node+JS Interactive, and Google Developer Days.