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2026-01-26 GenAI WG Bi-Weekly

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2026-01-26 GenAI WG Bi-Weekly

Date: January 26, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern / 5:00 PM CET

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89994460240?pwd=DRNueiBANbsdgYqpndnS0h2gNBLs86.1&jst=2
Passcode: 118634

Draft Agenda (working)

  1. Welcome & Introduction

  2. GH Repository - invite to working sessions (Georg)

  3. Agents and MCP (Stephen)

  4. Next Steps & Next Meeting Date (Georg)

    1. Feb 2, 2026- Working Session

    2. Feb 9, 2026- Working Session

    3. Feb 16, 2026- Working Session

    4. Feb 23, 2026- Workgroup Meeting

  5. Closing

Minutes

Meeting Attendees:

Yansong Chen, Georg Doll, Morteza Djebeli Sinaki, Bogdan Racotea, Clay Nelson, Leon Weigel, Stephen Jiggins, Susan Butler, Paul Boyes, Dongfang Hu, Pavan Vemuri, Mike Nunnery

Meeting minutes

  • Meeting welcome and new year check-in.

Progress Updates

Georg - shared updates from recent working sessions, including early experimentation with AI agents and use of a “playground” environment to explore workflow setup.

Yansong: Provided an update on continued use-case collection with working group members.

  • Agents and MCP Disussion (Stephen) - Introduced the concept of an AI playground, leveraging GitHub Copilot and creating a CI/production workflow in GitHub. Next step is to continue working through the GitHub playground environment in the next few weeks and report out progress and findings at the next working group meeting on February 23rd.

  • GH repository - Paul confirmed that the GitHub repository has been set up to support ongoing working sessions.

  • Future Meeting Cadence - discussed and agreed on the following cadence

    • Weekly working sessions time: 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM CET

    • Month-end Working Group meeting / readout

  • Open Discussions & Technical Topics -

    1. Execution challenges and potential solutions, such as Renote (from Morteza).

    2. Proposal to define a clear list of implementation design requirements for the repository and the emulation environment.

    3. Reference shared during disussion
      GitHub - enthali/esp32-distance: Demo Project: Using an ultrasonic sensor to measure distance and an LED strip to display the measured distance.

Hackteam - Tool calling is broken without MCP Server Composition

  • MCP Architecture & Governance

MCP server architecture - concept architecture discussion, how MCP servers could be set up and used within the working group

MCP governance & IT security consideration- internal MCP and external MCP instances, authentication criteria and access control.

Example shared: Microsoft developer tenants (budget backed), internal IT tenant set up, and local MCP environment.

Need to shared industry best practices for security, censorship, and governance.

Additional references:

https://agentic-community.github.io/

MCP Composer

GitHub - IBM/mcp-context-forge: An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.