Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join Yann Jouanin, Director of Engineering Strategy and Transformation at TheFork and MCP Contributor, and Julien, Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI, in this in-depth discussion about MCP (Model Context Protocol): what it really is, why it matters today, and how it could reshape the way we interact with models.
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We start with a quick introduction of both speakers and the relevance of MCP in today’s AI ecosystem, then dive into:
- Defining MCP: what it is (and what it isn’t).
- Real capabilities: how it compares to function calling or traditional APIs, with concrete examples and anecdotes.
- Users & use cases: who should use MCP, when it’s ideal, and when it’s an overkill or even risky.
- Limits & risks: current flaws, whether they’re being addressed, and what to watch out for.
- Adoption strategy: should you wait or jump in now? Which alternatives or complementary tools exist? How to start small without unnecessary risks.
- Conclusion: Yann shares why he believes in MCP, while Julien explains why he’s skeptical but may eventually have to give in.
If you’re curious about how MCP could impact developers, companies, and the future of AI integration, this conversation is for you.
Join Yann Jouanin, Director of Engineering Strategy and Transformation at TheFork and MCP Contributor, and Julien, Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI, in this in-depth discussion about MCP (Model Context Protocol): what it really is, why it matters today, and how it could reshape the way we interact with models.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe to be notified of future videos. You can also follow me on Medium at julsimon.medium.com or Substack at https://julsimon.substack.com. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
We start with a quick introduction of both speakers and the relevance of MCP in today’s AI ecosystem, then dive into:
- Defining MCP: what it is (and what it isn’t).
- Real capabilities: how it compares to function calling or traditional APIs, with concrete examples and anecdotes.
- Users & use cases: who should use MCP, when it’s ideal, and when it’s an overkill or even risky.
- Limits & risks: current flaws, whether they’re being addressed, and what to watch out for.
- Adoption strategy: should you wait or jump in now? Which alternatives or complementary tools exist? How to start small without unnecessary risks.
- Conclusion: Yann shares why he believes in MCP, while Julien explains why he’s skeptical but may eventually have to give in.
If you’re curious about how MCP could impact developers, companies, and the future of AI integration, this conversation is for you.







![How Witty Works leverages Hugging Face to scale inclusive language
During this webinar, Elena Nazarenko, Lead Data Scientist at Witty Works, Lukas Kahwe Smith, CTO & Co-Founder at Witty Works and Julien Simon, Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face, discuss how Witty Works leverages Hugging Face to scale inclusive language.
[No HD version, sorry]
- The impact of Transformers on text classification use cases
- How Witty Works leverages Hugging Face to scale inclusive language
- How to perform domain-adaptive pretraining on a transformer model
Speakers
Elena Nazarenko - Lead Data Scientist at Witty Works
Lukas Kahwe Smith - CTO & Co-Founder at Witty Works
Julien Simon - Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face
About Witty Works
Witty is a Digital Writing Assistant for Inclusive Language that enables organizations to detect their own bias, in writing and in behavior, and fix it. Because language builds culture.
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a wildly popular community-based repository for open-source ML technology. It is a platform that stores, serves and manages the latest and greatest in open-sources ML models, including enabling customers to fine-tune these models and deploy them at scale.
Hugging Face is one of the most used platforms and is empowering 10,000 companies to integrate artificial intelligence into their products or workflows. How Witty Works leverages Hugging Face to scale inclusive language](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z_S1gfRFtgA/mqdefault.jpg)


