Sabeena Shafaq

As enterprises onboard AI assets (MCP servers, Agents, Skills) they face a governance problem: no unified way to discover, authenticate, or observe them. MCP Gateway and Registry is an open source control plane with centralized registration, OAuth2 auth, semantic tool discovery, and end-to-end telemetry.

Expedia Group is building connected, purpose-built agents that help employees move faster, partners act with less friction, and showing up wherever travelers plan and book. This is powered by a single Gen AI platform with three front doors: no-code for business users, low-code for workflow builders, and pro-code for teams that need full control — all running on one proxy, one guardrail architecture, and one cost model. In this fireside chat, we will discuss Expedia Group's build-versus-buy approach, what the persona split did for internal adoption and how we optimize for a single benchmark: time to first agent.