MCP server

Endpoint

https://conferencegrid.com/api/mcp

Use the address exactly as written. The www form redirects, and most clients turn that redirect into a request this endpoint refuses, which looks like a broken server rather than a wrong address.

Connect it

Claude — Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector. Paste the address. There is no key to enter and no sign-in step.

Claude Code — claude mcp add --transport http conferencegrid https://conferencegrid.com/api/mcp

ChatGPT — add it as a custom connector with the same address. The server carries OpenAI's search and fetch contract alongside the tools below, so one address serves both clients.

Anything else that speaks Streamable HTTP works too. The server is stateless, so there is no session to hold open.

What to ask

Four prompts ship with the server and show up in the client as conversation starters. Or ask in your own words:

• Which conferences does Datadog sponsor in the next six months?
• Find fintech conferences in Berlin before June, and tell me which have a sponsor prospectus.
• What changed on KubeCon Europe since last month?
• Which security conferences are still open for speaker submissions?

The tools

Nine, all read-only. Nothing here can write, delete or spend money.

Before you trust an answer

Every record carries the date we last verified it. That is the whole point. A number with a date on it is a different claim from a number without one, so ask for it if the model does not offer it.

An empty list is an answer, not a failure. Roughly one upcoming event in five publishes before its line-up does. No sponsors listed means we looked and the organiser has not published them yet. The tools return an explicit empty list so the model can tell that apart from not having looked.

Coverage thins further out, and that is seasonal. We hold about a year per conference, and organisers publish next year's dates after this year's event runs. A quiet month eighteen months out is normal. Compare a month to the same month a year earlier, never to the month beside it.

Company coverage depends on spelling. A company that writes its own name three ways across three event sites may not have collapsed into one record yet. Treat a company's event footprint as strong evidence, not a complete census.

Privacy and safety

The server is anonymous. It asks for no account, sets no cookie and receives no personal data. We record which tool was called, how many rows came back and how long it took, so we can see what people actually need. We record the shape of a question, never its words.

Organiser email addresses never leave the server. The organiser tool returns a link to the event's page, and it declines events less than 21 days away, which is too late for an organiser to act on an approach anyway.

Scraped text is stripped before it reaches your model. Every description and biography here came from someone else's website. All of it goes through a filter that removes markup and instruction-shaped text on the way out, because a server that pipes raw scraped prose into your context is an injection path. Where you see (removed) in a description, that is this filter.

Limits

• Sixty calls a minute per caller.
• Every tool caps its rows and states the cap in its own description. Nothing can walk the whole catalogue.
• whats_new reports records that appeared and events that were edited. It cannot yet report an edited record, so a sponsor moving from silver to gold does not show up.

Something wrong?

The data is read from conference websites, so some of it will be wrong. Tell us through the contact form with the event name, or read how the catalogue is built first. A wrong record reported is more use to us than a polite silence.

Last reviewed 2026-08-27.