Matt Leming

STSM, Chief Architect IBM MQ

Matt Leming is the chief architect for IBM MQ, and a Senior Technical Staff Member. Matt holds a first class bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Loughborough and a masters degree in software engineering from Oxford. He is based at IBM Hursley in the UK, where he has worked since 2002. During his tenure at IBM, Matt has spent most of his time working on either IBM MQ, WebSphere Application Server, or both!

Talk:
Powering Asynchronous AI Agent Communication with MCP over AMQP

Amazon proposed using the AMQP messaging protocol as a transport for MCP at the inaugural MQ Summit in 2025. Ken Liao’s talk and demo sparked significant interest and follow-on discussion at last year’s summit leading to consensus to engage the AMQP community and ambition to extend the reach of the OASIS standard. Join Clemens, Stefan and Richard for an update on what’s been going on behind the scenes to take this vision to the next level and, most importantly, learn how you can get involved.

Key Takeaways:

  • Provide the MQ Summit with an update on the MCP/AMQP success story from last year’s event.

Target Audience:

  • AI leaders and engineers. AMQP and messaging practitioners. CTOs and solution engineers