MCP and Skills: The New AI Enablement Layer and the Governance Questions You Should Be Asking

AI is moving beyond chat. With Model Context Protocols, connected tools, and reusable Skills, organizations can now give AI assistants access to systems, data, workflows and repeatable business processes. That opens up huge opportunities but also introduces new risks around governance, permissions, data exposure, auditability and operational control.

In this webinar, Stephen Bedford (AtlasFuse by ClearPeople) and Ryan Clark (Mr SharePoint), are exploring what MCP and Skills actually mean in the real world, how they may reshape Microsoft 365 and digital workplace adoption, and what leaders should watch for before these capabilities spread across the business.

You'll learn:

• What MCP and Skills are in plain English
  A practical explanation of how AI assistants are moving from “answer engines” to connected action-oriented systems.

• Why this matters for Microsoft 365 and the modern workplace
  How these capabilities could affect SharePoint, Teams, Copilot, intranets, knowledge management and process automation.

• The opportunity
  Faster repeatable work, better employee self-service, consistent business processes, reusable expertise and more joined-up access to enterprise knowledge.

• The governance challenge
  What happens when AI can call tools, follow instructions, use files, invoke workflows or act across systems?

• Key risks to look out for
  Permission sprawl, data leakage, unapproved automation, prompt injection, poor audit trails, unclear ownership, shadow AI workflows and over-trusting generated outputs.

• Practical controls and guardrails
  How to think about ownership, approval, monitoring, access control, data boundaries, testing, lifecycle management and user education.

• What organizations should do next
  A pragmatic readiness checklist for adopting MCP-style integrations and Skills safely.

Download the webinar on-demand and learn how to prepare your organization for connected, workflow-enabled AI, without losing control of data, permissions or governance.