AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Full Schedule

17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome - Manik Surtani, CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Speakers

Manik Surtani

CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

09:10 CEST

Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, MCP and Transport Working Group Maintainer, Hugging Face

Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

The latest MCP Specification introduces one of the largest changes to the protocol since launch: a stateless transport.

At Hugging Face we use MCP as infrastructure for Agents, Interactive and Inference workloads.

In this session we will:
- Summarize the MCP Transport story to date
- Use production analytics from Hugging Face's MCP infrastructure to track migration metrics and success
- Explore new opportunities for Client, Server and Gateway implementations offered by the new transport features.
- Share lessons learned from implementing the stateless transport for Clients and Servers

Speakers

Shaun Smith

Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face

Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

09:25 CEST

Keynote: Agents as Actors: Harnessing the Power of Agentic Infrastructure - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io

Friday September 18, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Harnessed agents have become the dominant interaction and runtime pattern for agentic AI. Claude Code, Codex, and a fast-growing field of open source harnesses integrate models with MCP tools, skills, and plugins. These harnesses provide sandboxed execution, scoped environment access, and human-in-the-loop controls on the desktop. The industry's next shift is already underway: moving harnessed agents from the desktop onto shared infrastructure, where security, observability, and governance are consistent across every agent interaction. In this talk, we will explore how open source infrastructure can deliver secure, scalable harnessed agents beyond the desktop.

Speakers

Idit Levine

Founder & CEO, Solo.io

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of Solo.io, where she is dedicated to simplifying agentic AI and empowering organizations to embrace cloud-native technologies. With a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, Idit is passionate about transforming complex... Read More →

Keith Babo

Chief Product Officer, Solo.io

Friday September 18, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

09:35 CEST

Keynote: State of the Software Factory - Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Speakers

Dexter Horthy

CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Dex is CEO and co-founder at HumanLayer, building an agentic IDE and collaboration platform that helps teams solve hard problems in complex codebases without devolving into slop. Dex coined the term context engineering in April 2025, has keynoted two AI Engineer conferences, and his... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

15:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Manik Surtani, CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 15:00 - 15:05 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Speakers

Manik Surtani

CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 15:00 - 15:05 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

15:05 CEST

Keynote: Three Doors to One Tool: MCP vs WebMCP vs CLI - Frédéric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder, Alpic & Dominic Farolino, Editor of the WebMCP Specification & Software Engineer, Google

Friday September 18, 2026 15:05 - 15:15 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Agents can reach a tool through at least three doors today: an MCP server, a WebMCP browser page, or a plain CLI. They overlap, they compete, and the discourse around them runs hot. This talk cuts through it.

We map the three surfaces along the axes that actually matter: where the code runs (backend, browser, model context, shell), who holds state and auth, latency and trust boundaries, and how much UI context survives the handoff. Then we get practical: a decision framework for picking the right surface per use case, the cases where you genuinely want two stacked together, and the anti-patterns that appear when you pick wrong.

Speakers

Frédéric Barthelet

CTO & Co-founder, Alpic

Fred is a passionate opinionated builder. He's been in the infrastructure space, and in particular in serverless technologies.

He built Lift and Revant to help people ship infrastructure and reduce their newly generated cost...

He's now building with Alpic the missing infrastructure layer for the new agentic internet where AI consume services instead of human. He's working full time on Skybridge, a new open-source framework to build ChatGPT and MCP Apps

... Read More →

Dominic Farolino

Software Engineer, Google

I work on agentic web platform APIs in Chrome!

Friday September 18, 2026 15:05 - 15:15 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

15:20 CEST

Keynote: Why Organizations Need an AI Control Plane for Security and Governance - Sheng Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Obot AI

Friday September 18, 2026 15:20 - 15:30 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Floor)

How can organizations secure and govern AI agents they do not fully trust? MCP gateways can intercept and filter tool calls, but that alone is not enough. Organizations also need complete visibility into agent activity, consistent policy enforcement, and centralized control. In this talk, we explain how to move beyond MCP gateways and build an AI control plane for enterprise-wide security and governance.

Speakers

Sheng Liang

CEO, Obot AI

Sheng Liang is cofounder and CEO of Obot.ai. Previously, Sheng founded and served as CEO of successful open source software companies, including Rancher Labs and Cloud.com, and served in executive roles at SUSE and Citrix. He started as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, where... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 15:20 - 15:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)

Keynote Sessions

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09:10 CEST

09:25 CEST

09:35 CEST

15:00 CEST

15:05 CEST

15:20 CEST

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