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17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Friday, September 18
 

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome - Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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Angie Jones

VP, DX, Agentic AI Foundation
Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

Angie is an international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:10 CEST

Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face
Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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
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Shaun Smith

Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face
Shaun leads Open Source/MCP at Hugging Face, and is an MCP Steering Committee member serving as a Community Moderator and Transports Working Group. He is also the author of `fast-agent` - one of the few clients with comprehensive protocol support and diagnostic capabilities.
Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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09:25 CEST

Keynote to be Announced
Friday September 18, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

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

Keynote: Agents as Actors: Harnessing the Power of Agentic Infrastructure - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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
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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 →
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Keith Babo

Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
Keith Babo is the Chief Product Officer at Solo.io, where he leads product strategy and execution, enabling enterprises to build and scale the next generation of cloud-native and agentic infrastructure for AI-driven applications. Prior to Solo.io, Keith held leadership roles in product... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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09:50 CEST

Keynote: State of the Software Factory - Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer
Friday September 18, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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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 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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14:50 CEST

Welcome Back - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation
Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 14:50 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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Angie Jones

VP, DX, Agentic AI Foundation
Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

Angie is an international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 14:50 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

14:50 CEST

Keynote: Three Doors to One Tool: MCP vs WebMCP vs CLI - Frédéric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder, Alpic & Dominic Farolino, Software Engineer, Google
Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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
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Frédéric Barthelet

CTO & Co-founder, Alpic
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Dominic Farolino

Software Engineer, Google
I work on agentic web platform APIs in Chrome!
Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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15:00 CEST

Keynote: Why Organizations Need an AI Control Plane for Security and Governance - Sheng Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Obot AI
Friday September 18, 2026 15:00 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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
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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 15:00 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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15:15 CEST

Keynote: MCP Made Local Models Viable - Rachel-Lee Nabors, Developer Experience, Arize
Friday September 18, 2026 15:15 - 15:25 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
By building agentic workflows that brick the moment they lose connectivity, we've circled back to the 1980s: the dumb terminal, the mainframe in someone else's building, intelligence rented by the minute. The first capable models were enormous, so we metered them by the token and shipped our context off-device. Tool bloat forced us to engineer economical harnesses: 50 tools can burn ~70k tokens, and selection quality collapses past a few dozen options. So we built progressive tool discovery, the wrapper pattern, retrieval, and routers that load only the tools a task needs. We engineered the problem down to something consumable by SAGE (Small And Good-Enough) models. On-device, free, private, these smaller models are increasingly capable of running agentic workflows and calling tools.

This talk covers the progress SLMs are making, efforts like DS4, and MCP client and server patterns built for the rise of local model adoption.
Speakers
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Rachel-Lee Nabors

Developer Experience, Arize
Rachel-Lee Nabors spent the better part of their career on web standards and opensource and has spearheaded developer education at FAANG and startups, on the React Team as well as W3C. Now they work to usher in the Agentic Web with companies like Arcade.dev
Friday September 18, 2026 15:15 - 15:25 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
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