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17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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MCP Challenges & Opportunities - Sam Morrow, GitHub; Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation; Shaun Smith, Hugging Face
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Join Jeremiah Lowin (Fast MCP), Shaun Smith (fast-agent) and Sam Morrow (GitHub MCP) for a panel on the challenges and opportunities of shipping MCP, hosted by Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the AAIF.

By bringing perspectives from server, SDK and agent harness developers together in the same panel, you’ll see where their experiences align, l where they diverge, where they see the protocol heading and what they’re excited about.
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Sam Morrow

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
Sam is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he leads development of the GitHub MCP server. He works on AI developer tools and helps shape agentic workflows at GitHub. In a past life he was also a professional drummer.
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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 →
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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 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
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