Name: Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face
Start: 2026-09-17T09:30:00+0200
End: 2026-09-17T09:40:00+0200

17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 CEST

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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

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.

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 CEST
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