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17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
Thursday, September 17
 

07:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday September 17, 2026 07:30 - 19:00 CEST
Onyx Lounge (Ground Level)

Thursday September 17, 2026 07:30 - 19:00 CEST
Onyx Lounge (Ground Level)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:05 CEST

Keynote: Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, The Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:05 - 09:15 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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Mazin Gilbert

Executive Director, AAIF, The Linux Foundation
Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. An IEEE Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Wharton MBA, Mazin brings 25+ years of experience driving AI innovation from research to global-scale deployment. His career... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:05 - 09:15 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:20 CEST

Keynote: Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Agentic AI
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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Clare Liguori

Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Agentic AI
Clare Liguori is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS, focusing on developer tooling and agentic AI. She primarily works on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK. She is also a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification. Over 12+ years at Amazon, she has worked... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:30 CEST

Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 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-...
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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.
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:45 CEST

Coffee Break
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:45 CEST

Solutions Showcase
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:45 - 19:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge (Ground Level)

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:45 - 19:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge (Ground Level)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:10 CEST

The Modern AI Stack: Agents, MCP and Skills - Adewale Abati, Block
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Agent harnesses. MCP. Skills. MCP Apps. If you've been watching the AI space and feeling like everyone else already understands something you don't, this talk is for you. I've spent the last several months building with each layer of the modern AI stack, and what I kept finding was that the concepts aren't as hard as the terminology makes them sound. Nobody had just sat down and explained what...
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Speakers
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Adewale Abati

Staff Developer Advocate, Block
Adewale "Ace" Abati is a Web Engineer and Staff Developer Advocate currently helping to shape the future at Block. Ace is passionate about the Web, Open Source and community building, an avid gamer and shares his experience through public speaking and content across social media... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Agentic Engineering

10:10 CEST

From Personal Agent To Org Catalog: 13 Specialists, One Orchestrator - Nick Veenhof, GitLab
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Every team at our company was building agents from scratch. Duplicated prompts. Duplicated tool configs. No shared memory. I watched five teams present their setups at a meetup in Ghent. Same patterns, reinvented five times. So I built Paul, an AI chief of staff with 13 specialist agents: analyst, writer, broadcaster, operator, architect, reviewer, and more. Each agent has a defined job family, a...
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Speakers
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Nick Veenhof

Director, DevRel Engineering, GitLab
Nick Veenhof is Director of Contributor Success at GitLab, where he leads initiatives to enhance open source participation. With 15+ years in open source ecosystems, Nick brings expertise in building contribution frameworks that deliver business value in regulated environments.

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Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

10:10 CEST

What Does It Take To Ship a New MCP Spec - Den Delimarsky, Anthropic
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
An end-to-end deep dive into how a new spec goes from idea to a production, stable release. In this session, you will learn more about the MCP governance process, Spec Enhancement Proposals (SEPs) and how all of this work translates into a brand-new MCP spec that then is adopted by the agentic space at large!
Speakers
avatar for Den Delimarsky

Den Delimarsky

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Den is an avid reverse engineer, passionate about APIs, protocols, and security. He leads MCP technical programs at Anthropic and prior to that built authentication and authorization libraries used by millions of developers around the globe. You can learn more about his work on h... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:35 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

10:10 CEST

Workshop to be Announced
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:45 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:10 - 10:45 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
  Workshop

10:45 CEST

Legal Implications Under EU Law When Deploying AI Agents - Mirela Takacs, Law Office Takacs Mirela
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
This presentation highlights general rules that any engineer should keep in mind before implementing an AI agent, around one core idea: legislation should be treated as part of the system architecture. At EU level, the AI Act is the central regulation, but adjacent European legislation may also be activated based on the AI agent’s actions. Translating legal obligations into technical...
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Speakers
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Mirela Takacs

Lawyer, Law Office Takacs Mirela
I began my professional journey as an OSS Compliance Specialist, reviewing open-source components integrated into software products. Later, qualifying as a lawyer in Romania, I developed my legal analytical skills and gained experience in negotiating commercial agreements and handling... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Agentic Engineering

10:45 CEST

Sponsored Session: Beyond the Easy 80%: Bringing Legacy, Spatial, and Locked-Down Data to MCP - Don Murray, Safe Software
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
AI models are becoming a commodity. GPT-4, Claude, Gemini.  Pick one, swap it next quarter, and the differentiation has already moved on. What hasn't moved is context: the data an agent can actually reach. Most of today's MCP ecosystem wraps the easy 80 percent.  SaaS APIs, ticketing systems, chat platforms, anything that already had a REST endpoint. The other 20 percent: legacy...
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Speakers
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Don Murray

CEO, Co-Founder, Safe Software

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Interoperability & Standards

10:45 CEST

Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports - Kurtis Van Gent, Google
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP is becoming stateless in one of the largest changes to the protocol since its launch. This change simplifies the deployment of robust servers, making MCP ready for the next wave of scaled usage driven by agents and use cases like MCP Apps. This session led by members of the Transports Working Group: - Explores the upcoming changes - and sharing real data from Google and Hugging Face on the...
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Speakers
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Kurtis Van Gent

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Kurtis Van Gent is a MCP Core Maintainer and leads the MCP Transports Working Group. By day, he leads AI Ecosystems + Integrations for Google Cloud Databases and helped create MCP Toolbox for Databases.
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

10:45 CEST

An Orchestra of Agents: What I Learned Running a Multi-Agent System for 5,000+ Developers - Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz, Scania
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Most "AI agents" are a single LLM wrapped in a system prompt. They look great in demos and collapse the moment real users show up. I know because I built one for my 5,000+ member developer community, and the first version broke in ways I didn't see coming. In this talk, I'll walk through the multi-agent system I run in production: a tree of 12 specialist agents built on Google's ADK, coordinating...
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Speakers
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Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz

Software Architect, Scania
Muhammad Ahsan is a Google Developers Expert (GDE) in AI & Angular, an author of 4 world-wide published books, an Educator, and a Software Architect.
https://bio.link/codewithahsan
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems

11:20 CEST

When NOT To Use an Agent: Choosing Between Workflows, Services, and Agent Systems - Jigyasa Grover, Uber & Rishabh Misra, Atlassian
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
LLM-powered “agents” are quickly becoming the default architectural pattern for AI-enabled systems. Need automation? Agent. Need integration? Agent. Need reasoning? Agent. But agents are not an upgrade; they are a trade-off. They introduce non-determinism, larger attack surfaces, evaluation complexity, and operational unpredictability. In this session, we’ll examine three common...
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Speakers
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Jigyasa Grover

ML Tech Lead @ Uber • Google Developer Advisory Board Member • LinkedIn [in]structor • Book Author • Startup Advisor • 12 time AI + Open Source Award Winner • Featured @ Forbes, UN, Google I/O, and more!, Uber
Jigyasa Grover is a 12-time award-winning AI leader and author of Sculpting Data for ML. She drives personalization at Uber, with prior ML leadership at Twitter/X and Meta. A Google I/O speaker and Google Developer Advisory Board member, she works at the intersection of large-scale... Read More →
avatar for Rishabh Misra

Rishabh Misra

Principal ML Engineer, Atlassian
I am a Principal ML Engineer & Researcher with over 10 years of experience in the AI and ML space. I am currently driving LLM pretraining, postraining, and personalization efforts at Atlassian, and have previously led Deep Learning & GenAI-powered user personalization at late-stage... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Agentic Engineering

11:20 CEST

CHAP, an Open Protocol for Auditable Human-Agent Collaboration - Dr Arsalan Shahid, Brightbeam AI
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
The next phase of agents is not one human supervising one model. It is multi-human, multi-agent work across teams, tools, and trust boundaries. The decisive moments are not model outputs; they are human approvals, edits, overrides, escalations, and handoffs, and the rationale behind them. Today those moments leak into chat logs, tickets, and application code, where they cannot be replayed or...
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Speakers
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Dr Arsalan Shahid

Principal Solutions Director, Brightbeam AI
Arsalan Shahid is Principal Solutions Director at Brightbeam AI and co-author of CHAP. He leads AI R&D for clients in regulated manufacturing, biopharma, and financial services. Previously a Principal Investigator at CeADAR, Ireland's centre for applied AI, he worked with startups... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Human-Agent Collaboration

11:20 CEST

Call Now, Fetch Later: Durable MCP Tasks on an Event Log - Jeremy Frenay, Lenses
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP's new Tasks primitive makes tool calls asynchronous: a request returns a durable handle now, and the result arrives later. That's the right model for work that runs for minutes or hours, like ETL jobs, deep research, or batch reasoning, but the spec leaves the hard parts to implementers. Where does in-flight work live? How does a task survive a restart? How do you deliver a result exactly...
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Speakers
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Jeremy Frenay

Field CTO, Lenses
Jeremy Frenay is Field CTO & AI Engineer at Lenses.io (part of Celonis). He has been building agentic workflows since 2022, including co-founding Arcane, an Accel-backed AI copilot for marketers. At Lenses he works on AI-agent enablement, security, and governance for Apache Kafka... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:20 - 11:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

11:55 CEST

The Other 90%: Agentic AI for the Legacy Codebases Nobody Wants To Touch - Ayush Bhardwaj, Siemens
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
The AI coding conversation has been almost entirely about greenfield: new features, fresh repos, throwaway scripts. Meanwhile the codebases that quietly run hospitals, factories, and banks are maintained by skeleton crews drowning in tribal knowledge, dead build systems, and 20-year-old decisions. Single-LLM code assistants do not survive contact with them. Agentic systems can, but only with very...
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Speakers
avatar for Ayush Bhardwaj

Ayush Bhardwaj

Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Siemens
Senior Software Engineer specializing in Agentic AI, leading development of enterprise-grade multi-agent systems at Siemens. Holds 3 AI patents, published NLP research, and collaborated with Meta's research team on AudioSeal. Pursuing research around information-theoretic frameworks... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Agentic Engineering

11:55 CEST

MCP Conformance Testing V1.0, Testing the 2026-07-28 Spec in SDK's and Online - Paul Carleton, Anthropic
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP Conformance testing is a set of tools for ensuring SDK's implement the spec in a way that's compatible with each other. The most recent spec revision 2026-07-28 is the first release that requires conformance testing as a part of the Specification Enhancement Proposal (SEP) process. This talk will go over lessons learned from the rollout of that specification, and also introduce hosted...
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Speakers
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Paul Carleton

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Paul Carleton is a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol and Auth Nerd at Anthropic, where he leads auth implementations across Anthropic's clients and the TypeScript and Python SDKs. He drives MCP conformance testing efforts to ensure consistent behavior across the ecosy... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

11:55 CEST

From Opaque To Observable: Tracing Multi-Agent OpenClaw Workflows With OpenTelemetry - Pavan Sudheendra, Cisco Systems
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Agent systems are getting more capable, but they are still hard to operate when a single user request fans out across multiple agents, tools, model calls, queues, and outbound messages. In this session, we will walk through how we built an open observability plugin for OpenClaw (InsightClaw) that turns that opaque execution path into a connected telemetry story using OpenTelemetry. The talk...
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avatar for Pavan Sudheendra

Pavan Sudheendra

Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Systems
Pavan Sudheendra is a Technical Lead at Outshift by Cisco, where he leads technical efforts on distributed systems and emerging multi-agent architectures. His work is focused on the intersection of agentic AI and system design at scale. He is an active contributor to the LF ecosystem... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Open Tooling

11:55 CEST

Workshop to be Announced
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 13:30 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)

Speakers
avatar for Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta

Director, Open Source Ecosystem & Developer Platform, NVIDIA

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:55 - 13:30 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
  Workshop

12:30 CEST

We Built AI Agents To Fix Security Findings in Production — Here's What Developers Actually Merged - Amine Boudraa, Ruchita Kshirsagar, Nihit Gupta & Gianfranco Romani, Thomson Reuters
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, finding more security issues than any team can fix by hand. The obvious next step is letting AI fix them too, but pushing automated changes into production is difficult, and the trust bar is super high. Over the past year, we built and shipped two autonomous remediation agents raising PRs against hundreds of production repositories: one for SAST...
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Speakers
avatar for Amine Boudraa

Amine Boudraa

Senior Product Security Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Amine Boudraa is a Senior Product Security Engineer at Thomson Reuters specializing in application security. He builds AI agents, MCP servers, and automation that help engineering teams stay fast while ensuring the time they spend addressing security issues is meaningful and impa... Read More →
avatar for Ruchita Kshirsagar

Ruchita Kshirsagar

Senior Product Security Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Ruchita Kshirsagar is a cybersecurity professional with 9+ years of experience in application security and software development. A Senior Product Security Engineer at Thomson Reuters, she specializes in SAST/DAST/SCA, DevSecOps, threat modeling, container security, vulnerability management... Read More →
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Nihit Gupta

Senior Product Security Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Nihit is a passionate and enthusiastic Product Security Engineer with over 4 years of experience in software development and security. Skilled in SAST and SCA remediation, architecting Secure-SDLC environments, and cloud security. He enjoys working on projects that can enhance software... Read More →
avatar for Gianfranco Romani

Gianfranco Romani

Senior ML Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Gianfranco Romani is an Senior ML Engineer on Thomson Reuters' Cybersecurity team, leading strategy and delivery of AI security tools. He focuses on automated vulnerabilities discovery/remediation and securing enterprise LLM apps. Previously at Thomson Reuters Labs, he built AI products... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

12:30 CEST

A2A Goes Stable: What Changed, Why, and What's Next - Sam Betts, Cisco Systems & Kuba Herczyński, Google
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
A2A Protocol v1.0 is the first stable, production-ready release of the open standard for agent-to-agent communication — marking the transition from a protocol you could experiment with to a foundation organisations can commit to with confidence. This talk is delivered by two maintainers who helped shape the release. We cover what changed from v0.3 and why: the deliberate choice to prioritise...
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Speakers
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Sam Betts

Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Systems
Sam Betts is an Engineering Technical Lead at Outshift by Cisco with over 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, security solutions, and AI-driven systems. He has led development on OpenClarity, Cisco Panoptica, and OpenStack Ironic, and actively contributes to AGNTCY... Read More →
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Kuba Herczyński

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Kuba is a Software Engineer turned Technical Lead at Google with over 15 years of experience building things. Lately most interested in AI Agents, actively involved in A2A for almost a year - both in the protocol spec as well as it's adoption at Google.
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Interoperability & Standards

12:30 CEST

MCP Doesn't Have a Context Problem - Sam Morrow, GitHub
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
People frequently assume MCP requires tools to be dumped straight into the system prompt, and responses to be returned straight to the model. Critics say the protocol has a context problem, that CLIs and agent skills are more efficient and composable. They're right about the symptoms, but wrong about the diagnosis. The problem isn't MCP - it's for a long time few had applied serious context...
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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.
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

13:05 CEST

What *IS* an Agent's Identity? - Christian Posta, Solo.io
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Enterprises understand human identity fairly well. You could argue they are decent at service accounts. But what about an AI agent? Is it either of these? Agents are driven by intent, discover/invoke tools, make decisions, and interact with other resources (APIs, databases, other agents, etc). Enterprises will care about "Who is this agent?", "What is it allowed to do?", "What has it done?" and...
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Christian Posta

Global Field CTO, Solo.io
Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of "Istio in Action", "AI Gateways in the Enterprise" and many other books on cloud-native architecture. He is well known in the cloud-native community for being an architect, speaker, blogger (https://blog.christianposta.com... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

13:05 CEST

Cleared for Landing: Designing MCP Servers for Long-Horizon Agents - Casey Chow, OpenAI
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
As agents evolve from quick tool calls to work that unfolds over hours or even days, MCP servers need to do more than expose tools. They need to teach agents what work they are suited for, how to sequence it, how to monitor progress, when to involve a human, and recognize when results have actually landed. This talk presents a practical quality bar for MCP servers that support long-horizon...
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Casey Chow

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Casey Chow is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on the ecosystem and developer platform team.
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

13:05 CEST

Composable, Low-code Agent Systems With the Tools You Already Have - Adam Jones, Anthropic
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
You don't write a pile of glue code to onboard a new hire — you give them an account and point them at a few channels. So why do we hardcode workflows and wire up orchestration SDKs to put AI agents to work? There's a lighter path: let agents coordinate the way people already do — by tagging each other and posting into channels — so the system is something you own and shape rather than...
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Speakers
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Adam Jones

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Adam Jones is a member of technical staff at Anthropic working on RL research, a maintainer of many open-source MCP servers and tools, and a maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) registry.
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:05 - 13:30 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems

13:30 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Attendees)
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:30 - 14:45 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge

Thursday September 17, 2026 13:30 - 14:45 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

14:45 CEST

Welcome Back - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:45 - 14:50 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
avatar for Angie Jones

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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:45 - 14:50 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

14:52 CEST

Keynote: David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:52 - 15:02 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
avatar for David Soria Parra

David Soria Parra

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
I am the co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (Modelcontextprotocol.io) and a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on a wide variety of things. Formerly a senior manager at Facebook working on static analysis and simulation based testing. I was responsible of integrating... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:52 - 15:02 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

15:02 CEST

Keynotes to Announced
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:02 - 15:25 CEST

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:02 - 15:25 CEST
  Keynote Sessions

15:25 CEST

Keynote: Arun Gupta, Director, Open Source Ecosystem & Developer Platform, NVIDIA
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:25 - 15:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
avatar for Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta

Director, Open Source Ecosystem & Developer Platform, NVIDIA

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:25 - 15:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

15:45 CEST

Your Agent Has a Wallet. Who Has the Receipts? - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
In one year, agents went from unable to pay for anything to spoiled for choice. x402 (Coinbase, now Linux Foundation) for machine-to-machine. AP2 (Google, donated to the FIDO Alliance) for signed payment mandates. ACP (OpenAI and Stripe) for checkout. MPP (Stripe and Tempo, launched March 2026) for streamed micropayments against a pre-authorized session. Four protocols, four layers, real volume. ...
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Speakers
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Bharath N R

OSPO Lead, Mirantis Inc.
Bharath Nallapeta leads the Open Source Program Office at Mirantis. He works across AI and Agentic systems, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, and contributes to open source projects including Cluster API (CAPI)
and Cluster API Provider OpenStack (CAPO). Before Mirantis he built platforms at Red Hat and Stakater. He speaks regularly at conferences and meetups, and is focused on making AI and Agentic workloads practical, portable, and safe to run in production... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Agentic Commerce

15:45 CEST

Six Months of Proof: Independently-Verifiable Records for Agent Actions Under the EU AI Act - Steven Mih, Action State Group, Inc.
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
The EU AI Act makes "what did the agent actually do?" a legal obligation: high-risk AI must support automatic record-keeping over its lifetime (Article 12) — for traceability, human oversight, and post-market monitoring — with logs retained at least six months (Article 19). But the Act can only require the logs to exist, not to be trustworthy: a log is only as good as the party that keeps it,...
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Steven Mih

Founder/CEO ·, Action State Group, Inc.
Steven Mih is Founder/CEO of Action State Group, building the verifiable-record layer for AI agent actions, filed as an IETF Internet-Draft, with an open verifier. Previously he co-founded and led Ahana (acquired by IBM, 2023) and served on Presto Foundation (Linux Foundation) board... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Interoperability & Standards

15:45 CEST

MCP in Production: Reliability Contracts for Multi-Agent Tool Use - Krishna Chaitanya, Meta Platforms
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP creates a common way for models to use tools, but production use still breaks down when reliability expectations are left implicit. This talk argues that MCP systems need explicit reliability contracts covering permission boundaries, tool-call semantics, retries, observability, and recovery behavior. It will show how multi-step failures emerge in real tool-use chains and how traces, evals, and...
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Krishna Chaitanya

Senior Software Engineer, Meta Platforms
I am a Senior Software Engineer at Meta working on OpsMate, an AI-driven incident response system for large-scale production infrastructure. My work focuses on AI infrastructure, observability, distributed systems reliability, and operational automation. Before Meta, I worked at Microsoft... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

15:45 CEST

Sandboxing My AI Agent, One Layer at a Time - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok Inc.
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
We hand coding agents our workspace, our keys, and a shell, then walk away while they run code generated at runtime from untrusted input: files in the repo, docs fetched off the web, output from MCP servers nobody audited. The obvious fix is isolation: give every agent its own kernel. So we start there, running Claude Code, Codex, and others inside sub-second, hardware-isolated microVMs...
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Juan A. Osorio

Principal Engineer, Stacklok Inc.
Juan Antonio "Ozz" Osorio is a Mexican software engineer living in Finland. His background spans security for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and bare metal environments. Currently at Stacklok, he founded the ToolHive project and has been building MCP infrastructure, including supply chain... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Open Tooling

16:20 CEST

90 Days To Agentic Engineering - Thomas Schöne, Project Lions Development GmbH
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Most software companies are experimenting with AI, yet many struggle to move beyond isolated chat interactions and proof-of-concepts. This session presents a practical case study of how a traditional software development organization with little prior AI experience adopted agentic engineering practices within 90 days. Guided by an engineer with hands-on experience in AI agents, MCP, RAG systems,...
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Thomas Schöne

Lead AI Architect, Project Lions Development GmbH
Thomas Schöne is a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience in web development, software architecture, and digital transformation. He specializes in AI agents, MCP, RAG systems, and AI-native engineering workflows. Thomas regularly speaks at developer conferences and... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Agentic Engineering

16:20 CEST

Agentic AI for Enterprise Mainframes: From Dead Code Elimination To Business Knowledge - Thamarai Selvi Ravi Kumar, Legal and General
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
Enterprise mainframe systems often contain large amounts of unused and unreachable code, increasing complexity and risk. Safely removing this logic is difficult due to deeply interconnected execution paths. In this session, I present a real-world case study where we delivered large-scale dead code remediation into production with zero incidents using an MCP-powered agentic AI approach. We...
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Thamarai Selvi Ravi Kumar

Senior Mainframe Developer, Legal and General
Senior Mainframe Developer specialising in enterprise platform modernisation. Focused on applying agentic AI and MCP to automate legacy system analysis and improve code quality. Recently built AI agents for safe code remediation and integrated Copilot to enable business users to interact... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

16:20 CEST

What Networking Got Right That Agentic AI Risks Getting Wrong: The Case for an Agent Control Plane - Parisa Foroughi, Nokia
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Every major agent orchestration framework today conflates task execution with the control layer that should govern authority and policy. This talk argues for a cross-domain agent control plane: a runtime layer external to the agent that performs authority checks and policy enforcement at defined boundaries, independent of the agent’s internal logic. Grounded in inter-domain routing, it proposes...
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Parisa Foroughi

Senior research specialist, Nokia
Parisa Foroughi is a Senior Research Specialist at Nokia working at the intersection of agentic AI systems, large-scale distributed networks, and standardization. Her work bridges gaps between emerging AI capabilities and production systems, combining hands-on insights with system-level... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Interoperability & Standards

16:20 CEST

MCP, Skills, and the Persistence of AI Agent Compromise - Steven Duckaert, Onyx
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Prompt injection ends when the session ends. Memory poisoning doesn't. As enterprise agents mature, three attack surfaces are converging: MCP server trust, agent skill libraries, and long-term memory retrieval. Each is dangerous in isolation. Together, they create a threat model most teams aren't yet reasoning about. MCP enables agents to acquire tools dynamically, including from servers never...
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Steven Duckaert

EMEA Pre-Sales, Onyx
Steven Duckaert leads EMEA Pre-Sales at Onyx Security, working with enterprises across the region on the security and governance challenges of deploying AI agents at scale.
With a background in AI product strategy and go-to-market, Steven focuses on agentic AI adoption and enterprise risk helping security teams understand what they're running before it becomes a problem... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

16:55 CEST

We Built an Agent, We Shipped a Compiler. Here's Why. - Joel Verezhak, Grafana Labs
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
We promised our CX team an agent that would write customer success plans. Six months and four architectures later, we shipped a compiler that calls LLMs in four places. Each architecture was the right fix for the previous one's failure. The single skill could not enforce quality. The subagents drifted across stages. The scripted prompts hit determinism walls. Only when we accepted that "agentic"...
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Joel Verezhak

Observability Architect, Grafana Labs
As an observability architect, my job is to make sure that telemetry data keeps flowing, whatever happens!
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Agentic Engineering

16:55 CEST

Skills Need SemVer Too - Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
The agent ecosystem is converging on a common way to discover skills, making it easier for agents to find and load domain-specific knowledge. But discovery only solves the first problem. Once skills become part of production workflows, they need to evolve. Instructions change, best practices improve, and capabilities grow. Without a way to version and manage those changes, agents risk relying on...
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Pedro Rodrigues

AI Tooling Engineer, Supabase
I’m an AI Tooling Engineer at Supabase, part of the team maintaining all AI initiatives including our MCP server, AI assistant, and Skills. I’ve been involved with the MCP protocol since its early days, contributing to its SDKs and projects like Skybridge. I’ve spoken at MCP... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Interoperability & Standards

16:55 CEST

MCP Borrowed LSP's Design. It Skipped LSP's Lesson - Gorkem Ercan, Jozu
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP borrowed its design from the Language Server Protocol. It skipped LSP’s hardest lesson, the one about packaging and trust, and a decade later that lesson is still unlearned. LSP never standardized how servers were packaged or verified. Each editor invented its own channel, the VS Code extension format won by default, and signing was bolted on much later, marketplace by marketplace. It still...
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Gorkem Ercan

CTO, Jozu
Gorkem Ercan is the CTO and co-founder of Jozu, building open-source infrastructure to bring security and reproducibility to the AI/ML lifecycle. A longtime contributor to cloud-native developer tools, he previously led developer experience at Red Hat. Gorkem bridges platform engineering... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

16:55 CEST

Distributed Mess: A Production Guide To Multi-Agent Failures - Oleksandra Bovkun, Databricks
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Most agent failures don't happen in a model. They happen in the handoff. When a supervisor agent passes a flawed context downstream (wrong tool output, misrouted state, a hallucination that looked plausible), the receiving agent has no way to know. It continues confidently on a corrupted foundation. In MCP-based systems, this is structural: tool call responses become shared context across agents...
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Oleksandra Bovkun

Sr. Developer Advocate, Databricks
Oleksandra is a Developer Advocate at Databricks with a background as a Data Engineer, AI Engineer, and Solutions Architect. She's spent her career building real-world AI solutions and architecting data platforms — which means she's made most of the mistakes so you don't have to... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems

17:30 CEST

The Unix Philosophy for AI Agents: Filesystems as the Context Primitive - Cannis Chan & Daniel Temesgen, Bloomberg
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
Every agent framework reinvents context management differently: scratchpads, artifacts, or memory stores. This creates distinct storage problems (system config, user memory, thread scratch, task state, shared workspaces, external data, and inter-agent messaging) collapsed under "agent context", with no shared vocabulary and a lack of interoperability. In an attempt to close this gap for the...
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Cannis Chan

Technical Product Manager, Bloomberg
Cannis Chan is a Technical Product Manager in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, building infrastructure platforms for AI products. With 10 years in B2B and Enterprise (AutogenAI, Deutsche Bank, Ondat/Akamai), she specializes in navigating complex products through pre- and post-product... Read More →
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Daniel Temesgen

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
Daniel Temesgen is a senior software engineer in the AI Foundational Platforms Engineering team at Bloomberg in London. His work involves the development of Kubernetes controllers targeting access enforcement, agentic sandboxes, and change management. He previously worked at Expedia... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Agentic Engineering

17:30 CEST

Verify, Abstain, or Amplify: A Field Guide To Confidently-Wrong Agents - Michal Orzechowski, Sano – Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Your coding agent earns trust because it has an oracle: a compiler and tests catch its mistakes. Most agents don't. They pass their evals and still ship confident, wrong answers, because for many tasks, there's nothing to check against. Two failures hide under "confidently wrong": the model doesn't know (retrieve it), or it knows wrong, a priori it reasserts even against a correct context, which...
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Michal Orzechowski

Agentic AI & Cloud Architect, Sano – Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine
Agentic AI & Cloud Architect at Sano, affiliated with AGH University of Krakow and ACK Cyfronet. After a decade in Kubernetes and cloud-native distributed systems, and a PhD in the field, he now builds multi-agent pipelines across genomics, healthcare, and microtonal music. He maintains... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

17:30 CEST

What a Year of Breaking MCP Tells Builders: Protocol Gaps and What Ships Next - Amine Raji, Molntek AB
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
The session opens with the pre-deployment checklist, seven controls, no preamble, then walks through the evidence for why each one exists. This audience deploys MCP in production and needs to leave knowing what to do. The empirical baseline: 30+ CVEs in 60 days. 24,008 secrets in public MCP configs. 85% attack success rate against major hosts (MCPSecBench, ICLR 2026). Reported as lower bounds...
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Amine Raji

Security Lead, Molntek
Amine Raji, PhD, CISSP. 15+ years securing critical systems in banking, defense, aerospace, and automotive. Has spent the past year breaking Model Context Protocol deployments and writing down what breaks. Maintainer of mcp-attack-labs, an open set of labs reproducing agentic attack... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

17:30 CEST

MAS-Lab: An Open Framework for Spec-Driven, Interoperable Multi-Agent Systems - Jordan Augé, Cisco Systems
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Building multi-agent systems for production remains challenging, not only due to integration complexity, but because validating that systems behave as intended is still largely unsystematic. Teams hand-wire LLMs, tools, and memory, add observability late, and lack clear ways to ensure agent interactions remain reliable and aligned as systems evolve. This session introduces MAS-Lab, an open,...
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Jordan Augé

Tech Lead, Outshift@Cisco - Chair of Accuracy and Reliabiity WG, Cisco Systems
Tech lead at Cisco Outshift, where he builds open-source infrastructure for multi-agent AI. Creator of MAS-Lab, an open framework for spec-driven, interoperable agent systems that decouples runtime, control, and infrastructure. Chair of the AAIF Accuracy & Reliability Working Group... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 17:30 - 17:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems

18:00 CEST

Attendee Reception
Thursday September 17, 2026 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
Solutions Showcase

Thursday September 17, 2026 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
Solutions Showcase
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Friday, September 18
 

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Friday September 18, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
Onyx Lounge (Ground Level)

Friday September 18, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
Onyx Lounge (Ground Level)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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 to be Announced
Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:25 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 09:25 - 09:35 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...
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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 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:35 CEST

Keynote: Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer
Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 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 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

09:50 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 09:50 - 10:00 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...
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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 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

10:00 CEST

Coffee Break
Friday September 18, 2026 10:00 - 10:20 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge

Friday September 18, 2026 10:00 - 10:20 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:00 CEST

Solutions Showcase
Friday September 18, 2026 10:00 - 15:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge (Ground Level)

Friday September 18, 2026 10:00 - 15:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge (Ground Level)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:20 CEST

Agentic AI and Hybrid Architecture - Redefining 100+ Applications at Scale - Pradheepa V, adidas AG
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
At adidas Europe Market Tech, a lean team of architects and engineers are making a big difference, transforming 100+ applications by embedding AI agents into everyday workflows. We leverage AI with clear purpose to shape a new operating model to drive end-to-end efficiency and productivity at enterprise level. In this session, we share our transformation journey, challenges we addressed and its...
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Pradheepa V

Europe Market Tech Architecture Lead, adidas AG
Pradheepa Vijayaraghavan is a solution architect and engineering leader at adidas Germany, with 21+ years of international experience across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. She has led mission-critical platforms in e-commerce, FinTech, automotive, and enterprise technology... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

10:20 CEST

Pull Requests Are Dead, Long Live Peer Review - Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
When AI writes 80–90% of the code on a team, peer review breaks. The pull request is produced by a machine you can't argue with, and the reviewer is auditing a diff instead of talking to a peer. Review has stopped feeling like collaboration, and most of us have started hating it. We rebuilt how we deploy AI-assisted development in production. Human review moved off the diff and onto the plan:...
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Dylan Ratcliffe

Founder & CEO, Overmind
Before founding Overmind, Dylan spent 6 years in the trenches helping companies adopt DevOps at Puppet. Hey got frustrated seeing smart people and good products not being used to the best of their ability because of fear of change, so he started Overmind.
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Human-Agent Collaboration

10:20 CEST

Potential Issues for Cross-domain Multi-hop API Calls and Their Solution Proposal - Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi, Ltd.
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
When an MCP server calls an API server requiring an access token in a different domain, elicitation in URL mode is defined by the MCP. Furthermore, token exchange is also used in real-world use cases. We describes the security and operational issues associated with these two methods and proposes solutions. Elicitation in URL mode may cause user swapping. Moreover, even if an authorization server...
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Takashi Norimatsu

Chief OSS Specialist, Hitachi, Ltd.
Takashi Norimatsu, PhD in Engineering, Chief OSS Specialist, Hitachi, Ltd. is a maintainer of Keycloak. He has been implemented and contributed security features like Financial-grade API (FAPI) security profiles, Passkeys, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. He leads Keycloak's... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

10:20 CEST

Workshop: Keep Infrastructure Out of Your AI Agents: The Agent Gateway Pattern - Lin Sun, Solo.io
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 11:55 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
As AI agents move into production, engineering teams face a growing set of challenges. How do you secure and govern MCP servers without modifying them? Route and fail over across multiple LLM providers? Enforce rate limits, access controls, and governance policies? Observe agent traffic, and scale operations across environments? Rather than embedding these capabilities into every agent, MCP...
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Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, agentgateway contributor, kagent, Istio and kgateway maintainer, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNatibeCon 2026. She actively contributes to AAIF and CNCF projects. She is the author of “Sidecar-less Istio Explained” and “AI Agents in Kubernetes”, and holds more than 200 patents.
Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 11:55 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
  Workshop

10:55 CEST

From "Works on My Prompt" To Production SLOs: Building Agent Observability - Manik Khandelwal, Microsoft
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
hen we shipped an AI agent powered by Cosmos DB's MCP server internally at Microsoft, it passed every test we threw at it—until real users found creative ways to break it. The agent would silently degrade: returning plausible-but-wrong query results, calling tools in inefficient loops, or burning through token budgets without completing tasks. Traditional monitoring showed green dashboards while...
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Manik Khandelwal

Senior Software engineer, Microsoft
Manik Khandelwal is an Engineer at Microsoft and a core maintainer of the Azure Cosmos DB Node.js SDK. He builds tools that make modern apps more scalable and intelligent—using AI, real-time data, and JavaScript.
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Agentic Engineering

10:55 CEST

From MCP Playground To Org-Wide Infrastructure: Lessons From Building Booking.com's Agent Foundry - Anushka Bhandari, Booking.com
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Most MCP talks stop at the gateway. This one starts there. The barrier to contributing has never been lower — agents write code, PMs ship tools, designers prototype integrations. But newcomers don't carry the institutional knowledge from a 2am production incident: the performance edge cases, the security gotchas, the failure modes that only show up under real load. Most MCP projects die between...
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Anushka Bhandari

Software Engineer, Booking.com
Anushka Bhandari is a Software Engineer at Booking.com Amsterdam and Founding Engineer of Agent Foundry : the company's org-wide agentic AI platform, built from hackathon to production. Before Booking.com: Databricks, Goldman Sachs, IIIT Delhi. Outside work she skis, cycles, and can't... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

10:55 CEST

Outcome Engineering: Why Your Agentic Architecture Doesn't Matter (Yet) - Kierra Dotson, Further
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
The open agentic ecosystem is technically brilliant and strategically incomplete. Engineers across the enterprise are deploying multi-agent systems, integrating MCP, and building sophisticated context infrastructure — and yet the majority of it never reaches production at scale, fails to earn sustained organizational investment, or generates no measurable competitive value. This stems from...
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Kierra Dotson

Director of AI Strategy and Governance, Further

Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

10:55 CEST

ID-JAG: Solving OAuth Sprawl for Enterprise AI Agents - Joey Orlando, Archestra.AI & Aaron Parecki, Okta
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Enterprise AI agents are moving from demos into production, and auth is becoming a blocker. Demo agents can connect to tools with OAuth, but real enterprise agents may need SaaS services for thousands of employees. Per-user, per-service consent does not scale. This session explains ID-JAG, the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant pattern behind MCP's Enterprise-Managed Authorization...
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Joey Orlando

Co-Founder, Archestra.AI
Co-Founder of Archestra.AI - previous engineer on the Grafana IRM team. Active member of the MCP contributors community, currently involved in the Enterprise and tool annotation working groups.

Prior to software, worked as a biochemist for several years :)
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Aaron Parecki

Director of Identity Standards, Okta
Aaron Parecki is Director of Identity Standards at Okta and active in multiple standards development organizations, including IETF, OpenID Foundation, W3C, and MCP. He is an editor of several other OAuth specifications, and has been influential in shaping how MCP has adopted OAuth... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

11:30 CEST

Agents Can Pay. Can They Prove It? - Diego Zuluaga & Saurabh Goyal, Open Mobile Hub
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
This is the EUDI Wallet architecture, running inside an agent, 18 months before the Dec-2026 mandate. Every "agent that verifies you" or "agent that pays" demo skips the hard part: how does an AI agent request a real, government- or bank-grade credential from your device, on any phone, any wallet, Android or iOS, and prove who authorized it? We'll run the full chain live. An MCP server renders a...
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Diego Zuluaga

Lead, Open Mobile Hub (Linux Foundation), Open Mobile Hub
Leads agentic commerce on Multipaz (OpenWallet Foundation's mdoc credential library, what Google Wallet runs on) and heads Open Mobile Hub under the Linux Foundation. Represents Futurewei in the Agentic AI Foundation (Agentic Commerce, Identity & Trust working groups), alongside Mastercard... Read More →
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Saurabh Goyal

Senior Director, Open Mobile Hub, Open Mobile Hub
Saurabh is a Senior Director at OMH with 20 years of experience in the technology industry. In his current role, he is focused on developing the agentic ecosystem and contributing to Open Source Projects.
Prior to his current role, Saurabh worked with Google for 10.5 years, where... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Agentic Commerce

11:30 CEST

I Was the Bottleneck, Not the Agent - Vincent Ysmal, Datadog
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Running 4 to 8 parallel agent coding sessions sounds like a superpower. It nearly broke me. I was spending more time switching context to check what each agent had done than I would have spent writing the code myself. Manual testing, staging deployments, code reviews just to understand what the agent had built: I had become the bottleneck. The agents were fast. I wasn't. This talk is about...
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Vincent Ysmal

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog, working on AI-powered developer tooling. Before that, four years leading R&D at IQVIA France, and two decades building platforms at startups across fintech and insurtech.
I've been obsessed with developer workflows since long before AI made them interesting, and I'm currently focused on one question: how do you get out of your agent's way... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Agentic Engineering

11:30 CEST

Governance You Can Run: Checkable Properties for Production Agents - Seshu Tolety, Siemens
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Most agent governance lives in documents nobody can enforce. The agent ships, the policy sits in a wiki, and no one can answer the question that matters in production: is this running system compliant right now? This talk presents governance built the other way around, as properties you can check on a live agent system rather than promises on a slide. We decompose any agentic system into a small...
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Seshu Tolety

Director - Agentic AI, Siemens
Visionary technology leader | 20+ years engineering transformation at global scale.

Architect of high-performing teams, cloud platforms, IoT, and Agentic AI strategies. I turn legacy systems into resilient delivery engines and engineering cultures into innovation powerhouses.

N... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

11:30 CEST

Economies of Scale for MCP and Agents: Why You Need an Identity Broker - Magnus Jungsbluth & Jan Brennenstuhl, Zalando SE
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Drawing from lessons of how to scale an enterprise to thousands of microservices, we make the case that pushing concerns to the infrastructure for agentic systems should be a no-brainer when planning to scale agentic systems. This talk explores how Zalando tackled this challenge by building and open-sourcing our own agentic identity broker as part of our broader agentic platform initiative. We...
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Magnus Jungsbluth

Senior Principal Engineer, Zalando SE
Magnus has been working for over two decades in software engineering with a strong focus on security and cryptography. At Bundesdruckerei he led a platform team for trust center applications. Since joining Zalando he leads initiatives to build more platform capabilities around security... Read More →
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Jan Brennenstuhl

Principal Software Engineer, Zalando SE
Jan Brennenstuhl is a Principal Engineer and product-minded security enthusiast with a proven track record of building identity solutions for millions of users while balancing UX and security in high-stakes revenue funnels. Currently focused on making the agentic SDLC more secure... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

12:05 CEST

Governed Agent Autonomy: Building a Control Plane for Agentic Systems - Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
We see how quickly AI coding tools and agent harnesses are improving. But how can the surrounding system keep that autonomy governable once an agent starts planning, executing tools, changing files, and consuming budget on a team’s behalf? In this talk, I break down a technical case study based on a real AI coding control-plane architecture and show how serious systems structure autonomy...
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Nnenna Ndukwe

AI Developer Relations Engineering Lead, Qodo AI
Nnenna Ndukwe is a Developer Relations Engineering Lead and Software Engineer, passionate about AI. With 9+ years in industry, she's a global AI community architect championing engineers to build in emerging tech. She studied Computer Science at Boston University and is a proud member... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

12:05 CEST

When Agents Run Healthcare: Building Reliable Agentic Systems in Highly Regulated Environments - Janosch Woschitz, BARMER
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
The public statutory health insurance system in Germany faces a dual challenge: demographic change is creating a shortage of skilled professionals while operational pressure continues to rise due to an aging population. Healthcare organisations must therefore automate high-volume processes without compromising reliability, governance, or trust. This session presents BARMER’s journey from...
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Janosch Woschitz

Senior AI Architect, BARMER
Janosch Woschitz is a Senior AI Architect at BARMER’s AI innovation unit, BARMER KI, where he builds scalable AI/ML platforms and production-grade agentic systems for healthcare. With a background in software engineering, distributed systems, and enterprise AI architecture, he has... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

12:05 CEST

Testing Agents and Their Tools: Offline Evaluation, Synthetic Tasks, and A/B Experiments - Ksenia Bobrova, GitHub
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
A three-layer evaluation strategy for AI agents and their tools, from experience operating across multiple LLM providers and runtimes. Offline evaluation: designing benchmark suites with curated requests, expected tool selections, and arguments. Computing precision, recall, F1 scores, confusion matrices for tool mix-ups, and argument hallucination rates to pinpoint description problems. ...
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Ksenia Bobrova

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
I'm currently focusing on building AI agents and tooling around it.
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Evaluation & Testing

12:05 CEST

MCP Apps and the Nearly Headless Web - Liad Yosef, MCP Apps
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
MCP Apps are the last piece in moving toward a new web - one that's "nearly" headless. Autonomous agents, not humans, will interact with most websites through MCP, APIs, and other data channels. Websites and browsers become obsolete, replaced by personal assistants that orchestrate tasks on our behalf. In rare cases, agents will fall back to browser capabilities to navigate sites that aren't yet...
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Liad Yosef

Co-creator, MCP Apps
Liad Yosef is the co-author and maintainer of MCP Apps on the MCP Steering Committee. He is the co-builder of MCP-UI, and previously AI Lead in Shopify's CEO office. Liad is currently a co-founder and CTO, building the future of agentic interfaces at Ora. Liad is a web enthusiast... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

12:05 CEST

Workshop: Harness Engineering: Building the System Around Your AI Coding Agent - Ji Darwish, Lunatech
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 13:40 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
AI coding agents feel like magic. It is easy to assume there is something exotic inside, some secret sauce that makes agents reliable. Well, there isn't, the core of every AI coding agent is dead simple: send a message to a model, parse tool calls, execute them, feed the results back, repeat. Everything else (context management, permissions, observability, safety guardrails) is engineering layered...
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Ji Darwish

Software Engineer, Lunatech
Ji is a Software Engineer at Lunatech with a background in Computer Science & Engineering from TU Delft and a recently completed MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University. With years of experience in software development, he focuses on solving real-world software and... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 13:40 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
  Workshop

12:40 CEST

Stateless Agents, Stateful Worlds: Designing for Interruption - Arul Kumaran, Luracast / Portel
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Anthropic just announced MCP is going stateless. Most agent frameworks assume long-running, uninterrupted sessions. Real deployments face forced interruptions every hour: rate limits, auth refreshes, network partitions, process restarts, the laptop lid closing. When a session dies mid-task, most agents start over. That is not a model problem. It is a runtime design problem. This talk covers the...
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Arul Kumaran

Founder, Luracast / Portel
Arul Kumaran builds developer infrastructure for the agentic era. He created Photon, a runtime that compiles TypeScript into CLI, web app, and MCP-compatible agent tools simultaneously, and NCP (Natural Context Provider), a meta-MCP unifying 50+ tools behind 2-3 interfaces - cutting... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

12:40 CEST

Beyond Vibe-Testing: Engineering Deterministic Agent Skills - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Palo Alto Networks
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
The AI ecosystem suffers from a critical engineering immaturity: deploying stochastic models via manual "vibe checks." Operating autonomous agents at enterprise scale requires abandoning ad-hoc observation for strict, distributed systems rigor. This session introduces a deterministic, CI/CD-native evaluation architecture for Agent Skills, shifting from indeterministic to reliable software...
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SHUVA JYOTI KAR

Principal Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Shuva is a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks building secure enterprise AI platforms. An author of two upcoming books: Engineering the Data Agent Control Plane (O'Reilly) and Agent Skills in Action (Manning), an open-source contributor and former OpenDaylight committer, his... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Evaluation & Testing

12:40 CEST

From API Catalogs To Agent Catalogs: Solving MCP Server Discovery With Open Resource Discovery - Vyshnavi Gadamsetti & Sebastian Wennemers, SAP SE
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
As MCP servers multiply, the ecosystem is hitting the fragmentation problem APIs hit a decade ago: every server is a point-to-point integration with no shared way to discover or describe it. Live introspection over a connected session does not scale to the catalogs, registries, and gateways that need to reason about thousands of servers without starting each one up. Open Resource Discovery (ORD)...
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Vyshnavi Gadamsetti

Software Development Architect, SAP SE
Vyshnavi Gadamsetti is a software architect at SAP, where she has worked for 14 years across enterprise software. Earlier in her career, she worked at PwC. Her current work spans MCP (Model Context Protocol), ORD (Open Resource Discovery), agent extensibility and governance, and the... Read More →
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Sebastian Wennemers

Chief Architect, SAP SE
Sebastian Wennemers has 15+ years of experience in building and architecting solutions that need a solid metadata foundation. He is currently driving SAPs metadata story that grounds the AI strategy.
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

12:40 CEST

Agents Talking To Agents: MCP, A2A, and the Reality of Multi-Agent Orchestration in Production - Willem Berroubache, Orange
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Building a multi-agent system in a notebook is straightforward Running one on production infrastructure, where a wrong handoff triggers a real incident, is a different problem entirely. This talk shares hard-won lessons from deploying autonomous agents using both MCP and A2A protocols in a large-scale, regulated environment. We move past the happy path and focus on what actually breaks: agents...
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Willem Berroubache

AI for Security Project Manager, Orange
I work as Stream manager for 5G Core security monitoring & APIs at Orange.
Before that, I have managed innovative 5G projects involving Edge Computing and k8s in collaboration with Google.
I have conducted studies and PoCs on Edge Computing, automated and deployed 5G NF, and pro... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems

13:15 CEST

Agent-Smith: Never Send a Human To Do a Machine’s Job - Glenn ten Cate, The Linux Foundation & Jorge Carvalho, Nedap
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
Most AI security agents are wrappers around fixed scripts. Agent-Smith takes a different approach: reusable skills encode security methodology, while the model determines how to investigate, chain tools, validate findings, and select its next action. This session presents the architecture and lessons behind Agent-Smith, an open-source, MCP-enabled autonomous penetration-testing agent spanning...
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Glenn ten Cate

Senior Cybersecurity trainer, The Linux Foundation
Glenn Ten Cate is a cybersecurity expert and trainer at the Linux Foundation with more than 20 years of experience as an ethical hacker, educator, and offensive security practitioner. He previously co-created and led the Security Knowledge Framework, an open-source flagship project... Read More →
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Jorge Carvalho

Application Security Engineer, Nedap
Jorge Carvalho is an Application Security Engineer at Nedap with a passion for building secure software and exploring the security implications of emerging technologies. Much of his expertise has been developed through self-directed learning, hands-on research, and practical experience... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

13:15 CEST

From Vibes To Data: Evaluating Agents on Your Real Work - Ville Hellman, Datadog
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
Frontier labs are spending billions making agents better at SWE-Bench. But how much of your engineering work actually looks like SWE-Bench? At Datadog we kept seeing agents that crushed public benchmarks fail on our codebase: missing our conventions, reaching for the wrong internal libraries, technically correct but doing the work the wrong way. To get past demos and gut feel, we built an...
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Ville Hellman

Staff Engineer, Datadog
Ville is a Staff Engineer in Datadog's AI DevX group, where he builds evaluation infrastructure for the agents and tooling Datadog engineers use every day. He writes on AI-augmented engineering, AI literacy, and developer experience to make what's coming next easier for others to... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Evaluation & Testing

13:15 CEST

Beyond Chatbots: Agentic UI With Open Standards - Manfred Steyer, ANGULARarchitects
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Integrating agentic AI into the UI easily leads to ad hoc integrations, tight coupling to backend technologies, and vendor lock-in. So how do we design scalable, maintainable interactions between agents and users? This session shows how open standards like AG-UI, A2UI, and MCP Apps enable a protocol-driven approach to Agentic UI, establishing clear, message-based boundaries that decouple UI,...
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Manfred Steyer

Trainer and Consultant, ANGULARarchitects
Trainer and Consultant with a focus on Agentic UI and Angular. Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular and Trusted Collaborator in the Angular team. Writes for O'Reilly, Hanser, and the German Java Magazine. Regularly speaks at conferences.
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Human-Agent Collaboration

13:15 CEST

Spotify’s Bet on MCP and Investment in Open Source - Oliver Soell & Yannick Epstein, Spotify
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Spotify’s workforce went from zero to near universal use of MCP servers in breakneck time. It was only possible due to the MCP gateway - custom code written in a weekend to support the urgent need to expose Spotify’s extensive internal API ecosystem to AI agents. The MCP gateway rapidly became a victim of its own success; multiple teams were committing significant changes to the codebase, and...
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Oliver Soell

Software Engineer, Spotify
Infrastructure at Spotify
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Yannick Epstein

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify
Yannick Epstein is a Senior Engineer in Spotify’s Core Infrastructure group, where he works on systems that manage traffic and communication between backend services. He led the discovery and engineering effort for Spotify’s custom xDS control plane and the company’s dynamic... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

13:40 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Attendees)
Friday September 18, 2026 13:40 - 14:50 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge

Friday September 18, 2026 13:40 - 14:50 CEST
Solutions Showcse - Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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: Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers
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Marlene Mhangami

Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft

Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

15:10 CEST

Keynote: Why Organizations Need an AI Control Plane for Security and Governance - Sheng Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Obot AI
Friday September 18, 2026 15:10 - 15:20 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...
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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 15:10 - 15:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

15:25 CEST

Keynote: MCP Made Local Models Viable - Rachel-Lee Nabors, Developer Experience, Arize
Friday September 18, 2026 15:25 - 15:35 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,...
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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 15:25 - 15:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Keynote Sessions

15:45 CEST

Giving Your Agentic Coding AI a Security Brain - Liran Tal, Snyk
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
AI can generate a week’s worth of code before lunch and just as quickly ship SSRF, RCE, and path traversal vulnerabilities into prod. Rules and “/security-review” prompts aren’t enough: they’re costly, brittle, and non-deterministic. Run them three times, get three answers. Meanwhile, who vets hallucinated npm packages as the agent installs them? Oh you’re running the agent with...
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Liran Tal

Director of Developer Relations, Snyk
Liran Tal is an AI Security researcher, a seasoned Node.js developer, and a secure coding expert focused on hardening agentic workflows and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). He discovers and discloses CVEs in MCP servers and AI frameworks, and publishes research on tool poisoning... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

15:45 CEST

How We Reclaimed 20% of Engineering Capacity at Salesforce With AI Agents - Axel Uhlig, Salesforce
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
We built and deployed an AI Agent at Salesforce designed to triage production alerts using service logs. After months of iteration, we achieved an accuracy level that earned the trust of our DevOps personnel. Today, the agent reclaims approximately 20% of weekly engineering capacity for the teams using it. Here are our top 5 takeaways for building agents that perform consistently at high...
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Axel Uhlig

Software Engineer, Salesforce
Software Engineer, mostly working on CI/CD systems using Bazel for C++ code bases.

Previously worked on the Bazel migration of BMW.

Currently working for Salesforce, supporting the Hyper Database team to ship their database as part of Tableau and other Salesforce products... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

15:45 CEST

Attribution by Design: Skills, MCP, and Where Provenance Gets Built In - Ola Hungerford, Model Context Protocol
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Agents increasingly draw on specialized human knowledge at inference time, and the infrastructure delivering it is converging around Skills, MCP, and very often a mix of the two. That makes these standards a decision point: provenance either travels with the knowledge or its absence becomes the default. The MCP community is standardizing two complementary efforts: Interceptors (deterministic...
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Ola Hungerford

Maintainer, Model Context Protocol
Ola Hungerford is a Principal Engineer at Nordstrom and a maintainer and community moderator for the Model Context Protocol. She leads AI enablement initiatives while contributing to MCP's specification, developer tooling, documentation, and community governance. Ola comes from a... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

15:45 CEST

The Serving Layer Is the Agent's Bottleneck - Swapnil Tiwari, AWS
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
I've spent the past year tuning open-source inference stacks (vLLM, SGLang) for production agent systems. The same failure modes keep appearing, and they all live in the serving layer. Biggest one: KV cache thrashing. Agents rebuild thousands of tokens of system prompt + tool schemas every turn. Prefix-aware caching fixes this in six lines of config. I've measured 55-65% latency reduction on turn...
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Swapnil Tiwari

GenAI Solutions Architect, AWS
GenAI Solutions Architect specializing in LLM inference optimization for agentic workloads. Helped 50+ teams redesign serving infrastructure, with documented 5-10x cost reductions. Built inferenceengineering.tech (open-source, 2K+ users). Conduct security assessments on MCP deployments... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Open Tooling

15:45 CEST

Workshop: Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 17:20 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
Enterprise adoption of the Model Context Protocol is accelerating, and MCP has become the primary way agents connect to enterprise tools and data. But MCP is only part of how agents act. Agents also run CLIs, execute Skills, and generate code that calls APIs directly. Governing MCP well matters. Governing everything else agents can do matters just as much.Building MCP servers and writing Skills...
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Shannon Williams

President, Obot AI
I am the President and co-founder of Obot AI, and have been building open source software for the last 20 years. Prior to starting Obot, I co-founded Cloud.com (creator of CloudStack) and Rancher Labs (creator of Rancher, k3s, Longhorn, etc). I was a board member of the CNCF for 4... Read More →
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Chris Urwin

VP of Field Engineering, Obot AI
Chris Urwin is VP of Field Engineering at Obot AI and a veteran engineering leader. With deep hands-on experience in cloud‑native platforms, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and developer tooling, he builds and scales global technical teams. Chris bridges product, engineering, and... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 17:20 CEST
G106 + G107 (Level 1)
  Workshop

16:20 CEST

Autonomous Organisations: Starting Small - Floris Fok, Prosus
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
What does it take to let AI agents run a real business? Before handing over an entire restaurant, our team started with something much smaller: a network of vending machines.In this session, we'll share what we've learned by giving AI agents responsibility for real world operational decisions, including pricing, inventory management, and marketing. The vending machine serves as a practical testbed...
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Floris Fok

Staff AI Engineer, Prosus
Big hacker leading JetSki at Prosus here. JetSkis are smaller, more disruptive initiatives. Heavy AI/NLP backgrounds. Have coauthored Climate GPT: a Foundational Model. Have an engineering background and started with training LLMs the moment they were released many years ago.
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

16:20 CEST

Gating High-Risk Agentic Actions at the Relying Party With Exogenous (Out-of-Band) Inputs - Dominic Forrest, iProov
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
A Confused Deputy arises when a trusted system with legitimate authority is induced to use that authority for a high-risk or irreversible action that the Agent's principal did not intend, creating a relying-party (RP) risk of repudiation. The Agent may arrive with valid Tokens, passkeys, inherited session, or tool credentials, even if instructions have been shaped by prompt injection or model...
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Dominic Forrest

Chief Technology Officer, iProov
Dominic is responsible for iProov’s technology vision, strategy, and roadmap including the design and development of its cloud-based infrastructure.

Dominic has over 25 years of experience in senior roles in telecommunications and internet service providers. He joined iProov from mBlox Inc., where as Senior Vice President he oversaw the development and scalability of the platform seamlessly running over 6 billion transitions... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

16:20 CEST

Infrastructure Red Teaming With Abliterated Models: What Actually Stops Agent Attacks - Roy Belio, Red Hat
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Safety-aligned models refuse adversarial prompts, so you can't test whether your infrastructure controls actually work, but the models are all still susceptible to jail-breaking. I removed that variable with an abliterated Qwen3.5 model to get zero refusals and 100% cooperation. Ran full suite of prompts with custom garak probes across three hardening tiers on an OpenClaw agent running in...
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Roy Belio

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Roy Belio is an AI Engineer at Red Hat, where he builds and evaluates proof-of-concept projects, drives open source contributions, and deploys AI/ML infrastructure on OpenShift.
Before Red Hat, Roy spent five years at Microsoft, Infinidat and Checkpoint.
He holds a BSc in Inform... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Evaluation & Testing

16:20 CEST

Observability Meets MCP: Patterns, Gaps, and Standards - Matthias Loibl, Polar Signals
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
Almost every observability project and vendor has shipped an MCP server in the past year. Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry sit next to Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb, Polar Signals, and a long list of others. This talk puts a few dozen of them side by side: how they handle transport, auth, tool design, and read/write access, and which ones do something genuinely interesting. The data is what...
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Matthias Loibl

Director of Cloud, Polar Signals
Matthias Loibl is the Director of Cloud at Polar Signbals. He works on cloud-native observability. He was previously at Red Hat and Kubermatic and maintains many projects, such as Prometheus, Thanos, Prometheus Operator, and Parca. He enjoys working on Distributed Systems with Go... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Emerald Room (Level 1)
  MCPCon

16:55 CEST

No Central Brain - Fausto Albers, WonderWhy
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
Who decides what an agent treats as true? Nothing does, and that is the point. In every system that stays reliable, from a cell to an immune system to a market, correctness isn't assigned by a designer; it's selected. The parts hold competing variants, and an external pressure culls the wrong ones. A more capable part doesn't escape this. It just gets better at exploiting whatever pressure you...
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Fausto Albers

Founder, WonderWhy & GenAI R&D Lead, HvA Industrial Digital Twins Lab, AI Builders Club, WonderWhy
Fausto Albers works at the intersection of human behavior and production AI systems. He started in sociology and behavioral science, co-founded AI Builders Club, founded WonderWhy, and now leads GenAI R&D at the HvA Industrial Digital Twins Lab. His work focuses on agents that keep... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

16:55 CEST

Shipping a Production App in 10 Days: A Real Measurement of AI-Assisted Development - Julien Dubois, GitHub
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
We've all seen the AI coding demos. But what does it really cost to ship a production application with an AI agent, and how much time does it actually save? This talk answers that with hard numbers from a real, open-source project: BootUI ( https://github.com/jdubois/boot-ui ), a multi-module Java project with roughly 40 deeply-integrated feature panels, an embedded Vue 3 console, ~83,000 lines...
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Julien Dubois

Principal Manager, Developer Relations, GitHub
Julien Dubois is a Java Champion and Principal Manager at Microsoft, where he leads the Java Developer Relations team inside the CoreAI and GitHub organizations. With his team of world-class developer advocates, Julien works directly with the engineering groups to improve how Java... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)
  Enterprise Adoption in Practice

16:55 CEST

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...
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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)
  MCPCon

16:55 CEST

The Autonomous Enterprise – Scaling Computer Use With Holo3 and HoloTab - Pierre-Louis Cedoz, H Company
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
H Company is the leading agentic AI startup in Europe, based in Paris, specialized in computer use. The AI landscape is shifting rapidly from passive text generation to active execution. The frontier belongs to Agentic AI, systems that don't just chat, but autonomously navigate digital environments to complete complex workflows. At H Company, we bridge this gap between frontier research and...
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Pierre-Louis Cedoz

CTO, H Company
Pierre-Louis Cedoz is CTO at H Company, where he leads the research and development of next-generation, action-oriented AI. With an extensive background spanning reinforcement learning, large action models, and advanced machine learning research at institutions like Stanford University... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)
  Open Tooling
 

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