Conferences / MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
MCP Dev Summit North America 2026
Apr 2–3, 2026 · New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, United States
- Conference
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon Data science & ML
- Dates
- Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 3, 2026
- Venue
- New York Marriott Marquis
- Place
- New York, NY, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,104LF post-event report: '1,104 attendees registered', 457 organizations represented, 58 sponsors (registrations, not a door count). The 2027 prospectus says the 2026 summit 'brought together more than 1,000 attendees'.
- Website
- events.linuxfoundation.org
- Recorded
- 52 sponsors · 147 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Organized by the Linux Foundation for the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). Full Sched programme recorded (114 sessions with speakers; breaks/registration/booth slots excluded); affiliations as shown on Sched. Sched also lists sessions on 1 Apr (pre-event).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendee (early bird) | $275 | Feb 25, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Attendee (standard) | $375 | Mar 23, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Attendee (late) | $795 | Apr 3, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Diamond | $85,000 | — | Speaking opportunity, verbal+logo keynote recognition; Tabletop exhibit space, lead retrieval app, conference passes (+20% off more). | events.linuxfoundation.org |
Sponsors 52
Title / headline 6
Gold 20
Speakers and talks 147
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Wang | Duolingo | Keynote | Keynote: Duolingo's AI Slackbot: An Enterprise Assistant With 180+ MCP Tools | — |
| Adam Seligman | Workato | Keynote | Keynote: Enterprise MCP - The Data Plane for Autonomous Agents | — |
| Ania Musial | Bloomberg | Keynote | Keynote: Interoperability Isn’t Enough: Building Trustworthy AI Infrastructure with MCP | — |
| Cecilia Liu | Docker | Keynote | Keynote: Building a Unified Control Plane for MCP Across Servers, Clients, and Teams | — |
| David Nalley | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Keynote: Welcome Remarks from the AAIF Governing Board Chair | — |
| David Soria Parra | Anthropic | Keynote | Keynote: MCP: The Integration Protocol | — |
| Diamond Bishop | Datadog | Keynote | Keynote: The First 100 Agents: Scaling With MCP From Prototype To Platform - Diamond Bishop, Director of Eng/AI, Datadog - Dispatch Agents | — |
| Ido Salomon | MCP-UI | Keynote | Keynote: MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier | — |
| Jacob Wilson | PwC | Keynote | Keynote: Using MCP for Skills Orchestration and Enterprise Integration | — |
| James Hood | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Keynote: MCP @ Amazon Scale | — |
| Jim Zemlin | The Linux Foundation | Keynote | Keynote: Opening Remarks | — |
| Liad Yosef | MCP Apps | Keynote | Keynote: MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier | — |
| Meghana Somasundara | Inc | Keynote | Keynote: Operating MCPs at Enterprise Scale: Uber’s Journey | — |
| Nick Aldridge | MouseCat | Keynote | Keynote: Navigating Primitives for Agent Collaboration | — |
| Nick Cooper | OpenAI | Keynote | Keynote: MCP x MCP | — |
| Ola Hungerford | Nordstrom | Keynote | Keynote: One-To-Many: Enabling MCP, Agents, and Intelligent Systems at Nordstrom | — |
| Rush Tehrani | Inc | Keynote | Keynote: Operating MCPs at Enterprise Scale: Uber’s Journey | — |
| Ryan Cooke | WorkOS | Keynote | Keynote: Context is More Than Tools - Why the "C" in MCP is More Relevant Than Ever | — |
| Sandeep Bhat | Nordstrom | Keynote | Keynote: One-To-Many: Enabling MCP, Agents, and Intelligent Systems at Nordstrom | — |
| Sheng Liang | Obot AI | Keynote | Keynote: Lessons Learned from Driving Enterprise MCP Adoption | — |
| Zayne Turner | Workato | Keynote | Keynote: Enterprise MCP - The Data Plane for Autonomous Agents | — |
| Aaron Parecki | Okta | Speaker | Evolution, Not Revolution: How MCP Is Reshaping OAuth | — |
| Abhishek Hingnikar | Okta | Speaker | From Scopes To Intent: Reimagining Authorization for Autonomous Agents | — |
| Adam Azzam | Prefect | Speaker | Call Now, Fetch Later: MCP Tasks and SEP-1686 | — |
| Adam Cowley | Neo4j | Speaker | UI in the Age of AI | — |
| Aidan Sochowski | Runlayer | Speaker | Shadow MCP: Finding the MCPs Nobody Approved | — |
| Alan Blount | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Agents and MCP @ Google Scale | — | |
| Alex Hancock | Block | Speaker | Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them | — |
| Alex Salazar | Arcade.dev | Speaker | MCP Gateways: The Control Plane for Agentic Integration | — |
| Alexander Frazer | Runlayer | Speaker | Shadow MCP: Finding the MCPs Nobody Approved | — |
| Alvaro Inckot | Runlayer | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Who's Driving? Delegation and the Confused Deputy Problem for AI Agents | — |
| Amar Deep Singh | General Motors | Speaker | Operating MCP in the Enterprise: From Protocol To Production | — |
| Andres Aguiar | Okta | Speaker | From Scopes To Intent: Reimagining Authorization for Autonomous Agents | — |
| Andrew Espira | Kustode | Speaker | From 60 Minutes To 60 Seconds: Production MCP Workflows for Healthcare Billing | — |
| Anton Lysov | WestJet | Speaker | From Cypher to Conversation: MCP at WestJet | — |
| Anton Pidkuiko | Anthropic | Speaker | MCP Apps Best Practices: Patterns and Pitfalls | — |
| Arnav Balyan | Concierge AI | Speaker | MCP Servers in the Wild: Managing Tool Complexity at Scale | — |
| Becky Brooks | MCP Manager by Usercentrics | Speaker | Deploying MCP at Scale Without Skipping Compliance | — |
| Bill Maxwell | Obot AI | Workshop | Workshop: Enabling MCP at Enterprise Scale: Navigating Authentication and Governance Challenges | — |
| Billy Hickman | Prime Video | Speaker | Progressive Tool Discovery: Using MCP Notifications To Manage Context at Scale | — |
| Bob Dickinson | TeamSpark | Speaker | Code Mode Without the Code | — |
| Bobby House | Docker | Speaker | Distributing MCP Servers With OCI To Power Agent Skills | — |
| Boteng Yao | Speaker | MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead | — | |
| Calum Murray | Red Hat | Speaker | My MCP Server Code Works, but the Agent Fails: The Case for MCP-specific Evaluations | — |
| Cannis Chan | Bloomberg | Speaker | Interceptors for MCP: A Production-Tested Standard for Agentic Middleware | — |
| Cansu Berkem | Datadog | Speaker | When MCP Isn’t Enough: Product Decisions Behind Scalable Agent Systems | — |
| Carlos Santana | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Kubernetes-Native Agent Discovery: A Unified Registry for MCP Servers and Skills | — |
| Connor Peet | Microsoft | Speaker | Human in the Loop, Agent in the Flow | — |
| Cornelia Davis | Temporal | Speaker | Durable, Asynchronous, and Tricky: Implementing MCP Tasks in Practice | — |
| Craig J | Obot AI | Speaker | The Boring Attack That Will Actually Get You | — |
| Daniel Abdelsamed | Apollo GraphQL | Speaker | Your #1 Docs Audience Isn't Human: Dev Ed's MCP Strategy at Apollo | — |
| Daniel Hodges | Meta | Speaker | Bridging Kernel Space and AI: Building an MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Observability | — |
| Dariusz Jędrzejczyk | Broadcom | Speaker | MCP Meets Java: Engineering the MCP Java SDK | — |
| Dawn Song | UC Berkeley | Speaker | Towards Building Safe & Secure Agentic AI | — |
| Den Delimarsky | Anthropic | Speaker | Demistifying Client ID Metadata Documents in MCP | — |
| Don Murray | Safe Software | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Future-Proofing AI Agents: The Strategic Role of MCP | — |
| Donnie Adams | Obot AI | Speaker | Building a Workflow Engine on MCP: Orchestrating Processes With Tasks | — |
| Elliot Garreffa | Ghost Team | Speaker | Building ChatGPT Apps: Principles for a New Kind of Interface | — |
| Emily Lauber | Microsoft | Speaker | Mix-Up Attacks in MCP: Multi-Issuer Confusion and Mitigations | — |
| Enrico Toniato | Manufact | Speaker | Sponsored Session: The Self-Improving MCP Server: Agents in a Live Development Loop | — |
| Erica Beavers | Alpic | Speaker | Mental Reset: How To Rethink Your User Flow in the Age of MCP & ChatGPT Apps | — |
| Erica Beavers | Alpic | Workshop | Workshop: Building an AI-native Experience with MCP & ChatGPT Apps | — |
| Erica Hughberg | Tetrate | Speaker | MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead | — |
| Fernando Cerenza | Box | Speaker | Challenges in Delivering Unstructured Content Efficiently Over MCP | — |
| Fred Araujo | IBM | Speaker | Hooks, Not Hacks: Modular Enforcement for MCP Agents | — |
| Frédéric Barthelet | Alpic | Workshop | Workshop: Building an AI-native Experience with MCP & ChatGPT Apps | — |
| Gaurav Saxena | Engineering | Speaker | From Benchmarks To Business Value: Building a Use-Case Specific Agent Evaluation Framework | — |
| Gautam Baghel | an IBM company | Speaker | When MCP Becomes a Product | — |
| Guilherme Rodrigues | decocms.com | Speaker | MCP for Autonomous Storefronts: Building Self-Healing Agent Loops | — |
| Harald Kirschner | Microsoft | Speaker | Human in the Loop, Agent in the Flow | — |
| Harshit Kohli | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | MCP Live: Streaming Context To AI Agents | — |
| Hugo Guerrero | Kong | Speaker | Solving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments | — |
| Ian Molloy | IBM | Speaker | Hooks, Not Hacks: Modular Enforcement for MCP Agents | — |
| Jake Diamond-Reivich | — | Speaker | MCP: The Gateway to Real-Time Human–AI Collaboration in Jupyter at Scale | — |
| Jan Curn | Apify | Speaker | Code Mode Is Best Served in the Shell | — |
| Jason Ding | Roblox | Speaker | Building Multi-Turn Agentic Workflows With MCP: Lessons From Avatar Generation at Roblox | — |
| Jeremiah Lowin | Prefect | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Model Context Pragmatism | — |
| Jerome Swannack | Anthropic | Speaker | What if MCP was Symmetric? | — |
| Jim Clark | Docker | Speaker | Dynamic MCPs: Agentic Discovery, Configuration, and Management of MCP Workloads | — |
| Jiquan Ngiam | MintMCP | Speaker | Patterns for Building MCP-powered Agent Systems | — |
| Joey Stout | Spacelift | Speaker | The Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Deep-Dive into MCP via Selective Sabotage | — |
| Jonathan Leitschuh | Independent | Speaker | MCPwned: Hacking MCP Servers With One Skeleton Key Vulnerability | — |
| Josh Reini | Snowflake | Speaker | Declarative MCP Servers for Secure, Specialized AI Agents | — |
| Juan A. Osorio | Stacklok | Speaker | OCI Images as MCP Packaging: Supply Chain Security for AI Tools | — |
| Juan A. Osorio | Stacklok | Speaker | The MCP Gateway Pattern: Aggregation, Composition, and Beyond | — |
| Kailas Krivanka | Box | Speaker | Challenges in Delivering Unstructured Content Efficiently Over MCP | — |
| Katrina Liu | Semgrep | Speaker | If You Can Secure It Here, You Can Secure It Anywhere | — |
| Kay James | Gravitee | Speaker | MCP Elicitation - Balancing Convenience With Security | — |
| Kevin Yang | Warp | Speaker | CANCELLED - Building the MCP Search Tool for Any Model | — |
| Kierra Dotson | Further | Speaker | Protocol Evolution: Adapting the Model Context Protocol for SLMs and the Edge | — |
| Kurt Degiorgio | Bloomberg | Speaker | Interceptors for MCP: A Production-Tested Standard for Agentic Middleware | — |
| Kurtis Van Gent | Speaker | Schema To Insight: Architecting Production-Grade Database MCP Tools | — | |
| Kurtis Van Gent | Speaker | Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports | — | |
| Lahari Chowtoori | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Your MCP Server Will Probably Be Abandoned...Or Not | — |
| Lilia Abaibourova | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Progressive Tool Discovery: Using MCP Notifications To Manage Context at Scale | — |
| Lisa Tagliaferri | Chainguard | Speaker | Securing the MCP Ecosystem: Production Patterns for Transparency and Trust | — |
| Lorenzo Verna | Denied | Speaker | Beyond the Sandbox: Security at the Host Layer | — |
| Marcelo Jimenez Rocabado | MCPJam | Speaker | Evaluate What You Can't See: Measure the Probabilistic Nature of MCP | — |
| Matt Carey | Cloudflare | Speaker | Every API Is a Tool for Agents | — |
| Matt White | The Linux Foundation | Speaker | Towards Building Safe & Secure Agentic AI | — |
| Matvey Kukuy | Archestra.AI | Speaker | From Benchmarks To Business Value: Building a Use-Case Specific Agent Evaluation Framework | — |
| Max | Anthropic | Speaker | Path to V2 for MCP SDKs | — |
| Max Gerber | Twilio Segment | Speaker | Putting the Single Back in Single Sign-On: Cross-App Access for MCP | — |
| Mayur Deshpande | Speaker | Enabling Agentic Cloud Workflows | — | |
| Michael Schwartz | Gluu | Speaker | Golem To Murderbot: Challenges With Agentic Security Delegation Via MCP | — |
| Milan Williams | Semgrep | Speaker | If You Can Secure It Here, You Can Secure It Anywhere | — |
| Nate Barbettini | Arcade.dev | Speaker | URL Elicitation Deep Dive: Third-party OAuth Solved (and More!) | — |
| Neelabh Tripathi | Cisco | Speaker | Operating MCP in the Enterprise: From Protocol To Production | — |
| Nikolay Rodionov | Alpic | Speaker | Skills Vs. MCP Vs. Code Mode: Cutting Through the Hype (and the Rage) | — |
| Olivier Chafik | Anthropic | Speaker | MCP Apps Best Practices: Patterns and Pitfalls | — |
| Paul Carleton | Anthropic | Speaker | One Spec, Ten SDKs, Zero Excuses: Conformance Testing MCP | — |
| Paul Carleton | Anthropic | Speaker | Putting the Single Back in Single Sign-On: Cross-App Access for MCP | — |
| Paulina Xu | Agentic Fabriq | Speaker | Enterprise-Ready MCP: Security Patterns and the "4-Legged" Identity Challenge | — |
| Peder Holdgaaard Pedersen | Saxo Bank | Speaker | Context Middleware for MCP: From Enterprise Needs To Protocol Extension | — |
| Pedro Rodrigues | Supabase | Speaker | Combine Skills and MCP To Close the Context Gap | — |
| Peter Smulovics | Morgan Stanley | Speaker | Securing MCP at Scale: From Principles To Production | — |
| Pietro Valfrè | Denied | Speaker | Beyond the Sandbox: Security at the Host Layer | — |
| Prathmesh Patel | MCPJam | Speaker | Evaluate What You Can't See: Measure the Probabilistic Nature of MCP | — |
| Reetika Roy | Snowflake | Speaker | Declarative MCP Servers for Secure, Specialized AI Agents | — |
| Ricardo Ferreira | Redis | Speaker | The Seven Deadly Sins With MCP | — |
| Riley Scheid | Reboot | Speaker | Lessons Learned Building Intelligent UIs With MCP Apps | — |
| Rizel Scarlett | Inc | Speaker | Intent Engineering: The Death of the Mono-Directional Prompt | — |
| Rocío Bayon | PagerDuty | Speaker | From Chaos To Clarity: How MCP Transforms Incident Response | — |
| Rohan Gangaraju | Roblox | Speaker | Building Multi-Turn Agentic Workflows With MCP: Lessons From Avatar Generation at Roblox | — |
| Rohit Ganguly | Descope | Speaker | Clients? Servers? Agents? The Beautiful Asymmetry of the MCP Spec | — |
| Roy Derks | IBM | Speaker | When MCP Becomes a Product | — |
| Sam Morrow | GitHub | Workshop | Workshop: Securing MCP: Threats, Trust and What You Can Actually Do About It | — |
| Sam Morrow | GitHub | Speaker | MCP Vs CLIs: Why Agents Need Purpose-Built Interfaces | — |
| Sam Partee | Arcade.dev | Speaker | The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools | — |
| Santhosh Misro | Speaker | Enabling Agentic Cloud Workflows | — | |
| Sarah Cecchetti | OpenID Foundation | Speaker | Threat Modeling Authorization in MCP | — |
| Sebastian Villanelo | PagerDuty | Speaker | From Chaos To Clarity: How MCP Transforms Incident Response | — |
| Shannon Williams | Obot AI | Workshop | Workshop: Enabling MCP at Enterprise Scale: Navigating Authentication and Governance Challenges | — |
| Shaun Smith | Hugging Face | Speaker | MCP at 18 Months: Protocols, Patterns, and What We Didn't See Coming | — |
| Shaun Smith | Hugging Face | Speaker | Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports | — |
| Sterling Chin | Inngest | Speaker | Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer To Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption | — |
| Sterling Dreyer | Arcade.dev | Speaker | Rules Are Not Suggestions: A History of MCP Non-Compliance | — |
| Tadas Antanavicius | PulseMCP | Workshop | Workshop: Architecting Agentic Engineering Loops With MCP | — |
| Till Döhmen | MotherDuck | Speaker | Reflections on Context Engineering Via MCP Servers | — |
| Trevor Dunlap | Chainguard | Speaker | Securing the MCP Ecosystem: Production Patterns for Transparency and Trust | — |
| Vaibhav Katkade | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Agents and MCP @ Google Scale | — | |
| Vaibhav Tupe | Equinix | Speaker | From One MCP Server To an Ecosystem: When MCP Stops Being a Server and Becomes a Platform | — |
| Vincent McLeese | Agentdiscoverability.com | Speaker | If the LLM Can't Find You, You Don't Exist: Discoverability for MCP-Apps and ChatGPT Apps | — |
| Vitor Balocco | Runlayer | Speaker | Sponsored Session: Who's Driving? Delegation and the Confused Deputy Problem for AI Agents | — |
| Wenxin Du | Speaker | Schema To Insight: Architecting Production-Grade Database MCP Tools | — | |
| Wesley Chun | Red Hat | Speaker | My MCP Server Code Works, but the Agent Fails: The Case for MCP-specific Evaluations | — |
| Ze'ev Klapow | HubSpot | Speaker | RPC > MCP: Turning a Decade of APIs Into Agentic Tools | — |
Sources
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-north-america/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-north-america/attend/venue-travel/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260322191239/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-north-america/register/
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- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MCP-NA26-PostEventReport.pdf
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MCPDevSummitNAEU_032626.pdf