Conferences / MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026
Aug 13–14, 2026 · Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas, Seoul, South Korea
- Conference
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 14, 2026
- Venue
- Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas
- Place
- Seoul, South Korea
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- events.linuxfoundation.org
- Recorded
- 4 sponsors · 61 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Organized by the Linux Foundation for the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). Full Sched programme recorded (46 sessions with speakers; breaks/registration/booth slots excluded); affiliations as shown on Sched.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendee (early bird) | ₩410,000 | Jul 7, 2026 | events.linuxfoundation.org | |
| Attendee (standard) | ₩520,000 | Aug 3, 2026 | events.linuxfoundation.org | |
| Attendee (late) | ₩650,000 | Aug 14, 2026 | events.linuxfoundation.org | |
| Start-up | $6,000 | — | Tabletop exhibit space, lead retrieval app, 2 conference passes (+20% off more). For AAIF members under 4 years old, <$1M revenue, <50 employees. Same price for Toronto, Seoul and Nairobi. | events.linuxfoundation.org |
| Gold | $15,000 | — | Tabletop exhibit space, lead retrieval app, 5 conference passes (+20% off more). Same price for Toronto, Seoul and Nairobi. | events.linuxfoundation.org |
| Platinum | $35,000 | — | Tabletop exhibit space, lead retrieval app, 10 conference passes (+20% off more). Same price for Toronto, Seoul and Nairobi. | events.linuxfoundation.org |
| Diamond | $65,000 | — | Speaking opportunity, verbal+logo keynote recognition; Tabletop exhibit space, lead retrieval app, 15 conference passes (+20% off more). Same price for Toronto, Seoul and Nairobi. | events.linuxfoundation.org |
| Academic | ₩149,000 | — | Same in all periods. | events.linuxfoundation.org |
Sponsors 4
Title / headline 1
- Amazon Web Services · Diamond
Platinum 1
Startup 2
- Lablup · Startup & Local
- OpenInfra Korea User Group · Startup & Local
Speakers and talks 61
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Jiménez Santamaría | The Linux Foundation | Keynote | Keynote: MCP and the New Frontier for OSPOs | — |
| Demetrios Brinkmann | AAIF goose | Keynote | Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks | — |
| Demetrios Brinkmann | AAIF goose | Keynote | Keynote: Welcome Back | — |
| Den Delimarsky | Anthropic | Keynote | Keynote: Two Years of MCP: State of The Ecosystem | — |
| HyunSoo Kim | Workato | Keynote | Keynote: From AI Investment to Business Impact: An Enterprise MCP Playbook for the Agentic Era | — |
| Jihye Kim | NAVER | Keynote | Keynote: A Cloud Service Provider's MCP Operations Story (From MCP Generator to MCP Gateway) | — |
| Woo Hyung Choi | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Keynote: Beyond Protocol Compatibility: Building an Interoperable Agent Ecosystem | — |
| Aanchal Mishra | Postman | Speaker | Closing the Context Gap: Making Your APIs Agent-Ready | — |
| Ali Mustufa Shaikh | Pieces | Speaker | Closing the Context Gap: Making Your APIs Agent-Ready | — |
| Ana Jiménez Santamaría | The Linux Foundation | Speaker | AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution | — |
| Animesh Pathak | Harness | Speaker | Your MCP Server Behaves Differently in Every Client: A Cross-Client Field Guide for Server Authors | — |
| Anshuman Singh | Devfolio | Speaker | Commanding SO101 With Agents | — |
| Aram Andreasyan | Cerbos | Speaker | Authorization in MCP Systems: Getting It Right From the Start | — |
| Arshardh Ifthikar | WSO2 | Speaker | Hardening MCP Integrations Against Tool Poisoning | — |
| Bhumika Satpathy | Speaker | Managing Token Usage in MCP Servers Using Code Mode | — | |
| Brandon Kang | Akamai | Speaker | Beyond APIs: Making MCP Services Faster and Secure With WebAssembly | — |
| Dakshitha Ratnayake | WS02 | Speaker | Three Gateways for the Agentic Era: An Architectural Framework for Governing AI Agent Traffic | — |
| Dale Seo | Apollo GraphQL | Speaker | Skills and MCP: Complementary, Not Competing | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Workshop | Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Workshop | Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Workshop | Workshop: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Speaker | Why Enterprise MCP Runs on Java | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Speaker | AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution | — |
| Daniel Oh | Red Hat | Speaker | The 5 Wrong Reasons to Build an MCP Server (And What to Do Instead) | — |
| Faizan Akhtar | React India | Speaker | From APIs To Agentic Toolkits: Designing MCP Flavors and a Public MCP Gateway at Scale | — |
| Gokul K S | DevRev | Speaker | The Context Budget Crisis: Why MCP Needs Server-Side Response Controls | — |
| Gokul K S | DevRev | Speaker | From 40 Tools To 14: A Practical Framework for MCP Tool Curation | — |
| Goobong Jeong | Team Attention | Workshop | Workshop: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal | — |
| Goobong Jeong | Team Attention | Workshop | Workshop Continues: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal | — |
| Goobong Jeong | Team Attention | Workshop | Workshop Continues: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal | — |
| Hoon Jo | KubernetesLab | Speaker | AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution | — |
| HyounKyoung Moon | Lablup | Speaker | Operating an AI Infrastructure Through MCP Apps on Agents | — |
| Ian Choi | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Evolving an LLMOps Feedback System Into an MCP-Based Agent Architecture | — |
| Jorge Ruiz Arto | Gravitee | Speaker | Who Authorized That Agent? Identity and Policy Enforcement for MCP Tool Calls | — |
| Junghwan Park | PyTorchKR | Speaker | AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution | — |
| Junho Kong | SK On | Speaker | When Does an Agentic Workflow Need MCP? Matching Intelligence and Interfaces to the Outcome | — |
| Jyoti Bisht | Independent | Speaker | Two Audiences, One Markdown File: Writing MCP Docs an Agent Can Actually Use | — |
| Kemal Elmizan | Goto | Speaker | Self-Improving MCP Agents | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Workshop | Workshop: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Workshop | Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Workshop | Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Speaker | AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Speaker | Why Enterprise MCP Runs on Java | — |
| Nasiullha Chaudhari | Yugabyte | Speaker | Stateful AI Agents: Building Consistent Systems with MCP and Distributed SQL | — |
| Navin Pai | StackGen | Speaker | Building and Testing MCP Servers With the Inspector, Conformance Suites, and Property-Based Testing | — |
| Navtej Reddy | Observe | Speaker | Why We Made Our AI Agent Platform a Codebase Before Adding MCP | — |
| Nimit Savant | DevRev | Speaker | The Context Budget Crisis: Why MCP Needs Server-Side Response Controls | — |
| Nimit Savant | DevRev | Speaker | From 40 Tools To 14: A Practical Framework for MCP Tool Curation | — |
| Phuong Bac Ta | CNLab.ai | Speaker | Who Watches the Watchmen? Safe AI-Agent Failover Via MCP and CRDs | — |
| Pritesh Kiri | Harness | Speaker | From CRDs to Conversations: Simplifying Chaos Engineering With MCP | — |
| Sasha Denisov | Brainform.ai | Workshop | Workshop: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? | — |
| Seokho Son | ETRI | Speaker | Building and Taming an MCP Server for Multi-Cloud Vibe Computing | — |
| Seowoo Han | B GARAGE | Speaker | When AI Agents Need Eyes: What MCP Can and Cannot Standardize for Computer Vision | — |
| Seoyul Yoon | AAIF goose | Speaker | From Legacy To Agentic AI | — |
| Sho Tanaka | Snowflake | Speaker | When MCP Tools Fail: Reliable ML Inference for MCP Agents | — |
| Sunyoung Park | KC-ML2 | Speaker | Stop Wrapping APIs: Building Structured Execution Boundaries With MCP for Incident Triage | — |
| Taeyoung Kim | AIFactory | Speaker | Evolving an LLMOps Feedback System Into an MCP-Based Agent Architecture | — |
| Tanisha Sharma | Bolna | Speaker | Two Audiences, One Markdown File: Writing MCP Docs an Agent Can Actually Use | — |
| Tanisha Sharma | Bolna | Speaker | Your MCP Server Behaves Differently in Every Client: A Cross-Client Field Guide for Server Authors | — |
| Valeri Milke | VamiSec GmbH | Speaker | Secure MCP Servers in Production: A Practical Guide for Developers | — |
| Vitumbiko Mafeni | Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking | Speaker | Who Watches the Watchmen? Safe AI-Agent Failover Via MCP and CRDs | — |
Sources
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-seoul/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-seoul/attend/venue-travel/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-seoul/register/
- https://mcpseoul2026.sched.com/list/descriptions/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/AAIF26_Global_100826.pdf