Shaun Smith
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Hugging Face6 talks
- 2025LLMindset1 talk
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | keynote | Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production as Hugging Face 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…Show lessThe 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... | |
| Sep 17, 2026 | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | MCP Challenges & Opportunities as Hugging Face Join Shub Argha (Arcade) Shaun Smith (fast-agent) and Sam Morrow (GitHub MCP) for a panel on the challenges and opportunities of shipping MCP, hosted by Angie…Show lessJoin Shub Argha (Arcade) 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... | |
| Sep 17, 2026 | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports as Hugging Face 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…Show lessMCP 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... | |
| Apr 2, 2026 | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | MCP at 18 Months: Protocols, Patterns, and What We Didn't See Coming as Hugging Face MCP launched a revolution in peoples expectations of what Generative AI could achieve. Since then, MCP has been supplemented by other protocols, techniques and…Show lessMCP launched a revolution in peoples expectations of what Generative AI could achieve. Since then, MCP has been supplemented by other protocols, techniques and extensions. At Hugging Face we have 1000s of AI Applications deployed, using MCP for interconnectivity, as well as supporting Remote MCP... | |
| Apr 2, 2026 | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports as Hugging Face 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…Show lessMCP 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... | |
| Oct 2, 2025 | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Streams, Sessions, Stats: Transport and Client Behaviour in Practice as Hugging Face | |
| May 23, 2025 | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Resources: Building the Next Wave of MCP Apps as LLMindset |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Soria Parra | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Parecki | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Angie Jones | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Den Delimarsky | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Frédéric Barthelet | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Liad Yosef | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Paul Carleton | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Pedro Rodrigues | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Tadas Antanavicius | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Kurtis Van Gent | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| Sam Morrow | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alex Hancock | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Cannis Chan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Donnie Adams | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ido Salomon | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.