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April 2-3, 2026
New York, NY
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Thursday, April 2
 

7:30am EDT

8:00am EDT

Zen Zone
Thursday April 2, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Need some space and quiet time? We’ve got you covered! Visit the Zen Zone for some extra relaxation.
Thursday April 2, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Soho Room (7th Floor)

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation & CEO, The Linux Foundation
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT

Speakers
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Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

9:10am EDT

Keynote: Welcome Remarks from the AAIF Governing Board Chair - David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience, Amazon Web Services
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:10am - 9:15am EDT

Speakers
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David Nalley

Director, Developer Experience, AWS
David Nalley is Director of Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he leads efforts to improve how developers interact with AWS services and technologies. He brings over two decades of experience in technology to his role.
Nalley previously served as President... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:10am - 9:15am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

9:15am EDT

Keynote: MCP: The Integration Protocol - David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:15am - 9:35am EDT

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 April 2, 2026 9:15am - 9:35am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

9:35am EDT

Keynote: MCP @ Amazon Scale - James Hood, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:35am - 9:45am EDT
Enabling tens of thousands of engineers to work more efficiently with AI is a daunting task, especially when security is essential. At Amazon we’ve enabled our engineers to use hundreds of MCP servers for everything from ticket/issue systems to design/architecture guidance documentation. Along the way to achieving higher productivity, we’ve learned a few things about how to best rollout these kinds of massive changes. This session will share our essential learnings for MCP at enterprise scale. 
Speakers
avatar for James Hood

James Hood

Principal Software Engineer, AWS
James is a Principal Software Engineer and 16-year Amazon veteran with experience across AWS and Stores. He founded Amazon’s internal AI “power user” community and now focuses on integrating AI into internal builder tools as part of the Amazon software builder experience organization. James is... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:35am - 9:45am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

9:50am EDT

Keynote: Operating MCPs at Enterprise Scale: Uber’s Journey - Meghana Somasundara, Agentic AI Lead & Rush Tehrani, Head of Engineering, Agentic AI Platform, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:50am - 10:05am EDT
AI Agents at Uber may need to navigate a massive ecosystem of 1000s of services, handle sensitive data, and execute critical business logic. To enable this, we are moving towards an agentic future which leverages a unified Model Context Protocol (MCP) infrastructure to access real-time services.

We will share the architectural lessons learned from deploying MCP at an enterprise scale. We will dive into three key technical pillars of our strategy:

1. Protobuf-Driven MCP Servers: How we leverage existing services and protocol buffers to automatically generate MCP servers, providing safe and instant access to 1000s of microservices.
2. Derived Tools and Description Overrides: Why static tool definitions aren't enough for complex workflows. We’ll demonstrate how we allow developers to override and refine MCP tool descriptions via "derived tools," ensuring agents have the specific context needed for particular workflows.
3. Evaluate quality: How we evaluate quality of MCP tools, leveraged in our no-code Agent Builder, which is a tool that democratizes agent building at Uber.
Speakers
avatar for Meghana Somasundara

Meghana Somasundara

Agentic AI Lead, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Product Lead with 10+ years of experience building mission critical AI and Generative AI Platforms at Meta and Uber, holding a Masters in Machine Learning from Columbia University. Established several AI Platforms powering thousands of ML models and personalized experiences for products... Read More →
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Rush Tehrani

Head of Engineering, Agentic AI Platform, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Rush leads the Agent Platform charter at Uber. Prior to establishing the Agent Platform charter, he led model deployment, inference and monitoring. Before joining Uber, he was the founder and creator of Onepanel, an open source, Kubernetes native computer vision platform.
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:50am - 10:05am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Audience Experience Level Any

10:05am EDT

Keynote: Lessons Learned from Driving Enterprise MCP Adoption - Sheng Liang, CEO, Obot AI
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:05am - 10:15am EDT
MCP adoption in the enterprise is at an early stage and continues to grow rapidly. In the past year, Obot AI developed MCP gateways, registries, chat clients, and workflows for enterprise customers. In this talk, we will discuss the lessons we learned, the trends we observed, and the developments in MCP technologies we are particularly excited about for driving MCP adoption in the enterprise.

Speakers
avatar for Sheng Liang

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 →
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:05am - 10:15am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

10:20am EDT

Keynote: Duolingo's AI Slackbot: An Enterprise Assistant With 180+ MCP Tools - Aaron Wang, Software Engineer, Duolingo Inc
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am EDT
At Duolingo, we built an AI Slackbot using Claude's AI Agent SDK and the Model Context Protocol, connecting 180+ tools across 15+ MCP servers—GitHub, Jenkins, Sentry, Grafana, PagerDuty, Honeycomb, and more.

This talk covers:
1. Building and Standardizing MCP Servers: Patterns for stdio and HTTP transports with consistent configuration schemas.
2. Authentication and Role-Based Access Control: YAML-based tool allowlists gating sensitive tools by user role.
3. Evaluation Framework: A Python script runs parallel evaluation tests validating MCP tool usage, anti-hallucination checks, and response quality.
4. Real-World Challenges:
* Testing in production without synthetic environments
* Preventing customer PII from reaching AI models
* Performance optimization: Tradeoff between fast answer vs good answer
* AI hallucinating answers instead of calling MCP tools
* Wrong MCP parameters causing slow queries and failures
5. Live Examples: PagerDuty triage, Jenkins debugging, and incident investigation—all from Slack.
Speakers
avatar for Aaron Wang

Aaron Wang

Software Engineer, Duolingo Inc
Aaron Wang is a Software Engineer on Duolingo's DevXAI team, building AI-powered developer tools. He led the development of Duolingo's AI Slackbot with 180+ MCP tools—helping employees find answers in help channels, triage alerts, debug incidents, and navigate internal systems... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

10:35am EDT

Keynote: Enterprise MCP - The Data Plane for Autonomous Agents - Adam Seligman, CTO & Zayne Turner, Developer Advocate, Workato
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:35am - 10:45am EDT
Connecting agents to tools is the easy part. Governing what they do with that access — what they can reach, under what conditions, with full visibility into what happened — that's the layer most enterprises are still building from scratch.

After 100+ enterprise MCP deployments across finance, HR, IT, and operations, one pattern keeps emerging: every organization is building the same missing layer. Not the model. Not the tools. The data plane that governs how autonomous systems operate inside the enterprise.

Workato CTO Adam Seligman will name the pattern and frame what that layer looks like at scale. Developer Advocate Zayne Turner will open the architecture behind a real deployment — showing how the data plane turns MCP from demo-ready integration into production-ready infrastructure.

Autonomy without control is risky. Data control without autonomy is stagnation. The enterprises that win will build both.

Speakers
avatar for Adam Seligman

Adam Seligman

CTO, Workato
CTO of Workato, the enterprise MCP company and the leader in orchestration. Ex-AWS, Google, Salesforce, Heroku, Microsoft. Passionate about developers and empowering anyone to make software.
avatar for Zayne Turner

Zayne Turner

Developer Advocate, Workato

Thursday April 2, 2026 10:35am - 10:45am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

10:45am EDT

Keynote: The First 100 Agents: Scaling With MCP From Prototype To Platform - Diamond Bishop, Director of Eng/AI, Datadog - Dispatch Agents
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am EDT
Building your first MCP agent is exciting. Building a platform where dozens of teams can safely deploy their own agents is a different beast entirely. This talk will share lessons learned scaling an MCP powered agent platform from a single prototype to a multi-tenant platform supporting diverse agent workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Diamond Bishop

Diamond Bishop

Director of Eng/AI, Datadog - Dispatch Agents
A survivor of at least 1 AI winter, Diamond leads Datadog's AI Skunkworks group. He joined Datadog through the acquisition of Augmend, the DevOps AI assistant startup he co‑founded.

Diamond has over 15 years of AI experience building assistants and developer platforms, from the early days of Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa to open-source work on PyTorch at Meta. Today he focuses on “unhobbling” enterprise agents: durable control flow, strong evaland... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

11:00am EDT

Keynote: Navigating Primitives for Agent Collaboration - Nick Aldridge, Co-founder & CEO, Mousecat
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am EDT
Building your first MCP agent is exciting. Building a platform where dozens of teams can safely deploy their own agents is a different beast entirely. This talk will share lessons learned scaling an MCP powered agent platform from a single prototype to a multi-tenant platform supporting diverse agent workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Nick Aldridge

Nick Aldridge

Core Maintainer of MCP and Co-founder & CEO, MouseCat
Nicholas Aldridge is a Core Maintainer of MCP and the Co-founder and CEO of MouseCat, which builds AI agents for fraud investigation. He spent 6.5 years as a Principal Engineer at AWS AI, where he helped launch and lead Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Agents, and AgentCore. He also... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am EDT

11:15am EDT

11:25am EDT

Sponsor Activity - AMA with WorkOS Founder Michael Grinich
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Stop by booth D/P3 with your questions on agent identity, MCP, fine-grained authorization, and how the fastest-growing AI companies stay Enterprise Ready with WorkOS.

Sponsor: WorkOS
Location: Booth D/P3 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

11:25am EDT

Sponsor Activity - Coffee & Demos: Explore Obot AI's MCP Gateway Demos and Grab Exclusive Swag
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Make the most of your breaks — grab a coffee and visit Obot AI at booth #D/P1 for hands-on demos of our MCP Gateway, redefining how AI agents connect to the tools they need. And pick up exclusive Obot AI swag while you're at it!

Sponsor: Obot AI
Location: Booth D/P1 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

11:35am EDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet AWS Open Source at MCP Dev Summit
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Stop by the @AWSOpen booth at #MCPDevSummit to connect with engineers from the Strands, AgentCore, and MCP teams. See how Amazon scaled MCP to tens of thousands of engineers — and geek out with the people building it. #AWS #OpenSource

Sponsor: AWS
Location: Booth D/P2 within the Solutions Showcase

Be sure to also join us for an attendee reception on Thursday, April 2 at the Elsie Rooftop. The event is open to all attendees but space is limited. Secure your space today: https://luma.com/jex5jvcu

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

11:35am EDT

Sponsor Activity - What’s Your Data Type? Live Printing | 11:35 AM - 4:35 PM
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Discover your data personality! Use our interactive filter to explore different data types and find the one that matches you best. Then visit our tote bag printing station to have your data type printed live on your bag. Don’t forget to grab some pins, stickers, and pens!

Sponsor: Safe Software
Location: Booth D/P8 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

11:50am EDT

Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer To Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption - Sterling Chin, Postman
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Over the 2025 holiday break, I built MARVIN, an AI assistant that connects to my email, calendar, Jira, Confluence, and meeting notes through MCP servers. The most surprising lessons came from teaching a non-technical friend in marketing to use it. Within a day, she took a task that typically required 4+ hours and completed it in 30 minutes.

In this talk, I'll share practical insights from building and deploying MCP-powered agents in real workflows:

- Architecture decisions: How I structured MCP servers for Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, and other integrations, and where I got it wrong
- The "junior intern" pattern: Why treating AI agents like trainable assistants drives real usage
- The naming problem: Why "MCP" is a terrible name for mainstream adoption and what we should call it instead
- Curiosity over mandates: Why top-down AI adoption fails, and what ground-up adoption looks like

I'll walk through 25 minutes of hard-won lessons from building something real, watching people use it, and iterating based on what actually worked.
Speakers
avatar for Sterling Chin

Sterling Chin

Founding Developer Advocate, Inngest
Sterling Chin is a Founding Developer Advocate, where he focuses on AI-powered API development and the intersection of agents and APIs. At Postman, he lead the team that shipped 7 new products in 2.5 years including Postman's first AI Assistant, and now spends his time helping developers... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents, MCP Best Practices

11:50am EDT

Sponsored Session: The Self-Improving MCP Server: Agents in a Live Development Loop - Enrico Toniato, Manufact
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
What if your AI agent could build and refine its own MCP server while you watch? We'll demonstrate a live development loop where coding agents iterate on MCP servers and UI widgets in real time . no restarts, no broken workflows. Using hot module reloading for both the protocol primitives and the UI, agents can preview and refine their output in real time.



In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Speakers
avatar for Enrico Toniato

Enrico Toniato

CTO, Manufact (formerly mcp-use)
CTO at Manufact (formerly mcp-use)Prev AI tech lead at IBM ResearchAchieved SoTA in Text2SQLPresented at NeurIPSRobotics @ ETH Zurich
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Session Slides Yes

11:50am EDT

MCP at 18 Months: Protocols, Patterns, and What We Didn't See Coming - Shaun Smith, Hugging Face
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
MCP 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 via Inference Providers.

This experience based session explores how inference, compute and storage workloads are shifting in an agentic world, and how MCP supports us in a rapidly changing environment.

We will:
- Contrast how ACP and Open Responses work within our MCP infrastructure and our experience deploying them.
- Explore how Skills, and Code Generation fit, the impact future models will have on the landscape - and why things that may seem obvious in hindsight weren't.
- Discuss the value of multi-model environments and how subagent patterns are critical for certain tasks.
- Report on the trends we see in shifting Agentic and Inference workloads, and MCPs continued role in supporting them
- Examine our unique multimodal demands - and what needs we and our community have to support mixed content.
Speakers
avatar for Shaun Smith

Shaun Smith

Open Source MCP and Agents, Hugging Face
Shaun Smith leads Open Source MCP at Hugging Face, and is an MCP Steering Committee member serving as a Community Moderator and within the Transports Working Group.

Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

11:50am EDT

MCP Gateways: The Control Plane for Agentic Integration - Alex Salazar, Arcade.dev
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
As MCP deployments grow beyond a few tools, the failure mode isn’t the model—it’s the integration surface. Teams quickly accumulate many MCP servers, inconsistent authentication, duplicated “almost-the-same” tools, and no single place to apply policy, observe behavior, or onboard agents and new systems.

This talk introduces the MCP Gateway pattern: a single MCP entrypoint that federates multiple servers into curated tool surfaces for each agent, workflow, or IDE. Borrowing lessons from the API boom, we’ll show how to structure capabilities into layered building blocks—system access, reusable orchestration, and channel-specific experiences—so you avoid point-to-point spaghetti while keeping integrations composable.

You’ll see a reference architecture that separates front-door caller identity from downstream tool authorization (scoped OAuth or API keys), supports tool allowlists and LLM-facing usage guidance, and adds the controls teams need: routing, versioning, rate limits, audit logs, and end-to-end tracing. You’ll leave with a practical checklist for turning tool sprawl into a governed integration platform that stays interoperable as new agents, clients, and systems arrive.
Speakers
avatar for Alex Salazar

Alex Salazar

Co-Founder/CEO, Arcade.dev
Alex Salazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcade.dev, the runtime for MCP that enables AI agents to securely take real actions across enterprise systems. He's solving the hardest problems standing between AI agent demos and production deployment: secure agent authorization, high-accuracy... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

11:50am EDT

What if MCP was Symmetric? - Jerome Swannack, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
* What if MCP was Symmetric? An exploration on what would be possible if servers could call tools from clients. 
Speakers
avatar for Jerome Swannack

Jerome Swannack

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
New Zealander living in London, helped build MCP at Anthropic

Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

11:50am EDT

Securing MCP at Scale: From Principles To Production - Peter Smulovics, Morgan Stanley
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
As MCP adoption accelerates across platforms, the risks of giving LLMs tool access are growing quickly. This session explores the real threat surface of MCP systems: prompt injection, tool poisoning, unsafe permissions, supply-chain “rug pulls,” cross-tool escalation, and data-exfiltration risks that arise when agents can call arbitrary tools. Building on Microsoft's recent work hardening MCP on Windows, we outline a practical reference architecture for secure deployments: signed and verified tool manifests, unique server identities, scoped capabilities, sandboxed execution, authenticated connections, governance via registries, audit logging, and runtime anomaly detection. Attendees will leave with a blueprint for running MCP in production: what to lock down, how to operate it safely, and how enterprises can integrate MCP into existing security, IAM, and compliance frameworks. This talk equips developers, architects, and security teams to build safer agentic systems and contribute to a more secure MCP ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Smulovics

Peter Smulovics

Distinguished Engineer, Morgan Stanley
Peter Smulovics is a Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley with 15+ years at the firm and 30+ in the industry. A 2× Microsoft MVP and co-creator of C#, he serves as Vice Chair of FINOS (Linux Foundation) Technical Oversight Committee and leads Open Source Readiness. He focuses... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

12:20pm EDT

MCP for Autonomous Storefronts: Building Self-Healing Agent Loops - Guilherme Rodrigues, decocms.com
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Most MCP integrations power chat: an agent responds to a prompt. But MCP can power continuous loops — agents that run on schedule, find issues, and ship fixes without human prompting.

This talk covers how to build MCP servers for autonomous operations. The core pattern: Detect → Analyze → Propose → Execute → Report. Each loop queries MCP resources, processes data, and takes action based on its trust level.

I'll show three examples from e-commerce: (1) a learnings database — optimization patterns exposed as MCP resources that agents query to diagnose codebases; (2) CDN observability — requests, bandwidth, cache rates as queryable resources for finding performance issues; (3) conversion analytics — pageview and conversion data that agents correlate to propose content changes.

The key design question: when can agents act autonomously vs. require human approval? I'll present a trust framework where loops graduate from report-only → PR with review → auto-merge based on accuracy over time.

Takeaways: how to structure domain expertise as MCP resources, architecture for connecting observability to agents, and patterns for safe autonomous execution.
Speakers
avatar for Guilherme Rodrigues

Guilherme Rodrigues

CEO & Co-Founder, decocms.com
Co-founder & CEO of decocms.com, an open-source framework for building and deploying MCP-based Internal AI Platforms. Previously spent 9 years at VTEX through its NYSE IPO, where he led the first version of the Store Framework and VTEX IO Developer Platform. Based in Rio de Janeiro... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

12:20pm EDT

Dynamic MCPs: Agentic Discovery, Configuration, and Management of MCP Workloads - Jim Clark, Docker
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
With the rapid expansion of available MCP servers, we need ways to manage our MCP workloads dynamically. Agents can help us configure agents! This talk explores a set of _primordial_ MCP tools that enable agents to discover, configure, and activate MCP servers at runtime. Rather than focusing on deferred tool loading or context reduction, we examine how agents can discover relevant servers from community registries or private catalogs, elicit configuration from users, and activate tools in the current session. We also examine the use of elicitation URLs as a key building block for constructing portable, reusable MCP configurations.
Speakers
avatar for Jim Clark

Jim Clark

Principal Engineer, Docker
Physics dropout turned software engineer now working on AI Tools and security team at Docker. Spent 25 years building developer tools, including co-founding Atomist (acquired by Docker in 2022). Now containerizing AI agents so they play nicely with humans. Regular conference speaker... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Any

12:20pm EDT

MCP: The Gateway to Real-Time Human–AI Collaboration in Jupyter at Scale - Jake Diamond-Reivich, Project Jupyter
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Additional Authors/Contributors:
  • Andrey Velichkevich – Kubeflow Steering Committee
  • Zach Sailer - Jupyter Executive Council


Jupyter Notebooks are critical medium for code, data, and ML, demanding a paradigm shift for AI assistance. With Jupyter's real-time collaboration and cloud-native evolution, it's becoming a powerful portal to a full data platform, beyond mere notebooks.

This session explores MCP as the essential framework for human-AI synergy within this expanded Jupyter ecosystem. Leveraging Jupyter's extensibility, MCP expands its API, opening gateways to services across the entire data, ML, and AI landscape. By extending Jupyter’s real-time collaborative models, MCP enables AI agents to seamlessly co-create alongside human developers. This integration moves beyond traditional AI coding assistance, fostering true parallel work without conflicting edits, eliminating friction and accelerating development.

The speakers will give the live demo showing how MCP provides the blueprint for connecting AI assistance directly with the Jupyter environment, both locally and in the cloud. This empowers builders to redefine human-AI interaction and unlock unprecedented productivity across the entire AI development lifecycle – from data preparation and feature engineering to LLMs fine-tuning and evaluations.
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)

12:20pm EDT

Sponsored Session: Model Context Pragmatism - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
MCP is poised to be the connective tissue between large‑language models and the data they need. Despite this, many teams still stall at the prototype stage. This talk distills what actually works in production, what still breaks, and why.

I’ll share some lessons building FastMCP, the framework used to build 70% of MCP servers across all languages. We’ll look at the real environments where MCP is thriving, the hurdles teams hit when they move to productize it. Finally, we’ll share a view of the road ahead as context becomes a first‑class product surface.



In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Speakers
avatar for Jeremiah Lowin

Jeremiah Lowin

Founder, CEO, Prefect
Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder and CEO of Prefect and the creator of FastMCP, which has become the standard framework for building with the Model Context Protocol. A founding PMC member of Apache Airflow, Jeremiah has spent over a decade at the intersection of data engineering and... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)

12:20pm EDT

Evolution, Not Revolution: How MCP Is Reshaping OAuth - Aaron Parecki, Okta
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
The impulse to rewrite the auth stack for AI agents is strong, but we cannot design away the fundamental relationships standards protect. This session explores how MCP is reshaping OAuth—not abandoning it—to meet the ecosystem's unique challenges:

The "Unregistered Client" Problem: Traditional OAuth requires pre-registration. MCP breaks this. We’ll see how Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) allow agents to bring their own identities to arbitrary servers, how it improves on Dynamic Client Registration, and how to mitigate the risks of unregistered clients.

Separation of Concerns: Why your MCP server shouldn't be your Authorization Server. We’ll cover how Protected Resource Metadata (RFC 9728) enables dynamic auth server discovery, keeping agents lightweight and security boundaries clean.

Enterprise-Managed Authorization: To stop "click-through fatigue," we’ll introduce the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant. This moves consent to the enterprise policy layer, enabling secure, scalable adoption.

Join me to secure the agent ecosystem—from discovery to governance—not by reinventing the wheel, but by making incremental improvements to the way it turns.
Speakers
avatar for Aaron Parecki

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 OAuth 2.1 along with several other OAuth specifications, and has been influential in shaping how... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

12:20pm EDT

When MCP Becomes a Product - Gautam Baghel, HashiCorp & Roy Derks, IBM
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
MCP servers often begin as simple side projects. You build a quick integration, get a basic connection working, and show a demo. But as users begin to rely on your tool, the stakes change. In this talk, we share the lessons learned from taking multiple of MCP servers from initial Proofs of Concept to robust production standards, supporting tens of thousands of developers across open-source and enterprise environments. These are the real-world realities of treating your MCP server as a shipping product.
Speakers
avatar for Roy Derks

Roy Derks

Developer Experience, IBM
Roy Derks is a lifelong software developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. Currently chasing his dreams in Silicon Valley, California. Roy's mission is to make the world a better place through technology by inspiring developers all over the world, more specifically... Read More →
avatar for Gautam Baghel

Gautam Baghel

Sr. Product Manager, Gen AI, HashiCorp, an IBM company
Gautam is a passionate technologist who thrives on solving DevOps puzzles and building meaningful solutions. He's all about automating stuff, streamlining workflows, and building scalable systems. Through his talks, Gautam shares practical insights and inspires others to dive into... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)

12:50pm EDT

Building Multi-Turn Agentic Workflows With MCP: Lessons From Avatar Generation at Roblox - Rohan Gangaraju & Jason Ding, Roblox
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Creative assembly tasks - where agents compose pieces into coherent wholes - present unique challenges: tracking progress across turns, validating outputs, and recovering when something doesn't fit. This talk shares patterns for multi-turn workflows, illustrated through avatar generation where an agent assembles clothing into cohesive outfits.
Pattern 1: Session Memory - Track selections, failed searches, and partial progress across turns. Know what's in the cart before suggesting more.
Pattern 2: Composite Tools - Combine operations (search + fetch thumbnails) into single tools that reduce round-trips and give agents richer context.
Pattern 3: Pre-flight Validation - Check compatibility before expensive operations. Catch conflicts early (clashing items, missing pieces) rather than failing at generation.
Pattern 4: Validate-and-Retry Loops - Use VLM scoring on outputs, track best-of-N attempts, and guide agents toward improvements when quality falls short.
Avatar generation makes these patterns concrete - "getting dressed" is intuitive - but they apply broadly to document assembly, configuration builders, and any workflow composing parts into wholes.
Speakers
avatar for Rohan Gangaraju

Rohan Gangaraju

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
Rohan Gangaraju is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Economy ML team at Roblox, where he works on building recommendation systems for virtual economy and avatar marketplace. He holds a CS degree from UMass Amherst.
avatar for Jason Ding

Jason Ding

Software Engineer, Roblox
Jason Ding is a Software Engineer at Roblox, where he drives Avatar Generation efforts focused on ML powered avatar creation. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Business from UC Berkeley through the M.E.T. program.
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

12:50pm EDT

Building ChatGPT Apps: Principles for a New Kind of Interface - Elliot Garreffa, Ghost Team
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
ChatGPT apps aren't websites or mobile apps. They're a new primitive - lightweight tools invoked within a conversation, surfacing minimal UI to move the user forward.

Websites are destinations. Mobile apps are rich installed experiences with device access. ChatGPT apps are in-flow utilities - joining tasks already in progress. You don't own the screen or control the journey. The model decides when to invoke you.

Wrong mental model = wrong architecture.

Drawing on first-hand experience shipping ChatGPT apps for enterprise clients, we'll cover the principles separating apps that work from those that don't:

- Scoping around single, sharp intent vs building a platform inside a chat
- Where conversational interfaces add genuine value - and where you're fighting the medium
- Leveraging context and memory instead of requiring users to re-establish state
- Using ChatGPT as infrastructure vs distribution
- Testing and iterating when the model controls invocation

We'll walk through concrete implementation examples and lessons learned.
Speakers
avatar for Elliot Garreffa

Elliot Garreffa

Co-founder, Ghost Team
Elliot Garreffa is Co-founder and Head of Growth at Ghost Team, an AI-development studio building AI agents, MCP-Apps and ChatGPT Apps for enterprise B2B SaaS clients. Through his company Ghost Team he has pioneered production-grade MCP implementations for enterprise clients & built... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices, Apps and Agents

12:50pm EDT

CANCELLED - Scaling Agentic AI on Cloud: MCP Best Practices for Large Enterprises - Ankit Haseeja, JPMC
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
How MCP Can Be Used to Build Scalable, Secure, Cloud-Native Agentic Systems on AWS, Azure, and GCP

As enterprises adopt agentic AI, the need for scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures becomes critical. This session explores how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables agents to reliably connect with cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP using a unified, open standard. Attendees will learn architecture patterns for deploying agents on serverless runtimes and container platforms, strategies for scaling multi-agent workflows, and methods to enforce enterprise-grade security using IAM, secret management, VPC networking, and policy controls. The talk also covers best practices for integrating MCP agents with databases, storage, monitoring, and enterprise APIs, along with techniques for cost optimization and observability. By the end, participants will understand how MCP simplifies interoperability and provides a foundation for building robust, production-ready agentic systems across multi-cloud environments.
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

12:50pm EDT

Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports - Shaun Smith, Hugging Face & Kurtis Van Gent, Google
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
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 motivation behind them.
- Details the latest approaches on handling serverless Elicitation, Sampling and Sessions.
- Introduces the application and infrastructure patterns that can take advantage of the stateless protocol.

We'll also update on the latest roadmap status and expected migration timelines and approach
Speakers
avatar for Shaun Smith

Shaun Smith

Open Source MCP and Agents, Hugging Face
Shaun Smith leads Open Source MCP at Hugging Face, and is an MCP Steering Committee member serving as a Community Moderator and within the Transports Working Group.

avatar for Kurtis Van Gent

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 April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

12:50pm EDT

Golem To Murderbot: Challenges With Agentic Security Delegation Via MCP - Michael Schwartz, Gluu
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
To implement "Zero Trust", authorization must be enforced consistently across every layer: inside the agent, in the cloud (like MCP gateways and services), and down to the database. Each layer needs its own dynamic authorization decision engine, yet those decisions must remain aligned and explainable.

As AI agents become first-class actors in enterprise systems, traditional security models start to strain. This session examines how agentic workflows challenge today’s delegation mechanisms, especially when agents act autonomously, chain operations, or cross trust boundaries. We’ll explore where OAuth works well and where it falls short.

The session argues for centralized policy management using Cedar, decoupled from application code to prevent policy drift. It will introduce emerging governance models like GovOps, which treat policies, schemas, and authorization logic as managed assets with lifecycle controls and automated compliance. Attendees will leave with a practical ideas for secure agent delegation and governing agentic systems at scale.

The discussion frame is two narratives: a 15th century myth and a 2025 Apple TV mini-series based Martha Wells' books.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz

Founder / CEO, Gluu
Mike is the founder of cybersecurity software vendor Gluu, BD of the Linux Foundation Janssen Project, and twice a week hosts the livestream Identerati Office Hours. He is also author of "Securing the Perimeter" (Apress 2018) about open source digital identity. His podcast "Open Source... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

12:50pm EDT

Sponsored Session: Who's Driving? Delegation and the Confused Deputy Problem for AI Agents - Vitor Balocco & Alvaro Inckot, Runlayer
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
When an AI agent holds your OAuth token, what stops it from acting beyond your intent? We'll cover why OAuth 2.1 alone isn't enough for agentic AI, how the industry is responding (NIST, IETF, major identity vendors), and how to implement delegation that gives agents scoped, auditable, revocable permission to act on behalf of users.
Speakers
avatar for Alvaro Inckot

Alvaro Inckot

Founding Identity Engineer, Runlayer
Founding Identity Engineer at Runlayer, where the job is making sure AI agents don't do things they shouldn't, even when they've been told they can. Background in distributed, auth, and identity systems at Intel.
avatar for Vitor Balocco

Vitor Balocco

Co-founder, Runlayer
Vitor Balocco is co-founder of Runlayer. Previously, Vitor was a Staff AI Engineer at Zapier and is a recognized MCP expert, speaking at international conferences on vulnerabilities and defense.


Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)

1:15pm EDT

1:35pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - Your First MCP App in 5 Minutes: Make Your Product Available to ChatGPT/Claude
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:35pm - 1:45pm EDT
Build your first MCP App live at our booth (no coding required). MCP Apps are MCP servers with your UI inside the chat interface. Learn how to make your product available to 800M+ ChatGPT / Claude users. Walk away with your app deployed and hosted for free, plus cool merch.

Sponsor: Manufact
Location: Booth D/P12 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:35pm - 1:45pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

1:55pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - Come Try Out an MCP App Made with FastMCP, Horizon, and Prefab
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
We'll demo an MCP app, then share a link so you can connect it to your own MCP client and explore it yourself. Stop by, try it out, get a special treat, and enter a raffle for a chance to win a Playdate! 

Sponsor: Prefect
Location: Booth D/P7 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

1:55pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet AWS Open Source at MCP Dev Summit
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Stop by the @AWSOpen booth at #MCPDevSummit to connect with engineers from the Strands, AgentCore, and MCP teams. See how Amazon scaled MCP to tens of thousands of engineers — and geek out with the people building it. #AWS #OpenSource

Sponsor: AWS
Location: Booth D/P2 within the Solutions Showcase

Be sure to also join us for an attendee reception on Thursday, April 2 at the Elsie Rooftop. The event is open to all attendees but space is limited. Secure your space today: https://luma.com/jex5jvcu


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

2:35pm EDT

MCP Apps Best Practices: Patterns and Pitfalls - Olivier Chafik & Anton Pidkuiko, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
MCP Apps open a new world of possibilities for interactions in AI chats.
While SEP-1865 defines how they work, this talk is about how to build them well.

We'll share the patterns emerging from real MCP Apps development: understanding the data flow between servers, apps, and models — including the interplay of tool inputs and results (streamed or complete), when to use structuredContent versus _meta, how model context updates propagate, how to create tools visible to your app only, etc.

Beyond the protocol mechanics, we'll cover practical concerns: building apps that work across hosts, handling authenticated data at scale, managing state persistence, and keeping heavy visualizations performant. We'll also walk through the common pitfalls — the silent failures and subtle bugs that waste hours — and the debugging workflows and tools that surface them.

You'll leave with tricks and patterns you can apply immediately and a mental model for reasoning about MCP Apps architecture.
Speakers
avatar for Anton Pidkuiko

Anton Pidkuiko

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Anton works on MCP (Model Context Protocol) tooling and integrations at Anthropic, with a focus on MCP Apps, connectors, and interactive UI surfaces.
avatar for Olivier Chafik

Olivier Chafik

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Co-author of the MCP Apps extension, Olivier joined the MCP team at Anthropic in 2025, after working at Google (mostly AdSense) for 13 years. In recent years, he contributed to OSS projects such as OpenSCAD & llama.cpp, and is particularly excited by tool calling as the next interoperability... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

2:35pm EDT

Mental Reset: How To Rethink Your User Flow in the Age of MCP & ChatGPT Apps - Erica Beavers, Alpic
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Remember when the mobile app stores launched? The first wave of apps were glorified websites, until someone made you tilt your phone to "drink" a virtual beer. That novelty unlocked the iPhone's true potential: apps that felt native to the device. Today, we're at a similar inflection point with ChatGPT Apps and MCP integrations.

After building dozens of AI-powered applications, we’ve identified some interaction patterns that truly shine and those that fall flat.

This talk explores what makes ChatGPT (& MCP) apps fundamentally different from traditional software.

We'll examine novel use cases like adaptive gaming where models seamlessly adopt complex roles, analytics tools that merge interactive visualizations with conversational insights, and SaaS integrations that surface the right features at the right time.

You’ll learn how to design for this new paradigm: what to expose, how users move through AI-native workflows, and what doesn’t work. Your product now lives inside the highest-distribution AI platform. The real question isn’t whether to build for it, but how to make apps that feel truly revolutionary.
Speakers
avatar for Erica Beavers

Erica Beavers

Cofounder, Alpic
Co-founder of Alpic, seasoned infrastructure builders with deep experience in distributed systems, serverless architecture, and developer platforms. Previously, built Streamroot, a video delivery startup acquired by a major US telco, and now focused on making agent-native apps easy... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

2:35pm EDT

Protocol Evolution: Adapting the Model Context Protocol for SLMs and the Edge - Kierra Dotson, Further
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was designed for robust, cloud-based LLM interactions. However, the proliferation of Small Language Models (SLMs) and their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices (e.g., IoT, mobile) introduces critical challenges to the protocol's current specification. This talk provides a deep-dive into the necessary technical adaptations for MCP to thrive at the edge. We will explore:
Context Window Optimization: Protocol-level strategies for efficient context serialization and deserialization to minimize latency and memory footprint on SLMs.
Asynchronous Context Management: How to handle intermittent connectivity and power-saving modes on edge devices through novel MCP transport and state management mechanisms.
Edge-Native Context Caching: A proposal for a lightweight, on-device context caching layer that adheres to the MCP specification while ensuring data freshness and integrity. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the current limitations and a roadmap for contributing to the MCP specification's evolution for the next generation of ubiquitous, context-aware edge AI.
Speakers
avatar for Kierra Dotson

Kierra Dotson

Director of AI Strategy, Further
Kierra Dotson is an AI Engineer specializing in the critical intersection of AI strategy, operations (AgentOps), and governance. With a strong background in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Data Architecture, she focuses on building scalable, reliable, and compliant AI systems. Kierra... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

2:35pm EDT

Sponsored Session: Agents and MCP @ Google Scale - Alan Blount & Vaibhav Katkade, Google Cloud
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Build, scale, govern, and optimize your agents using Google's ecosystem alongside the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This session will zoom through the complete agent lifecycle. We will vibe-code ADK agents with AntiGravity and it will use skills to access WebMCP. We will then tackle infrastructure, showing you how to effectively scale your usage with remote MCP servers, Google Cloud hosting, and decompose into multi-agent systems with A2A. Finally, we will cover critical governance strategies, highlighting how to manage your MCPs, agents, and API tools securely using Apigee or an OSS stack featuring an MCP-enhanced Envoy proxy.
Speakers
avatar for Vaibhav Katkade

Vaibhav Katkade

Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud
Vaibhav has spent 15+ years working with Fortune 100 enterprises working on zero-trust enterprise security solutions across enterprise on-premise and cloud networks. Most recently at Google, he has been working on products and solutions to secure and govern MCP and agentic worklo... Read More →
avatar for Alan Blount

Alan Blount

Senior Product Manager, Google
Alan Blount (he/him) is a Sr. Product Manager for the Agent Platform at Google Cloud Vertex AI. A 20 year software engineer turned PM, he empowers developers to build trustworthy, state-of-the-art Gen AI agents. His focus spans the alphabet soup of agentic tech: ADK, A2A, MCP, A2UI... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)

2:35pm EDT

One Spec, Ten SDKs, Zero Excuses: Conformance Testing MCP - Paul Carleton, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
As the MCP specification evolves, so do the subtle behavioral differences between implementations that undermine the protocol's core promise: compatibility without coordination. How do you ensure a client built with the Python SDK behaves identically to one built with TypeScript, C#, or Go?

This talk introduces MCP's conformance testing infrastructure. Real SDK implementations run against scenarios that analyze their behavior and assess conformance. Each scenario exercises a specific protocol interaction from OAuth flows and Client ID Metadata Documents to resource metadata discovery, verifying that every SDK handles it correctly.

I'll cover how we built this, what we found when we ran it across SDKs, and how it's changed the way we develop and ship spec changes. You'll learn how conformance testing prevents entire categories of bugs, accelerates code generation of new implementations, increases security guarantees by simulating attacks, and enables evidence-based SDK tiering. I'll also cover how you can get involved: writing new scenarios, running tests against implementations, and helping close the gap between spec and reality.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Carleton

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 April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

2:35pm EDT

From Scopes To Intent: Reimagining Authorization for Autonomous Agents - Andres Aguiar & Abhishek Hingnikar, Okta
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has standardized how we connect models to data, but the security layer remains a work in progress. Currently, MCP implements authorization via standard OAuth scopes.

While this works for handling coarse-grained tool access, it presents challenges for finer grained permissions.

To solve this, we must move toward intent-based authorization—a model where agents are authorized to perform actions based on the specific context of a task, rather than a pre-approved list of capabilities.

This presentation will dissect the consequences of the current OAuth model on agent design and present ideas of how to address them. We will discuss how to implement dynamic authorization that allows agents to be helpful without being intrusive, ensuring that security scales alongside intelligence.
Speakers
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Abhishek Hingnikar

Product Architect, Okta
avatar for Andres Aguiar

Andres Aguiar

Director of Product @ Okta, Okta
Solving Authorization with openfga.dev | fga.dev
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

3:05pm EDT

Patterns for Building MCP-powered Agent Systems - Jiquan Ngiam, MintMCP
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
MCPs unlock agent data access, but that's only the first step towards building agents that can work autonomously. How do we build a complete system where multiple agents work together, maintain state across sessions, and the whole thing runs reliably every day.

I use agents that work with 10+ connections daily for both personal and work use cases: health MCPs/APIs (Strava, Apple Health), productivity tools (Calendar, Linear), business systems (Attio CRM, email), and developer tools (GitHub). This talk shares effective architectural patterns that emerged from actually using this system.

We'll cover MCP composition (Virtual MCPs) and how to orchestrate multiple agents with memory. We show how state management using Git as agent memory is effective, as it provides versioning and rollback. We treat CLAUDE.md files as behavioral memory in the same system. Finally, we cover security concerns and best practices to manage agents that have access to sensitive and/or untrusted data.
Speakers
avatar for Jiquan Ngiam

Jiquan Ngiam

Co-founder, CEO, MintMCP
Jiquan Ngiam was a senior staff researcher at Google Brain and founding team member at Coursera, where he helped build Andrew Ng's online machine learning course from the ground up. He co-authored pioneering work in multimodal deep learning at Stanford. Currently co-founder and... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

3:05pm EDT

Skills Vs. MCP Vs. Code Mode: Cutting Through the Hype (and the Rage) - Nikolay Rodionov, Alpic
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
The AI agent ecosystem is fragmenting into competing paradigms, each promising to be the future of how AI systems interact with the world. Skills are simple markdown local workflows using scripts, MCP provides structured tool access across platforms, and Code Mode solves Context bloat problems by executing MCP Tools as code. Most people think these are competing paradigms. They are not.

This talk cuts through the hype and developer frustration to examine what these approaches actually enable, how they overlap, and how do they complete each other.

**Key Learnings**

- Clear mental model explaining the concepts behind Skills, MCP, and Code Mode: what each actually does vs. marketing claims
- How these paradigms complement rather than compete: practical patterns for combining them (Skills in MCP Servers!)
- Decision framework: when to reach for each approach based on your use case, and a map of in which MCP Client each concept is already implemented
- Where the ecosystem is heading and how to future-proof your architectural choices
Speakers
avatar for Nikolay Rodionov

Nikolay Rodionov

Co-founder and COO, Alpic
Nikolay Rodionov is a cofounder and COO at Alpic, an AI infrastructure startup for MCP, and creator of Skybridge, an open-source framework to build MCP Apps. He previously founded Streamroot, a P2P video delivery technology that powered multiple Super Bowl streaming events before... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:05pm EDT

Sponsored Session: Future-Proofing AI Agents: The Strategic Role of MCP - Don Murray, Safe Software
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Enterprises are embracing generative and agentic AI as models evolve faster than ever, creating uncertainty. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) resolves this by standardizing connections between AI and underlying services. We demonstrate how the ability to both consume and build MCP services provides the flexibility to bring all your data to any AI easily.



In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Speakers
avatar for Don Murray

Don Murray

CEO, Co-Founder, Safe Software
Don Murray is a Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Safe Software, a company at the forefront of data integration. His entrepreneurial journey began in 1993 when Safe Software was launched, driven by a vision to enhance data integration technology
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Session Slides Yes

3:05pm EDT

Your #1 Docs Audience Isn't Human: Dev Ed's MCP Strategy at Apollo - Daniel Abdelsamed, Apollo GraphQL
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
AI agents are rapidly becoming the primary consumers of technical documentation. At Apollo GraphQL, our traffic data shows agents on pace to become our #1 traffic source, prompting a shift in how we write, structure, and serve docs. We now have two distinct audiences that read differently: AI needs patterns, not paragraphs. Connecting sentences that help humans are now wasted tokens.

As the sole documentation engineer at Apollo, I’ve spent the past year building MCP tooling for our docs. This talk covers what worked, what failed, how we tested, and what surprised us.

I’ll walk through the evolution from serving AI full pages to chunked retrieval strategies that balance completeness with token usage. You’ll see how we used AI tooling to restructure docs for AI readability and exposed them as MCP tools agents are compelled to use.

To measure progress, we built an evaluation suite: a sandboxed runner that executes end-user prompts against our MCP server, builds an application, seals the output, then passes it to a second model for scoring against a reference solution and rubric. I’ll demo this live and share how it produced stable metrics in a non-deterministic AI world.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Abdelsamed

Daniel Abdelsamed

Staff Software Engineer, Apollo GraphQL
Daniel Abdelsamed is a Staff Software Engineer at Apollo, where he has spent the last four years architecting and scaling the company’s documentation platforms. With nearly a decade of experience in TypeScript and application design, he focuses on building durable, developer-friendly... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:05pm EDT

Durable, Asynchronous, and Tricky: Implementing MCP Tasks in Practice - Cornelia Davis, Temporal
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
In November 2025 the Model Context Protocol introduced Tasks, which deliver first-class async semantics, something that is both excellent, and hard. Tasks define long-running operations with explicit client/server coordination, TTLs, and lifecycle states. They require durable state beyond ephemeral connections and require developers address distributed-systems concerns like stable task identity, rediscovery via tasks/list, mismatched sync/async expectations, and failures across retries and restarts.

This talk digs into all of those concerns through real implementations. We’ll examine what the spec requires, and what it intentionally leaves open (i.e. how durability is achieved), as well as what happens when clients or servers restart mid-task. We’ll talk about how to do idempotency right, and how those choices shape polling, backpressure, and error handling. We’ll also cover how to best do human-in-the-loop when the Task has input_required, all while avoiding any tight coupling between the client and server.

You’ll come away with concrete practices for building robust async MCP clients and servers, and a clearer mental model of the distributed systems issues the spec encodes.
Speakers
avatar for Cornelia Davis

Cornelia Davis

Developer Advocate, Temporal
Cornelia has spent a career at the forefront of technological innovation, starting with image processing algorithm development, moving to web-centric computing in the late 1990s, and then more than a decade working in cloud-native software and DevOps platforms. As a Developer Advocate... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

3:05pm EDT

Deploying MCP at Scale Without Skipping Compliance - Becky Brooks, MCP Manager by Usercentrics
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
With EU AI Act enforcement beginning this year, teams deploying MCP need to understand what regulators will actually look for in production systems.

This talk is a practical guide for builders and IT teams deploying MCP at scale without dodging compliance. We’ll break down the concrete requirements emerging from regulation, including audit logs, traceability, access controls, and oversight mechanisms, and show how they map directly to MCP-based architectures.

We’ll cover how compliance applies across the systems MCP touches, from internal tools and data sources to the emerging MCP Apps ecosystem, where consumer-facing workflows introduce new expectations around transparency, consent, and accountability as AI increasingly mediates how brands and consumers interact.

Attendees will leave with a clear picture of what it takes to deploy MCP that works in production and holds up under regulatory scrutiny.
Speakers
avatar for Becky Brooks

Becky Brooks

Staff Product Marketing Manager, MCP Manager by Usercentrics
Becky Brooks is a Staff Product Marketing Manager at MCP Manager by Usercentrics, where she helps teams safely and confidently deploy MCP in real-world AI systems. She focuses on making MCP accessible and trustworthy so teams can use AI to move faster without sacrificing safety or... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:05pm - 3:30pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Any

3:35pm EDT

Declarative MCP Servers for Secure, Specialized AI Agents - Josh Reini & Reetika Roy, Snowflake
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Tool sprawl is a common failure mode for enterprise agents: the more tools an agent can reach, the less predictable it becomes—driving hallucinations, higher token costs, and larger security blast radius. Scaling agents safely requires specialization enforced by capability boundaries, not just better prompts.

This talk explores MCP best practices through a managed implementation where MCP servers are declared as explicit collections of tools and treated as governed objects. Specialization comes from two independent boundaries: (1) the MCP server definition limits the tool surface an agent can even access, and (2) RBAC still applies inside that server—so a user can only invoke tools they’re authorized to use, even if they can access the server that contains them.

Together, these boundaries reduce sprawl while improving operability: agents become easier to reason about, costs drop because fewer tools are in play, and least privilege is enforced with practical, role-aligned granularity.
Speakers
avatar for Josh Reini

Josh Reini

Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Josh is a developer advocate for Snowflake, previously at TruEra (recently acquired by Snowflake). He is also a maintainer of open-source TruLens, a library to systematically track and evaluate LLM based applications.

Josh has delivered tech talks and workshops to thousands of developers at events including PyData, Global AI Conference, NYC Dev Day, LLMs and the Generative AI Revolution, AI developer meetups including AI Camp and Unstructured SF Meetup... Read More →
avatar for Reetika Roy

Reetika Roy

Staff Software Engineer, Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer, Snowflake
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

3:35pm EDT

Code Mode Is Best Served in the Shell - Jan Curn, Apify
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
MCP adoption is growing, but most agent integrations still treat tools as a prompt-time API, burning context tokens on tool definitions, re-copying intermediate results, and losing accuracy along the way. This improper use also leads to unfair criticism of MCP itself.

To address this problem, Cloudflare proposed MCP “code mode”: instead of prompt-time JSON tool calls, the model generates small programs that call tools via an API and run in a sandbox. This dramatically reduces overhead while improving accuracy in chained tool use. An alternative approach recently implemented by Cursor and Anthropic uses dynamic tool discovery to load only the relevant tools into context.

In this talk, we’ll introduce 𝚖𝚌𝚙𝚌 (https://github.com/apify/mcpc), a new open-source universal CLI client for MCP that brings both code mode and dynamic tool discovery to where they shine: the terminal. With persistent sessions, JSON output for scripting, and an MCP proxy for sandboxing, mcpc is an invaluable tool for AI engineers. We’ll live-demo a practical workflow that invokes multiple MCP servers in parallel, filters and transforms results locally, and then turns the interaction into reusable scripts.
Speakers
avatar for Jan Curn

Jan Curn

Founder & CEO, Apify
Jan Curn is the founder and CEO of Apify (https://apify.com), the world's largest marketplace of web data extraction and automation tools, powering (not only) AI agents with up-to-date data. He has a lifelong passion for software engineering, which earned him an MSc and a PhD in computer... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:35pm EDT

My MCP Server Code Works, but the Agent Fails: The Case for MCP-specific Evaluations - Calum Murray & Wesley Chun, Red Hat
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
You can write a perfect MCP server (clean code, typed schemas, 100% code coverage), yet agent interactions still fail. This is the probabilistic gap: your server is deterministic, but its user (the agent) is stochastic.

Standard “Agent Evals” are often the wrong tool to fix this. They judge the final outcome (was the answer good?), not the process. They struggle to provide useful insights into how the agent understands and uses your MCP server, instead focusing on providing insights into the agent itself.

In this session, we introduce mcpchecker, an open source framework for MCP server evaluations. We will show how to build integration tests specifically for the agent-MCP server interface, allowing you to isolate and debug these interactions.

Stop guessing why agents fail. Learn to test your server’s semantic interface and prove that agents can actually understand it.
Speakers
avatar for Calum Murray

Calum Murray

Software Engineer, Red Hat
I am a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I work on Applied AI projects with a focus on MCP and Agents. I also work on Serverless with the Knative community.

I am a CNCF ambassador, where I present about new and exciting technologies in the AI/Serverless as well as mentor new contributors... Read More →
avatar for Wesley Chun

Wesley Chun

Technical Program Manager - AI, Red Hat
WESLEY CHUN, MSCS, is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud (GCP) & Google Workspace (GWS), author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" series (corepython.com), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", and has written for Linux Journal & CNET. He's currently... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:35pm EDT

OCI Images as MCP Packaging: Supply Chain Security for AI Tools - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
So you found an MCP server on npm that does exactly what you need. You run npx and... now what? One reason people skip security verification for MCP servers is that it's genuinely hard to know what you're actually running. The package works, so why question it?

Here's the thing: MCP servers are getting access to your files, your APIs, your credentials. We should probably know what's in them before we hand over the keys.

In this talk, we'll dig into using OCI containers as the packaging standard for MCP servers - not because containers are trendy, but because they unlock supply chain security constructs that npm and PyPI simply don't have. We'll walk through building repackaging pipelines that verify source packages, run MCP-specific security scans, and produce attestations with Sigstore. Real pipelines, real commands, real output.

Note that this won't solve every trust problem - but it gets us a lot closer to "I know what I'm running" than the current state of affairs.
Speakers
avatar for Juan A. Osorio

Juan A. Osorio

Principal Engineer, Stacklok
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 April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:35pm EDT

Clients? Servers? Agents? The Beautiful Asymmetry of the MCP Spec - Rohit Ganguly, Descope
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Since its inception, we've talked about MCP from the perspective of Clients and Servers. This session focuses on an interesting paradigm taking advantage of the intentional asymmetry of the MCP spec - what if a Client was also a Server? What happens when we break out of a singular client-server pair and into multiple? What can this idea tell us about the future of MCP?

This session will cover the concept of an "MCP Agent" - a Client that is also a Server. We'll construct a system design for this MCP Agent to other servers and MCP agents and touch on several key considerations including auth and scalability.

Participants are expected to have an introductory knowledge of MCP, the mechanics of how Clients and Servers interact with each other, and a general interest in agent-to-agent communication!
Speakers
avatar for Rohit Ganguly

Rohit Ganguly

AI Product Manager, Descope
Rohit is an AI Product Manager at Descope, where he leads the MCP Auth and Agentic Identity efforts. Previously, he worked in Microsoft's Developer Division across products like the Azure SDKs and VS Code before launching the Azure MCP Server.
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

3:35pm EDT

Shadow MCP: Finding the MCPs Nobody Approved - Aidan Sochowski & Alexander Frazer, Runlayer
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Shadow IT is back - but this time it's AI-powered. Employees are configuring MCP servers directly in Cursor, Claude Desktop, and VS Code, creating a blind spot that traditional security tools miss. These shadow MCPs operate outside centralized control, enabling data exfiltration, supply chain attacks, and compliance violations.

This talk exposes the shadow MCP problem and presents a comprehensive detection and response framework:

- Why shadow MCPs are uniquely dangerous (AI amplifies access, automates actions, no audit trail)
- Discovery techniques: IDE config scanning, MDM integration, network detection patterns
- Classification: distinguishing managed vs shadow servers across device fleets
- Response playbooks: triage, investigation, remediation by risk level

I'll share real vulnerability examples from official MCPs (GitHub, Asana, Supabase, Postmark) and demonstrate automated detection through IDE hooks (Cursor, Claude Code) and MDM platforms (SimpleMDM, Jamf).

Attendees will leave with practical techniques for gaining visibility into shadow MCP usage and a framework for bringing unauthorized integrations under organizational control.
Speakers
AS

Aidan Sochowski

Senior Product Engineer, Runlayer
Aidan is a founding product engineer at Runlayer. Previously he's worked
at Glean on scalable connector and crawler infrastructure and at YouTube
on recommendations serving infrastructure

... Read More →
avatar for Alexander Frazer

Alexander Frazer

Founding Security Engineer, Runlayer
Alexander Frazer is a Founding Security Engineer at Runlayer, specializing in generative AI and cybersecurity. With 15+ years of experience, he focuses on AI security challenges and MCP implementations. Previously he has led creation and evaluation of AI-driven security triage systems... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

4:00pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

When MCP Isn’t Enough: Product Decisions Behind Scalable Agent Systems - Cansu Berkem, Datadog
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
MCP is a strong foundation for building AI agents, enabling fast iteration, clear boundaries, and safer early deployments. But as agents move from prototypes to products customers rely on, product teams begin to hit limits around reliability, user experience, observability, and long-running workflows.

In this talk, I’ll share a product leader’s perspective on how MCP-based agent systems evolve in production. We’ll explore the product signals that indicate when MCP-only approaches start to constrain outcomes, and how teams can extend MCP-driven systems to meet higher expectations around trust, clarity, and control. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for scaling MCP-based agents from experimentation to dependable products.
Speakers
avatar for Cansu Berkem

Cansu Berkem

Director of Product Management, Datadog
Cansu Berkem is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, leading AI and Service Management platforms, and the product leader behind Bits AI, a generative AI copilot focused on building trusted, agentic AI systems in production. She has 15+ years of experience building AI, data... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Session Slides Yes

4:30pm EDT

Bridging Kernel Space and AI: Building an MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Observability - Daniel Hodges, Meta
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
The Model Context Protocol enables AI assistants to interface with external tools and data sources, but most examples focus on high-level APIs and databases. This talk explores building a production MCP server that exposes low-level Linux kernel observability data to AI assistants, enabling natural language debugging of complex systems.

`scxtop` is an observability tool for Linux's new sched_ext extensible scheduler framework (https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/tree/main/tools/scxtop). By implementing MCP, it allows developers to ask questions like "Why is my application experiencing high scheduling latency?" and receive AI-driven analysis that correlates kernel tracing data, hardware topology, performance counters, and scheduler internals.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Hodges

Daniel Hodges

Software Engineer, Meta
Daniel Hodges is a software engineer on the Linux team at Meta. He has previous worked in areas such a observability, profiling, and application performance testing.
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

4:30pm EDT

CANCELLED - Safer AI Integration Using Mock MCP Servers for Your 3rd-Party APIs - Kin Lane, Naftiko
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Developing MCP servers against the APIs you depend on can feel risky, especially when those servers interact with real-world data in production services. When integrating AI into the enterprise, you're often better off starting in a sandbox, but not all 3rd-party APIs offer sandboxes, let alone MCP-compatible ones. No problem: OpenAPI, Microcks, and Bruno are here to help.


At Naftiko, we've been delivering HTTP and MCP sandboxes for common 3rd-party APIs like GitHub, Jira, Notion, and Figma. Our approach uses OpenAPI specifications published to GitHub, open-source Microcks to deliver mock REST APIs and MCP servers, and Bruno as an HTTP client to explore the sandbox. We'll share how we design OpenAPI specs with use-case-driven, business-aligned examples that can be easily forked and mocked on-premise using Microcks, providing a safer development approach for anyone building with MCP and integrating it into LLMs, copilots, and agentic automation.

Join us for a hands-on, practical journey through how OpenAPI, Microcks, GitHub, and Bruno can help you reduce the risk of AI integration with 3rd-party, and internal APIs.
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

4:30pm EDT

Schema To Insight: Architecting Production-Grade Database MCP Tools - Kurtis Van Gent & Wenxin Du, Google
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Connecting an LLM to a database is the "Hello World" of agentic AI, but scaling that to production requires solving complex problems in security, context management, and reliability. You can't simply feed a 500-table schema into a context window and hope for the best.
In this session, the creators of the MCP Toolbox for Databases (12.5k stars) break down the specific architecture required to give agents safe, high-fidelity access to your data. You will learn the patterns that power over 6 million monthly tool calls, including:
Raw SQL vs. Semantic Abstraction: A framework for deciding when to give an agent raw query power vs. when to abstract logic into strict semantic tools.
Safety & Governance: Implementing read-only guardrails, query validation, and "Human-in-the-Loop" friction points to prevent accidental data loss or injection risks.
Reducing Hallucinations: How to format database metadata and column descriptions to drastically improve an agent's query accuracy.
Speakers
avatar for Kurtis Van Gent

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.
avatar for Wenxin Du

Wenxin Du

Software Engineer, Google
Wenxin Du is a core maintainer of MCP Toolbox for Databases. She delivered the end-to-end implementation of Toolbox's end-user authorization system and integrated semantic search functionality into Toolbox.
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

4:30pm EDT

MCP Vs CLIs: Why Agents Need Purpose-Built Interfaces - Sam Morrow, GitHub
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
You approve one sudo command (Ubuntu's default timeout is 15 minutes), so now your agent can `rm -rf /` your entire machine without asking again. You could run in a sandbox, but even there, `gh` can add a public SSH key to your account, or leak a token into the context window.

These aren't hypotheticals. Agents have deleted production databases and wiped drives using interfaces designed for humans, not autonomous AI. CLIs optimize for human ergonomics; APIs optimize for programmatic flexibility. Neither provides what agents need: structural safety boundaries, workflow context, graceful error recovery and auditable actions.

MCP can solve virtually all of these. This talk explores what breaks when agents use CLIs and APIs, and how MCP addresses these failures through protocol-level security, structured tool definitions, workflow guidance, consent flows, and registries.

We'll see why MCP offers the only sane path forward for safe agentic AI, and how it enables enterprise governance that unlocks mass corporate adoption. We'll also discuss gaps that still need addressing. You'll leave knowing exactly why "just use CLIs" is dangerous advice—and what to do instead.
Speakers
avatar for Sam Morrow

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 April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

4:30pm EDT

If You Can Secure It Here, You Can Secure It Anywhere - Milan Williams & Katrina Liu, Semgrep
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Here's the thing about being a security company: you can't ship a vulnerable MCP server. For us, getting pwned isn’t just embarrassing - it gets us on the front page of Hacker News. Our customers trust us to protect them from nation-state attackers, well-funded adversaries (and the odd teenager attacking for lolz.)

At the same time, the MCP ecosystem is still maturing. Hardening standards for sophisticated attackers don't exist yet. And with high-profile supply chain attacks now targeting agents, attackers are actively exploiting the trust developers place in their toolchains. Last year, a flaw in mcp-remote turned into a remote code execution nightmare, exposing over 400,000 developers. That's the reality we're building in.


When it came to our MCP server, we built it using the same rigor we use to protect the world's largest companies. This talk covers the threat model we designed against, gaps in MCP's current design that required workarounds, and ultimately how we built an MCP server trusted by enterprise customers, and hardened against even the most novel attacks. If we can secure it here, you can secure it anywhere.
Speakers
avatar for Milan Williams

Milan Williams

Senior Product Manager, Semgrep
I build security products. I'm a Senior Product Manager at Semgrep, a high-growth cybersecurity startup. I lead the teams responsible for Semgrep Code (SAST) and Secrets detection products.

I recently graduated from Harvard University with degrees in Computer Science and Physics. In my free time, you can find me geeking about the latest in security / developer tooling, running in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, or enjoying local theater... Read More →
avatar for Katrina Liu

Katrina Liu

Software Engineer, Semgrep
Katrina is a software engineer at Semgrep. She is on the Semgrep Analysis Foundations Team, the team that owns and maintains the core static analysis functionality of the Semgrep tool. She is currently working on Semgrep's MCP server.
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

5:00pm EDT

Evaluate What You Can't See: Measure the Probabilistic Nature of MCP - Prathmesh Patel & Marcelo Jimenez Rocabado, MCPJam
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Everyone in this room is building MCP integrations. Almost nobody knows how well they're delivering value.
Outcomes are inherently non-deterministic: the same user request can produce completely different results depending on how the agent interprets user intent. Building an effective MCP server isn't just about handling tool calls, it's about spinning a data flywheel where every interaction teaches you what's working, what's failing, and what your users actually need.

The teams that figure this out compound user value over time. MCP has an XY problem. Almost everyone at this summit is focused on the Y. Let's talk about the X.
Speakers
avatar for Prathmesh Patel

Prathmesh Patel

CEO, MCPJam
Prathmesh Patel is leading MCPJam: an open-source developer platform helping thousands test, evaluate, and ship their MCP apps and servers. He's a former Technical Lead at Asana who owned Asana's MCP server, REST API, and OAuth AS. He also led Asana's prototyping and development of... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

5:00pm EDT

CANCELLED - Building Secure, Scalable, and Reliable Agentic AI Systems - Seetaram Rayarao, JP Morgan Chase
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a foundational standard for building agentic AI systems that interact with tools, data sources, and services in a consistent and interoperable way. However, adopting MCP effectively requires more than basic integration—it demands thoughtful design choices around security, scalability, observability, and reliability.

This session presents practical best practices for implementing MCP in real-world agentic AI applications. It covers how to structure MCP servers and tools, manage context boundaries, handle permissions and sensitive data, and design resilient agent workflows. The talk also explores patterns for prompt engineering, tool invocation, state management, and error handling when using MCP in cloud-native environments.

Attendees will leave with concrete guidance on how to use MCP to move from experimental agents to production-ready systems that are secure, maintainable, and scalable.
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

5:00pm EDT

Combine Skills and MCP To Close the Context Gap - Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
As AI agents become more capable, their biggest limitation is no longer reasoning — it’s context. Without access to procedural knowledge and domain-specific understanding, agents struggle to perform real work reliably. In this talk, we’ll explore how Skills address this gap by giving agents on-demand access to company-, team-, and user-specific context.

We’ll look at how Skills can be combined with MCP servers to build safer, more reliable agents, and walk through a real-world example of managing a Postgres database. Using evals, we’ll compare agent performance with and without Postgres-specific Skills, showing how MCP enables secure database access while dramatically improving outcomes.
Speakers
avatar for Pedro Rodrigues

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 April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

5:00pm EDT

MCP Meets Java: Engineering the MCP Java SDK - Dariusz Jędrzejczyk, Broadcom
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Java poses a challenge: mapping a fast-evolving specification onto a language that favors strict type safety and stability. This session explores the evolution of the official MCP Java SDK, moving beyond naive implementation to address the "hectic" reality of a shifting protocol while providing an enterprise-grade AI enabler.

We’ll discuss the transition from early bidirectional transports to recent Streamable HTTP with sessions and stateless patterns. You’ll learn how Java’s type system led to a "correct-by-construction" approach, ensuring invalid states are unrepresentable, rather than just throwing runtime errors. We will cover Java-specific security considerations, including pluggable authorization hooks designed for a fragmented security ecosystem.

Finally, we’ll share lessons on balancing abstraction with pragmatism: how we decoupled JSON serialization for pluggability and managed the friction between Java’s synchronous heritage and MCP’s asynchronous nature. Whether you're building AI-enabled apps or designing cross-language SDKs, this talk provides a blueprint for robust MCP adoption.
Speakers
avatar for Dariusz Jędrzejczyk

Dariusz Jędrzejczyk

Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom
Member of the Spring Team. MCP Java SDK maintainer. Maintainer of Project Reactor. Contributes to Spring portfolio projects. Passionate about developer productivity, distributed systems, concurrency, system design, and networking. Dariusz has commercial experience in Platform Engineering... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

5:00pm EDT

Building a Workflow Engine on MCP: Orchestrating Processes With Tasks - Donnie Adams, Obot AI
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
What if your workflow engine wasn't just a consumer of MCP servers, but was itself built entirely on the MCP protocol? This talk explores a novel architecture that uses MCP's newest primitives to create a production-ready workflow orchestration system.
We'll demonstrate how MCP's task framework provides natural workflow step management, while sampling enables intelligent decision-making at each stage. You'll see how dynamic tool definition works at both workflow and step levels, allowing workflows to adapt their capabilities on the fly. We'll also cover practical challenges like handling OAuth authentication flows mid-execution and coordinating multiple MCP servers within a single workflow.
Through a real-world case study you'll see how MCP's composability transforms workflow design. Rather than building yet another workflow engine that happens to use MCP tools, we'll show how treating MCP as the foundation protocol unlocks new patterns for distributed, intelligent automation.
Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the MCP specification and how the capabilities can be composed to create production-ready workflow applications.
Speakers
avatar for Donnie Adams

Donnie Adams

Software Architect, Obot AI
Donnie Adams is a Software Architect at Obot AI, where he builds enterprise MCP infrastructure including the Obot MCP Gateway and agent orchestration systems. His work focuses on MCP gateway architecture, OAuth integration, and distributed AI systems. He specializes in building production-grade... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

5:00pm EDT

Towards Building Safe & Secure Agentic AI - Dawn Song, UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence & Matt White, Linux Foundation/PyTorch Foundation
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Recent advancements in agentic AI have unlocked powerful new capabilities, however, they also introduce fundamentally new security risks. In this talk, I present a system-level view of the security landscape of agentic AI, drawing on a comprehensive systematization of attacks and defenses across modern agent architectures.

I show how increasing agent flexibility along different dimensions expands attack surfaces and enables threats such as prompt injection, memory poisoning, unsafe data flows, credential leakage, and unauthorized execution. Using real-world incidents and CVE analyses, I illustrate how agents can be manipulated through external content, compromised tools, or poisoned internal components.

The talk also provides a systematic overview of end-to-end automatic red teaming and risk assessment for agentic AI systems as well as a defense-in-depth framework for building secure agentic systems, spanning runtime guardrails, access control, information-flow tracking, privilege separation, and secure-by-design architectures, helping practitioners assess risk, close security gaps, and deploy agents safely at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Dawn Song

Dawn Song

Professor, Computer Science @ UC Berkeley and Director of Berkeley RDI (Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence), UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
Dawn Song is a UC Berkeley CS Professor & Berkeley RDI Co-Director. She is the recipient of the MacArthur, Guggenheim, ACM, IEEE, and Sloan Fellowship, Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Senior Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation... Read More →
avatar for Matt White

Matt White

Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation
Matt White is the Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at the Linux Foundation. He is also the Director of the Generative AI Commons. Matt has nearly 30 years of experience in applied research and standards in AI and data in telecom, media and gaming industries... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

5:30pm EDT

Operating MCP in the Enterprise: From Protocol To Production - Amar Deep Singh, GM Financial & Neelabh Tripathi, Cisco Systems
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables standardized AI agents, but real adoption depends on how MCP servers operate in production—not just how the protocol is defined.

This session provides a high-level, practitioner perspective on running MCP in enterprise environments. It covers how MCP servers fit into existing platforms, with a focus on observability, security, distributed tracking of agent behavior, and resiliency. Rather than diving deep into implementation details, the talk shares lessons learned from real deployments and common pitfalls teams face when moving MCP from experimentation to production.
Speakers
avatar for Amar Deep Singh

Amar Deep Singh

AVP IT Architecture (Head of Enterprise Reusable Services & Tech Standards)), GM Financial
Amar Deep Singh is a distinguished software architect and author with extensive experience in microservices and cloud computing. He is the author of "Building and Delivering Microservices on AWS," a comprehensive guide that explores software architecture patterns and the deployment... Read More →
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Neelabh Tripathi

Engineering Architect, Cisco Systems
Neelabh Tripathi is a seasoned IT professional with over 18 years of expertise in cloud computing, enterprise architecture, and microservices. He has worked with some of the world’s leading organizations, where he played pivotal roles in driving digital transformation and innov... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

5:30pm EDT

CANCELLED - Building the MCP Search Tool for Any Model - Kevin Yang, Warp
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
As MCP adoption grows, power users are connecting multiple servers for various workloads. This creates a challenge: in naive implementations, preloading all tool and resource definitions into the context window can add 50k+ tokens before the agent even starts working. Evaluating our agentic coding users at Warp, we found that ~90% of tasks don't use the MCP context available, and those that do only use few tools.

This led us to question whether MCP context needs to be statically front-loaded. So, we built a model-agnostic MCP search subagent that reduces token usage by 26% for MCP-using tasks and 10% when MCP context is available but unused. All in a model-agnostic implementation.

Attendees will leave with:
• A concrete architecture for dynamic MCP tool/resource discovery
• Evaluation strategies for ensuring search doesn't degrade agent quality
• A look into our model-agnostic implementation to adopt in any agentic coding harness
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Yang

Kevin Yang

Product Engineer, Warp
Kevin is one of Warp's earliest engineers, scaling Warp's AI features from prototype to over a hundred thousand daily users. He currently serves as a Tech Lead for Warp's Code product.
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

5:30pm EDT

If the LLM Can't Find You, You Don't Exist: Discoverability for MCP-Apps and ChatGPT Apps - Vincent McLeese, Ghost Team
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
The next wave of MCP servers face the same challenge: discoverability. If an LLM doesn't know when to invoke your tool, it doesn't exist. This will compound - ChatGPT has ~80 apps today, but as more LLMs launch app stores and MCP adoption accelerates, there will be millions.

Drawing from research optimizing ChatGPT apps since launch, this talk reveals metadata patterns that determine whether AI systems surface your tools - principles that apply directly to MCP server development.

What I'll cover:
- Two-channel discovery: How static search (registries i.e. ChatGPT's App Store) and dynamic invocation (LLM tool selection) require different optimization strategies.

- How LLMs read metadata: How tool names, descriptions, and parameters shape invocation decisions.

- The golden prompt set: Testing methodology using direct, indirect, and negative prompts to measure recall and precision.

- What converts: Fixed templates, workflow handoffs, context preservation vs anti-patterns that fail.

- Measuring success: Citation tracking, false positive monitoring, and iteration loops that compound discoverability gains.
Speakers
avatar for Vincent McLeese

Vincent McLeese

Product and Tech Lead, Ghost Team
Vincent McLeese is the Product and Tech Lead at Ghost Team, an
MCP Apps agency. He leads the development of appsdiscoverability.com,
a platform devloper by Ghost Team to help mcp apps become more
discoverable. A multiple founder with a background in tech strategy
from Accenture, Vinc



... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

5:30pm EDT

Rules Are Not Suggestions: A History of MCP Non-Compliance - Sterling Dreyer, Arcade.dev
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Less than 20% of remote MCP servers fully comply with the MCP Specification.
MCP adoption took off quickly, but full compliance didn't follow at the same pace. Today, partial implementations are common across both clients and servers, and the reasons go beyond just a fast-moving spec.
In this session, we'll walk you through:
-The first version of the MCP Specification and what it was designed for
-How MCP evolved to keep up with the quickly evolving AI ecosystem
-How clients and servers deviate from the spec and why developers choose not to comply
-What we can do to shrink the gap between design and implementation
This isn't a story about bad developers or tight deadlines. It's about how bending the rules has become part of how agents get built.
Speakers
avatar for Sterling Dreyer

Sterling Dreyer

Founding Engineer, Arcade.dev
Sterling is a founding engineer at Arcade.dev, focused on backend and infrastructure. Before Arcade, he was the second engineer at Featureform, a feature store platform acquired by Redis.
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
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5:30pm EDT

URL Elicitation Deep Dive: Third-party OAuth Solved (and More!) - Nate Barbettini, Arcade.dev
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
The Nov 2025 release of MCP introduced a new client capability: URL Elicitation. This capability is game-changing for MCP servers that interact with external systems. But don't just take our word for it... Hear it straight from the author of the spec!

In this talk, Nate (lead author of URL Elicitation) will break down the "what" and "why" of this new addition to the protocol. You'll learn about:
- Why it's a mistake to reuse or "pass through" OAuth tokens from one server to another
- The confused deputy problem and other common pitfalls to watch out for
- How URL Elicitation unlocks a secure way for MCP servers to call external services that use OAuth or API keys, require payments, or gather sensitive information
- The correct security patterns for any remote MCP server project today

No need to be a security expert to attend! Nate will break down the problems and solutions in clear, relatable language, and provide crucial guidance for anyone building MCP servers in 2026 and beyond.
Speakers
avatar for Nate Barbettini

Nate Barbettini

Founding Engineer, Arcade.dev
Nate Barbettini is a leading voice in security and AI. At Arcade.dev, he's building the MCP runtime that helps enterprises deploy multi-user AI agents that take actions across any system. As an active MCP contributor, Nate is focused on security-critical work, authoring URL Elicitation... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

5:30pm EDT

MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate & Boteng Yao, Google
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
As MCP adoption grows, teams are facing a new set of challenges: session management across fleets, policy enforcement for agents and users, and operating MCP traffic at scale.

We’ll explore how proxies currently handle stateful MCP sessions, how stateless designs dramatically simplify scaling and operations, and how proxies like Envoy can enforce authorization, tool safety, and policy without becoming bottlenecks. The discussion will also look ahead to emerging MCP proposals, including stateless transports, async tasks, and server discovery, and why alignment between protocol evolution and proxy implementations matters for the ecosystem.

Attendees will leave with concrete architectural insights, practical lessons learned, and a clearer picture of where MCP traffic handling is headed and how to build for it now.
Speakers
avatar for Boteng Yao

Boteng Yao

Software Engineer, Google
Boteng is a Senior Envoy Maintainer and Software Engineer at Google, working on Envoy for various products with an emphasis on data plane, reliability, and security.
avatar for Erica Hughberg

Erica Hughberg

Envoy AI Gateway Maintainer, Tetrate
Erica Hughberg is a technical leader, software engineer, and community advocate passionate about helping engineering teams develop scalable, secure, and user-focused application platforms. As a maintainer of Envoy AI Gateway, she concentrates on features that enable organizations... Read More →
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

6:00pm EDT

Onsite Attendee Reception Sponsored by Google Cloud
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
When sessions end, the conversation continues in the Solutions Showcase. Grab a drink, enjoy light bites, and connect with fellow attendees while exploring cutting-edge tools, products, and ideas from our sponsors. A great opportunity to spark new ideas and explore what’s happening across the MCP ecosystem.

Sponsored by
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

6:30pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - A Faster Way to Run and Share MCP Servers
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:30pm - 6:40pm EDT
Build with Docker’s MCP Catalog, Toolkit, and Gateway to see how easy it is to discover, configure, run, and share MCP servers. This demo shows a faster, cleaner path from MCP experimentation to real team use, without giving up control. Stop by for a chance to win a Docker hoodie!

Sponsor: Docker
Location: Booth D/P9 within the Solutions Showcase


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:30pm - 6:40pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

7:30pm EDT

Speaker & Media Reception (By Invitation Only)
Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Speakers and members of the media are invited to join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and conversation at Dear Irving on Hudson. Enjoy an evening of connection and conversation with fellow speakers and media against a backdrop of sweeping New York City views.

Dear Irving on Hudson is approximately an 11-minute walk from the New York Marriott Marquis.

Guests of all ages are welcome at the Speaker & Media Reception. If you’d like to enjoy alcoholic drinks, you must bring a government-issued photo ID for verification. We can’t wait to see you there!
Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Dear Irving on Hudson 310 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018
 
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