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April 2-3, 2026
New York, NY
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
Wednesday, April 1
 

8:00am EDT

Workshop Check-In (Registered Workshop Attendees Only)
Wednesday April 1, 2026 8:00am - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Foyer (9th Floor)

Wednesday April 1, 2026 8:00am - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Foyer (9th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am EDT

Workshop: Architecting Agentic Engineering Loops With MCP - Tadas Antanavicius, Pulse MCP [Pre-Registration Required, Additional Fee]
Wednesday April 1, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon A + B (9th Floor)
The job of a software engineer is rapidly evolving. We're now beyond using AI as a Stack Overflow alternative or even as a pair programmer. Agentic engineering - the act of building and maintaining a system to reliably give coding agents the tools and context they need to complete work autonomously - is the new layer of abstraction the industry is moving toward.Core to building these autonomous...
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Tadas Antanavicius

Co-Founder, PulseMCP
Tadas is one of the founders of PulseMCP, an in-depth weekly newsletter covering the MCP ecosystem that has been running since early December 2024. He is a member of the MCP steering group, where he is a maintainer of the MCP Registry as well as the MCP contributor community across... Read More →
Workshop Architecting Agentic Engineering Loops With MCP pdf
Wednesday April 1, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon A + B (9th Floor)
  Workshop
  • Session Slides Yes

9:00am EDT

Workshop: Building an AI-native Experience with MCP & ChatGPT Apps - Erica Beavers & Frédéric Barthelet, Alpic [Pre-Registration Required, Additional Fee]
Wednesday April 1, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon C (9th Floor)
AI apps aren't just chatbots with a better UI. They're a new class of software defined by how agents discover, connect to, and act on services, and building them well requires rethinking interface design, user journeys, and architecture.In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through what it means to build an MCP App or ChatGPT App, starting from first principles. What are they? What makes an...
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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 →
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Frédéric Barthelet

CTO & Co-founder, Alpic
Wednesday April 1, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon C (9th Floor)
  Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Workshop Attendees)
Wednesday April 1, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Wednesday April 1, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:00pm EDT

Workshop: Enabling MCP at Enterprise Scale: Navigating Authentication and Governance Challenges - Bill Maxwell & Shannon Williams, Obot AI [Pre-Registration Required, Additional Fee]
Wednesday April 1, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon A + B (9th Floor)
Enterprise adoption of the Model Context Protocol is accelerating — but the path from "MCP works on my laptop" to "MCP is running securely across our organization" is windy and challenging. The reality is that building MCPs isn’t particularly hard. Instead, the challenges are around OAuth, identity sprawl, and the governance requirements your security team will eventually land on your desk.The...
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Shannon Williams

President, Obot AI
I am the President and co-founder of Obot AI, and have been building open source software for the last 20 years. Prior to starting Obot, I co-founded Cloud.com (creator of CloudStack) and Rancher Labs (creator of Rancher, k3s, Longhorn, etc). I was a board member of the CNCF for 4... Read More →
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Wednesday April 1, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon A + B (9th Floor)
  Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Workshop: Securing MCP: Threats, Trust and What You Can Actually Do About It - Sam Morrow, GitHub [Pre-Registration Required, Additional Fee]
Wednesday April 1, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon C (9th Floor)
There is a running joke that 'The “S” in MCP Stands for Security', but is that reasonable? What threats exist? What layers do they operate on? How can you safely host MCP servers in production? Can you connect to MCPs in sensitive environments? Drawing from lessons learned at GitHub and beyond, this interactive discussion will explore the practical realities of MCP security today, examining...
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Sam Morrow

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
Sam is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he leads development of the GitHub MCP server. He works on AI developer tools and helps shape agentic workflows at GitHub. In a past life he was also a professional drummer.
Wednesday April 1, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom Salon C (9th Floor)
  Workshop
 
Thursday, April 2
 

7:30am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm EDT
North Registration - Fifth Floor Foyer (5th Floor)

Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm EDT
North Registration - Fifth Floor Foyer (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

8:00am EDT

Zen Zone
Thursday April 2, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Soho Room (7th Floor)
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)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

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)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

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)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

Speakers
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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)
  Keynote Sessions

9:35am EDT

Keynote: MCP @ Amazon Scale - James Hood, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Thursday April 2, 2026 9:35am - 9:45am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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...
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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)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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:...
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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)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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...
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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.
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Zayne Turner

Developer Advocate, Workato

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

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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
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
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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

Coffee Break
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:15am - 11:50am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:15am - 11:50am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:15am EDT

Solutions Showcase
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:15am - 7:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:15am - 7:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:25am EDT

Sponsor Activity - AMA with WorkOS Founder Michael Grinich
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: WorkOSLocation: Booth D/P3 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn 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...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

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
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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 AILocation: Booth D/P1 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

11:35am EDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet AWS Open Source at MCP Dev Summit
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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 #OpenSourceSponsor: AWSLocation: Booth D/P2 within the Solutions ShowcaseBe sure to also join us for an attendee reception on Thursday, April 2 at the Elsie Rooftop. The event...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

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
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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 SoftwareLocation: Booth D/P8 within the Solutions Showcase In order to facilitate networking and business...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Building MARVIN MCP Dev Summit pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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
MCP Dev Summit Slides (3) pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
* 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

Symmetric MCP Screenshots pptx
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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Securing MCP at Scale pdf
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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
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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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
Additional Authors/Contributors:Andrey Velichkevich – Kubeflow Steering CommitteeZach Sailer - Jupyter Executive CouncilJupyter 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...
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JD
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices, Apps and Agents

12:20pm EDT

Sponsored Session: Model Context Pragmatism - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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)
  MCP Best Practices

12:20pm EDT

Evolution, Not Revolution: How MCP Is Reshaping OAuth - Aaron Parecki, Okta
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:20pm - 12:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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...
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Aaron Parecki

Director of Identity Standards, Okta
Aaron Parecki is Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and active in multiple standards development organizations including IETF, OpenID Foundation, W3C, and MCP. He is an editor of OAuth 2.1 along with several other OAuth specifications, and has been influential in shaping how... Read More →
Evolution not Revolution How MCP is Reshaping OAuth Aaron Parecki pdf
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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
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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)
  Security and Operations, MCP Best Practices

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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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.
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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.
Roblox Avatar generation pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
MCP is becoming stateless in one of the largest changes to the protocol since its launch. This change simplifies the deployment of robust servers, making MCP ready for the next wave of scaled usage driven by agents and use cases like MCP Apps. This session led by members of the Transports Working Group: - Explores the upcoming changes - and sharing real data from Google and Hugging Face on the...
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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.

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Kurtis Van Gent

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Kurtis Van Gent is a MCP Core Maintainer and leads the MCP Transports Working Group. By day, he leads AI Ecosystems + Integrations for Google Cloud Databases and helped create MCP Toolbox for Databases.
Thursday 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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Static MCP Dev Summit March 2026 pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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
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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.
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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.


Who's Driving 260401 pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 12:50pm - 1:15pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Session Slides Yes

1:15pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:15pm - 2:35pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:15pm - 2:35pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: ManufactLocation: Booth D/P12 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:35pm - 1:45pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

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
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: PrefectLocation: Booth D/P7 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

1:55pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet AWS Open Source at MCP Dev Summit
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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 #OpenSourceSponsor: AWSLocation: Booth D/P2 within the Solutions ShowcaseBe sure to also join us for an attendee reception on Thursday, April 2 at the Elsie Rooftop. The event...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 1:55pm - 2:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

2:35pm EDT

MCP Apps Best Practices: Patterns and Pitfalls - Olivier Chafik & Anton Pidkuiko, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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.
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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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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....
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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 →
Protocol Evolution Adapting MCP for SLMs and the Edge pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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 →
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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 →
Agents and MCP @ Google Scale (2026 Apr 2) pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

2:35pm EDT

One Spec, Ten SDKs, Zero Excuses: Conformance Testing MCP - Paul Carleton, Anthropic
Thursday April 2, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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...
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Paul Carleton

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Paul Carleton is a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol and Auth Nerd at Anthropic, where he leads auth implementations across Anthropic's clients and the TypeScript and Python SDKs. He drives MCP conformance testing efforts to ensure consistent behavior across the ecosy... Read More →
Thursday 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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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Abhishek Hingnikar

Product Architect, Okta
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Andres Aguiar

Director of Product @ Okta, Okta
Solving Authorization with openfga.dev | fga.dev
MCP Dev Summit North America From Scopes To Intent pdf
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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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),...
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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 →
Patterns for Building MCP powered Agent Systems pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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 →
MCP Dev Summit MCP vs Code Mode vs Skills pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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
2026SafeSoftwareMCPDevFinal (1) pdf
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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Dev Ed's MCP Strategy at Apollo pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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,...
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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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
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Reetika Roy

Staff Software Engineer, Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer, Snowflake
Declarative MCP Servers for Secure, Specialized AI Agents.pptx pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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 →
2026 04 02 MCP Dev Summit NYC talk pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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 →
mcpchecker mcpdevsummit pdf
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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Presentation OCI Images pdf
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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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...
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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.
Clients Servers Agents pdf
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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
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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 →
Shadow AI MCP Dev Summit pdf
Shadow AI MCP Dev Summit pptx
Thursday April 2, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

4:00pm EDT

Coffee Break
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
From MCP Prototypes to Production Agents What actually matters (2) pdf
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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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.
Copy of Bridging Kernel Space and AI Building an MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Observability pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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...
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Sam Morrow

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
Sam is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he leads development of the GitHub MCP server. He works on AI developer tools and helps shape agentic workflows at GitHub. In a past life he was also a professional drummer.
Thursday 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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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.
MCPDevSummit Semgrep, Katrina & Milan (1) pptx
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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
avatar for Marcelo Jimenez Rocabado
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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 →
presentation pdf
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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
MCP Meets Java key
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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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...
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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 →
2026MCPDevSummitNYC pdf
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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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 →
Towards Building Safe and Secure Agentic AI (25 mins) pdf
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
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
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...
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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 →
avatar for Neelabh Tripathi

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 →
Operating MCP in the Enterprise pdf
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
Marquis Ballroom (9th Floor)
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...
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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
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
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...
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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
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
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...
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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.
Rules Are Not Suggestions v3 pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

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
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
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:...
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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 →
URL Elicitation MCP Dev Summit 2026 pdf
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
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
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...
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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
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

6:30pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - A Faster Way to Run and Share MCP Servers
Thursday April 2, 2026 6:30pm - 6:40pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: DockerLocation: Booth D/P9 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business...
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Thursday April 2, 2026 6:30pm - 6:40pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

7:30pm EDT

Speaker & Media Reception (By Invitation Only)
Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Dear Irving on Hudson
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 &...
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Thursday April 2, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Dear Irving on Hudson 310 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Friday, April 3
 

8:00am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Friday April 3, 2026 8:00am - 5:20pm EDT
North Registration - Fifth Floor Foyer (5th Floor)

Friday April 3, 2026 8:00am - 5:20pm EDT
North Registration - Fifth Floor Foyer (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

8:00am EDT

Zen Zone
Friday April 3, 2026 8:00am - 5:45pm EDT
Soho Room (7th Floor)
Need some space and quiet time? We’ve got you covered! Visit the Zen Zone for some extra relaxation.
Friday April 3, 2026 8:00am - 5:45pm EDT
Soho Room (7th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am EDT

Keynote: MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier - Ido Salomon, Creator MCP-UI & Liad Yosef, Co-creator, MCP Apps​
Friday April 3, 2026 9:00am - 9:20am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
AI agents are quickly becoming the new browsers, changing how users consume content and get work done. That shift is increasingly powered by a new generation of agentic apps that don’t just present text but deliver interactive experiences within any MCP host. By standardizing interactive UI on MCP, the MCP Apps official extension (SEP-1865) is poised to become the new agentic app runtime,...
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Speakers
avatar for Liad Yosef

Liad Yosef

Co-creator, MCP Apps​
Liad Yosef is a seasoned AI lead and software architect. He is the co-builder of MCP-UI, the co-author and maintainer of MCP Apps on the MCP Steering Committee, and a co-creator of GitMCP. Previously AI Lead in Shopify's CEO office, leading agentic interfaces, and currently the c... Read More →
avatar for Ido Salomon

Ido Salomon

Creator, MCP-UI
Ido Salomon is a seasoned AI lead and software architect. He is the creator of MCP-UI and AgentCraft, a co-author and maintainer of MCP Apps on the MCP Steering Committee, and a co-creator of GitMCP. Previously, Ido led end-user AI at Palo Alto Networks. He is an avid open-source... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 9:00am - 9:20am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Audience Experience Level Any

9:20am EDT

Keynote: Context is More Than Tools - Why the "C" in MCP is More Relevant Than Ever - Ryan Cooke, Engineering Lead, WorkOS
Friday April 3, 2026 9:20am - 9:30am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Large language models excel at navigating information spread across files, tools, and systems. They can grep, synthesize, and reason about what to look for in response to user prompts. And while this capability improves, a different constraint is emerging: semantic alignment.This talk focuses on the premise of context engines. These are systems that encode how an organization’s knowledge is...
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avatar for Ryan Cooke

Ryan Cooke

Engineering Lead, WorkOS
Ryan Cooke is a technologist and founder with two decades of experience building early-stage startups. Despite several founding roles, he remains a developer at heart, drawn to hard problems in information retrieval, security and data modeling. He’s led engineering teams across... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 9:20am - 9:30am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

9:35am EDT

Keynote: MCP x MCP - Nick Cooper, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Friday April 3, 2026 9:35am - 9:50am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Layering and connecting multiple MCP systems
Speakers
avatar for Nick Cooper

Nick Cooper

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Nick Cooper is a senior member of technical staff at OpenAI working with a particular focus on scalable patterns to make life easy while iterating quickly. He is the technical lead at OpenAI for protocols, MCP Core maintainer and AAIF governing board member. He comes from a brief... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 9:35am - 9:50am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions
  • about <br>

9:50am EDT

Keynote: Building a Unified Control Plane for MCP Across Servers, Clients, and Teams - Cecilia Liu, Senior Product Manager, Docker
Friday April 3, 2026 9:50am - 10:00am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Today, there are tens of thousands of MCP servers available, and developers are increasingly pulling unvetted servers from the open internet. While this accelerates experimentation, it also introduces real security risks, leaving enterprises flying blind, with limited visibility into what’s being used and increased exposure to emerging threats such as tool poisoning and prompt injection.For MCP...
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Cecilia Liu

Sr Product Manager, Docker
Cecilia Liu is a Senior Product Manager at Docker, leading product strategy for Docker's MCP Platform—Docker's solution for running MCP servers securely and at scale through containerization. She drives Docker's AI strategy across both enterprise and developer ecosystems, helping... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 9:50am - 10:00am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am EDT

Keynote: One-To-Many: Enabling MCP, Agents, and Intelligent Systems at Nordstrom - Ola Hungerford, Principal Engineer & Sandeep Bhat, Engineer, Nordstrom
Friday April 3, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Natural language is becoming a universal interface. Connecting that interface to enterprise systems requires more than protocols. It requires active, thoughtful, and sustained work. This talk shares Nordstrom's journey enabling MCP and AI agents across the organization: building secure MCP server standards, navigating OAuth and token management for agent workflows, and creating governance...
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Ola Hungerford

Principal Engineer, Nordstrom
Ola Hungerford is a Principal Engineer at Nordstrom and a maintainer and community moderator for the Model Context Protocol. She leads AI enablement initiatives while contributing to MCP's specification, developer tooling, documentation, and community governance. Ola comes from a... Read More →
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Sandeep Bhat

Engineer, Nordstrom
​I work on the AI Enablement team at Nordstrom, focusing on platform engineering for MCP and AI agents. My past background in security grounds my decision-making, allowing me to balance safe architecture with a passion for AI productivity. I build infrastructure that empowers internal... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

10:20am EDT

Keynote: Using MCP for Skills Orchestration and Enterprise Integration - Jacob Wilson, PwC Principal, GenAI Transformation Leader
Friday April 3, 2026 10:20am - 10:30am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Most enterprise AI experiences break down at the system boundary, where users know what they need but not which application, process, or data is required to complete it. This session uses procurement as a practical example of a different pattern: a single conversational interface powered by MCP that hides backend complexity while orchestrating work across multiple systems. We’ll show how MCP...
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Jacob Wilson

PwC Principal, GenAI Transformation Leader, PwC
Jacob is a Principal in PwC's Advisory Analytics practice, specializing in delivering business-driven AI and Generative AI (GenAI) solutions for the firm and its clients. In addition to his client-facing responsibilities, Jacob serves as the lead Principal for PwC's GenAI delivery... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 10:20am - 10:30am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

10:30am EDT

Keynote: Interoperability Isn’t Enough: Building Trustworthy AI Infrastructure with MCP - Ania Musial, Head of AI Platforms Product, Office of the CTO, Bloomberg
Friday April 3, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
Last year, we spoke about our adoption of Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a foundation for interoperable AI agents and tools at Bloomberg. What we’ve learned since then is that interoperability is the easy part; building trustworthy and interoperable AI infrastructure is the hard part. Today, MCP powers Bloomberg’s flagship agentic AI solution (ASKB), underpins the experience the firm’s...
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Ania Musial

Head of AI Platforms Product, Office of the CTO, Bloomberg

Friday April 3, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am EDT
Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)
  Keynote Sessions

10:45am EDT

Coffee Break
Friday April 3, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am EDT

Solutions Showcase
Friday April 3, 2026 10:45am - 4:20pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 10:45am - 4:20pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:55am EDT

Sponsor Activity - Coffee & Demos: Explore Obot AI's MCP Gateway Demos and Grab Exclusive Swag
Friday April 3, 2026 10:55am - 11:05am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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 AILocation: Booth D/P1 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 10:55am - 11:05am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

11:10am EDT

Sponsor Activity - A Faster Way to Run and Share MCP Servers
Friday April 3, 2026 11:10am - 11:20am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: DockerLocation: Booth D/P9 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn order to facilitate networking and business...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 11:10am - 11:20am EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

11:30am EDT

RPC > MCP: Turning a Decade of APIs Into Agentic Tools - Ze'ev Klapow, HubSpot
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
At HubSpot, we recognized that any RPC with a schema is already a tool definition, so we built our AI tooling infrastructure on top of our existing RPC framework instead of starting from scratch. Engineering teams can now expose any API to internal agents, public MCP clients, and customer-facing AI products with just two annotations, enabling rapid development and tool reuse across all of our AI...
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Ze'ev Klapow

Distinguished Software Engineer, HubSpot
Ze'ev Klapow is a Principal Software Engineer at HubSpot, where he has spent 13 years building infrastructure. He currently leads efforts to bring AI tooling to HubSpot engineers and designed the unified agent infrastructure that powers both internal and customer-facing AI produc... Read More →
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Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

11:30am EDT

Code Mode Without the Code - Bob Dickinson, TeamSpark
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
Major AI players (Cloudflare, Anthropic, Docker) advocate "Code Mode" - having LLMs generate wrapper MCP servers to orchestrate tools, drastically reducing context usage. However, executing LLM-generated code introduces security risks and compliance challenges. mcpGraph provides Code Mode benefits without code execution risks. It's a YAML-based DSL for declarative MCP tool orchestration using...
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Bob Dickinson

Founder, TeamSpark
Serial founder, CTO at scale, and always a hands-on builder. Creator of MCP Tool Vault and the open source projects tsAgent and mcpGraph. Maintainer of MCP Registry and MCP Inspector. Background in security, including as CTO of OneLogin and Censys.
Code Mode without the Code pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

11:30am EDT

Human in the Loop, Agent in the Flow - Harald Kirschner & Connor Peet, Microsoft
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
The AI hype cycle promised full automation. Reality delivered hallucinations and agents that guess when they should ask. The MCP spec offers a different vision—humans in control through rich, interactive collaboration rather than micromanaging every step. This talk explores how recent MCP primitives transform the protocol from text-in-text-out tool-calling into interactive human-agent...
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Harald Kirschner

Principal PM, Microsoft
Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, building AI coding experiences in VS Code and GitHub Copilot for 40+ million developers. Before Microsoft, he led Firefox DevTools at Mozilla and helped ship Firefox Quantum. His engineering roots (MooTools, early web... Read More →
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Connor Peet

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Connor is a principal software engineer working on VS Code since 2019.
mcp vscode human in the loop url
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

11:30am EDT

Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them - Alex Hancock, Block
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
Goose serves as a real-world proving ground for new MCP capabilities before they're widely adopted. In this talk, you'll learn how to use advanced and early versions of MCP features that go beyond basic tool calling—with practical examples from production. You'll see: * Code mode MCP: handling massive tool catalogs without overwhelming context windows * MCP Apps: rich user experiences for MCP...
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Alex Hancock

Software Engineer, Block
Alex is a core maintainer of goose, and maintainer of the Rust SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Alongside teammates at Block he built and contributed goose as a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation. He lives in Connecticut in the US with his wonderful family.
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

11:30am EDT

Demistifying Client ID Metadata Documents in MCP - Den Delimarsky, Anthropic
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
With the recent specification update, MCP moved away from using DCR as the default in favor of Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD). It's a new approach to client registration already adopted by such projects like Bluesky, and now making its way to the MCP ecosystem. CIMD is significantly easier to use than DCR while providing the same security guarantees and a much more flexible approach to client...
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Den Delimarsky

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Den is an avid reverse engineer, passionate about APIs, protocols, and security. He leads MCP technical programs at Anthropic and prior to that built authentication and authorization libraries used by millions of developers around the globe. You can learn more about his work on h... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

12:00pm EDT

From One MCP Server To an Ecosystem: When MCP Stops Being a Server and Becomes a Platform - Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
As MCP adoption grows, teams quickly discover that scaling from a single MCP server to a multi-server ecosystem introduces new architectural, operational, and governance challenges. Patterns that work for standalone MCP implementations often break down when MCP becomes a shared platform capability across multiple domains, teams, and clients. In this talk, we share practical lessons from building...
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Vaibhav Tupe

Tech Lead - Principal Engineer, Equinix
Vaibhav Tupe is a distinguished Technology Advisory Board Member and Engineering Leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-ready data center infrastructure. With over 13 years of experience, he currently serves as a Technology Leader at Equinix USA, where he drives high-performance... Read More →
MCP DevSummit Final pptx
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

12:00pm EDT

Distributing MCP Servers With OCI To Power Agent Skills - Bobby House, Docker
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
While it is now considered a best practice for agent skills to leverage MCP servers, there is still no widely accepted approach for how those MCP servers should be distributed, versioned, and shared as dependencies. This talk presents a practical pattern for using OCI artifacts as a distribution mechanism for MCP servers and configurations that agent skills depend on, enabling reproducible,...
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Bobby House

Sr Software Engineer, Docker
Bobby House is a senior software engineer at Docker that enjoys building products for engineers. His recent work centers on integrating MCP into enterprise environments by enabling organizations to publish and manage private catalogs of MCP servers as OCI artifacts.
agent skill dependencies pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

12:00pm EDT

MCP Live: Streaming Context To AI Agents - Harshit Kohli, Amazon Web Services
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
Most MCP servers work like snapshots - ask for context, get a response, done. But what happens when your code changes while the AI is working? Or system metrics spike during deployment? Your agent has stale data. I've been building streaming MCP servers that push live updates to AI agents. Think file watchers notifying code changes, system monitors streaming metrics, or database triggers sending...
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Harshit Kohli

Sr Technical Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
GenAI/Data Driven individual who has 15+ years of experience. Proven experience with AWS Data Analytics/GenAI services, Cloudera Hadoop, Hortonworks Hadoop and Mapr Hadoop. Achieved customer wins over Amazon Q , Bedrock, Amazon Managed Kafka, Amazon Data Firehose, Kinesis Streams... Read More →
HarshitKohli MCP Live Streaming Context pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

12:00pm EDT

Path to V2 for MCP SDKs - Max Isbey, Anthropic
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)

Speakers
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Max Isbey

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Software Engineer from New Zealand, previously worked at Rocket Lab designing and maintaining telemetry and command systems for rockets and satellites. Now relocated to London and working at Anthropic primarily focused on maintaining the MCP Python SDK.
MCP Summit Talk Max Isbey pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

12:00pm EDT

Threat Modeling Authorization in MCP - Sarah Cecchetti, OpenID Foundation
Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
This session will describe the work of the AI Threat Modeling working group within the OpenID Foundation. Security considerations in OAuth were a concern before MCP, and MCP's use of OAuth raises additional concerns including malicious elicitation and code execution requests. I will describe MCP attacks which enable attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data, compromise password-protected accounts,...
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Sarah Cecchetti

Chair of AI Threat Modeling Working Group, OpenID Foundation
By day, Sarah is Director of Product Management for Semperis, a Series C startup. She also chairs the AI threat modeling group in the OpenID Foundation. Prior to that she spent five years at AWS where she led the open-sourcing of Cedar. She co-founded IDPro and co-authored NIST SP... Read More →
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Friday April 3, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Session Slides Yes

12:30pm EDT

Challenges in Delivering Unstructured Content Efficiently Over MCP - Kailas Krivanka & Fernando Cerenza, Box
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
Delivering unstructured file content over MCP introduces various challenges in performance, efficiency, and security. We will explore the questions that arise when building an MCP server for content management and some of the approaches that can be used to tackle them. As enterprise environments require a more conservative security posture, we’ll also break down strategies for mitigating data...
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Fernando Cerenza

Senior Director of Product Management, Box
Fernando Cerenza leads Box’s partner integration ecosystem, where he oversees a vast network of over 1,500 application integrations. He is currently spearheading Box’s AI-focused initiatives, driving development on MCP and A2A to enable advanced agentic AI outcomes and seamless... Read More →
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Kailas Krivanka

Software Engineer, Box
Kailas Krivanka is a software engineer with expertise in API design, software architecture, and distributed systems. He has worked at Box for 4 years, building scalable systems and solving complex technical challenges including launching the Box MCP server. With experience across... Read More →
MCP Dev Summit slides pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Session Slides Yes

12:30pm EDT

Solving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments - Hugo Guerrero, Kong
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
Agentic systems adopting MCP face a scalability hurdle: managing interactions with numerous servers exposing dozens or hundreds of tools. Injecting all tools into the model context, or "context bloat," increases latency, inflates context window usage, drives up costs, and degrades reasoning quality.This session introduces the MCP Gateway pattern, an architectural solution to context bloat. This...
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Hugo Guerrero

Developer Advoate, Kong
Hugo Guerrero is a tech leader, speaker, and architect obsessed with AI, APIs, and the systems that connect them. From scaling developer ecosystems to mastering event-driven architecture, he focuses on making agentic connectivity a practical reality for modern enterprises. Passionate... Read More →
Beating Context Bloat MCP Dev Summit 2026 pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

12:30pm EDT

The Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Deep-Dive into MCP via Selective Sabotage - Joey Stout, Spacelift
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
Most technical talks feel like a one-way street: I talk, you listen, and maybe you ask a question at the end if we have time. But the Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't about one-way communication; it's about creating a living connection between a "brain" (the LLM) and the "world" (your data and tools).To prove this, we aren't going to look at static slides. Instead, we are going to use a Live...
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Joey Stout

Solutions Architect, Spacelift
Joey Stout is a Solutions Architect at Spacelift.io, CKA-certified, and creator of manifests.io. He specializes in Kubernetes, OpenTofu, and GitOps—and goes by The Outdoor Programmer.

The Anatomy of a Meltdown pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

12:30pm EDT

Mix-Up Attacks in MCP: Multi-Issuer Confusion and Mitigations - Emily Lauber, Microsoft
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
MCP deployments increasingly involve multiple authorization servers / identity providers across tools, registries, gateways, and enterprise environments. That flexibility introduces a classic but under-discussed class of failures: mix up attacks. A mix-up attack is where a client or intermediary confuses which issuer/authorization server it’s interacting with and misroutes sign-in artifacts,...
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Emily Lauber

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Emily Lauber is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft focused on identity, authentication, and developer platforms. She works at the intersection of cloud security, browser-based auth, and standards, helping shape how modern apps and agents securely authenticate and access resources... Read More →
MixUpAttackPrevention MCP pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

12:55pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Friday April 3, 2026 12:55pm - 2:25pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 12:55pm - 2:25pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:45pm EDT

Sponsor Activity - AMA with WorkOS Founder Michael Grinich
Friday April 3, 2026 1:45pm - 1:55pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
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: WorkOSLocation: Booth D/P3 within the Solutions ShowcaseIn 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...
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MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 1:45pm - 1:55pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Sponsor Booth Interactions

2:25pm EDT

Progressive Tool Discovery: Using MCP Notifications To Manage Context at Scale - Billy Hickman & Lilia Abaibourova, Amazon
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
As MCP adoption grows, a challenge emerges: how do you expose 100’s of tools from a single server without overwhelming agent context windows? This talk introduces an MCP tool discovery mechanism we’ve built that dynamically loads tools. The platform works with a single discovery meta-tool on initialization, server-side state management to track agent context, and leveraging streamed MCP’s...
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Billy Hickman

Sr SDE, Amazon, Prime Video
Sr SDE from Amazon Prime Video. 10+ years experience building highly available, scalable distributed systems.
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Lilia Abaibourova

Principal Product Manager, Prime Video, Amazon
Lilia Abaibourova is a product and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling developer platforms and AI-first tools at Amazon, Peloton, HBO, and Microsoft. At Amazon, she leads AI enablement for Prime Video engineers, delivering agentic assistants for design... Read More →
progressive tool discovery pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

2:25pm EDT

From Cypher to Conversation: MCP at WestJet - Anton Lysov, WestJet
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
At WestJet, our flight schedule is modeled in a Neo4j graph database - airports, routes, aircrafts, seasonal schedules. The data is rich, but accessing it required Cypher expertise most stakeholders don't have.I built an MCP server to change that. By creating a proxy layer connecting Claude to our Neo4j database, I enabled non-technical colleagues to query complex flight relationships using...
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Anton Lysov

Software Developer, WestJet
Anton Lysov is a Software Developer at WestJet, working on backend systems that power westjet.com, mobile apps, and services used by teams across the organization. Before WestJet, he was one of the first hires at Rafflebox, helping build a platform that raised over $500M CAD for nonprofits... Read More →
slides pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Session Slides Yes

2:25pm EDT

The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools - Sam Partee, Arcade.dev
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
Before MCP, Arcade was building tools for LLM agents. We've shipped over 1,000 tools—first as native Arcade tools with our own protocol and eventually adopting MCP. The main lesson: the hard part isn't writing the code, it's finding the right abstraction. Most MCP tools today are thin wrappers around APIs. `GET /users/{id}` becomes `get_user(id)`. But this creates a mismatch—LLMs reason about...
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Sam Partee

CTO and Co-founder, Arcade.dev
Sam is the CTO and co-founder of Arcade.dev. Before starting Arcade, Sam lead the led the applied AI team at Redis responsible for the vector database offering. He is a avid OSS developer and has contributed on projects like Langchain, LlamaIndex, Chapel, DeterminedAI, and others... Read More →
MCP Dev Summit pptx
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

2:25pm EDT

Every API Is a Tool for Agents - Matt Carey, Cloudflare
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
The best MCP server is the one you didn't have to build. At Cloudflare we have a lot of products. Our REST OpenAPI spec is over 2.3 million tokens. When teams started building MCP servers, they did what everyone does: cherry-picked important endpoints for their product, wrote some tool definitions and shipped a separate service that covered a small fraction of their API. This was driven by a...
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Matt Carey

Agents and MCP, Cloudflare
I work on Agents and MCP at Cloudflare and I'm one of the maintainers of the official MCP Typescript SDK.

My role is to build infrastructure for agent developers to be successful with MCP. I am currently working on the release of v2 of the Typescript SDK.

Fun fact: I was previously a professional windsurfer and raced for Malta at several World and European championships... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth
  • Audience Experience Level Any

2:25pm EDT

Putting the Single Back in Single Sign-On: Cross-App Access for MCP - Paul Carleton, Anthropic & Max Gerber, Twilio
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
MCP makes it easy for AI agents to connect to tools, but authorization hasn't kept up. Users connecting an MCP client to a dozen MCP servers face a dozen separate OAuth flows, one for each server, each with its own login and token lifecycle. If we have Single Sign-On, why are users signing in so many times? It's not just a UX problem. Enterprise environments can quickly run into governance issues...
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Max Gerber

Principal Software Engineer, Twilio
Max Gerber is the software engineering lead for agent and AI identity at Twilio, where he works on core identity SDKs and APIs including OAuth, SAML, SSO, and RBAC. He previously led identity initiatives at Stytch and served as a lead engineer on MuleSoft’s IAM team during its integration... Read More →
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Paul Carleton

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Paul Carleton is a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol and Auth Nerd at Anthropic, where he leads auth implementations across Anthropic's clients and the TypeScript and Python SDKs. He drives MCP conformance testing efforts to ensure consistent behavior across the ecosy... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

2:55pm EDT

UI in the Age of AI - Adam Cowley, Neo4j
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
When the backend can reason, what does that mean for the frontend? Let's look at how to build UIs that support reasoning and adapt to any task. The way we interact with software is changing. LLM-powered applications, with human-in-the-loop, are handling repetitive tasks that used to require forms and workflows. But bolting a chatbot onto your existing UI isn't enough - extracting structured data...
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Adam Cowley

Manager, Developer Education, Neo4j
Adam is a multi-disciplinary developer with over 20 years of experience building products that help people learn and grow. Currently Manager of Developer Education at Neo4j, he leads the team behind GraphAcademy - Neo4j's free learning platform.
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

2:55pm EDT

Lessons Learned Building Intelligent UIs With MCP Apps - Riley Scheid, Reboot (reboot.dev)
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
With MCP Apps, AI interactions are no longer limited to text. MCP Apps unlock the full power of the web within AI chat, allowing us to build AI-enriched UIs that persist, react and collaborate in real-time. Through a series of demos and code deep-dives, I’ll showcase foundational patterns that we've found to be effective as MCP Apps gain ubiquity. Durability: Demo a “text snippet saver”...
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Riley Scheid

Founding Engineer, Reboot (reboot.dev)
Full stack engineer / human Swiss Army Knife with a decade of professional experience
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

2:55pm EDT

The MCP Gateway Pattern: Aggregation, Composition, and Beyond - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
Here's a scenario that might sound familiar: you've got ten MCP servers, which means ten client connections, ten auth flows, and ten different places where things can break. One reason teams end up in this mess is that each MCP server solves a real problem - so you add another one, and another, and suddenly you've got MCP sprawl. Enter the MCP Gateway pattern. In this talk, we'll walk through an...
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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 →
Presentation 10 MCP Servers pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

2:55pm EDT

Interceptors for MCP: A Production-Tested Standard for Agentic Middleware - Kurt Degiorgio & Cannis Chan, Bloomberg
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
MCP standardized how agents connect to tools and context, but enterprise deployments need control between the model and the data. Today, MCP lacks a standard way to apply these controls, leading to a fragmented landscape of bespoke sidecars and proxies that shifts the M×N integration problem from the data layer to the middleware layer. This session is a Protocol-in-Depth walkthrough of SEP-1763...
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Kurt Degiorgio

Senior Engineer, Bloomberg
Kurt Degiorgio is a Senior Engineer at Bloomberg, working on building platforms for Generative AI. With 14 years of experience, his background includes Monzo, Diffblue and GFI Software (of TeamViewer fame), covering a wide technical spectrum—from developing network drivers to building... Read More →
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Cannis Chan

Technical Product Manager, Bloomberg
Cannis Chan is a Technical Product Manager in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, building infrastructure platforms for AI products. With 10 years in B2B and Enterprise (AutogenAI, Deutsche Bank, Ondat/Akamai), she specializes in navigating complex products through pre- and post-product... Read More →
MCP Dev Summit Interceptors pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

2:55pm EDT

The Boring Attack That Will Actually Get You - Craig Jellick, Obot AI
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
The MCP security conversation focuses heavily on prompt injection, tool abuse, and session hijacking. These matter. But if you're running a registry of MCP servers, your most likely breach won't be complicated. It will be a compromised server you trusted too quickly. Supply chain attacks aren't new, and neither are the defenses. But the speed of MCP adoption has outpaced basic hygiene:...
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Craig J

VP of Engineering, Obot AI
Craig Jellick is VP of Engineering and co-founder of Obot AI, where they are building an agent platform that helps teams of all technical levels create software, automate work, and ship real tools using AI. Previously, he was a founding engineer and Director of Engineering at Rancher... Read More →
mcp supply chain attacks pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

3:25pm EDT

From 60 Minutes To 60 Seconds: Production MCP Workflows for Healthcare Billing - Andrew Espira, Kustode
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
Healthcare providers lose 30-60 minutes per insurance claim error, with the industry wasting $250B+ annually on administrative overhead. At Kustode, we built a multi-tenant RCM platform processing thousands of daily EDI transactions (837P claims, 835 remittances, 270/271 eligibility). While we automated the EDI pipes, intelligent workflow orchestration—denial management, prior authorization,...
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Andrew Espira

Founding Engineer, Kustode
Andrew Espira is a Site Reliability Engineer with over seven years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering. He specializes in optimizing large-scale system environments, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. Andrew is passionate about cloud-native... Read More →
MCP Talk Quest pptx
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

3:25pm EDT

From Benchmarks To Business Value: Building a Use-Case Specific Agent Evaluation Framework - Gaurav Saxena, Independent & Matvey Kukuy, Archestra.AI
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
While frontier models achieve impressive scores on benchmarks like MCP Atlas (62.3%) and SWE-bench (62.1%), these metrics don't answer the critical question: "Will this agent work for OUR specific use-case?"This talk presents a practical framework for building custom agent evaluation systems tailored to your organization's needs. We'll cover the complete lifecycle: data collection and...
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Gaurav Saxena

Director of Engineering
Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Software Supply Chain Security, and Observabilit... Read More →
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Matvey Kukuy

CEO, Archestra.AI
Maintainer: Grafana OnCall, KeepHQ, Archestra.AI.

Ex-Engineering Director at Grafana Labs.
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

3:25pm EDT

Intent Engineering: The Death of the Mono-Directional Prompt - Rizel Scarlett, Block, Inc.
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
You give an agent a complex task. It says "Absolutely!" Then it deletes your production database. As engineers adopt AI agents, a common frustration is emerging: agents confidently make the wrong move. The response has been "skill issue," "write better prompts," "add more context," "make a plan first." But not everyone wants to master prompt engineering or maintain context files just to get an...
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Rizel Scarlett

Tech Lead, Open Source Developer Relations, Block, Inc.
Rizel Scarlett is driven by a singular mission: ensuring powerful technology feels human, joyful, and real. As the Tech Lead for Open Source DevRel at Block, she drives technical storytelling for goose, an open source AI agent. Previously at GitHub, she helped devs adopt GitHub Copilot... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth
  • Audience Experience Level Any

3:25pm EDT

Beyond the Sandbox: Security at the Host Layer - Lorenzo Verna & Pietro Valfrè, Denied
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
Security in the MCP ecosystem has primarily followed a "Henhouse Model": building a perimeter to manage who enters with which keys. While we’ve become adept at granting agents the access they need to be productive, a new challenge is emerging. Because agents often operate with the user’s broad privileges, it is no longer just about managing entry; it is about ensuring that an agent's actions...
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Lorenzo Verna

Co-founder and CPO, Denied
Lorenzo Verna (Math & CS) is Co-Founder & CPO at Denied.dev. A former CTO and founder with 3 startups and 2 exits, he has 15+ years building and scaling software products and AI platforms. His current work focuses on securing agentic systems, including MCP tool execution and policy... Read More →
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Pietro Valfrè

CEO & Co.founder at Denied, Denied
Pietro, CEO and Co-founder of Denied, previously served as the first employee of a mid-size Italian venture studio. During his time there, he ultimately headed R&D and contributed to the successful development of several ventures. Having thoroughly explored the field of Auth, he is... Read More →
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Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

3:25pm EDT

MCPwned: Hacking MCP Servers With One Skeleton Key Vulnerability - Jonathan Leitschuh, Independent
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
MCPwned weaponizes a widely overlooked MCP-spec weakness, browser-based DNS rebinding, against SSE & streaming-HTTP MCP servers to exfiltrate data and escalate access.
This skeleton key vulnerability hacks your locally running MCP server, just by getting you to visit a malicious website.
Speakers
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Jonathan Leitschuh

Open Source Security Researcher, Independent
Jonathan Leitschuh is an open source software security researcher and self-described Vulnerability Janitor. He was the inaugural Dan Kaminsky Fellow at HUMAN Security and later led research for OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega project. He is best known for his 2019 Zoom zero-day disclosure... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

3:50pm EDT

Coffee Break
Friday April 3, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)

MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Sponsor Map pdf
MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 Venue Map pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT
Solutions Showcase, Westside Ballroom (5th Floor)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

4:20pm EDT

Enabling Agentic Cloud Workflows - Santhosh Misro & Mayur Deshpande, Google
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
Now live on GitHub, gcloud-mcp is the open-source reference implementation bringing agentic power to Google Cloud via the Model Context Protocol. As cloud platforms grow more complex, traditional CLIs struggle to support exploratory, goal-driven interactions. This session shares architectural lessons from building the bridge between AI assistants and enterprise cloud services to enable...
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Mayur Deshpande

Staff Software Engineer, Google
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Santhosh Misro

Senior Engineering Manager, Google
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Juilliard Complex (5th Floor)
  Apps and Agents

4:20pm EDT

MCP Servers in the Wild: Managing Tool Complexity at Scale - Arnav Balyan, Concierge AI
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
As MCPs are adopted at scale, certain patterns start to emerge: 1. Increase in wrong tool calls 2. increase in token usage, semantic loss 3. agents skipping the required tool call sequence. For high stakes domains such as finance and infrastructure, this leads to reliability and compliance risk. This talk presents a new MCP server design pattern for addressing this class of problems called:...
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Arnav Balyan

CEO, Concierge AI
Founder of Concierge AI. Ex-Uber building MCP systems at scale. Concierge AI manages 400+ public MCP deployments, Arnav focuses on MCP tool complexity and researches token overhead reduction at scale.
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

4:20pm EDT

The Seven Deadly Sins With MCP - Ricardo Ferreira, Redis
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
Picture your MCP server exposing your database to an overeager LLM that tries to "optimize" your schemas at 3 AM. Sinful? Absolutely. As MCP becomes the standard for connecting LLMs to real systems, teams are speedrunning mistakes like this—causing memory leaks, runaway polling, and permission scopes so wide they make the sudo commands executed in production look cautious. This session breaks...
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Ricardo Ferreira

Lead Developer Advocate, Redis
Ricardo leads the developer relations team at Redis. He built a successful career in DevRel working for companies such as AWS, Elastic, and Confluent. He spent two decades working as a software engineer, instructor, and solution architect before diving into the world of developer... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

4:20pm EDT

From Chaos To Clarity: How MCP Transforms Incident Response - Sebastian Villanelo & Rocío Bayon, PagerDuty
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
Imagine being on-call at 3 AM: alerts fire, you scramble between the incident, monitoring dashboards, Slack, runbooks, and ticketing systems. Each tool switch drains cognitive capacity during your highest-stress moments. Current reality: On-call engineers navigate 5-10 tools under pressure. Managers manually coordinate team responses. Stakeholders interrupt for updates. Result: burnout, delayed...
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Sebastian Villanelo

Forward Deployment Engineer, PagerDuty
Develop custom reports that help each customer identify and monitor the metrics most relevant to their operations. Gather technical and functional requirements, working closely with the product team to translate customer needs into concrete improvements.
avatar for Rocío Bayon

Rocío Bayon

Product Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, PagerDuty
Originally from Argentina and based in Chile, I'm a Product Manager on the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team at PagerDuty. With a background in Mechanical Engineering and Business Analytics, I live at the intersection of technology, data, and real-world customer implementations... Read More →
MCP Dev Summit From Chaos to Clarity pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

4:20pm EDT

Securing the MCP Ecosystem: Production Patterns for Transparency and Trust - Lisa Tagliaferri & Trevor Dunlap, Chainguard
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
Model Context Protocol servers are increasingly granted access to critical infrastructure from observability systems and databases to code repositories. This access introduces new supply chain security challenges for teams operating MCP servers in real-world environments. In this talk, we share lessons learned from Chainguard’s experience building MCP infrastructure for production. Starting...
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Lisa Tagliaferri

Senior Directory, Developer Enablement, Chainguard
Lisa Tagliaferri is Senior Director of Developer Enablement at Chainguard and a maintainer of Sigstore’s documentation. The author of “How To Code in Python” and a Linux Foundation course developer, Lisa focuses on helping developers and maintainers adopt CNCF and OpenSSF tooling... Read More →
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Trevor Dunlap

Senior Software Engineer, Chainguard
Trevor Dunlap is a senior software engineer at Chainguard. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on automating the enhancement of vulnerability data. Trevor is an advocate for open source software security and enjoys competing on Kaggle.

securing the mcp ecosystem pptx
Friday April 3, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Session Slides Yes

4:50pm EDT

Your MCP Server Will Probably Be Abandoned...Or Not - Lahari Chowtoori, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
Here's what's going to happen: MCP takes off. Hundreds of MCP servers get built. Most of them end up unmaintained within two years and then issues pile up, PRs go stale, the original author moves on. I have spent time digging through MCPZoo, a dataset of 56,000+ MCP servers, and the warning signs are already there. Repos with READMEs that just say "install and run." Projects with one contributor...
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Lahari Chowtoori

Open Source TPM, AI/ML, AWS
Lahari Chowtoori is an AI enthusiast and Technical Program Manager at AWS, focusing on open source, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With a background in Data Science and Machine Learning, she is passionate about democratizing AI knowledge and fostering community collaboration.She... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices
  • Audience Experience Level Any

4:50pm EDT

Call Now, Fetch Later: MCP Tasks and SEP-1686 - Adam Azzam, Prefect
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
MCP made agents portable. But it also made them fragile—every tool call lives or dies by its network connection, and long-running work has been a liability we've all been working around in different (incompatible) ways. SEP 1686 introduces native task orchestration to the protocol. This talk covers what's changing, why it matters, and what it unlocks for anyone building serious MCP...
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Adam Azzam

VP Product, Prefect
Adam Azzam, Ph.D. is VP of Product at Prefect, where he leads product development for their open source automation and context platform. He is a maintainer of FastMCP.

Before joining Prefect, Adam co-founded Openrole AI, where he served as CTO building an AI career co-pilot. He was previously Director of Product at Insight Data Science (YC S11). Adam holds a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

4:50pm EDT

Enterprise-Ready MCP: Security Patterns and the "4-Legged" Identity Challenge - Paulina Xu, Agentic Fabriq
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
As MCP evolves from local developer workflows to shared, remote infrastructure, new security & identity challenges emerge. Patterns that work for single-user, local MCP setups often break down when MCP servers become gateways serving thousands of users, agents, and tools. This session explores the architectural patterns required to deploy MCP securely in enterprise environments. We’ll examine...
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Paulina Xu

CEO, Agentic Fabriq
Paulina Xu is the CEO of Agentic Fabriq, where she is building a centralized hub for agent identity, OAuth-based authentication, permissioning, and auditability, enabling organizations to safely manage what agents can access and do across tools, applications, and teams. Prior to founding... Read More →
Agentic Fabriq MCP Dev pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

4:50pm EDT

Kubernetes-Native Agent Discovery: A Unified Registry for MCP Servers and Skills - Carlos Santana, AWS
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
As AI agents become integral to cloud-native architectures, they need a standardized way to discover capabilities available within Kubernetes clusters. Currently, agents must be pre-configured with MCP server endpoints and skill definitions, creating brittleness in dynamic environments where services scale and evolve continuously. This talk introduces a Kubernetes-native discovery service: a...
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Carlos Santana

Sr. Kubernetes Specialist SA, AWS
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization (AppMod). He is experienced in distributed cloud application architecture, emerging technologies, open source, serverless, devops. kubernetes, gitops. He is CNCF Ambassador... Read More →
Kubernetes Native Agent Discovery — MCP Dev Summit 2026 pdf
Friday April 3, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Session Slides Yes

5:20pm EDT

Reflections on Context Engineering Via MCP Servers - Till Döhmen, MotherDuck
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
Effective context engineering via MCP servers requires understanding how host agents weave the server's responses into their context as conversations unfold. Context flows through more channels than tool definitions alone: initial instructions, the tool set itself (explicit tools vs. generic execution tools), tool names and parameters, descriptions, response content, structure and length, error...
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Till Döhmen

AI Lead, MotherDuck
Till Döhmen is AI Lead at MotherDuck, where he focuses on building agentic experiences for data analytics. He designed and built the MotherDuck MCP Server, enabling AI agents to query and analyze data through Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients. Till is also a final-year PhD candidate... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South (6th Floor)
  MCP Best Practices

5:20pm EDT

MCP Elicitation - Balancing Convenience With Security - Kay James, Gravitee
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
As AI agents become more autonomous through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), one question becomes unavoidable => why, when, and how should humans be asked to intervene to provide feedback or approval? In this talk, we explore MCP elicitation as a core design pattern for agentic systems, not just as a UX or AX (Agent Experience) feature, but as a security, authorization, and trust mechanism. ...
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Kay James

Technical Product Marketing Manager, Gravitee
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)
  Protocol in Depth

5:20pm EDT

Context Middleware for MCP: From Enterprise Needs To Protocol Extension - Peder Holdgaard Pedersen, Saxo Bank
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
Many MCP servers aren't public - they're internal enterprise deployments where security, compliance, and safety aren't optional. Yet MCP currently lacks standardized middleware patterns, forcing teams into shared libraries and bespoke solutions that recreate the NxM problem. Context middleware lets us intercept, inspect, and transform MCP traffic at trust boundaries. Just as tools were key to...
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Peder Holdgaaard Pedersen

Principal Developer, Saxo Bank
Peder architects AI systems and spearheads AI adoption at Saxo Bank as Principal Developer. He is a contributor to the C# MCP SDK and an MCP maintainer for the Financial Services Interest Group. He specializes in integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities with bespoke assistants and... Read More →
MCP Context Middleware pptx
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

5:20pm EDT

Hooks, Not Hacks: Modular Enforcement for MCP Agents - Fred Araujo & Ian Molloy, IBM
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
MCP enables agent composition, but leaves security, policy, and governance enforcement to individual implementations. This results in inconsistent controls and security gaps across agents, tools, and environments, pushing platform-specific logic into otherwise portable MCP systems.This talk presents a hook-based extension pattern for MCP, inspired by the Linux Security Modules (LSM) extensibility...
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Ian Molloy

Department Head, IBM Research
Ian Molloy is a Principal Research Scientists and Department Head of the Security Department at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, a large and diverse team working across working in cryptography, cloud, AI and Security Intelligence. His primary research interest is in automating... Read More →
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Fred Araujo

Principal Research Scientist and Manager, IBM
Dr. Fred Araujo is a Principal Research Scientist and Manager at IBM Research, where he leads research on the security of AI agents and middleware. His work spans protocol security, access control, systems security, and program analysis, and has influenced several IBM and Red Hat... Read More →
Friday April 3, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm EDT
Astor Ballroom (7th Floor)
  Security and Operations

6:00pm EDT

Closing Party
Friday April 3, 2026 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Lucky Strike Times Square
Strike up some fun at the Closing Party, and join us for an evening of games, delicious bites, and great company. Bowl a few frames, challenge colleagues to billiards or ping pong, try your luck in the arcade, and enjoy small plates and refreshments while networking with fellow attendees.Lucky Strike is a 2-minute walk from the New York Marriott Marquis - exit the venue onto W. 45th Street, head...
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Friday April 3, 2026 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Lucky Strike Times Square 222 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
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