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From Chaos To Clarity: How MCP Transforms Incident Response - Sebastian Villanelo & Rocío Bayon, PagerDuty
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AI & Machine Learning
MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 2026
The MCP Dev Summit North America is the premier technical event for builders, maintainers, and organizations advancing agentic AI systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation, it gathers co-founders, developers, and platform teams to share best practices, enterprise integration strategies, and technological innovations.
96
Talks
Day 1
96 talks
Code Mode Without the Code
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From Cypher to Conversation: MCP at WestJet - Anton Lysov, WestJet
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MCPwned: Hacking MCP Servers With One Skeleton Key Vulnerability - Jonathan Leitschuh, Independent
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Lessons Learned Building Intelligent UIs With MCP Apps - Riley Scheid, Reboot (reboot.dev)
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Bridging Kernel Space and AI: Building an MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Observability - Daniel Hodges, Meta
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MCP Live: Streaming Context To AI Agents - Harshit Kohli, Amazon Web Services
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OCI Images as MCP Packaging: Supply Chain Security for AI Tools - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok
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MCP Meets Java: Engineering the MCP Java SDK
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MCP: The Gateway to Real-Time Human–AI Collaboration in Jupyter at Scale - Jake Diamond-Reivich, Project Jupyter
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Your #1 Docs Audience Isn't Human: Dev Ed's MCP Strategy at Apollo - Daniel Abdelsamed, Apollo GraphQL
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Rules Are Not Suggestions: A History of MCP Non-Compliance
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MCP Gateways: The Control Plane for Agentic Integration - Alex Salazar, Arcade.dev
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Kubernetes-Native Agent Discovery: A Unified Registry for MCP Servers and Skills - Carlos Santana, AWS
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Hooks, Not Hacks: Modular Enforcement for MCP Agents
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Keynote: The First 100 Agents: Scaling With MCP From Prototype To Platform - Diamond Bishop, Director of Eng/AI, Datadog - Dispatch Agents
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Keynote: Welcome Remarks from the AAIF Governing Board Chair - David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience, Amazon Web Services
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Keynote: Enterprise MCP - The Data Plane for Autonomous Agents - Adam Seligman, CTO & Zayne Turner, Developer Advocate, Workato
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Keynote: One-To-Many: Enabling MCP, Agents, and Intelligent Systems at Nordstrom - Ola Hungerford, Principal Engineer & Sandeep Bhat, Engineer, Nordstrom
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Keynote: Duolingo's AI Slackbot: An Enterprise Assistant With 180+ MCP Tools - Aaron Wang, Software Engineer, Duolingo Inc
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Keynote: Using MCP for Skills Orchestration and Enterprise Integration - Jacob Wilson, PwC Principal, GenAI Transformation Leader
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Keynote: Context is More Than Tools - Why the "C" in MCP is More Relevant Than Ever - Ryan Cooke, Engineering Lead, WorkOS
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Keynote: MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier - Ido Salomon, Creator MCP-UI & Liad Yosef, Co-creator, MCP Apps
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Building a Workflow Engine on MCP: Orchestrating Processes With Tasks - Donnie Adams, Obot AI
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Durable, Asynchronous, and Tricky: Implementing MCP Tasks in Practice - Cornelia Davis, Temporal
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Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them - Alex Hancock, Block
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MCP Vs CLIs: Why Agents Need Purpose-Built Interfaces - Sam Morrow, GitHub
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Call Now, Fetch Later: MCP Tasks and SEP-1686 - Adam Azzam, Prefect
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Path to V2 for MCP SDKs - Max Isbey, Anthropic
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Interceptors for MCP: A Production-Tested Standard for Agentic Middleware - Kurt Degiorgio & Cannis Chan, Bloomberg
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Every API Is a Tool for Agents
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What if MCP was Symmetric? - Jerome Swannack, Anthropic
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One Spec, Ten SDKs, Zero Excuses: Conformance Testing MCP - Paul Carleton, Anthropic
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Intent Engineering: The Death of the Mono-Directional Prompt - Rizel Scarlett, Block, Inc.
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Clients? Servers? Agents? The Beautiful Asymmetry of the MCP Spec
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MCP Elicitation - Balancing Convenience With Security - Kay James, Gravitee
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Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports - Shaun Smith, Hugging Face & Kurtis Van Gent, Google
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Evolution, Not Revolution: How MCP Is Reshaping OAuth - Aaron Parecki, Okta
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The Seven Deadly Sins With MCP - Ricardo Ferreira, Redis
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The Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Deep-Dive into MCP via Selective Sabotage - Joey Stout, Spacelift
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URL Elicitation Deep Dive: Third-party OAuth Solved (and More!) - Nate Barbettini, Arcade.dev
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Building ChatGPT Apps: Principles for a New Kind of Interface - Elliot Garreffa, Ghost Team
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Dynamic MCPs: Agentic Discovery, Configuration, and Management of MCP Workloads - Jim Clark, Docker
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The MCP Gateway Pattern: Aggregation, Composition, and Beyond - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok
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Schema To Insight: Architecting Production-Grade Database MCP Tools - Kurtis Van Gent & Wenxin Du, Google
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MCP Servers in the Wild: Managing Tool Complexity at Scale - Arnav Balyan, Concierge AI
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Reflections on Context Engineering Via MCP Servers - Till Döhmen, MotherDuck
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Skills Vs. MCP Vs. Code Mode: Cutting Through the Hype (and the Rage) - Nikolay Rodionov, Alpic
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MCP at 18 Months: Protocols, Patterns, and What We Didn't See Coming - Shaun Smith, Hugging Face
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The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools
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Mental Reset: How To Rethink Your User Flow in the Age of MCP & ChatGPT Apps - Erica Beavers, Alpic
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Human in the Loop, Agent in the Flow - Harald Kirschner & Connor Peet, Microsoft
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From Benchmarks To Business Value: Building a Use-Case Specific Agent Evaluation Framework - Gaurav Saxena, Independent & Matvey Kukuy, Archestra.AI
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Your MCP Server Will Probably Be Abandoned...Or Not - Lahari Chowtoori, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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Distributing MCP Servers With OCI To Power Agent Skills - Bobby House, Docker
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If the LLM Can't Find You, You Don't Exist: Discoverability for MCP-Apps and ChatGPT Apps - Vincent McLeese, Ghost Team
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Code Mode Is Best Served in the Shell - Jan Curn, Apify
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Solving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments
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Combine Skills and MCP To Close the Context Gap - Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
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Shadow MCP: Finding the MCPs Nobody Approved
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Mix-Up Attacks in MCP: Multi-Issuer Confusion and Mitigations - Emily Lauber, Microsoft
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Context Middleware for MCP: From Enterprise Needs To Protocol Extension - Peder Holdgaard Pedersen, Saxo Bank
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Enterprise-Ready MCP: Security Patterns and the "4-Legged" Identity Challenge - Paulina Xu, Agentic Fabriq
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Deploying MCP at Scale Without Skipping Compliance
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From Scopes To Intent: Reimagining Authorization for Autonomous Agents - Andres Aguiar & Abhishek Hingnikar, Okta
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MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate & Boteng Yao, Google
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Securing MCP at Scale: From Principles To Production - Peter Smulovics, Morgan Stanley
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Threat Modeling Authorization in MCP - Sarah Cecchetti, OpenID Foundation
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If You Can Secure It Here, You Can Secure It Anywhere - Milan Williams & Katrina Liu, Semgrep
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When MCP Becomes a Product - Gautam Baghel, HashiCorp & Roy Derks, IBM
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The Boring Attack That Will Actually Get You - Craig Jellick, Obot AI
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Golem To Murderbot: Challenges With Agentic Security Delegation Via MCP - Michael Schwartz, Gluu
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Putting the Single Back in Single Sign-On: Cross-App Access for MCP - Paul Carleton, Anthropic & Max Gerber, Twilio
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Securing the MCP Ecosystem: Production Patterns for Transparency and Trust - Lisa Tagliaferri & Trevor Dunlap, Chainguard
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Beyond the Sandbox: Security at the Host Layer
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Demistifying Client ID Metadata Documents in MCP - Den Delimarsky, Anthropic
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RPC > MCP: Turning a Decade of APIs Into Agentic Tools - Ze'ev Klapow, HubSpot
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UI in the Age of AI - Adam Cowley, Neo4j
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Operating MCP in the Enterprise: From Protocol To Production - Amar Deep Singh, GM Financial & Neelabh Tripathi, Cisco Systems
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Evaluate What You Can't See: Measure the Probabilistic Nature of MCP - Prathmesh Patel & Marcelo Jimenez Rocabado, MCPJam
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MCP for Autonomous Storefronts: Building Self-Healing Agent Loops - Guilherme Rodrigues, decocms.com
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MCP Apps Best Practices: Patterns and Pitfalls - Olivier Chafik & Anton Pidkuiko, Anthropic
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When MCP Isn't Enough: Product Decisions Behind Scalable Agent Systems - John Su, Datadog
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Patterns for Building MCP-powered Agent Systems - Jiquan Ngiam, MintMCP
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From 60 Minutes To 60 Seconds: Production MCP Workflows for Healthcare Billing - Andrew Espira, Kustode
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Progressive Tool Discovery: Using MCP Notifications To Manage Context at Scale - Billy Hickman & Lilia Abaibourova, Amazon
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Enabling Agentic Cloud Workflows - Santhosh Misro & Mayur Deshpande, Google
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Declarative MCP Servers for Secure, Specialized AI Agents - Josh Reini & Reetika Roy, Snowflake
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Challenges in Delivering Unstructured Content Efficiently Over MCP - Kailas Krivanka & Fernando Cerenza, Box
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From One MCP Server To an Ecosystem: When MCP Stops Being a Server and Becomes a Platform - Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix
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Sponsored Session: Who's Driving? Delegation and the Confused Deputy Problem for AI Agents - Vitor Balocco & Alvaro Inckot, Runlayer
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My MCP Server Code Works, but the Agent Fails: The Case for MCP-specific Evaluations - Calum Murray & Wesley Chun, Red Hat
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Sponsored Session: The Self-Improving MCP Server: Agents in a Live Development Loop - Enrico Toniato, Manufact
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Sponsored Session: Model Context Pragmatism - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect
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Sponsored Session: Future-Proofing AI Agents: The Strategic Role of MCP - Don Murray, Safe Software
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Sponsored Session: Agents and MCP @ Google Scale - Alan Blount & Vaibhav Katkade, Google Cloud
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