AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

Official hashtag: #AGNTCon #MCPCon

About AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

Two Linux Foundation conferences share a San Jose venue for AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026, on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23. One half deals with agentic AI architecture, the other with Model Context Protocol development.

The intended audience is AI engineers, open-source contributors, platform and DevOps engineers, and engineering leaders. The official site lists 41 sessions and 37 speakers, among them Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and David Soria Parra, who is credited as co-creator of MCP. A kickoff party with a concert is on October 21, followed by an attendee reception on Thursday evening.

Location

150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, California, 95113, United States

Venue: San Jose McEnery Convention Center

Agenda

Thursday, October 22

• 09:00–09:05 · Welcome to AGNTCon + MCPCon North America — Angie Jones
• 09:05–09:10 · Opening Remarks — Mazin Gilbert
• 09:15–09:25 · Manik Surtani, CTO, Agentic AI Foundation — Manik Surtani
• 09:25–09:30 · Tokenomics: Energy to Intelligence to Value — J.R. Storment
• 09:30–09:40 · David Soria Parra, Co-creator of MCP, Anthropic — David Soria Parra
• 09:45–09:55 · Building the Human-Agent Workplace — Bradley Axen
• 09:55–10:05 · Thomas Sarlandie, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI — Thomas Sarlandie
• 10:10–10:15 · Shipping Autonomous Agents Safely with Open Standards, Observability, and Control — Rao Surapaneni
• 10:25–10:35 · The Missing Mechanisms of the AI Economy — Tim O'Reilly
• 01:30–01:40 · Dawn Song – UC Berkeley — Dawn Song
• 01:40–01:45 · The Anything Trap: What to Build When Agents Can Build Everything — Lena Hall
• 01:50–01:55 · Agents as Actors: Harnessing the Power of Agentic Infrastructure — Idit Levine
• 01:55–02:00 · From Black Box to Glass Box: Your 5-step Blueprint to Trustworthy Agents — Abhishek Choudhary
• 09:15–09:15 · Keynote: Manik Surtani, CTO, Agentic AI Foundation — Manik Surtani
• 09:25–09:25 · Keynote: Tokenomics: Energy to Intelligence to Value — J.R. Storment
• 09:30–09:30 · Keynote: David Soria Parra, Co-creator of MCP, Anthropic — David Soria Parra
• 09:45–09:45 · Keynote: Building the Human-Agent Workplace — Bradley Axen
• 09:55–09:55 · Keynote: Thomas Sarlandie, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI — Thomas Sarlandie
• 14:20–15:55 · The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration — Tyler Longwell
• 16:05–17:40 · Keep Infrastructure Out of Your AI Agents and MCP Servers — Lin Sun

Friday, October 23

• 09:30–09:40 · Sutando: My AI Stand — Chi Wang
• 09:40–09:50 · From My Dog’s Cancer to a Personalised mRNA Vaccine: Building Across Disciplines with AI — Paul Conyngham
• 09:50–10:00 · Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation — Mark Collier
• 10:05–10:10 · Coding Agents need Deterministic Correctness — Shadaj Laddad
• 10:10–10:15 · Shipping Autonomous Agents Safely with Open Standards, Observability, and Control — Rao Surapaneni
• 10:25–10:35 · The Missing Mechanisms of the AI Economy — Tim O'Reilly
• 09:00–09:00 · Welcome Back & Awards — Mazin Gilbert
• 09:20–09:20 · Keynote: Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation — Mark Collier
• 09:30–09:30 · Keynote: Sutando: My AI Stand — Chi Wang
• 09:40–09:40 · Keynote: From My Dog’s Cancer to a Personalised mRNA Vaccine: Building Across Disciplines with AI — Paul Conyngham
• 09:50–09:50 · Keynote: Building the Git Forge of the Future — Thomas Dohmke
• 10:10–10:10 · Keynote: Shipping Autonomous Agents Safely with Open Standards, Observability, and Control — Rao Surapaneni
• 10:25–10:25 · Keynote: The Missing Mechanisms of the AI Economy — Tim O'Reilly
• 10:45–10:45 · Demo Theater: Wake Up, Neo: Debug Agent Memory Across Conversations — Nyah Macklin
• 10:55–10:55 · Workshop: Stack It Yourself: Open Infrastructure for AI Agents, from Compose to Cluster — Brian Benz & Pamela Fox
• 11:30–11:30 · Beyond LLMs in a Loop: Building Trusted Agents in Regulated Industries — Lucas Beeler
• 12:15–12:15 · Demo Theater: Govern the Full AI Data Path with Kong AI Gateway — Deirdre Anderson
• 10:55–12:30 · Break the Lethal Trifecta: Designing Access Boundaries Agents Can’t Talk Their Way Past — Zayne Turner
• 10:55–12:30 · Stack It Yourself: Open Infrastructure for AI Agents, from Compose to Cluster — Brian Benz
• 13:45–15:20 · Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond — Shannon Williams
• 15:30–17:05 · Secure Agentic Framework (SAF) for Agentic AI — Sarah Evans

Speakers

• Tim O'Reilly
  Open Source Pioneer; Founder & CEO, O’Reilly Media
• Thomas Dohmke
  Former CEO, GitHub; Co-Founder & CEO, Entire
• David Soria Parra
  Co-creator of MCP, Anthropic
• Sarah Drasner
  Distinguished Engineer & Area Tech Lead, AI & Web Ecosystem, Chrome, Google
• Thomas Sarlandie
  Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
• Angie Jones
  Vice President, Agentic AI Foundation
• Dawn Song
  Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Berkeley RDI; VP of AI Research, Meta, UC Berkeley; Berkeley RDI; Meta
• Chi Wang
  Founder of AutoGen/AG2 and MassGen; Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Deepmind
• Bradley Axen
  Creator & Maintainer of Goose; Head of AI Capabilities, Block
• Rao Surapaneni
  VP/GM, Business Application Platform & Developer Launchpad, Google
• Shadaj Laddad
  Research Lead, Hydro at AWS, AWS
• Manik Surtani
  Agentic AI Foundation
• J.R. Storment
  Executive Director, Tokenomics Foundation
• Lena Hall
  Senior Director Developers and AI, Akamai
• Idit Levine
  Founder & CEO, Solo.io
• Paul Conyngham
  Founder, Gamgee Technologies
• Mazin Gilbert
  Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation
• Mark Collier
  Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation
• Keith Babo
  Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
• Abhishek Choudhary
  TrueFoundry
• Tyler Longwell
  Machine Learning Engineer, Block
• Morgan Martin
  Product Designer/Builder, Intelligence & Infrastructure, Block
• Wes Billman
  Software Engineer, Applied AI, Block
• Taylor Ho
  Design Engineer, Block

Sponsors

• Akamai
• Anthropic
• AWS
• Block
• Google Cloud
• Solo.io
• Tokenomics Foundation
• truefoundry

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• github

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