AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 sessions
The public programme of AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 (Amsterdam, 17-18 September), with the abstract each speaker submitted and a link to the slides they attached. Searchable in the tool.
Thursday
- Keynote: Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President, Agentic AI Foundation
- Keynote: Building the Internet of Agents in the Open - Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of Agentic AI Foundation
- Keynote: MCP and the Era of Connectivity - David Soria Parra, Co-creator of MCP, Anthropic
- Keynote: Reactive Agents: Your Agent Doesn't Need to Be Always On - Clare Liguori, MCP Core Maintainer & Senior Principal Engineer, AWS
- Keynote: Agents as Actors: Harnessing the Power of Agentic Infrastructure - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
- Solutions Showcase
- Sponsor Activity - Build and Explore Agentic Infrastructure Hands-On
- Sponsor Activity - What’s Your Data Type?
- Sponsor Activity - Fuel Your Build: Stroopwafels + Live Strands Agents and MCP Demos
- From Personal Agent To Org Catalog: 13 Specialists, One Orchestrator - Nick Veenhof, GitLab
- Sponsored Session: Securing the Agentic Universe, One Layer at a Time - Jake Moghtader, Runlayer
- Sponsored Workshop: Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering - Ignacio Martinez, Oracleslides ↗
- The Modern AI Stack: Agents, MCP and Skills - Adewale Abati, Independent
- What Does It Take To Ship a New MCP Spec - Den Delimarsky, Anthropic
- An Orchestra of Agents: What I Learned Running a Multi-Agent System for 5,000+ Developers - Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz, Scaniaslides ↗
- Legal Implications Under EU Law When Deploying AI Agents - Mirela Takacs, Law Office Takacs Mirelaslides ↗
- Sponsored Session: Beyond the Easy 80%: Bringing Legacy, Spatial, and Locked-Down Data to MCP - Sanae Mendoza, Safe Softwareslides ↗
- Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports - Kurtis Van Gent, Google & Shaun Smith, Hugging Face
- Call Now, Fetch Later: Durable MCP Tasks on an Event Log - Jeremy Frenay, Lenses
- CHAP, an Open Protocol for Auditable Human-Agent Collaboration - Dr Arsalan Shahid, Brightbeam AIslides ↗
- Sponsored Session: Agents, Infrastructure, and the Future of AI-native Applications - Kevin Cochrane, Vultr
- When NOT To Use an Agent: Choosing Between Workflows, Services, and Agent Systems - Jigyasa Grover, Uber & Rishabh Misra, Atlassian
- Delegated Authorization for AI Agents: How to Build an Agent with Fine-Grained Permissions - Sohan Maheshwar, AuthZedslides ↗
- From Opaque To Observable: Tracing Multi-Agent OpenClaw Workflows With OpenTelemetry - Jordan Augé, Cisco Systemsslides ↗
- MCP Conformance Testing V1.0, Testing the 2026-07-28 Spec in SDK's and Online - Paul Carleton & Felix Weinberger, Anthropic
- Sponsored Session: Building a Sovereign AI Governance Stack with Open Source - Roman Swoszowski, Grape Upslides ↗
- Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration - Morgan Martin, Tyler Longwell, Wes Billman & Bradley Axen, Blockslides ↗
- A2A Goes Stable: What Changed, Why, and What's Next - Sam Betts, Cisco Systems & Kuba Herczyński, Googleslides ↗
- MCP Doesn't Have a Context Problem - Sam Morrow, GitHub
- Sponsored Session: Breaking the Governance Bottleneck: Why Scaling Control Gets Agents to Production - Dr. Rania Khalaf, WSO2
- We Built AI Agents To Fix Security Findings in Production — Here's What Developers Actually Merged - Amine Boudraa, Ruchita Kshirsagar, Nihit Gupta & Gianfranco Romani, Thomson Reutersslides ↗
- Exploring WebMCP: What Happens When AI Agents Start Using Websites? - Sylwia Laskowska, Atosslides ↗
- Two Users, One App: Designing MCP Apps for Humans and Agents - Florian Bauer, OpenAIslides ↗
- What *IS* an Agent's Identity? - Christian Posta, Solo.io
- Your Agents Need a Router: One Integration for Every Model and Tool - Ignasi Barrera, Tetrate.ioslides ↗
- Welcome Back - Angie Jones, Vice President, Agentic AI Foundation
- Keynote: A New Way To Build Software: How GitHub Is Evolving For a Human, Agent Future - Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft
- Keynote: Inside AI Agents -- Offloading Human Tasks - Maarten Grootendorst, Creator of BERTopic, KeyBERT & PolyFuzz, Member of Technical Staff - Google DeepMind
- Keynote: Why Organizations Need an AI Control Plane for Security and Governance - Sheng Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Obot AI
- Keynote: The Browser Isn't Dead Yet - Rachel-Lee Nabors, Founder, Mima.social
- MCP Borrowed LSP's Design. It Skipped LSP's Lesson - Gorkem Ercan, Jozuslides ↗
- Sandboxing My AI Agent, One Layer at a Time - Juan Antonio Osorio, Stacklok Inc.slides ↗
- Scaling Agents: From AI Experimentation to an Engineering Operating Model - Marat Kenzhebulatov, Booking.com
- Six Months of Proof: Independently-Verifiable Records for Agent Actions Under the EU AI Act - Steven Mih, Action State Group, Inc.slides ↗
- Smart Legal Agreements for the Agentic Economy Using Accord Project - Niall Roche, The Building Blocks
- 90 Days To Agentic Engineering - Thomas Schöne, Project Lions Development GmbHslides ↗
- Agentic AI for Enterprise Mainframes: From Dead Code Elimination To Business Knowledge - Thamarai Selvi Ravi Kumar, Legal and Generalslides ↗
- What a Year of Breaking MCP Tells Builders: Protocol Gaps and What Ships Next - Amine Raji, Molntek ABslides ↗
- What Networking Got Right That Agentic AI Risks Getting Wrong: The Case for an Agent Control Plane - Parisa Foroughi, Nokiaslides ↗
- Workshop: Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI
- Distributed Mess: A Production Guide To Multi-Agent Failures - Huong Vu, Databricksslides ↗
- Skills Need SemVer Too - Pedro Rodrigues, Supabaseslides ↗
- We Built an Agent, We Shipped a Compiler. Here's Why - Joel Verezhak, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- MAS-Lab: An Open Framework for Spec-Driven, Interoperable Multi-Agent Systems - Jordan Augé, Cisco Systemsslides ↗
- The Unix Philosophy for AI Agents: Filesystems as the Context Primitive - Cannis Chan & Daniel Temesgen, Bloombergslides ↗
- Verify, Abstain, or Amplify: A Field Guide To Confidently-Wrong Agents - Michal Orzechowski, Sano – Centre for Computational Personalised Medicineslides ↗
Friday
- Keynote: Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President, Agentic AI Foundation
- Keynote: Catch Them Early - Manik Surtani, CTO, Agentic AI Foundation
- Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, MCP and Transport Working Group Maintainer, Hugging Face
- Keynote: Three Doors to One Tool: MCP vs WebMCP vs CLI - Frédéric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder, Alpic & Dominic Farolino, Editor of the WebMCP Specification & Software Engineer, Google
- Keynote: State of the Software Factory - Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer
- Solutions Showcase
- Sponsor Activity - Build and Explore Agentic Infrastructure Hands-On
- Sponsor Activity - Aiboostr Live Demo: Governing Every Model and Agent - Product Architecture & Walkthrough
- Sponsor Activity - Get More From Buzz: Five-minute Tips for Better Agent Teamwork
- How we Reclaimed Significant Engineering Capacity at Salesforce with AI Agents - Axel Uhlig, Salesforce
- Potential Issues for Cross-domain Multi-hop API Calls and Their Solution Proposal - Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi, Ltd.
- Pull Requests Are Dead, Long Live Peer Review - Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind
- Self-Healing Agents Need Observability - Marcelo Trylesinski, Pydantic
- Workshop: Keep Infrastructure Out of Your AI Agents: The Agent Gateway Pattern - Lin Sun, Solo.ioslides ↗
- From "Works on My Prompt" To Production SLOs: Building Agent Observability - Manik Khandelwal, Microsoft
- From MCP Playground To Org-Wide Infrastructure: Lessons From Building Booking.com's Agent Foundry - Anushka Bhandari, Booking.com
- ID-JAG: Solving OAuth Sprawl for Enterprise AI Agents - Joey Orlando, Archestra.AI; Aaron Parecki, Okta & Paul Carleton, Anthropicslides ↗
- Outcome Engineering: Why Your Agentic Architecture Doesn't Matter (Yet) - Kierra Dotson, Further
- Agents Can Pay. Can They Prove It? - Diego Zuluaga, Open Mobile Hub
- Economies of Scale for MCP and Agents: Why You Need an Identity Broker - Magnus Jungsbluth & Jan Brennenstuhl, Zalando SEslides ↗
- Governance You Can Run: Checkable Properties for Production Agents - Seshu Tolety, Siemens
- I Was the Bottleneck, Not the Agent - Vincent Ysmal, Datadogslides ↗
- Governed Agent Autonomy: Building a Control Plane for Agentic Systems - Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
- MCP Challenges & Opportunities - Sam Morrow, GitHub; Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation; Shaun Smith, Hugging Face; Shub Argha, Arcade
- Testing Agents and Their Tools: Offline Evaluation, Synthetic Tasks, and A/B Experiments - Ksenia Bobrova, GitHubslides ↗
- When Agents Run Healthcare: Building Reliable Agentic Systems in Highly Regulated Environments - Janosch Woschitz, BARMERslides ↗
- Workshop: Harness Engineering: Building the System Around Your AI Coding Agent - Ji Darwish, Xomniaslides ↗
- Agents Talking To Agents: MCP, A2A, and the Reality of Multi-Agent Orchestration in Production - Willem Berroubache, Orangeslides ↗
- From API Catalogs To Agent Catalogs: Solving MCP Server Discovery With Open Resource Discovery - Vyshnavi Gadamsetti & Sebastian Wennemers, SAP SEslides ↗
- MCP Apps and The Agentic Web - Liad Yosef, MCP Apps
- Shipping a Production App in 10 Days: A Real Measurement of AI-Assisted Development - Julien Dubois, GitHubslides ↗
- Agent-Smith: Never Send a Human To Do a Machine’s Job - Glenn ten Cate, The Linux Foundation & Jorge Carvalho, Nedapslides ↗
- Beyond Chatbots: Agentic UI With Open Standards - Manfred Steyer, ANGULARarchitectsslides ↗
- From Vibes To Data: Evaluating Agents on Your Real Work - Ville Hellman, Datadogslides ↗
- Spotify’s Bet on MCP and Investment in Open Source - Reinoud Kruithof & Yannick Epstein, Spotify
- Attribution by Design: Skills, MCP, and Where Provenance Gets Built In - Ola Hungerford, Model Context Protocol
- Evaluating Agents at Scale: From 50 Examples to a Production Flywheel - Bauke Brenninkmeijer, Orq.ai
- Gating High-Risk Agentic Actions at the Relying Party With Exogenous (Out-of-Band) Inputs - Andrew Bud, iProov
- Giving Your Agentic Coding AI a Security Brain - Liran Tal, Snykslides ↗
- No Central Brain - Fausto Albers, WonderWhyslides ↗
- Autonomous Organisations: Starting Small - Floris Fok, Prosus
- From Advisory to Autonomous: A Staged Model for Agent Adoption - Milos Mandic, FDE Hubslides ↗
- Infrastructure Red Teaming With Abliterated Models: What Actually Stops Agent Attacks - Roy Belio, Red Hatslides ↗
- Most MCP Servers are Empty - David Golverdingen, Warmtebouwslides ↗
Independent index of the public AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 programme and the slide decks speakers attached to their sessions · extracts are shown for search, and every result links to the speaker's own file · not affiliated with the Linux Foundation or the Agentic AI Foundation · a Radixia Labs experiment