MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026

MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026

08:30 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up Grand Ballroom Foyer

09:30 KST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Demetrios Brinkmann, Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundation Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

09:45 KST

Keynote: Two Years of MCP: State of The Ecosystem - Den Delimarsky, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:00 KST

Keynote: To Be Announced Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:10 KST

Keynote: A Cloud Service Provider's MCP Operations Story (From MCP Generator to MCP Gateway) - Jihye Kim, Backend Engineer, Naver Cloud Platform Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:25 KST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer Solutions Showcase Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:55 KST

Commanding SO101 With Agents - Anshuman Singh, Devfolio Orchid 1 Zero-Trust MCP: Treating Every Tool Call as an Untrusted API Request From the Outside World - Akshat Khanna & Unnati Mishra, Independent Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat Orchid 2

11:25 KST

Building and Taming an MCP Server for Multi-Cloud Vibe Computing - Seokho Son, ETRI Orchid 1 MCP in Prod: An SRE & DevOps Guide to Not Getting Paged at 3 AM - Deep Poharkar, Obmondo Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

11:55 KST

The MCP Registry Problem: Why Discoverability Is the Bottleneck Killing Ecosystem Growth - Unnati Mishra, Independent Orchid 1 Secure MCP Servers in Production: A Practical Guide for Developers - Valeri Milke, VamiSec GmbH Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

12:20 KST

Lunch Grand Ballroom Foyer

13:50 KST

Evolving an LLMOps Feedback System Into an MCP-Based Agent Architecture - Ian Y. Choi, AWS & Taeyoung Kim, AIFactory Orchid 1 Demystifying MCP Auth in Plain English - Rohit Ganguly, Descope Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

14:20 KST

Authorization in MCP Systems: Getting It Right From the Start - Aram Andreasyan, Cerbos Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

14:50 KST

Building Production MCP Servers in Go: Transports, Concurrency, and Tool Contracts - Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Maersk & Naman Lakhwani, Independent Orchid 1 Who Authorized That Agent? Identity and Policy Enforcement for MCP Tool Calls - Kaiwalya Koparkar, Gravitee Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

15:15 KST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

15:45 KST

Why Enterprise MCP Runs on Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Dash0 Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 The Context Budget Crisis: Why MCP Needs Server-Side Response Controls - Nimit Savant & Gokul K S, DevRev Orchid 1 Workshop: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai Orchid 2

16:15 KST

Plug & Play Petabytes With Elastic's MCP - Ashish Tiwari, Elastic Orchid 1 From APIs To Agentic Toolkits: Designing MCP Flavors and a Public MCP Gateway at Scale - Faizan Akhtar, React India Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Workshop Continues: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai Orchid 2

16:45 KST

From CRDs to Conversations: Simplifying Chaos Engineering With MCP - Pritesh Kiri, Harness Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Three Gateways for the Agentic Era: An Architectural Framework for Governing AI Agent Traffic - Dakshitha Ratnayake, WS02 Orchid 1 Workshop Continues: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai Orchid 2

17:10 KST

Attendee Reception Solutions Showcase

08:30 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up Grand Ballroom Foyer

09:30 KST

Keynote: Welcome Back - Demetrios Brinkmann, Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundation Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

09:40 KST

Keynote: MCP Is the Easy Part - Baruch Sadogursky, Member of DevRel Staff, Tessl AI Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:00 KST

Keynote: To Be Announced Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:15 KST

Keynote: After the Tool Call: What MCP Leaves Open and How to Close It - Viren Baraiya, CTO, Orkes and Co-Creator of Netflix Conductor Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

10:30 KST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer Solutions Showcase Grand Ballroom Foyer

11:00 KST

From API To Agent: Building a Video Intelligence MCP Server and Plugin Ecosystem - James Le, TwelveLabs Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 When MCP Tools Fail: Reliable ML Inference for MCP Agents - Sho Tanaka, Snowflake Orchid 2

11:30 KST

From AGENTS.md to MCP: Practical Patterns for Agentic Engineering Adoption - Junho Kong, SK Ono Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 GraphQL Subscriptions as a Real-time Event Transport for MCP Agents - Akshat Sharma, Deskree Orchid 2 The Confused Deputy Problem in MCP: Securing Chained Tool Calls in Multi-Agent Systems - Aviral Sapra, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust & Ryan Madhuwala, Caracal Orchid 1

12:00 KST

From Chaebol to Cloud-Native: MCP Agent Platforms Inside Korea's Manufacturing Giants - Yogesh Sardana, Independent Orchid 2 Skills and MCP: Complementary, Not Competing - Dale Seo, Apollo GraphQL Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Hardening MCP Integrations Against Tool Poisoning - Arshardh Ifthikar, WSO2 Orchid 1

12:30 KST

Why We Made Our AI Agent Platform a Codebase Before Adding MCP - Navtej Reddy, Observe.ai Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Your MCP Server Behaves Differently in Every Client: A Cross-Client Field Guide for Server Authors - Tanisha Sharma, SuprSend Orchid 2 MCP Discovery Infrastructure: Registries, Trust, and Routing for Production Agents - Mahesh Lambe, ProjectNANDA.org Orchid 1

12:55 KST

Lunch Grand Ballroom Foyer

14:25 KST

Closing the Context Gap: Making Your APIs Agent-Ready With Postman’s Native Git Integration - Aanchal Mishra, Postman & Ali Mustafa Shaikh, Pieces AI Orchid 1 Self-Improving MCP Agents - Kemal Elmizan, GoTo Company Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 When AI Agents Need Eyes: What MCP Can and Cannot Standardize for Computer Vision - Seowoo Han, B GARAGE Orchid 2

14:55 KST

Managing Token Usage in MCP Servers Using Code Mode - Bhumika Satpathy, Google Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Operating an AI Infrastructure Through MCP Apps on Agents - HyounKyoung Moon, Lablup Orchid 2 Two Audiences, One Markdown File: Writing MCP Docs an Agent Can Actually Use - Tanisha Sharma, SuprSend Orchid 1

15:25 KST

From 40 Tools To 14: A Practical Framework for MCP Tool Curation - Nimit Savant & Gokul K S, DevRev Orchid 1 From Legacy To Agentic AI - Seoyul Yoon, SK AX Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 From CVEs To Kill Switches: Hardening the MCP Supply Chain End-to-End - Unnati Mishra, Independent Orchid 2

15:50 KST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

16:05 KST

Building and Testing MCP Servers With the Inspector, Conformance Suites, and Property-Based Testing - Navin Pai, StackGen Orchid 2 My Computer's Purchasing? Enabling Agentic Commerce With MCP - Rohit Ganguly, Descope Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Beyond APIs: Making MCP Services Faster and Secure With WebAssembly - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies Orchid 1

16:35 KST

Dead Reckoning for AI Agents: Building Fault-Tolerant MCP State Machines Without a Map - Akshat Khanna, Independent Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 Stop Wrapping APIs: Building Structured Execution Boundaries With MCP for Incident Triage - Sunyoung Park, KC-ML2 Orchid 1 Who Watches the Watchmen? Safe AI-Agent Failover Via MCP and CRDs - Phuong Bac Ta, Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking, SSU, South Korea & Vitumbiko Mafeni, CNLAB | SSU IISTRC Orchid 2

17:05 KST

From Scripts To Systems: Building Appium MCP for Real-World Automation - Swastik Baranwal & Navin Chandra, TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) Orchid 1 When Dashboards Lie: Building MCP Tools That Chase Down the Truth - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Aditya Soni, SailPoint Grand Ballroom 1 + 2 MCP Authorization: What an IAM Engineer Sees That You Might Miss - Thumula Perera, WSO2 Orchid 2