MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026: Full Schedule

Two years ago, getting an AI agent to reach anything outside itself meant writing a whole bunch of glue code. A custom integration for every tool, every data source, every model you wanted to support. Nobody enjoyed this, and yet everybody did it anyway.

MCP was the emerging alternative - one protocol, implemented once on each side. It empowered all imaginable agents to be able to talk to anything through a standard set of conventions.

Two years later, the ecosystem around MCP is bigger than the spec itself. There are servers for nearly everything anyone would want to wire an agent into, clients across every major platform, and entire categories of capabilities that make the protocol suitable for more than just ferrying text-based data back and forth.

MCP is now the undeniable substrate most agentic workflows run on. Getting there took a couple of years, a large number of engineering debates, and the work of a community of maintainers, developers, and advocates that spans the globe. This is the story of us getting here.

Speakers

Den Delimarsky

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Den Delimarsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he helps build the Model Context Protocol (MCP). He's spent over a decade at the intersection of product management and engineering, building developer tools and platforms. He writes at .

Thursday August 13, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Keynote Sessions

10:00 KST

Keynote: MCP and the New Frontier for OSPOs - Ana Jiménez Santamaria, AAIF Ambassador & Senior Project Manager, The Linux Foundation

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Moving MCP tooling and agents from prototype to production creates a new set of challenges. Some are widely discussed protocol and infrastructure issues: scalability; agent communication; authentication. But as organizations work through those challenges, another bottleneck comes to the front: the operational governance layer around MCP adoption: trust, context, policy, provenance, accountability, and ecosystem participation

That layer is familiar territory for open source management. For years, Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) practices have coordinated across legal, security, engineering, and product teams, helping decide which open source software to trust, how to contribute safely, how to manage provenance, how to define reusable policies, and more

As MCP makes it easier for agents to connect to tools, data, and internal systems, teams also need to ask: Which MCP servers are safe to use? Who maintains them? What context should agents read? What internal policies should be enforced? How do we trace what an agent did and under what rules?

Building on preliminary findings from the 2026 State of the OSPO survey, early stories from open source managers and strategists across organizations, and emerging agentic AI use cases being tested in the field, this keynote explores how OSPO practices can help organizations adopt MCP in production through ways that are trustworthy, auditable, context-aware, and connected to the AAIF ecosystem.

Speakers

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Senior Project Manager, Linux Foundation

Ana Jiménez Santamaría is an open source community leader and data scientist with 5+ years of experience at the Linux Foundation, working as Sr. project manager supporting global, multi-stakeholder IT ecosystems. She is also an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador, helping developers... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Keynote Sessions

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

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:10 - 10:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

To attach an MCP server to each of hundreds of Naver Cloud Platform services, every service team had to implement MCP from scratch.
We built an MCP Generator to solve this — automatically generating MCP server code from OpenAPI specs.

Then Claude's MCP Builder Skills arrived. Suddenly, anyone could build an MCP server through a few conversations with Claude. The value of the generator we had built disappeared overnight.

We had to change direction.
And the question changed with it — from "how do we make building MCP servers easier?" to "how do we operate hundreds of them?"

That's how MCP Gateway was born. It aggregates multiple MCP servers behind a single HTTP endpoint, so users can connect every cloud service tool to their AI agent with just one URL and one API key.

This talk is structured in two parts:

Part 1 — The Journey: The process of figuring out how to provide good MCP servers for hundreds of cloud services — what problems we found, what we tried, and how the arrival of MCP Builder Skills became the turning point.

Part 2 — MCP Gateway: An introduction and demo of what problems it solves today, and a look at what we're building next.

Speakers

Jihye Kim

Backend Engineer, Naver Cloud

Backend developer at Naver Cloud Platform

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:10 - 10:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Keynote Sessions

10:25 KST

Break

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:25 - 10:55 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:25 - 10:55 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

10:55 KST

Commanding SO101 With Agents - Anshuman Singh, Devfolio

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST

Orchid 1

Working with hardware has always been tough. But over the last 2 years, the emergence of the SO-101 arm and the rise of AI agent architectures have opened up a new way to experiment -one that dramatically shortens the loop between idea and physical action.

In this session, I will briefly cover assembling and setting up the SO-101, then spend most of the time on: how AI agents can talk to and control the hardware. Starting with Claude Code and Codex, I will show how builders can create their own agents and then use MCP to connect them directly to the arm and issue movement instructions.

All scripts, implementations, and the MCP server used in this session are available at github.com/anshuman-dev/so101-project. The repo is actively being improved to make it more structured and easier for others to pick up and build on.

The bigger idea here is accessibility. Traditionally, operating robot arms required learning specialized, poorly-maintained software with long feedback loops. With AI agents and MCP as the interface layer, that barrier drops significantly. Builders, enthusiasts, and curious generalists can now go from zero to moving a robot arm without needing a robotics background.

Speakers

Anshuman Singh

Head of Operations, Devfolio

Hey team! Anshuman here :D

I work with Devfolio in community and operations, with a tech background including OSS contributions to GitLab (GSoC) and Web3 projects (MLH Fellowship).

I'm highly intrigued by security, particularly Code Scanners, and while I don't get much time t... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST
Orchid 1

Agent Architecture + Orchestration

10:55 KST

Stateful AI Agents: Building Consistent Systems with MCP and Distributed SQL - Nasiullha Chaudhari, YugabyteDB

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST

Orchid 2

An agent processes a payment, hits a timeout, and retries. Now the payment has been charged twice. The model didn’t hallucinate. The workflow did exactly what it was told. The problem is that nobody designed the agent to be safe under retry.

This is a distributed systems problem.

When agents read data, take actions, and write results back, correctness depends on how state is managed across steps. Under retries or concurrent execution, the same workflow can produce conflicting outcomes.

This talk shows how to build stateful AI agents using the Model Context Protocol with a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database. Instead of treating memory as embeddings, we treat it as structured, transactional state.

You will learn how to design MCP tools for database operations, manage multi-step workflows, and handle failure modes such as retries and idempotency. We will also explore consistency tradeoffs in distributed systems.

The session ends with concrete patterns for building reliable agents, including idempotent tools and safe retry design.

Speakers

Nasiullha Chaudhari

Developer Engagement Manager, YugabyteDB

Nasiullha Chaudhari works as a Developer Engagement Manager at YugabyteDB, focusing on AI systems, distributed databases, and cloud-native architectures. He works on real-world AI agent systems and focuses on what it takes to run them reliably in production.

He is a Docker Captain and an international speaker who has spoken at developer and infrastructure conferences globally. He shares practical insights through his YouTube channel with 180K+ subscribers and with 70K+ followers on LinkedIn

... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST
Orchid 2

Building with MCP

10:55 KST

Workshop: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

In this workshop, you'll build a complete MCP-powered agentic system in Java from scratch.

We'll start by building an MCP server. You'll see how familiar the programming model is: annotate a method with @Tool, configure a transport, and your service speaks MCP. We'll connect it to a real-world API so the tools do something useful, not just "hello world."

Next, we'll build an AI agent that discovers and calls those MCP tools through natural language. You'll see how dependency injection and type safety make multi-tool composition clean and testable, and how hot reload lets you iterate on agent behavior in seconds.

Finally, we'll compose multiple agents into a workflow, including a supervisor agent that autonomously routes tasks to specialist agents, each with their own tools and MCP connections.

All materials are open source and based on a battle-tested workshop delivered to developer audiences worldwide. Attendees leave with running code and reusable patterns they can apply immediately.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, Agentic AI, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

11:25 KST

Building and Taming an MCP Server for Multi-Cloud Vibe Computing - Seokho Son, ETRI

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST

Orchid 1

In early 2025, as MCP adoption grew, we built our first MCP server for Cloud-Barista, an Apache 2.0 multi-cloud project I maintain. We started with a simple approach: feed REST API docs to an LLM, ask it to generate a server, and connect it to Cloud-Barista.

It worked. Users could provision cloud infrastructure across 10 providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, and NCP, through LLM clients. It felt like an early glimpse of the Vibe Computing I had imagined.

But the first success was incomplete. The server misused APIs, burned tokens, stopped midway, and sometimes provisioned unintended resources. Imagine an agent creating 1,000 VMs with expensive GPUs by mistake. The real work began when we had to feed it better context and tame it with clearer tool boundaries, workflows, and controls.

This made Multi-Cloud Vibe Computing more concrete. It showed that a useful MCP server needs more than API coverage: context design, tool boundaries, workflow guidance, and safety controls.

This session shares lessons from building and taming an MCP server for a real-world system. It is a hands-on story of learning through mistakes and turning an API wrapper into a useful MCP interface.

Speakers

Seokho Son

Special Fellow and Principal Researcher, CNCF Ambassador, ETRI

Dr. Son is a Special Fellow and Principal Researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea's national research institute. He develops systems and algorithms for cloud and cloud native computing in national projects. As a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST
Orchid 1

Building with MCP

11:25 KST

From Legacy To Agentic AI - Seoyul Yoon, AAIF Community Seoul

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST

Orchid 2

What does it take to bring a company's legacy systems into the AI era?

Hand-coding tool functions for every backend is not sustainable; maintenance costs grow exponentially as the number of services increases. We solved this with a combination of open source projects.

Given a single OpenAPI spec, the system automatically converts endpoints into MCP Tools, a Kubernetes Operator provisions and manages the MCP server, and a LangGraph + deepagents-based Agent talks to internal systems on top, with Agent Skills (SKILL) shaping how that agent behaves.

This session shares how we selected and composed five open source projects, along with the real-world challenges we hit along the way: multi-provider OAuth, custom Keycloak token verification, per-backend header injection, transport-naming inconsistencies across MCP clients, and rewriting auto-generated tool descriptions to fit the LLM.

Not a finished solution, but a practitioner's account showing that turning legacy systems into AI-ready interfaces is entirely achievable with open source.

Speakers

Seoyul Yoon

Organizer | Platform Engineer, AAIF Community Seoul

I am an AAIF Community Seoul organizer and platform engineer focusing on bridging the gap between legacy enterprise systems and the Agentic AI era. As a passionate advocate for the open-source ecosystem and an active member of Cloud Native Community Korea, I explore the intersection... Read More →

From Legacy to Agentic AI pptx

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST
Orchid 2

Building with MCP

11:25 KST

Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:55 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

11:55 KST

From 40 Tools To 14: A Practical Framework for MCP Tool Curation - Nimit Savant & Gokul K S, DevRev

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST

Orchid 1

We built an MCP server exposing 40+ operations. Agents misused most of them. Hybrid search returned only IDs with no context. get_issue prefixed every field with redundant key-value labels, burning tokens without helping the LLM. We had write tools with no corresponding read tools. Custom field schemas varied wildly across organizations, causing unpredictable bloat.
We cut to 14 tools. Agent precision improved dramatically. But deciding which 14 - and how to design them - required building a framework we wish had existed when we started.
This talk shares that framework as an open, reusable methodology any MCP server author can apply: how to audit which tools agents actually select vs. misuse, how to score agent success rate per tool, how to identify tools that confuse rather than help, how to structure response shapes for minimal token cost and maximum agent comprehension, and how to design progressive disclosure so capability scales without overwhelming context.
Every team building an MCP server faces this decision. We'll give them a starting point so they don't have to learn it the hard way.

Speakers

Nimit Savant

Developer Evangelist, DevRev

I love to talk about Agentic AI and B2B Developer Advocacy and strategies

Gokul K S

Member of Technical Staff, DevRev

Computer engineer with 3 years of experience in backend systems and currently exploring the agentic space.

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 1

Building with MCP

11:55 KST

Secure MCP Servers in Production: A Practical Guide for Developers - Valeri Milke, VamiSec GmbH

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST

Orchid 2

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a core interface layer for AI agents, yet many teams still secure MCP servers as if they were ordinary APIs. This session provides a practical guide for building and operating secure MCP servers in production.

I will translate key security principles into concrete engineering decisions: secure local vs. remote MCP architectures, trusted tool onboarding, signed manifests, schema-based input and output validation, prompt injection controls, OAuth 2.1 / OIDC-based authentication, centralized policy enforcement, hardened deployment, audit logging, and continuous validation.

The goal is not theory, but an actionable security baseline that developers, architects, and platform teams can apply immediately. Attendees will leave with a pragmatic minimum bar and review checklist for MCP server development that helps reduce avoidable security failures, improve trust between clients and servers, and strengthen the security posture of the growing MCP ecosystem.

Speakers

Valeri Milke

CEO, VamiSec GmbH

Valeri Milke is CEO of VamiSec GmbH and an AI security and compliance expert focused on secure development, threat modeling, and the practical implementation of trustworthy AI systems. His work spans LLM security, agentic AI, software and product security, and regulatory frameworks... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 2

Security + Identity + Trust

11:55 KST

Workshop Continues: Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

12:20 KST

Lunch

Thursday August 13, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday August 13, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

13:50 KST

Evolving an LLMOps Feedback System Into an MCP-Based Agent Architecture - Ian Y. Choi, AWS & Taeyoung Kim, AIFactory

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST

Orchid 1

This talk shares lessons from rebuilding a production LLMOps feedback system after its original pipeline architecture became too difficult to extend and operate in practice. The system was initially designed as a modular, cloud-native pipeline that handled community exercise data end to end—from collection and analysis to feedback generation and publishing. As new capabilities were added, coordinating cross-step dependencies, managing state, and evolving the workflow without breaking existing logic became a growing challenge.
To address this, we restructured the system around MCP tools. Each core function—data ingestion, exercise analysis, recommendation generation, and feedback delivery—was refactored into an independently callable tool that agents can dynamically orchestrate. We will discuss how we handled multi-step coordination without losing state, partial failures and retries across tool boundaries, observability in agent-driven execution, and secure tool interaction in a production environment. Rather than presenting an idealized architecture, this session focuses on what changed in practice: what worked, what didn’t, and what we would do differently.

Speakers

Ian Choi

Containers Specialist, AWS

Ian Choi is a Containers GTM Specialist at AWS focused on AWS container platforms and Kubernetes. He built LLMOps-based systems for real-world use cases during his Ph.D. and is interested in how AI-native and agentic approaches can reshape them into more flexible architectures. His... Read More →

Taeyoung Kim

CEO, AIFactory

Taeyoung Kim is CEO of AIFactory. He works on production AI systems, LLMOps, agent orchestration, and MCP-based tool architectures. His focus is on building reliable, observable, and maintainable LLM applications that can evolve from experimental workflows into real-world service... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST
Orchid 1

Agent Architecture + Orchestration

13:50 KST

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

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST

Orchid 2

Giving an AI agent access to a Kubernetes cluster sounds powerful — until it runs the wrong command. The real challenge is not connecting an LLM to a cluster, but constraining what it can do, enforcing correctness, and keeping a human meaningfully in the loop.
This session presents a blueprint for safe, auditable MCP-powered operations through a real use case: an AI-assisted failover system for Kubernetes. Instead of letting an agent call cluster APIs directly, we place a Failover MCP Server in front of the cluster and expose only discrete, permission-scoped tools for observation and controlled action.
Beneath that reasoning layer, a Kubernetes Operator serves as the enforcement point. CRDs such as FailoverPolicy and DisasterRecoveryPlan encode failover semantics, validate requested actions, and ensure execution remains deterministic and policy-compliant. Sensitive actions are held behind a requireApproval setting in the Agent manifest until an operator explicitly approves the next step.
The talk closes with lessons on where LLM reasoning helps during incidents and why Operator-controlled execution still matters in high-risk workflows.

Speakers

Vitumbiko Mafeni

Research Engineer, Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking

I am a Research Engineer at the Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking, SSU, South Korea, specializing in cloud-native technologies for AI, edge computing, and 5G. I actively contribute to and engage with open-source projects, collaborating with the community to explore... Read More →

Phuong Bac Ta

Research Engineer, Distributed Cloud and Networking Research Center, SSU-IISTRC

Phuong Bac Ta is a Research Engineer at the Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking, SSU, South Korea. He works on cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and Agentic AI for operations, with a focus on observability, automated failover, and resilient infrastructure... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST
Orchid 2

Building with MCP

13:50 KST

Workshop: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal - Goobong Jeong, Team Attention

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Most people use Codex one prompt at a time. In this hands-on workshop, participants will turn Codex into a long-running research-to-build system by defining a clear Goal, providing rich project context, and steering the work as it progresses. We will assign Sol as the lead agent, delegate research and building tasks to Terra, use Luna for fast and repeatable work, then return to Sol for integration and evidence-based review. Participants will learn how to collaborate with Codex without taking implementation back, and how to verify results through tests, artifacts, and observable evidence.

Speakers

Goobong Jeong

Founder, Team Attention

Goobong Jeong builds AI for real life and supports an ecosystem where diverse, independent builders can turn ideas into products.

Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

14:20 KST

AAIF Ambassador AMA: Building the Agentic Future Through Community Contribution - Hoon Jo, Megazone; Daniel Oh, Red Hat; Ana Jimenénez Santamaria, Linux Foundation; Kevin Dubious, IBM; Junghwan Park, PyTorchKR

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 1

As MCP and open source agentic stacks transition into production infrastructure, developers are navigating a completely new paradigm of challenges. In this fast-paced, interactive Ambassador Office Hours, newly appointed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Ambassadors from across the globe take the stage to share raw, unvarnished insights from the front lines of agentic AI adoption.

The Ambassador Office Hours will dive straight into the practical realities of building with AAIF projects (e.g., MCP, AGENTS.md, goose, and agentgateway), uncovering what it takes to move past basic LLM orchestration into production-ready agent environments. The ambassadors will break down their biggest learning curves, systemic integration challenges, and the architectural shifts required by the latest protocol standards.

The final half of this rapid-fire session opens the floor entirely to you for a highly interactive, crowd-sourced Q&A with the AAIF Ambassadors. Leave with actionable tactics to accelerate your own agentic roadmap.

Speakers

Hoon Jo

CNCF & AAIF Ambassador | AI & Cloud Native Engineer, Megazone

Junghwan Park

Organizer, PyTorchKR

- AI/Data engineer at telecommunication company in Korea
- Lead maintainer at PyTorch Korea User Group
- PyTorch & AAIF ambassador
- Interested in open-source, community and time-series forecasting

... Read More →

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Senior Project Manager, Linux Foundation

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 1

MCP Protocol in Depth

14:20 KST

Authorization in MCP Systems: Getting It Right From the Start - Aram Andreasyan, Cerbos

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 2

When teams start building on MCP, one of the first real questions that comes up is simple: what are agents actually allowed to do?

In smaller setups, it's easy to bake access checks into the agent or the application itself. That works until it doesn't. Once you're dealing with multiple tools, services, and data sources, things get messy fast. Permission logic gets copied across services, drifts out of sync, and when something breaks, nobody can agree on where the problem actually lives.

This talk covers how I approach authorization in MCP-based systems. Where access decisions should live, how to keep them consistent as complexity grows, and what changes when agents are acting on behalf of users rather than just on their own.

The focus is on patterns that have worked in real systems: centralizing your policy layer, passing the right context through each request, and keeping decisions auditable so you can trace what happened and why.

You'll leave with a clearer way to think about authorization in MCP environments, and a better sense of where things tend to break down as systems scale.

Speakers

Aram Andreasyan

Director of Solutions, Cerbos

Aram works at Cerbos helping engineering and security teams tackle authorization complexity through policy-as-code. He has a background in cybersecurity, cloud security, and IAM, and spent years consulting for startups and enterprises across EMEA and North America before joining Cerbos... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 2

Security + Identity + Trust

14:20 KST

Workshop Continues: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal - Goobong Jeong, Team Attention

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Speakers

Goobong Jeong

Founder, Team Attention

Goobong Jeong builds AI for real life and supports an ecosystem where diverse, independent builders can turn ideas into products.

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

14:50 KST

Stop Wrapping APIs: Building Structured Execution Boundaries With MCP for Incident Triage - Sunyoung Park, KC-ML2

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST

Orchid 1

Most teams start with MCP by exposing existing APIs as thin tool wrappers. We did too. However, we quickly realized that for complex operations-like managing GPU clusters and infrastructure health-simply exposing more tools doesn't lead to better automation; it leads to LLM confusion. The real challenge is defining the right reasoning and execution boundary.

In this talk, we share our journey of moving beyond simple API exposure to building MCP servers that act as a sophisticated operational layer. We'll dive into how we transformed fragmented signals into 'Structured Guidance' by embedding domain heuristics and workflow context directly into the MCP layer.

Attendees will learn:
- how to recognize when MCP is acting as a thin wrapper versus a real workflow boundary
- how to design MCP on top of existing operational or management systems
- how to turn fragmented tools, signals, and internal APIs into structured guidance for real-world workflows

This session is a practical story about where MCP becomes more than an integration layer: when it starts acting as the execution boundary for real-world operational decisions.

Speakers

Sunyoung Park

Research Engineer, KC-ML2

I am a Research Engineer at KC-ML2, working on large language models, RAG, and applied AI systems. My work focuses on building practical LLM applications and operational AI workflows for real-world use cases.

Stop Wrapping API Sunyoungpark, KC ML2 pdf

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Orchid 1

Building with MCP

14:50 KST

Who Authorized That Agent? Identity and Policy Enforcement for MCP Tool Calls - Jorge Ruiz Arto, Gravitee

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST

Orchid 2

When a human calls an API, identity is well understood, OAuth tokens, JWTs, API keys. When an AI agent calls that same API via MCP, the identity model breaks down. Who is the caller? What should it be allowed to do? How do you revoke access when something goes wrong? As MCP adoption moves from dev laptops into production systems, the absence of a consistent identity and authorization layer for agent-initiated traffic is becoming a critical gap. This session walks through the auth problem from first principles covering OAuth flows for non-human callers, per-agent rate limiting, JWT validation at the MCP proxy layer, and policy enforcement patterns that don't require rewriting your backend services. Attendees will leave with a concrete mental model and implementation patterns for securing MCP tool calls in production.

Speakers

Jorge Ruiz Arto

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Gravitee

Jorge Ruiz is Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Gravitee, focused AI gateways and the infrastructure needed to govern AI agents at scale. A former software engineer, he helps turn complex technical concepts into clear product strategy.

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Orchid 2

Security + Identity + Trust

14:50 KST

Workshop Continues: How to Use Sol-Terra-Luna in One Goal - Goobong Jeong, Team Attention

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Speakers

Goobong Jeong

Founder, Team Attention

Goobong Jeong builds AI for real life and supports an ecosystem where diverse, independent builders can turn ideas into products.

Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

15:15 KST

Book Signing with Hoon Jo, Author of Infrastructure Configuration & Deployment for Developers in the AI Era with Claude Code (Korean Edition)

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 KST

Solutions Showcase

Meet Hoon Jo, author of Infrastructure Configuration & Deployment for Developers in the AI Era with Claude Code (Korean Edition), for a book signing event. Stop by to say hello, connect with the author, and, while supplies last, pick up a signed copy of the book.

Speakers

Hoon Jo

CNCF & AAIF Ambassador | AI & Cloud Native Engineer, Megazone

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 KST
Solutions Showcase

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

15:15 KST

Break

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

15:45 KST

The Context Budget Crisis: Why MCP Needs Server-Side Response Controls - Nimit Savant & Gokul K S, DevRev

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST

Orchid 1

MCP servers today are blind to the client's context budget. In production, we watched a single list call return 161k tokens. Tool schemas alone consumed 37% of a 200k context window. One customer's sprint data retrieval filled 80k+ tokens and collapsed the agent's reasoning entirely. Organizations with heavy custom fields caused tool schemas to balloon unpredictably.
These aren't edge cases - they're the default experience at enterprise scale. The MCP protocol currently has no mechanism for servers to understand or respect context constraints. Every response is a best-effort data dump.
This talk presents real production telemetry from building and operating an enterprise MCP server, then proposes 3 strategies to solve the context constraints at enterprise scale which community should consider: progressive schema disclosure, server-side response projections, SQL based tools for multi-object queries. We'll share an open reference implementation of progressive discovery that reduced effective schema size by 70%.
The goal: move this conversation from "each server figures it out alone" to "the ecosystem has shared conventions."

Speakers

Nimit Savant

Developer Evangelist, DevRev

I love to talk about Agentic AI and B2B Developer Advocacy and strategies

Gokul K S

Member of Technical Staff, DevRev

Computer engineer with 3 years of experience in backend systems and currently exploring the agentic space.

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST
Orchid 1

Enterprise Adoption + Integration

15:45 KST

Why Enterprise MCP Runs on Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST

Orchid 2

Most MCP examples are written in Python or TypeScript. Great for prototypes, but enterprises don't ship prototypes. They ship type-safe, robust, observable, secure services. Exactly what Java excels at.

And, perhaps contrary to popular belief, building MCP servers or clients with Java is not hard at all. It is as natural as creating REST servers and clients. Swap a few dependencies, annotate your methods, and your services speak MCP.

But MCP in Java isn't just about exposing data to LLMs. It can also vastly augment your AI development experience. We'll show how we built an MCP-based agent into the Quarkus framework that exposes live runtime intelligence to your code assistant: structured exceptions, dynamically discovered tools, extension-specific coding patterns, and version-aware documentation search. With this, your agent doesn't just write code; it can also get real-time feedback from the running application, recover from crashes, and learn patterns specific to the frameworks in your project.

Through real-world examples including IoT integrations and Kubernetes analysis agents, we'll show why Java is the natural home for enterprise MCP adoption.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST
Orchid 2

Enterprise Adoption + Integration

15:45 KST

Workshop: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:15 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

When people talk about MCP, they think of a server protocol for desktop AI — Claude Desktop reading the filesystem, Cursor calling git, MCP servers humming on cloud infrastructure. But there's a whole other world that rarely shows up in the conversation: phones, smart watches, glasses, cars, robots, embedded edge devices. They all have mature SDKs, many can run small AI models locally, and almost none have an agentic tool layer to speak of. The natural question is: why isn't MCP there yet?
Turns out it can be — and is starting to be. This talk is about MCP in the mobile and broader smart-device world: what scenarios already work today, what's just landing, and what becomes possible when a device is no longer just a client to a cloud agent but a peer in a multi-device agentic system. We'll cover phones that host their own MCP servers exposing device capabilities, phones running an entire agent loop on-device with no network, system-level integrations Apple and Google are bringing through App Intents and AICore, and hybrid setups where local and cloud servers share one tool registry — then extend the picture beyond phones to glasses, cars, watches, and embedded edge

Speakers

Sasha Denisov

CTO, Brainform.ai

Sasha is CTO at Brainform.ai with 20+ years architecting scalable systems across frontend, backend, cloud, mobile, and AI — from cloud-based generative AI to on-device solutions. He delivers production-ready solutions across fintech, digital media, and entertainment. He's a Google... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

16:15 KST

From APIs To Agentic Toolkits: Designing MCP Flavors and a Public MCP Gateway at Scale - Faizan Akhtar, React India

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:40 KST

Orchid 2

As teams adopt MCP, a common anti-pattern appears: expose an entire API surface as tools and hope the agent figures it out. In practice this leads to confusion, brittle behavior, and security headaches.

In this talk, I’ll walk through a practical architecture for taming that complexity using MCP flavors and a Public MCP gateway. We’ll start from the real constraints: large APIs, multiple products, and agents that need a bit of more focus & from there:

- design flavors as curated tool bundles on top of existing OpenAPI contracts;
- expose them via a gateway (/mcp vs /{flavorId}/mcp) while handling auth and routing cleanly;
- and plug these flavors into agents in editors or chat environments.

I’ll also cover how to evaluate and debug flavors using datasets and traces so they’re treated like product surfaces with their own quality bar, not opaque black boxes. Finally, I’ll share lessons learned ramping from a mostly frontend/“traditional” engineering background into MCP and agentic infrastructure work: what worked, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently.

Speakers

Faizan Akhtar

Organiser, React India

Avid Learner | Always a student | Community Enthusiast | Mixed Reality Evangelist A software engineer trying to grasp technical and interpersonal skills as much as possible. I've organized and spoken at numerous tech conferences and meetups, giving me a strong background in both technical... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:40 KST
Orchid 2

Ecosystems + Registries + Platform Infrastructure

16:15 KST

Workshop Continues: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Workshops

16:45 KST

From CRDs to Conversations: Simplifying Chaos Engineering With MCP - Pritesh Kiri, Harness

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST

Orchid 2

Imagine telling your system, “Simulate a pod failure on the payments service,” or asking, “What chaos experiments have we run on service X in the last 30 days?” This talk covers a practical approach to using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with LitmusChaos. The goal is to move away from manual YAML configuration and CRD lookups by using a natural language interface. I'll demonstrate how this MCP setup works and how it changes the workflow for designing and running resilience tests.

This session introduces Chaos Engineering and explores how MCP makes it more accessible. By replacing YAML and dashboards with human language, we’re lowering the barrier to entry for chaos engineering. Resilience testing becomes accessible to QA, product, and on-call teams, not just platform experts. Whether or not you’re currently using Litmus, this talk will provide a roadmap for building your own chaos copilot and a glimpse into a future where resilience is everyone’s responsibility.

Speakers

Pritesh Kiri

Pritesh Kiri, Harness

Pritesh is the DevRel Engineer at Harness and community manager and maintainer of the LitmusChaos Community. He is also the Head of Community at ReactPlay, leading the ReactPlay Bangalore chapter. He has a strong background as a Developer Advocate, leading tech communities and fostering... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST
Orchid 2

Building with MCP

16:45 KST

Three Gateways for the Agentic Era: An Architectural Framework for Governing AI Agent Traffic - Dakshitha Ratnayake, WS02

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST

Orchid 1

AI agents interact with enterprise systems through three different traffic patterns, each demanding its own governance. Inbound API traffic (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, event streams) needs auth and rate limiting. Outbound LLM traffic needs multi-model routing, token-based cost controls, and guardrails. Agent-to-tool traffic via MCP needs session-aware governance, delegated identity, and discovery.
Most organizations handle each ad hoc with different proxies, custom middleware, ungoverned direct connections. The result: policy fragmentation, identity silos, and cost blind spots.
This talk presents a three-gateway architectural framework. We define the API gateway (ingress), LLM gateway (egress), and MCP gateway (agent-to-tool) as composable patterns with distinct governance primitives, then show how they unify into a bi-directional architecture with shared identity (OAuth2), consolidated observability, and consistent policy.
Technology-neutral and standards-based: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, MCP, and OAuth2. You'll leave with a decision framework for which pattern governs which traffic flow — and how to avoid building three separate governance silos.

Speakers

Dakshitha Ratnayake

Director - Developer Relations (API Platform), WS02

Dakshitha is a Director of Developer Relations at WSO2, with over 15 years of experience in software development, solution architecture, and technical evangelism. Her work focuses on open-source technologies, particularly in integration, APIs, and identity and access management. She’s... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST
Orchid 1

Enterprise Adoption + Integration

16:45 KST

Workshop Continues: MCP on Mobile: How Far Have We Come? - Sasha Denisov, Brainform.ai

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST

Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 2 + 3

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17:10 KST

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Thursday August 13, 2026 17:10 - 18:40 KST
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