MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026: Full Schedule

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09:30 KST

Keynote: Welcome Back - Demetrios Brinkmann, Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday August 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 KST

Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Speakers

Demetrios Brinkmann

Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundaiton

Friday August 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Keynote Sessions

09:40 KST

Keynote: MCP Is the Easy Part - Baruch Sadogursky, Member of DevRel Staff, Tessl AI

Friday August 14, 2026 09:40 - 09:55 KST

Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

I plugged 17 MCP servers into my agent, and the agent got worse: slower decisions, dumber questions, somehow forgetting how to use the same tool it had used five minutes earlier.

That's not an MCP problem, the protocol works. The problem is that MCP defines how a tool is invoked and exactly nothing else. Every invocation is a fresh ceremony of re-discover, re-parse, re-decide, re-handle, with no persistent artifact wrapping any of it. The agent has no memory of what worked, no feedback signal for what didn't, no surrounding context to anchor which tool, when, and why.

Stateless function calls in an inherently stateful problem.

This talk is about the layer above MCP, the one that turns a directory of well-formed tool calls into coherent agent behavior, call it a Skill, a context artifact, or whatever your stack calls it. I'll show what changes when you bolt one on top of MCP: tool-call frequency drops, accuracy climbs, dumb questions to the user disappear.

If your MCP integration demos beautifully but production doesn't, this is the talk for you.

(And if you haven't shipped an MCP server yet, congrats. You'll skip a few mistakes. The protocol is the easy part.)

Speakers

Baruch Sadogursky

Member of DevRel Staff, Tessl AI

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He built DevRel at JFrog, co-authored "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers," and is a Java Champion, Microsoft MVP, and CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Friday August 14, 2026 09:40 - 09:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Keynote Sessions

10:00 KST

Keynote: To Be Announced

Friday August 14, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 KST

Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Friday August 14, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Keynote Sessions

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

Friday August 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 KST

Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Every team building production agents is solving the same execution problems independently: what happens when a tool call runs for an hour, when the process crashes mid-sequence, when a downstream failure requires earlier steps to be undone. MCP doesn't specify this — deliberately. But the absence of shared patterns is costing the ecosystem duplicated effort and incompatible implementations.

This talk contributes a named, reusable pattern — MCP tool sequences as durable sagas with compensation semantics — and puts three concrete candidates on the table for spec extension: async tool results, execution receipts, and cancellation propagation semantics. A worked implementation serves as existence proof that all three are tractable today, not theoretical.

It also reframes how MCP fits into agent architecture: as the intent layer within a larger execution model, not the execution model itself. That distinction makes MCP more composable and keeps the spec lean as the ecosystem scales.

Speakers

Viren Baraiya

CTO, Co-Creator of Netflix Conductor, Orkes

Viren Baraiya is co-founder and CTO of Orkes and the original creator of Netflix Conductor, the open-source distributed workflow orchestration engine he built at Netflix.

He is currently building Agentspan, an open-source durable agent runtime for long-running AI agents built on top of Conductor. Previously he held engineering leadership roles at Google and Goldman Sachs

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Friday August 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Keynote Sessions

MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026

09:30 KST

Demetrios Brinkmann

09:40 KST

Baruch Sadogursky

10:00 KST

10:15 KST

Viren Baraiya

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