MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026

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.