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Thursday, August 13
 

08:30 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up
Thursday August 13, 2026 08:30 - 18:30 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday August 13, 2026 08:30 - 18:30 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

09:30 KST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Demetrios Brinkmann, Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday August 13, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Speakers
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Demetrios Brinkmann

Member Non-Technical Staff, Agentic AI Foundaiton

Thursday August 13, 2026 09:30 - 09:40 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Keynote Sessions

09:45 KST

Keynote: Two Years of MCP: State of The Ecosystem - Den Delimarsky, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Thursday August 13, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
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...
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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 1 + 2
  Keynote Sessions

10:00 KST

Keynote: To Be Announced
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  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 1 + 2
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...
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Speakers
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Jihye Kim

Backend Engineer, Naver Cloud Platform
Backend developer at Naver Cloud Platform
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:10 - 10:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  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

10:25 KST

Solutions Showcase
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:25 - 18:40 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:25 - 18:40 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Solutions Showcase

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...
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Speakers
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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

Zero-Trust MCP: Treating Every Tool Call as an Untrusted API Request From the Outside World - Akshat Khanna & Unnati Mishra, Independent
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Most MCP deployments implicitly trust the LLM. If the model says call this tool with these parameters, the server calls it. That trust model is wrong — and at enterprise scale, it is catastrophic. This talk reframes MCP server design through a zero-trust lens: every tool invocation is treated as an untrusted external request that must be authenticated, authorized, validated, rate-limited, and...
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Speakers
avatar for Unnati Mishra

Unnati Mishra

Software Engineer 2, Independent
Unnati is working as a R&D Engineer Software 2 at VMware by Broadcom, India. Currently working with the Release Engg team of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. She has been active in Open Source community since 2019 and has also participated in many Hackathons, bagging prizes in few of them... Read More →
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Akshat Khanna

Machine Learning Engineer II, Independent
Akshat Khanna is a Machine Learning Engineer II at Angel One, where he builds GenAI-powered bots and leverages agentic AI for high-performance trading platforms. Previously, he worked as MTS II at VMware Tanzu, focusing on Kubernetes solutions for the edge. He is an active open-source... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

10:55 KST

Building MCP Servers and Agentic AI Workflows in Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 2
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...
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Speakers
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Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

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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, open source, AI, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 2
  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...
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Speakers
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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

MCP in Prod: An SRE & DevOps Guide to Not Getting Paged at 3 AM - Deep Poharkar, Obmondo
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
We started running MCP servers in production about a year ago. Within weeks we got our first 3 AM page, a tool was silently failing, agents were retrying into the void, and we had zero visibility into what was going wrong. No dashboard caught it. No runbook existed. That incident kicked off a twelve-month journey of figuring out how to actually operate these things. We ended up cutting...
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Speakers
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Deep Poharkar

Site Reliability Engineer, Obmondo
I’m Deep, a Site Reliability Engineer at Obmondo working on production reliability and incident response. I’ve contributed to open source through GSoC and CNCF’s LFX Mentorship, including work on LitmusChaos, and have spoken at Open Source Summit Japan 2024.
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:25 - 11:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

11:55 KST

The MCP Registry Problem: Why Discoverability Is the Bottleneck Killing Ecosystem Growth - Unnati Mishra, Independent
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 1
10,000+ MCP servers exist. Developers can't find them. Agents can't query them at runtime. There is no canonical, vendor-neutral, machine-readable registry, and that single gap is slowing MCP adoption more than any protocol limitation. This talk dissects the MCP discoverability crisis: why a fragmented landscape of marketplace-style lists, hand-curated JSON files, and closed vendor directories...
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Speakers
avatar for Unnati Mishra

Unnati Mishra

Software Engineer 2, Independent
Unnati is working as a R&D Engineer Software 2 at VMware by Broadcom, India. Currently working with the Release Engg team of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. She has been active in Open Source community since 2019 and has also participated in many Hackathons, bagging prizes in few of them... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:55 - 12:20 KST
Orchid 1
  Ecosystems + Registries + Platform Infrastructure

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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Speakers
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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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

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,...
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Speakers
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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 →
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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

Demystifying MCP Auth in Plain English - Rohit Ganguly, Descope
Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
For most developers, one of the trickiest parts of building MCP Servers is Auth. With an ever-evolving specification that takes advantage of niche OAuth standards, many feel left behind and simply don't bother to secure their MCP Servers, leading to severe risks for organizations and users adopting MCP. This session will cover the MCP Auth spec from first principles, explaining concepts in a way...
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Speakers
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Rohit Ganguly

AI Product Manager, Descope
Rohit is an AI Product Manager at Descope, where he leads the MCP Auth and Agentic Identity efforts. Previously, he worked in Microsoft's Developer Division across products like the Azure SDKs and VS Code before launching the Azure MCP Server.
Thursday August 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Speakers
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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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

14:50 KST

Building Production MCP Servers in Go: Transports, Concurrency, and Tool Contracts - Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Maersk & Naman Lakhwani, Independent
Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Orchid 1
Building an MCP server is easy to demo and hard to operate. Once a server sits between an agent and real systems, questions about transport choice, cancellation, timeouts, concurrency, schema evolution, and tool safety show up fast. This talk walks through building a production-minded MCP server in Go. It covers how to model tools and resources with Go types, choose between stdio and HTTP-based...
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Speakers
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Rajiv Singh

Software Engineer, Maersk
I am working as a software engineer at A.P. Moller - Maersk. I graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science & Engineering. I am fascinated by the extensive impact computers can have on solving real-world problems... Read More →
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Naman Lakhwani

Software Engineer 2, Independent
During his time at VMware, Naman was one of the early members of the VMware Tanzu's long-term support (LTS) team. He is a Kubernetes org member. He started his open-source journey with CNCF in 2021 with the Google Summer of Code program. He also participated in the Linux Foundation... Read More →
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 - Kaiwalya Koparkar, Gravitee
Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Speakers
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Kaiwalya Koparkar

Platform Advocate, Gravitee
Kaiwalya Koparkar is a Platform Advocate at Gravitee and CNCF Ambassador with CKA and CKAD certifications. He specialises in API Management, cloud-native infrastructure, and SRE, and is the founder of Cloud Native Nashik.
Thursday August 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

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

Why Enterprise MCP Runs on Java - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Dash0
Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Mauricio Salatino

Ecosystem Engineer, Dash0
Mauricio Salatino, also known as salaboy, works for Dash0 as an Open Source and Ecosystem Engineer. He is a Java Champion, Cloud Native Ambassador, and international Keynote speaker. Before working at Dash0, Mauricio spent the last 10 years building tools for Cloud-Native developers... Read More →
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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, open source, AI, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Enterprise Adoption + Integration

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 -...
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Speakers
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Nimit Savant

Developer Evangelist, DevRev
I love to talk about Agentic AI and B2B Developer Advocacy and strategies
avatar for Gokul K S

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
  MCP Protocol in Depth

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
Orchid 2
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...
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Speakers
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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
Orchid 2
  Workshops

16:15 KST

Plug & Play Petabytes With Elastic's MCP - Ashish Tiwari, Elastic
Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:40 KST
Orchid 1
Most standard RAG pipelines treat data retrieval as a blunt instrument: run a basic search and stuff the context window. At Elastic, we used the Model Context Protocol to build a much smarter, agent-driven retrieval system. In this talk, I’ll show you how we built our MCP server to focus on dynamic context engineering rather than hardcoded pipelines. I’ll break down our strategy of giving...
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Speakers
avatar for Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari

Principal Solutions Architect - Search Specialist, Elastic
I’m a Principal Solutions Architect – Search Specialist, passionate about building and scaling search and GenAI-driven solutions. My journey started as a Software/SMTP Engineer where worked across stacks and started my own startup in SMTP industry. Lately, my focus has been on... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:40 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Speakers
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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 and interpersonal skills. This experience has taught me how to effective... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:40 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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
Orchid 2

Thursday August 13, 2026 16:15 - 16:45 KST
Orchid 2
  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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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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
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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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
Orchid 2

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

17:10 KST

Attendee Reception
Thursday August 13, 2026 17:10 - 18:40 KST
Solutions Showcase

Thursday August 13, 2026 17:10 - 18:40 KST
Solutions Showcase
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events
 
Friday, August 14
 

08:30 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up
Friday August 14, 2026 08:30 - 17:30 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday August 14, 2026 08:30 - 17:30 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

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
avatar for Demetrios Brinkmann

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...
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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...
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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

... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Keynote Sessions

10:30 KST

Break
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday August 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

10:30 KST

Solutions Showcase
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30 - 16:05 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday August 14, 2026 10:30 - 16:05 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Solutions Showcase

11:00 KST

From API To Agent: Building a Video Intelligence MCP Server and Plugin Ecosystem - James Le, TwelveLabs
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Video intelligence is an unusual MCP workload. Operations are asynchronous and long-running (indexing a 30-minute video takes minutes, not milliseconds), inputs span local files and remote URLs, and the tool surface is wide; search, analysis, embeddings, and entity recognition each carry distinct parameter shapes and response patterns. When we set out to build a production MCP server for...
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James Le

Head of Developer Experience, TwelveLabs
James Le is currently leading Developer Experience at Twelve Labs, a startup building foundation models for video understanding.

Previously, he worked at MLOps startups Superb AI and Snorkel AI and taught production ML content with Full Stack Deep Learning.

He is also the host of Datacast, a podcast following the narrative journey of founders, operators, and investors in the data and AI infrastructure space to unpack the careers that they have built... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

11:00 KST

When MCP Tools Fail: Reliable ML Inference for MCP Agents - Sho Tanaka, Snowflake
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 KST
Orchid 2
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a standard for connecting AI agents with external tools. While LLM-based tools are flexible, their non-deterministic behavior makes it difficult to meet requirements for stability, repeatability, and auditability in production systems. In such cases, traditional machine learning models provide more predictable inference and are often preferred for...
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Sho Tanaka

Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Sho Tanaka is a Lead Developer Advocate at Snowflake, focused on AI/ML and data engineering. He previously worked at Google (gTech) delivering ML/Data solutions across Japan, APAC and global. He is a Google Developer Expert (AI/ML) and a co-founder of the MLOps community in Japan... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 KST
Orchid 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

11:30 KST

From AGENTS.md to MCP: Practical Patterns for Agentic Engineering Adoption - Junho Kong, SK Ono
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Developers are moving from ad-hoc AI coding assistance to more reliable agentic engineering workflows. But adoption often stalls when agents lack project-specific instructions, safe tool boundaries, and reviewable outputs.In this session, I’ll share practical patterns from working with the Codex developer community on how teams can move from one-off AI usage toward repeatable engineering...
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Junho Kong

AI Platform Architect, SK On
Junho is an  at SK On and a Codex Ambassador
working at the intersection of agentic engineering, AI platforms, developer tools, and community education. He leads and supports developer community initiatives around Codex and AI-assisted software development, helping developers move from ad-hoc AI usage toward more structured... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Agent Architecture + Orchestration

11:30 KST

GraphQL Subscriptions as a Real-time Event Transport for MCP Agents - Akshat Sharma, Deskree
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Orchid 2
MCP's current transport model is largely request/response — but production agents need to react to live events without polling. GraphQL subscriptions, delivered over graphql-ws or graphql-sse, offer a battle-tested, widely deployed event streaming primitive that maps cleanly onto MCP's resource notification model. This talk covers the full protocol translation layer needed to wire GraphQL...
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Akshat Sharma

GraphQL Ambassador | Open Source Advocate, Deskree
Akshat Sharma is an Open Source Advocate, GraphQL Ambassador, and Developer Advocate at Deskree, focused on bridging technology and community. Selected among 1,220 contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024, he later mentored in GSoC 2025, Mifos SOC, and Code for GovTech. He has... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Orchid 2
  MCP Protocol in Depth

11:30 KST

The Confused Deputy Problem in MCP: Securing Chained Tool Calls in Multi-Agent Systems - Aviral Sapra, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust & Ryan Madhuwala, Caracal
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Orchid 1
As MCP systems move from single tool use to multi server and multi agent workflows, a key security question appears: when one server calls another on behalf of a user, whose authority is actually used. In this talk I show how chained MCP calls can create a confused deputy scenario where a server unintentionally uses its own higher privileges instead of the user’s limited permissions, leading to...
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Aviral Sapra

Founder, Linux foundation Decentralized Trust
I am an LFX’25 mentee of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and a Web3 engineer specializing in systems development working towards my B.Tech in Computer Science from IIIT Gwalior. I have experience in developing solutions using Hyperledger Besu, and verifiable credentials... Read More →
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Ryan Madhuwala

Founder, Caracal
Creator and maintainer of GitMesh, a new lab under LF Decentralized Trust that transforms market surveillance into actionable Git commits. As the youngest lab leader in LFDT history, I'm building the AI infrastructure that helps developer companies decide what to build next by watching... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 KST
Orchid 1
  Security + Identity + Trust

12:00 KST

From Chaebol to Cloud-Native: MCP Agent Platforms Inside Korea's Manufacturing Giants - Yogesh Sardana, Independent
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Orchid 2
Korea's industrial conglomerates—chaebols like Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai, LG, and POSCO—operate the most sophisticated manufacturing ecosystems on the planet. Behind the scenes, each utilizes thousands of highly proprietary, heavily siloed Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems resulting from decades of organic growth and acquisitions. Currently, engineers waste...
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Yogesh Sardana

Cloud Leader, Independent
I'm working as a Cloud Leader, part of R&D wing, known as Jack of all trades but master of Cloud. Been into various tech stacks before of SDLC like Full Stack App Dev, Testing, Data Analytics, having fun with tech.
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Orchid 2
  Building with MCP

12:00 KST

Skills and MCP: Complementary, Not Competing - Dale Seo, Apollo GraphQL
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
MCP has solved a critical problem: giving AI agents access to external tools and data. But access alone isn't enough. An agent with a database tool can still write terrible queries. An agent with a deployment tool can still push unsafe changes. The gap isn't access. It's expertise. Agent Skills are a lightweight format for encoding the domain knowledge agents need to use tools well. A common...
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Dale Seo

Software Engineer, Apollo GraphQL
Helping developers help the world 🧑‍🚀🚀
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  MCP Protocol in Depth

12:00 KST

Hardening MCP Integrations Against Tool Poisoning - Arshardh Ifthikar, WSO2
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Orchid 1
As MCP adoption grows, tools are becoming the primary interface between agents and external systems. This introduces a new class of risks: tool poisoning, where tool definitions, inputs, or outputs are manipulated to influence agent behavior in unintended ways. This talk focuses on practical experience identifying and mitigating tool poisoning in MCP-based systems. Early implementations often...
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Arshardh Ifthikar

Technical Lead, AI, WSO2
Arshardh Ifthikar specializes in the intersection of API infrastructure and Generative AI. Leveraging deep expertise in enterprise API Management, he focuses on hardening Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations for production environments. His work centers on securing the "agent... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST
Orchid 1
  Security + Identity + Trust

12:30 KST

Why We Made Our AI Agent Platform a Codebase Before Adding MCP - Navtej Reddy, Observe.ai
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Six months ago, building a voice AI agent on our platform meant clicking through a UI. This meant editing prompts, dragging conversation flows, hooking up tools with no audit, no rollback, no review. To make the platform work better with MCP, we moved everything to a Git-backed harness. Each agent is now its own repo with skill folders and an agent.md capturing the agent's custom instructions and...
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Navtej Reddy

Software Engineer 2, Observe.ai
Navtej Reddy is a software engineer at Observe AI, where he built the flow-based voice agent framework that powers 10,000+ daily customer calls and led the MCP integration described in this talk. He's also a Springer (2025) author on AI-driven incident debugging. CS graduate of PES... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

12:30 KST

Your MCP Server Behaves Differently in Every Client: A Cross-Client Field Guide for Server Authors - Tanisha Sharma, SuprSend
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Orchid 2
Same MCP server. Same prompt. Three different IDEs. Three different outcomes — and one of them is silently wrong. After documenting a production MCP server across Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf, the speaker has the war stories. Tool descriptions one client truncates and another expands. Resource limits that vary by 10x. Notification semantics that work in one host and silently no-op in...
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Tanisha Sharma

AI DevRel Engineer, SuprSend
Tanisha is an AI Developer Advocate specializing in production multi-agent systems. Also a private pilot. Both pursuits taught her the same lesson: know when to trust automation and when human judgment matters most.
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Orchid 2
  Building with MCP

12:30 KST

MCP Discovery Infrastructure: Registries, Trust, and Routing for Production Agents - Mahesh Lambe, ProjectNANDA.org
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Orchid 1
MCP is becoming the standard way for agents to connect with tools, apps, services, and data systems. But as MCP moves from local developer workflows into production agent platforms, the next bottleneck is discovery infrastructure: how agents find the right MCP server, verify its capabilities, evaluate trust, respect permissions, and route safely across teams, clouds, vendors, and organizations. ...
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Mahesh Lambe

CEO and Chief Scientist at ProjectNANDA.org, ProjectNANDA.org
Mahesh Lambe is CEO and Chief Scientist at ProjectNANDA.org, where he works on open infrastructure for agent discovery, identity, trust, registry interoperability, and adaptive resolution. A serial entrepreneur and AI infrastructure architect with 20+ years building enterprise and... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST
Orchid 1
  Ecosystems + Registries + Platform Infrastructure

12:55 KST

Lunch
Friday August 14, 2026 12:55 - 14:25 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday August 14, 2026 12:55 - 14:25 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

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
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Orchid 1
Traditional AI implementation relies on "tool sprawl": manually wrapping every API action into custom functions. This creates a maintenance burden where prompts swell, tokens vanish, and agents hallucinate under the weight of excessive choice. At Postman, we’ve shifted the paradigm: instead of teaching agents how an app works, we provide them with structured context they already understand...
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Ali Mustufa Shaikh

Senior Developer Advocate, Pieces AI
I empower developers to overcome traditional education barriers, building their confidence for professional success. Through technical training at leading organizations - including Rakuten, Infosys Deloitte and Open Dealer Exchange I've guided professionals worldwide in Google Cloud... Read More →
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Aanchal Mishra

Developer Advocate, Postman, Postman
Aanchal is a Developer Advocate at Postman specializing in Agentic Workflows, API Literacy, and Developer Education. With 5+ years of experience, she has designed global learning paths reaching thousands of developers and delivered over 150 technical workshops across 35+ cities. A... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

14:25 KST

Self-Improving MCP Agents - Kemal Elmizan, GoTo Company
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Most MCP systems today are static at runtime. We define tools, expose schemas and rely on prompts to guide behavior, then hope the system remains reliable after deployment. In practice, MCP-based systems drift. Agents repeatedly misuse tools, call inefficient sequences or fail in predictable ways. Tool descriptions become outdated. Context grows noisy. Human operators step in to correct...
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Kemal Elmizan

Lead Software Engineer, GoTo Company
Hi there! I am Kemal Elmizan, currently working as a Software Engineer at Gojek (GoTo Company). I like building software across the stack and like to understand what's going on beneath the surface. I have extensive experience in backend, web, and android development. I have lectured... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

14:25 KST

When AI Agents Need Eyes: What MCP Can and Cannot Standardize for Computer Vision - Seowoo Han, B GARAGE
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Orchid 2
AI agents are increasingly expected to work with visual information: documents, screenshots, cameras, inspection images, and other domain-specific signals. MCP gives developers a powerful way to expose these capabilities as discoverable tools and resources, but real-world computer vision brings challenges that do not disappear behind a simple tool call, including image quality, sensor differences,...
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Seowoo Han

Computer Vision Engineer / AI Engineer, B GARAGE
Seowoo Han is an AI Engineer and Computer Vision Engineer based in Korea, with 5+ years of experience building production-grade AI systems across OCR, object detection, drone-based visual inspection, edge video analytics, multimodal AI, RAG, and agentic workflows. She currently works... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 14:25 - 14:50 KST
Orchid 2
  MCP Protocol in Depth

14:55 KST

Managing Token Usage in MCP Servers Using Code Mode - Bhumika Satpathy, Google
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
As the ecosystem for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) expands, developers are hitting a familiar wall: token bloat. While MCP provides a powerful standardized interface for LLMs to interact with external data, the "context tax" of verbose tool definitions and massive data payloads can quickly degrade performance and spike costs. To build production-ready agents, we must move beyond basic...
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Bhumika Satpathy

Senior Software Engineer, Google
I am a Senior Software Engineer at Google and have been working with the MCP Platform team which helps to ease out creation and deployment of MCP Servers for developers within Google. We have solved multitude of challenges that users have faced and explored multiple techniques in... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

14:55 KST

Operating an AI Infrastructure Through MCP Apps on Agents - HyounKyoung Moon, Lablup
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Orchid 2
GPU infrastructure has traditionally been operated through CLIs, dashboards, and a patchwork of admin tools. Each task — checking cluster state, allocating resources, launching sessions — forces the operator to switch context and stitch results together manually. MCP changes the surface of this work. By exposing infrastructure operations as MCP tools, an agent can carry out cluster tasks on...
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HyounKyoung Moon

AI Product Engineer, Lablup
AI Product Engineer who builds AI-first products across diverse stacks—from low-level embedded systems to scalable services and web platforms. I've shipped and completed multiple end-to-end products (RTOS multimedia players, mobile apps, game backends, set-top solutions, and web... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Orchid 2
  Building with MCP

14:55 KST

Two Audiences, One Markdown File: Writing MCP Docs an Agent Can Actually Use - Tanisha Sharma, SuprSend
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Orchid 1
When an MCP server exposes documentation.search and documentation.fetch, its docs site quietly acquires a second reader: the agent. And the agent is not a small human. Humans want narrative tutorials; agents want flat, deduplicated, single-source-of-truth pages. Humans skim; agents tokenize. Humans tolerate ambiguity; agents hallucinate from it. This talk is a field report from rewriting an MCP...
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Tanisha Sharma

AI DevRel Engineer, SuprSend
Tanisha is an AI Developer Advocate specializing in production multi-agent systems. Also a private pilot. Both pursuits taught her the same lesson: know when to trust automation and when human judgment matters most.
Friday August 14, 2026 14:55 - 15:20 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

15:25 KST

From 40 Tools To 14: A Practical Framework for MCP Tool Curation - Nimit Savant & Gokul K S, DevRev
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 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...
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Nimit Savant

Developer Evangelist, DevRev
I love to talk about Agentic AI and B2B Developer Advocacy and strategies
avatar for Gokul K S

Gokul K S

Member of Technical Staff, DevRev
Computer engineer with 3 years of experience in backend systems and currently exploring the agentic space.
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

15:25 KST

From Legacy To Agentic AI - Seoyul Yoon, SK AX
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 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...
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Seoyul Yoon

Manager, SK AX
I am a Platform Engineer on the EnableX Platform team at SK AX, 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 →
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

15:25 KST

From CVEs To Kill Switches: Hardening the MCP Supply Chain End-to-End - Unnati Mishra, Independent
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Orchid 2
Talks on agent security often focus on prompts and tools; this one zooms in on the MCP supply chain itself. When every MCP server can reach production systems, a single compromised SDK, container image, or plugin becomes an enterprise incident. This session walks through an end-to-end hardening playbook for MCP ecosystems: SBOMs for MCP servers and clients, signing and verifying artifacts,...
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Unnati Mishra

Software Engineer 2, Independent
Unnati is working as a R&D Engineer Software 2 at VMware by Broadcom, India. Currently working with the Release Engg team of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. She has been active in Open Source community since 2019 and has also participated in many Hackathons, bagging prizes in few of them... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Orchid 2
  Security + Identity + Trust

15:50 KST

Break
Friday August 14, 2026 15:50 - 16:05 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday August 14, 2026 15:50 - 16:05 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

16:05 KST

Building and Testing MCP Servers With the Inspector, Conformance Suites, and Property-Based Testing - Navin Pai, StackGen
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Orchid 2
MCP gained popularity because it was as easy as building a REST API. Infact, many might say, building an MCP Server is a bit too easy. Shipping a broken MCP server into a pool of a hundred others is easy but shipping one that actually behaves correctly under adversarial clients, malformed inputs, and edge-case tool schemas is hard. Devs have already built tens of thousands of MCP servers, and...
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Navin Pai

Director of Engineering, StackGen
Navin is a Founding Engineer at OpsVerse. You'll often find him on the internet, getting into flamewars about observability, large scale system design, and open source software
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Orchid 2
  Building with MCP

16:05 KST

My Computer's Purchasing? Enabling Agentic Commerce With MCP - Rohit Ganguly, Descope
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Agentic Commerce is one of the most intriguing use cases for agents, with $3-5 Trillion in volume predicted by 2030 according to the latest research. However, with so many protocols, projects, and mechanisms, it's very easy to confused while learning about this use case, and where, if at all, MCP fits into it. Fortunately for us, MCP fits perfectly into the modern Agentic Commerce Protocols! In...
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Rohit Ganguly

AI Product Manager, Descope
Rohit is an AI Product Manager at Descope, where he leads the MCP Auth and Agentic Identity efforts. Previously, he worked in Microsoft's Developer Division across products like the Azure SDKs and VS Code before launching the Azure MCP Server.
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

16:05 KST

Beyond APIs: Making MCP Services Faster and Secure With WebAssembly - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Orchid 1
As MCP adoption grows, most implementations focus on defining tools and integrating APIs, but far less attention is given to how these tools are actually executed. In production environments often introduces real challenges in both security and performance. In this session, we explore how WebAssembly fundamentally changes this model by providing a secure and high-performance execution layer....
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Brandon Kang

Principal Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies
Brandon Kang is a Principal Technical Solutions Architect at Akamai Technologies, overseeing cloud computing products and cloud-native initiatives across Asian countries.

Before joining Akamai, he held key roles in leading technology companies, including serving as a software e... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 16:05 - 16:30 KST
Orchid 1
  Security + Identity + Trust

16:35 KST

Dead Reckoning for AI Agents: Building Fault-Tolerant MCP State Machines Without a Map - Akshat Khanna, Independent
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
In maritime navigation, dead reckoning means computing your current position using a known starting point, heading, and speed without GPS. Agentic MCP systems face the exact same problem: once a multi-tool workflow begins, mid-flight failures, partial writes, and out-of-order responses leave your agent adrift with no canonical ground truth. This talk introduces a practical framework for designing...
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Akshat Khanna

Machine Learning Engineer II, Independent
Akshat Khanna is a Machine Learning Engineer II at Angel One, where he builds GenAI-powered bots and leverages agentic AI for high-performance trading platforms. Previously, he worked as MTS II at VMware Tanzu, focusing on Kubernetes solutions for the edge. He is an active open-source... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Agent Architecture + Orchestration

16:35 KST

Stop Wrapping APIs: Building Structured Execution Boundaries With MCP for Incident Triage - Sunyoung Park, KC-ML2
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 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...
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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.
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

16:35 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
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 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...
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Vitumbiko Mafeni

Research Engineer, CNLAB | SSU IISTRC
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 →
avatar for Phuong Bac Ta

Phuong Bac Ta

Research Engineer, Research Center for Distributed Cloud and Networking, SSU, South Korea
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 →
Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 KST
Orchid 2
  Building with MCP

17:05 KST

From Scripts To Systems: Building Appium MCP for Real-World Automation - Swastik Baranwal & Navin Chandra, TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest)
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Orchid 1
"MCP makes it easy to expose tools. It does not make it easy to design systems." At scale, that gap shows up as tool explosion, context limits, and unreliable execution. As MCP servers grow, they accumulate large numbers of tools, fragmented abstractions, and stateful workflows, until agents struggle to discover, select, and reliably execute the right actions. Attendees will leave with...
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Navin Chandra

Member of Technical Staff - Open Source, TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest)
Navin Chandra is an active contributor and maintainer of the Selenium project, primarily focusing on the Selenium Python bindings, and a contributor to Appium. Passionate about open source, Navin has contributed to multiple OSS projects, fostering innovation and collaboration within... Read More →
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Swastik Baranwal

Member of Technical Staff - Open Source, TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
Committer at Selenium and Appium
Core Developer at V Programming Language
Contributor at TODO Group
Author of Box CLI Maker
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Orchid 1
  Building with MCP

17:05 KST

When Dashboards Lie: Building MCP Tools That Chase Down the Truth - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Aditya Soni, SailPoint
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
Dashboards lie. Not maliciously, structurally. Aggregation hides the tenant on fire. Sampling drops slow requests. The p99 looks fine because 47 users who timed out are a rounding error. Every SRE has lived this: green screen, Slack on fire, hunting across five tools to find what the dashboard refused to show. This is a field report from building MCP tools that do the hunting. The agent does not...
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Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster
Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →
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Aditya Soni

CNCF Ambassador, Senior DevOps Engineer, SailPoint
Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 1 + 2
  Building with MCP

17:05 KST

MCP Authorization: What an IAM Engineer Sees That You Might Miss - Thumula Perera, WSO2
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Orchid 2
I spent four years building identity systems. When I read the MCP authorization spec, I recognized the building blocks: OAuth 2.1, PKCE, Dynamic Client Registration. I also recognized where it goes quiet on the hard parts. Three gaps stand out. Scopes are defined at the transport level, not the tool level. A token grants access to an MCP server, but says nothing about which tools the client...
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Thumula Perera

Senior Software Engineer, WSO2
Software engineer with four years at WSO2. Spent the first part on the Identity and Access Management team, working on WSO2 Identity Server and Asgardeo. Also.worked with the Choreo team, where I worked on both system IAM and developer IAM.
Friday August 14, 2026 17:05 - 17:30 KST
Orchid 2
  Security + Identity + Trust
 
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