MCP Dev Summit Seoul 2026: Full Schedule

10:55 KST

Commanding SO101 With Agents - Anshuman Singh, Devfolio

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

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
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Agent Architecture + Orchestration

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

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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
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Building with MCP

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

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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 fails both human developers and autonomous agents. Drawing on the DNS, npm, and Docker Hub precedents, I propose an open MCP Registry Specification covering four layers: server schema contracts, semantic capability metadata for runtime agent discovery, cryptographic provenance attestation, and a federated hosting model any organization can self-host.

We'll walk through a working prototype of a registry server that conforms to the proposed spec, federate it with a second node live, and demonstrate a Claude agent autonomously discovering and connecting to previously unknown MCP servers via semantic query. No proprietary platform required.

Speakers

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
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Ecosystems + Registries + Platform Infrastructure

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

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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

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

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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 transports, handle concurrent tool calls without shared-state bugs, and add logging, metrics, and failure boundaries that make incidents debuggable. It also compares the current Go MCP landscape: the official Go SDK, community libraries like mcp-go, and what the emerging ecosystem still lacks compared to the Python and TypeScript stacks.

The examples come from MCP server patterns for CI/CD and platform workflows, where reliability matters because the server sits in the critical path between an AI agent and deployment infrastructure. Attendees will leave with a concrete set of patterns for shipping Go-based MCP services that are reliable enough for production, not just demos.

Speakers

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 →

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

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

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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 three protocol-level mechanisms the community should consider: context budget hints from client to server, progressive tool disclosure so agents discover tools as needed rather than loading everything upfront, and server-side response compression conventions. 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
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MCP Protocol in Depth

16:15 KST

Plug & Play Petabytes With Elastic's MCP - Ashish Tiwari, Elastic

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

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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 agents atomic tools to inspect the data environment first. By exposing capabilities like list_indices and get_mappings, the agent gathers the exact schema context it needs before writing and executing complex ES|QL or Query DSL.

If you are building an MCP server for your own databases or APIs, I’ll share how this "discover first, search second" approach practically eliminates query hallucinations and creates a highly reliable retrieval loop. You'll walk away with a proven strategy for engineering better context and building smarter data retrieval into your own MCP systems.

Speakers

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

16:45 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

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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

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

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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 privilege escalation and capability leakage. I demonstrate this with a working multi server setup that exposes three concrete failure modes: token scope amplification across calls, server to server impersonation caused by implicit trust, and over delegation of capabilities during orchestration. I then present a practical mitigation based on capability driven design, where each request carries explicit scoped permissions, preserves the caller chain, and is verified at every hop. A prototype implementation shows how these controls block real attack paths while keeping developer experience simple. Finally, I highlight gaps in the current MCP specification and suggest extensions for safer multi agent systems.

Speakers

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 →

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
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Security + Identity + Trust

12:00 KST

Hardening MCP Integrations Against Tool Poisoning - Arshardh Ifthikar, WSO2

Friday August 14, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 KST

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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 assumed tools were trustworthy, but in practice we encountered issues such as ambiguous tool descriptions, unsafe parameter handling, and outputs that could steer agents off course.
We will walk through concrete examples of how these failures surfaced, and the patterns that proved more reliable. This includes validating tool contracts, detecting anomalous inputs and outputs, constraining tool usage, and introducing safeguards around execution flow.
Rather than proposing a single framework, the session presents a set of techniques that can be applied incrementally to existing MCP setups. The goal is to help teams better understand how tool poisoning occurs in real systems, and how to design MCP tools that remain predictable and safe under agent-driven use.

Speakers

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

MCP Discovery Infrastructure: Registries, Trust, and Routing for Production Agents - Mahesh Lambe, ProjectNANDA.org

Friday August 14, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 KST

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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.

This session presents a practical architecture for MCP discovery infrastructure: capability metadata, registries, signed server facts, gateway patterns, trust signals, policy-aware routing, observability, audit trails, and failure handling. The focus is on reusable design patterns that can help MCP scale without fragmenting into brittle static configurations or vendor-specific registries.

Drawing on Project NANDA work around AgentFacts, registry interoperability, adaptive resolution, and NEST-style testbeds, the talk gives MCP builders a concrete framework for moving from “agent calls a configured tool” to “agent discovers and safely uses trusted capabilities.” Attendees will leave with implementation patterns, failure modes, and standardization questions for production MCP systems.

Speakers

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
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Ecosystems + Registries + Platform Infrastructure

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

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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 through the MCP.

This session moves beyond theory to demonstrate a live "AI Readiness" workflow using Postman’s native Git integration. We will pit a well-defined OpenAPI schema against a poorly designed one to visualize the "Context Tax" - showing how architectural debt leads to 2x higher token usage and fumbled execution. By leveraging Postman’s MCP Server generator and CLI SDKs, I’ll demonstrate how to transform static documentation into active "code skills" that agents like Claude can navigate autonomously. Attendees will learn to build APIs that don't just return data, but serve as high-fidelity maps for the next generation of autonomous agents.

Speakers

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 →

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
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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

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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 server's documentation to serve both audiences from one markdown source. Concrete before/after pages, real agent traces from the SuprSend MCP server (used as a case study not a pitch), the five rewrite rules that actually moved the needle on hallucination rates, and the surprising downstream effect: the human-facing docs got better too. Every rule generalizes to any MCP server with public docs.

Closes with two open questions the audience is invited to argue back at: should agent-facing docs be a separate channel? Should MCP add a "documentation" primitive at the protocol level?

For DevRels, technical writers, and MCP server maintainers who already exposed their docs as a tool or are about to.

Speakers

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
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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

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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.

Friday August 14, 2026 15:25 - 15:50 KST
Orchid 1

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

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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. We'll also work through how MCP tools can run inside a sandboxed WebAssembly runtime, where access to the file system, network, and environment is explicitly controlled. This significantly reduces the attack surface compared to traditional server-side execution models, especially in multi-tenant and agent-driven environments.

From a performance perspective, WebAssembly enables near-native execution speed with extremely fast startup times. WebAssembly modules can start in milliseconds, making them ideal for MCP workloads where tools are invoked frequently and latency directly impacts agent responsiveness.
We will also cover authentication patterns such as OAuth and JWT, and explain how a “secret-less” architecture can be achieved by isolating credentials outside of the execution runtime.

Speakers

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
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Security + Identity + Trust

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

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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.

Friday August 14, 2026 16:35 - 17:00 KST
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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

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"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 specific design patterns to make MCP servers more reliable, scalable, and easier for agents to use.

In building Appium MCP (github.com/appium/appium-mcp), we encountered this firsthand. Supporting real mobile automation required handling 100+ device actions, concurrent sessions across devices, and flaky UI interactions, quickly pushing naive MCP designs to their limits

In this talk, we demonstrate what breaks when MCP servers scale and how we changed our system

We evolved from loosely defined tools to an intent-driven interface, added elicitation for clearer execution, and integrated Appium Skills to extend capabilities.

These patterns enabled us to move beyond simple command execution toward composable, agent-driven automation, powering new projects like AppClaw - an extension to Appium MCP.

Speakers

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 →

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
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