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2026 September 10-11 | Tokyo, Japan
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
Thursday, September 10
 

08:00 JST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday September 10, 2026 08:00 - 18:30 JST
B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)

Thursday September 10, 2026 08:00 - 18:30 JST
B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:00 JST

Keynote: Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 JST
Hall C

Speakers
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Angie Jones

VP, DX, Agentic AI Foundation
Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

Angie is an international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:10 JST

Keynote: David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 JST
Hall C

Speakers
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David Soria Parra

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
I am the co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (Modelcontextprotocol.io) and a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on a wide variety of things. Formerly a senior manager at Facebook working on static analysis and simulation based testing. I was responsible of integrating... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:20 JST

Keynote: Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 JST
Hall C

Speakers
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Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, agentgateway contributor, kagent, Istio and kgateway maintainer, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNatibeCon 2026. She actively contributes to AAIF and CNCF projects. She is the author of “Sidecar-less Istio Explained” and “AI Agents in Kubernetes”, and holds more than 200 patents.
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:35 JST

Keynote: Kaz Sato, Staff Developer Advocate, Cloud AI, Google
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 JST
Hall C

Speakers
avatar for Kaz Sato

Kaz Sato

Staff Developer Advocate, Cloud AI, Google
Kaz Sato, a Staff Developer Advocate from the Cloud AI team, has authored over 25 ML/AI blogs and demos for Google Cloud's official blog. His work has garnered attention from Jeff Dean and Eric Schmidt, and been featured in Newsweek and The New Yorker. He's a regular speaker at Google... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:45 JST

Coffee Break
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 JST
Hall A

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:05 JST

Stateless MCP: Inside the 2026 Transport Spec - Himanshu Sangshetti, Mem0
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall 1F
Most MCP servers in production today are stateful- each client session is pinned to one server instance. That works on a single node. Add a load balancer and scale horizontally, and sessions start breaking: Kubernetes routes a request to the wrong pod, a Fargate deployment rolls and drops active connections, and NGINX or AWS ALB need special configuration just to keep the server reachable. The...
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Speakers
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Himanshu Sangshetti

AI Engineer, Mem0
Himanshu Sangshetti is an AI Engineer at Mem0 (50k+ Github stars).

With a background in AI, cloud, and DevOps, he builds the memory layer for AI agents and helps engineers design and operate them in production.

An AWS Community Builder, HashiCorp Ambassador, and former AWS Cl... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

10:40 JST

Let AGENTS.md Write Itself: Self-Improving Coding Agents, No RL Required! - Rudraksh Karpe, Simplismart; Satyam Soni, NitroStack
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall C
AGENTS.md is the file that tells any coding agent how to work in your repo. One open AAIF standard, read by Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and goose. But it is static. Written once, by hand. It drifts as the code moves. Auto-generate it and agents often get worse, following bloated rules and chasing dead paths. The agent fails the same way every run. Nothing feeds those failures back. The text that...
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Speakers
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Satyam Soni

Developer Advocate, NitroStack
Satyam is a Software Developer working at the intersection of AI and cloud-native technologies. He is a former member of the Kubernetes release team, serving as Release Notes Lead for v1.32, with experience in release engineering and a Google Summer of Code contributor at openSUS... Read More →
avatar for Rudraksh Karpe

Rudraksh Karpe

Forward Deployed Engineer, Simplismart
Rudraksh is an FDE and AI Inference Engineer at Simplismart, where he builds high-performance AI inference systems. He previously worked as an AI Engineer at ZS Associates.

He is a two-time Google Summer of Code participant with openSUSE and a GSoC 2026 mentor. He has spoken internationally at KubeCon EU, PyTorch Conference EU, OpenSearch Korea, PyCon US, PyCon JP, openSUSE Conference Germany, and openSUSE Asia Summit Tokyo, covering GenAI, open source... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems
  • Audience Level Any

10:40 JST

MCP Auth: Am I Doing It Right? - Paul Carleton, Anthropic
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall 1F
Authorization in MCP has been through a number of revisions in the past year. Some major (remember when the authorization server and resource server were expected to be the same?) and some minor. As the specification has stabilized, it can be difficult to know: Am I doing it right? In this talk we'll briefly recap where MCP Auth came from and where it is now, and then we'll dig into Auth best...
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Speakers
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Paul Carleton

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Paul Carleton is a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol and Auth Nerd at Anthropic, where he leads auth implementations across Anthropic's clients and the TypeScript and Python SDKs. He drives MCP conformance testing efforts to ensure consistent behavior across the ecosy... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

11:15 JST

Carbon-Aware Agentic Engineering: Reducing Unnecessary Computation in AI Agent Workflows - Kouki Hama, NTT, Inc
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall C
From a green software perspective, waste in agentic AI comes not only from model choice, but also from workflow design. Agent workflows combine planning, retrieval, retries, memory, tools, and model calls. Poor controls can lead to large models for simple tasks, long histories, repeated retrieval, or needless tool calls, increasing compute, cost, and latency. This talk presents a design-review...
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Speakers
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Kouki Hama

Senior Research Engineer, NTT, Inc
Kouki Hama is a Senior Research Engineer at NTT, Inc., Computer & Data Science Laboratories. His research focuses on green software engineering and software supply chain assurance, including CI/CD, GreenOps, FinOps, Software Carbon Intensity, and SBOM-based governance. As personal... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Engineering

11:15 JST

MCP 2026-07-28 Under the Microscope: Security Implications for Stateless Agents - Thejes sree Satheesh kumar, Thoughtworks & Srinivasan Sekar, TestMu AI
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall 1F
The MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate introduces a major shift in how agents connect, authenticate and manage state. With a stateless protocol core, first-class extensions and hardened authorization, the new spec improves scalability and interoperability, but it also changes the security model in ways that many builders may not fully anticipate. In this talk, I will examine the release candidate...
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Speakers
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Thejes sree Satheesh kumar

Quality Analyst, MCP and AI Security Researcher, Thoughtworks
Thejes Sree Satheesh Kumar (she/her) is a Quality Analyst – Consultant at ThoughtWorks specializing in application and AI security testing. A CEH, CompTIA Security+ professional, With a strong background in automation testing (like Playwright), she combines quality engineering and... Read More →
avatar for Srinivasan Sekar

Srinivasan Sekar

Director of Engineering, TestMu AI
Srinivasan Sekar is a Director of Engineering at TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest). He loves contributing to Open Source. He is an Appium Member and Contributor to various open-source repositories like Selenium, Webdriver.io, taiko, etc. He worked extensively on testing various Microservices... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

11:50 JST

Letting an Agent Upgrade Production Kubernetes — Without Getting Paged at 3 AM - Sanskar Agrawalla & Abhijeet Chaudhuri, Quartic.ai
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall C
Kubernetes upgrades are high-stakes, deprecation-laden, and still mostly manual — most "AI for K8s upgrades" projects stop at a feasibility check. We went further: we built an agentic system that planned and executed a real cluster upgrade end to end, and in this talk we walk through exactly how it went, with the steps, evidence, and screenshots from our actual runs. We'll break down the...
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Speakers
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Sanskar Agrawalla

Site Reliability Engineer, Quartic.ai
👋 Site Reliability Engineer at Quartic.ai | Tech Enthusiast

Hey there! I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for building impactful solutions. Currently, I'm working on cutting-edge projects that drive innovation. From enhancing monitoring processes to optimizing infrastructure, I'm all about crafting efficient and secure systems... Read More →
avatar for Abhijeet Chaudhuri

Abhijeet Chaudhuri

Site Reliability Engineer, Quartic.ai
Site Reliability Engineer who runs a production distributed system on Kubernetes — Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and a fleet of edge devices — where long-running operations are a daily reality, having experience in implementing scalable cloud-native solutions across Kubernetes, AWS... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems
  • Audience Level Any

12:15 JST

Lunch (Provided Onsite)
Thursday September 10, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 JST
Hall A

Thursday September 10, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

13:30 JST

Designing Trust Boundaries for Agent-to-Agent Systems: Lessons Learned from a Technical PoC - Ryuji Iijima, Softbank Corp.
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall C
As AI agents increasingly invoke tools, access enterprise data, and collaborate, a new architectural challenge emerges: Where should trust boundaries be defined, and where should governance and security controls be enforced?To explore this, we conducted a technical PoC introducing a shared control layer across agent-to-agent communications and tool execution pathways. Rather than presenting an...
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Speakers
avatar for Ryuji Iijima

Ryuji Iijima

Engineer, AgentSecOps Platform Initiative, SoftBank Corp.
An engineer with experience in mobile authentication, enterprise communications, data integration platforms, and AI security. He is interested in how trust can be established, maintained, and governed across complex distributed systems. His current work focuses on AI agent ecosystems... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

13:30 JST

Do Tools Still Matter? MCP Tool Design in the Age of Code Mode - Ruben Casas, Postman
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall 1F
The first wave of MCP adoption was defined by abundance. Every API endpoint became a tool, every workflow became a collection of tool calls, and many servers exposed hundreds of operations directly to agents. It worked, but at a cost: bloated context windows, slower tool selection, and increasingly unreliable agent behaviour. But then Code Mode appeared! With approaches Code Mode agents can...
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Speakers
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Ruben Casas

Staff Engineer, Postman
Ruben Casas is a Google Developer Expert and Staff Engineer at Postman. He builds developer tooling, AI agents, and MCP apps, and writes about frontend architecture at scale and AI. Ruben is a podcast guest and has spoken at major conferences, sharing insights from large-scale migrations... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

13:30 JST

Workshop: Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 15:05 JST
Hall B
Enterprise adoption of the Model Context Protocol is accelerating, and MCP has become the primary way agents connect to enterprise tools and data. But MCP is only part of how agents act. Agents also run CLIs, execute Skills, and generate code that calls APIs directly. Governing MCP well matters. Governing everything else agents can do matters just as much.Building MCP servers and writing Skills...
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Speakers
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Shannon Williams

President, Obot AI
I am the President and co-founder of Obot AI, and have been building open source software for the last 20 years. Prior to starting Obot, I co-founded Cloud.com (creator of CloudStack) and Rancher Labs (creator of Rancher, k3s, Longhorn, etc). I was a board member of the CNCF for 4... Read More →
avatar for Chris Urwin

Chris Urwin

VP of Field Engineering, Obot AI
Chris Urwin is VP of Field Engineering at Obot AI and a veteran engineering leader. With deep hands-on experience in cloud‑native platforms, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and developer tooling, he builds and scales global technical teams. Chris bridges product, engineering, and... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:30 - 15:05 JST
Hall B
  Workshop

14:05 JST

The Agent Builder Loop from Daily Work to OSS - Minoru Onda, KDDI Agile Development Center Corporation
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall C
AI agent discussions often focus on coding or MCP. My starting point is different. I use coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex as assistants for work beyond development. Instead of automating isolated tasks, I keep them beside me as a secretary and knowledge platform for routine operations, speaking requests, internal coordination, slide preparation, and customer-facing project delivery.That...
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Speakers
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Minoru Onda

KDDI Agile Development Center Corporation
Technology Evangelist, KDDI Agile Development Center Corporation
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

14:05 JST

MCP-Powered Crash Investigation: How 11 MCP Servers Help an AI Agent Debug Production Issues at Uber - Kriti Dangi, Uber
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall 1F
Debugging eats 42% of developer time — $300B lost globally every year. On an average, fixing an issue takes 15 days. Debug Assist does it in 30 minutes — issue alert to validated, reviewable PR. Most AI debugging tools stop at root cause analysis. Debug Assist goes much further: it writes a fix, validates it in a loop till correct, and creates the PR. Example, It caught a crash at 5% rollout,...
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Speakers
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Kriti Dangi

Senior Software Engineer, Uber, Uber
Senior software engineer on the App Quality and Production Observability at Uber. Spent 3 years working on crash analytics platform, before designing and deploying Debug Assist. I love to dance, swim and travel in my free time. You can often find me chatting away with friends!
... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon
  • Audience Level Any

14:40 JST

What Happens When Your MCP Tools Cost Money? - Prakash Rao, AIG Technologies & Marco González, Red Hat
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall 1F
What happens when an AI agent has to pay for its tools? Today, nobody knows. Open-source MCP servers run for free, and their maintainers quietly absorb the cost. The x402 protocol changes the model: a server can charge a small payment for each tool call, with no accounts or API keys needed. The plumbing works. The open question is how agents behave once tools have a price. We put it to the test....
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Speakers
avatar for Prakash Rao

Prakash Rao

Principal Cloud Engineer, AIG Technologies
Prakash Rao is a Principal Cloud Engineer at AIG Technologies in Japan, designing Google Cloud infrastructure for financial services: hybrid connectivity, enterprise networking, and security architecture. His recent work includes deploying AI agents on Vertex AI Agent Engine and infrastructure... Read More →
avatar for Marco González

Marco González

Sr. Software Engineer, Red Hat
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 13+ years of global experience in 3G, 4G, and 5G network integration. US patent creator and Telco Automation expert. 2026 AAIF ambassador and active CNCF Program Committee member and speaker at KubeCon, Kubedays, and CNCF events. Contributor... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

14:40 JST

The Production Gap: Why Governing Agent Traffic Is the Key To Shipping Multi-Agent Systems - Juhi Singh, Kong & Prithvi Raj, Mirantis
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall C
Every team building agentic systems hits the same wall: the gap between a demo and a system you'd trust in production. Most assume it's an engineering problem. It isn't. It's a governance problem and governance in a multi-agent system isn't a policy document. It's the full data path. We demonstrate a production-style multi-agent workflow where customer feedback flows through agents, MCP tools,...
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Speakers
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Juhi Singh

Developer Evangelist, Kong
Juhi is the Developer Evangelist (APAC) at Kong. She’s passionate about helping the developer community and building strong connections. Outside of work, Juhi enjoys reading, staying fit, trekking, traveling, and cooking. She describes herself as a "product of a community" with... Read More →
avatar for Prithvi Raj

Prithvi Raj

Senior Community Manager & Developer Advocate, Mirantis
Prithvi Raj is a Senior Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis working with the OSPO. He is a CNCF Ambassador with 6+ years of experience who helped scale a CNCF incubating project and runs the CNCG Platform Engineering Meetup group. He is currently leading the community... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall C
  Multi-Agent and Distributed Systems

15:05 JST

Coffee Break
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 JST
Hall A

Thursday September 10, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

15:35 JST

Stop Giving Agents Tokens: Securing With Side-Car Proxies - Girish Motwani, Microsoft & Ritwik Ranjan, Microsoft
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall C
As autonomous agents move from experimental scripts to production systems, we’re exposing a massive flaw in how they’re built. We are giving LLMs the power to execute code, access files, and make network requests—essentially turning them into untrusted programs with direct authority over our infrastructure. Prompt injection isn’t just a model quirk; it’s an open door to a massive attack...
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Speakers
avatar for Girish Motwani

Girish Motwani

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Girish Motwani is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading Azure Container Networking in Ireland, powering connectivity for Azure’s global container workloads. He previously led Azure Firewall. With 21+ years’ experience, he builds high-scale cloud platforms... Read More →
avatar for Ritwik Ranjan

Ritwik Ranjan

Software Engineer, Microsoft
Ritwik Ranjan is a results-driven software engineer with a passion for creating scalable, efficient, and innovative cloud-based solutions. Currently, he is working as an SDE 2 at Microsoft Azure Core in Dublin. His experience spans across diverse technologies, focusing on improving... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

15:35 JST

Lessons From Building a Generative UI Runtime for MCP Apps - Rabi Guha, Thesys Inc
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall 1F
MCP UI lets servers return interactive application surfaces instead of plain tool results. But it raises a new question: what happens when the interface inside that surface is generated at runtime by the agent? This talk shares lessons from building a Generative UI layer within MCP UI. MCP UI provides the app/resource boundary and host communication model, while frameworks like OpenUI provide...
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Speakers
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Rabi Guha

Co-Founder & CEO - Thesys, Thesys Inc

Rabi Shanker Guha is Co-Founder and CEO of Thesys, the Generative UI company behind C1 and OpenUI. Previously, he was Head of Engineering and a founding member at DevRev.ai, where he helped scale the engineering team to about 150 people. He has also held roles at Google and Nutanix, and... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

15:35 JST

Workshop: Getting Started with Goose & MCP Apps - Abhijay Jain, AAIF Goose
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 17:10 JST
Hall B
Whether you're new to Goose or just beginning your journey with MCP, this hands-on workshop will help you get started with it. We'll walk through installing and configuring Goose, explore the fundamentals of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and demonstrate how to discover, install, and use MCP Apps to extend Goose with powerful new capabilities.Through live demonstrations, attendees will get a...
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Speakers
avatar for Abhijay Jain

Abhijay Jain

Maintainer & Contributor, AAIF Goose, AAIF Goose
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:35 - 17:10 JST
Hall B
  Workshop

16:10 JST

Your Platform Is Your Context: Scaling AI Agents With Platform Engineering - Gang Luo & Kristina Kondrashevich, Electrolux
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall C
A production issue spans multiple cloud environments. Everything looks fine in isolation, but the system behaves unexpectedly end-to-end. Reconstructing what is actually deployed requires stitching together cloud consoles, infrastructure definitions, and internal tooling. AI agents could help with this kind of problem, but they need better context. Infrastructure is a key part of that context...
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Speakers
avatar for Gang Luo

Gang Luo

Engineering Manager, Electrolux Group
With extensive experience in the software industry, Gang has worked across Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering. His focus is on building scalable platforms, enabling developer productivity, and driving operational excellence within fast-growing... Read More →
avatar for Kristina Kondrashevich

Kristina Kondrashevich

SRE Product Manager, Electrolux
Throughout her career, Kristina has written code, managed teams, and optimized delivery. As an SRE Product Manager at Electrolux Group, she helps the platform team adopt product management practices. Her mission is to elevate the developer experience by treating internal developers... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Engineering

16:45 JST

Intent as Code: Why Existing Permissions Aren’t Enough for AI - Masaya Nakamura, Studist
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall C
MCP grants AI agents access to file systems, Git, cloud, and SaaS. Yet permission models — IAM, OAuth scopes, PATs — were built for humans and fall short for AI. The issue isn’t granularity. Existing permissions assume “human rationality” as a boundary: write access doesn’t mean a human wipes a repo; CI write access doesn’t mean a human exfiltrates secrets. Permissions stay broad...
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Speakers
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Masaya Nakamura

Platform Engineer, studist
Super Engineer
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall C
  Human-Agent Collaboration

16:45 JST

Running an MCP Proxy at Scale - Camila Rondinini, Anthropic
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall 1F
The MCP spec is clear about how one client and one server talk to each other. It says much less about what happens when the client is itself a distributed system, serving millions of people across thousands of third-party MCP remote servers. At Anthropic, we run a proxy between our products and a large, growing set of remote servers. At that scale, we started running into problems the spec...
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Speakers
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Camila Rondinini

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Camila Rondinini is a Member of Technical Staff on the Connectivity team at Anthropic, where she works on supporting MCP across Anthropic's product surfaces. Her focus is on improving the reliability and monitoring of MCP at scale.
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

17:20 JST

Legacy Meets LLM: Giving Frontier Models a Telephone (PSTN) Over MCP - Shinya Saito, Gen-AX Corp
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall 1F
A web service exposes /health; a phone line exposes nothing. The telephone is the oldest telecommunication tool still in production — and our LLM voice agents answer customer calls over it, with no way to know whether they are answering, hearing, and behaving correctly right now. So we gave a frontier model a telephone. Our MCP server gives any LLM a phone: dial PSTN numbers, speak via TTS,...
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Speakers
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Shinya Saito

Backend Engineer, Gen-AX Corp
Shinya Saito is a Product Engineer at Gen-AX developing X-Ghost, an enterprise voice AI platform. He builds production voice agents and telephony infrastructure, spanning observability, evaluation, and large-scale testing. Recently he has used the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

17:20 JST

Accelerating the Autonomous Web With WebMCP - Vin Lim, StaffOS
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall C
AI agents have long been capable of interacting with the web, relying on brittle DOM scrapers and heavy browser automation has kept these workflows slow and prone to failure. We will explore how the WebMCP shifts agentic web interaction from merely functional to highly performant and efficient by providing a standardized, machine-readable layer for context sharing and action execution. WebMCP...
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Vin Lim

CTO, StaffOS
Vin is the co-founder of StaffOS, an AI Workforce platform for business to deploy and govern AI agents. He is also a Google Developer Expert, having partnered with Google to advocate web technology for the past 10 years, speaking, mentoring and conducting community workshops.
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall C
  Protocols & Standards

17:45 JST

Sponsor Showcase
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:45 - 19:00 JST
Hall A

Thursday September 10, 2026 17:45 - 19:00 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Friday, September 11
 

08:00 JST

Registration & Badge Pick-Ip
Friday September 11, 2026 08:00 - 17:00 JST
B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)

Friday September 11, 2026 08:00 - 17:00 JST
B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:00 JST

Keynote: Welcome - Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, The Agentic AI Foundation
Friday September 11, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 JST
Hall C

Speakers
avatar for Mazin Gilbert

Mazin Gilbert

Executive Director, AAIF, The Linux Foundation
Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. An IEEE Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Wharton MBA, Mazin brings 25+ years of experience driving AI innovation from research to global-scale deployment. His career... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:10 JST

Keynote Session to be Announced
Friday September 11, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 JST
Hall C

Friday September 11, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:25 JST

Keynote: Skills Over MCP: From Experiment to Extension - Ola Hungerford, Principal Engineer, Nordstrom
Friday September 11, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 JST
Hall C
Tool descriptions tell an agent what a tool can do, but not how to orchestrate those capabilities toward a goal, or supplement them with specialized knowledge. Agent skills have become a popular and accessible way to close that gap, and many organizations now ship skills alongside their servers. The community effort to standardize that pairing has drawn 50+ contributors from 25+ organizations...
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Ola Hungerford

Principal Engineer, Nordstrom
Ola Hungerford is a Principal Engineer at Nordstrom and a maintainer and community moderator for the Model Context Protocol. She leads AI enablement initiatives while contributing to MCP’s specification, developer tooling, documentation, and community governance. Ola comes from... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:40 JST

Keynote: Manik Surtani, Chief Technology Officer, The Agentic AI Foundation & Paul Conyngham, Founder, Gamgee
Friday September 11, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 JST
Hall C

Speakers
avatar for Paul Conyngham

Paul Conyngham

Founder, Gamgee
Paul Conyngham is an AI-innovation leader whose personal journey to help his dog Rosie through complex cancer treatment sparked broader conversations around personalised veterinary medicine and AI-supported care pathways. Following national media attention, Paul has engaged with veterinarians... Read More →
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Manik Surtani

CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 11, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 JST
Hall C
  Keynote Sessions

09:45 JST

Coffee Break
Friday September 11, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 JST
Hall A

Friday September 11, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:05 JST

One Proxy To Rule Them All: MCP, LLM, and A2A - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
Friday September 11, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall C
A working agent ends up talking to a lot of things: a handful of MCP servers, two or three LLM providers, maybe another agent. Each one is a separate integration you wired in yourself, with its own auth and its own logging, or its own lack of it. Nothing sees all of it at once. agentgateway is trying to be the thing that does. It's an open-source Rust proxy, an Agentic AI Foundation project as...
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Bharath N R

OSPO Lead, Mirantis Inc.
Bharath Nallapeta leads the Open Source Program Office at Mirantis. He works across AI and Agentic systems, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, and contributes to open source projects including Cluster API (CAPI)
and Cluster API Provider OpenStack (CAPO). Before Mirantis he built platforms at Red Hat and Stakater. He speaks regularly at conferences and meetups, and is focused on making AI and Agentic workloads practical, portable, and safe to run in production... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall C
  Protocols & Standards

10:05 JST

Skills as Reusable Operational Knowledge - Nimit Savant, DevRev
Friday September 11, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall 1F
The next leap in agent engineering is not bigger models. It's reusable skills. Today, many agents repeatedly spend tokens rediscovering the same workflow every time a task appears. Whether it's code reviews, incident analysis, documentation generation, or research tasks, the agent often re-plans work it has already solved before. This talk explores how agent skills are emerging as reusable...
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Nimit Savant

Developer Evangelist, DevRev
I love to talk about Agentic AI and B2B Developer Advocacy and strategies
Friday September 11, 2026 10:05 - 10:30 JST
Hall 1F
  Protocols & Standards

10:40 JST

How I Built the Most Viral Agentmemory Completely Opensource With 22K+ GitHub Stars - Rohit Ghumare, iii & Vinuja Khatode, JP Morgan Chase
Friday September 11, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall C
Most agent memory is a chat log with extra steps. Dump turns into a vector store, retrieve the top-k by cosine similarity, and hope the right context shows up. It usually doesn't, and the agent pays for it three turns later. agentmemory MCP Server began as a fix for that. It combines BM25, dense vector search, and a knowledge graph, fuses them with reciprocal rank fusion, and ages stored...
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Rohit Ghumare

Founding Engineer, iii
As a Google Developer Expert specializing in Google Cloud and GenAI, I am a passionate DevOps Advocate and a dedicated Community Evangelist. I lead and nurture multiple communities across diverse platforms, fostering DevOps and Developer Relations awareness. My commitment to the open-source... Read More →
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Vinuja Khatode

Platform Engineer, JP Morgan Chase
A Platform Engineer at JPMorgan Chase and a CNCF community regular and lifelong learner. She’s spoken at global conferences like State of Open Con, KCDs, and DevOpsDays, bringing raw, real-world DevOps and Platform lessons to the stage. Vinuja has also built and scaled platforms... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Engineering

10:40 JST

You Have 1000 Employees and None of Them Have a Name - Marcus Tenorio, Bitso
Friday September 11, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall 1F
Your agent swarm is running. It's browsing the web, calling APIs, reading files, making decisions, all on behalf of your users and your organisation. But ask yourself: do you know which agent did what? Can you revoke access to just one of them? Can you prove to an auditor that your agents only touched what they were supposed to? Probably not. Because most agentic deployments treat agents as...
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Marcus Tenorio

Security Engineering Manager, Bitso
Mart is an Infrastructure Security Manager at Bitso, where he enjoys managing various engineers who teach him every day how to break things and become a better manager and engineer. Mart began his journey in cybersecurity trying to understand why so many people liked prime numbers... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 10:40 - 11:05 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

11:15 JST

The 3 AM Page: Turning Chaos Into Context With Bounded AI and Structured Evidence - Madhu Patel & Sudhanshu Sah, Adobe
Friday September 11, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall C
AI-powered incident response sounds like the perfect use case for autonomous agents, but giving them unrestricted access to raw alerts and logs can quickly turn automation into hallucination. Whether you're debugging production outages or investigating failed deployments, engineers still spend hours manually correlating signals across disconnected observability tools. In this talk, we'll break...
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Madhu Patel

Software Engineer 2 @ Adobe, Adobe
I'm Madhu Patel, a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, where I build large-scale distributed backend services for Creative Cloud and AI-powered platforms.

I graduated from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, one of Asia's largest technical universities for women. My interests include cloud-native architectures, AI agents, Kubernetes, and microservices, with a focus on building secure, scalable, and resilient systems... Read More →
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Sudhanshu Sah

Software Engineer 3 @ Adobe, Adobe
SDE 3 with 5 years' experience at the intersection of GenAI, backend engineering, and cloud platforms.
I own core GenAI services, building production-grade ML APIs/SDKs, and shipping 0→1 products from alpha to GA. Currently focused on cloud-native AI infrastructure: architecting deterministic agent workflows on Kubernetes, driving GitOps with ArgoCD, and scaling resilient platforms f... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

11:15 JST

The Primitive AI Agents Are Missing: Graph-Based Code Intelligence - John Interlante, Aleutian AI
Friday September 11, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall 1F
Graph-based code intelligence (not GraphRAG) is the infrastructure primitive that AI coding agents need to reason about large codebases without burning tokens. In this session, we'll evaluate various approaches and identify where the field is converging. Agents fall back to grep because retrieval solutions return a probabilistic approximation of the code at a given point in time. The context...
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John Interlante

Managing Director / Founder, Aleutian AI
Founder of Aleutian AI, former Apple Data Engineering Manager, Former McKinsey Data Engineer. Focused on data and AI privacy research for large scale data processing and analysis.
Friday September 11, 2026 11:15 - 11:40 JST
Hall 1F
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

11:50 JST

Your Agent Starts the Checkout. Then What? - Muskan Jain, Independent
Friday September 11, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall C
Modern agent workflows rarely finish in a single tool call. Commerce, travel, healthcare, and enterprise operations all require multi-step, stateful, failure-prone transactions that span agents, tools, and time. MCP today excels at stateless tool invocation, but production systems demand more: resumability, idempotency, compensation, human-in-the-loop, and trust boundaries. In this talk, we...
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Speakers
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Muskan Jain

Software Developer, Independent
I'm an SDE-III at Walmart Global Tech India, currently pursuing an MTech in Artificial Intelligence from IISc Bangalore. While I work on platform engineering full-time, I'm deeply interested in applied AI—especially in making intelligent systems more accessible, open-source, and... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Payments
  • Audience Level Any

11:50 JST

The Model and the Mask: An Actor's Method for Engineering Agent Character - Nick Howden-Steenstra, Independent
Friday September 11, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall 1F
Every agent system is two things: the model, which you rent, and the mask - the character - which is yours. The industry keeps upgrading the model and expecting the mask to improve. It doesn't work that way. I'm a LAMDA-trained actor turned agent engineer. This talk is the actor's toolkit applied to shipped systems. Case one: a comms pipeline in production at a major crypto protocol - the...
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Nick Howden-Steenstra

Agent-Systems Engineer, Independent
Nick Howden-Steenstra trained at LAMDA and spent years building characters on stage; now he builds them as infrastructure. At a major crypto protocol he made brand voice falsifiable - generation gated by Stanislavski table-work, output graded by a Laban Movement Analysis classifier... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 11:50 - 12:15 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

12:15 JST

Lunch (Provided Onsite)
Friday September 11, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 JST
Hall A

Friday September 11, 2026 12:15 - 13:30 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

13:30 JST

Stateful Sandboxes for Stateless Agents: Designing Durable Volumes for MCP Tool Workspaces - Weiwei Zhu, Juicedata
Friday September 11, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall C
Agent sandboxes are often described as ephemeral, but real MCP tool workflows are not. Agents edit files, install dependencies, run tests, download inputs, generate reports, and resume after failures. When workspace state is treated as disposable, reproducibility, isolation, and debugging become unnecessarily painful. This talk presents a practical framework for designing durable volumes in...
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Weiwei Zhu

Fullstack Engineer, Juicedata
She is a full-stack engineer of Juicedata.Inc, maintainer of JuiceFS CSI driver and Fluid. She is responsible for development and maintenance of JuiceFS in the Cloud-Native ecosystem, completed the implementation and practice of JuiceFS in Kubernetes, and continued to improve the... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems
  • Audience Level Any

13:30 JST

From Clicks To Context: Building an Open-Source Evaluation Pipeline for AI Agents - Inês Bolaños, PagerDuty
Friday September 11, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall 1F
The AI industry has moved so fast that we are still evaluating probabilistic software using the same deterministic metrics we applied to traditional code. As a Product Analyst working on AI agents at PagerDuty, I saw a critical need for a new observability standard, one that moves beyond clicks to measure true reasoning and reliability. To address this, I’ve developed and open-sourced a...
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Speakers
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Inês Bolaños

Senior Product Analyst, PagerDuty
Inês Bolaños focuses on the intersection of AI, product strategy and data reliability. With almost a decade of experience, she specializes in turning complex data into actionable product decisions. Combining a background in Communication with a Master’s in Big Data, Inês os helping... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 JST
Hall 1F
  Evaluation & Testing

14:05 JST

What's Actually Running in Your Coding Agent: The Shadow AI Stack - Alexander Frazer, Runlayer
Friday September 11, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall C
"Every MCP server, skill, and plugin in your coding agent is code or instructions you never really reviewed, running with your access to your database, your repos, and your keys. Three different ways in, and almost nobody is watching any of them." Most of the agent security conversation is about prompt injection. Meanwhile there are three underserved vectors sitting right inside the tools you...
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Alexander Frazer

Founding Security Engineer, Runlayer
Alexander Frazer is a Founding Security Engineer at Runlayer, where he works on securing AI agents and the MCP ecosystem. He chairs the AAIF Security & Privacy Working Group, leading the effort to build community consensus around agentic security and privacy standards and best practices... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

14:05 JST

What's Missing in the Open Agentic Stack: Lessons From OSS Integration - Tatsuya Sato & Satoshi Ito, Hitachi, Ltd.
Friday September 11, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall 1F
In the agentic AI space, standards like MCP and A2A and a growing OSS ecosystem are evolving. Yet building a real multi-agent system requires more than a single framework or protocol. It involves integrating multiple OSS components and adjacent specifications across areas such as agent-to-agent communication, orchestration, authentication, and observability. There is limited shared understanding...
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Tatsuya Sato

Chief Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.
Tatsuya Sato is a Chief Researcher at Hitachi, Ltd. His research focuses on agentic AI platforms, blockchain platforms, system operations, and OSS. He has been an active OSS contributor for many years. He has contributed extensively to the LFDT and Hyperledger communities and continues... Read More →
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Satoshi Ito

Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.
The speaker is a researcher and engineer at Hitachi, engaged in open-source software development. Initially focused on blockchain technologies, they have worked on Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), Decentralized Identifiers (DID), and NFTs. In recent years, their research has shifted... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall 1F
  Open Infrastructure and Tooling

14:40 JST

Building an Agentic Software Factory - Valentin De Matos, Delphi
Friday September 11, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall C
AI coding agents are useful in isolated demos; the hard problem is making them controlled enough to ship production code. At Delphi, we built an agentic software factory that turns product specs and engineering tickets into scoped pull requests, then routes those PRs through reviewer agents, CI, browser verification, and merge gates. This session breaks down the operating system around the...
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Valentin De Matos

AI Engineer, Delphi
AI Engineer at Delphi AI in San Francisco, Valentin builds production AI systems for digital twins, agent behavior, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Friday September 11, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Engineering

14:40 JST

The Conductor Pattern: Multi-Granularity Feedback for Creative Agents - Yusuke Shibui, MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps Community
Friday September 11, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall 1F
Most "human-in-the-loop" agent systems assume the human can specify success up front: a passing test, green CI, a structured eval. What if the human's taste is the spec? This talk presents YouAndOrchestra (YaO), an open-source agentic music composition system on Claude Code. YaO orchestrates seven role-based subagents — Producer, Composer, Harmony Theorist, Rhythm Architect, Orchestrator, Mix...
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Yusuke Shibui

Community owner, MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps Community
Yusuke Shibui works across MLOps, data, infrastructure, backend, research engineering, and tech sales — and lives with two cats. His current focus is putting generative AI and AI agents into production. He is the author of "Machine Learning System Design Patterns" and "A Practical... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 14:40 - 15:05 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

15:05 JST

Coffee Break
Friday September 11, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 JST
Hall A

Friday September 11, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 JST
Hall A
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

15:35 JST

Governed Agent Autonomy: Building a Control Plane for Agentic Systems - Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
Friday September 11, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall C
We see how quickly AI coding tools and agent harnesses are improving. But how can the surrounding system keep that autonomy governable once an agent starts planning, executing tools, changing files, and consuming budget on a team’s behalf? In this talk, I break down a technical case study based on a real AI coding control-plane architecture and show how serious systems structure autonomy...
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Nnenna Ndukwe

AI Developer Relations Engineering Lead, Qodo AI
Nnenna Ndukwe is a Developer Relations Engineering Lead and Software Engineer, passionate about AI. With 9+ years in industry, she's a global AI community architect championing engineers to build in emerging tech. She studied Computer Science at Boston University and is a proud member... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall C
  Building Reliable Agent Systems

15:35 JST

Built for Two: What Design Systems Are Missing When AI Agents Become the Third User - Karen Ng, Endor Labs
Friday September 11, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall 1F
AI coding agents now generate UI from component libraries. Most teams write component markdown files and expect agents to take it from there. The docs were complete. Agents still got it wrong. Sitting with engineers in code review, the same things kept surfacing: the agent picked a visually similar but wrong component; it invented props; it read "Tag" as a UI primitive when the codebase meant a...
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Karen Ng

Principal Product Designer, Endor Labs
Karen Ng designs AI-driven products for security engineers and oncologists. She leads UX at Endor Labs, where she has built AI agent governance, code scanning, and security workflow products from scratch. A three-time internal hackathon winner, she prototypes in code as readily as... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 15:35 - 16:00 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

16:10 JST

Beyond Prototypes: Building Enterprise-scale Agentic Systems - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Dash0
Friday September 11, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall C
There has been a lot of progress in agentic frameworks (such as Langchain, CrewAI, Autogen, among others), most of them written in and targeting Python developers. These frameworks allow you to build multi-agent systems that are co-located inside the same application. That works well for fast experimentation and building prototypes, but production systems live or die on scalability, security,...
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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, CNCF TOC member, and international Keynote speaker. Before working at Dash0, Mauricio spent the last 15 years building tools for Cloud-Native developers at companies... 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, Agentic AI, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall C
  Multi-Agent and Distributed Systems

16:10 JST

Build Your Own Open-Source Claude Code With Local LLMs - Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Friday September 11, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall 1F
AI coding assistants are becoming part of everyday development, but many enterprises cannot send source code, internal APIs, or project context to external services. They need the productivity of coding agents while keeping models, repositories, prompts, and actions under their control. In this session, we’ll show how to build an open-source, Claude Code-like assistant using local or privately...
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Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author
Friday September 11, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall 1F
  Open Infrastructure and Tooling

16:45 JST

Why Traditional AI Benchmarks Fail Voice Agents - Harshita Jain, Smallest AI
Friday September 11, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall C
AI systems are increasingly evaluated using benchmarks designed for individual components: Word Error Rate (WER) for speech recognition, MOS for speech synthesis, latency for infrastructure, and task success for agents. Yet users experience none of these components in isolation when using voice agents, they experience conversations. Voice agents expose the limitations of traditional evaluation...
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Harshita Jain

Developer Relations Engineer, Smallest AI
I’m a Developer Relations Engineer at Smallest AI, bridging real-time Voice AI and developer communities with focus on enabling developers to build with open-source orchestrators. Before this, I was a Software Engineer at Mobile Premier League where I built real-time networking... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall C
  Evaluation & Testing

16:45 JST

Externalizing Agent State: Memory and Filesystem Management for Sandboxed Coding Agents - Tadatoshi Sekiguchi, PingCAP
Friday September 11, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall 1F
Coding-agent harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode are widely used as general-purpose agent platforms, customized with Skills and Tools and run inside sandboxes. But these agents are stateless by design: when a session ends or a sandbox is torn down, context and artifacts disappear. Running them in production for many users over months turns memory and artifact management into hard...
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Tadatoshi "Seki" Sekiguchi

Technology Evangelist, PingCAP
Tadatoshi "Seki" Sekiguchi is a Technology Evangelist at PingCAP Japan, promoting PingCAP's AI technologies through public talks and hands-on workshops, and driving TiDB/NewSQL adoption since 2022. He has 20+ years in financial-services systems as an architect, DBA, and PM, with senior... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
Hall 1F
  Open Infrastructure and Tooling

17:20 JST

Your Agent Inherits Code, Not Decisions: How To Use Context Graphs for Intent - Nyah Macklin, Neo4j
Friday September 11, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall C
Technical debt lives in code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt, Addy Osmani's term for the goals, constraints, and rationale behind a decision that never got written down, lives nowhere. It's the one debt agents can't pay down: an agent drafting a spec fills the gap with a confident guess, and the guess is usually wrong. This talk covers building context graphs that capture the why:...
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Nyah Macklin

Sr. Developer Advocate, Artificial Intelligence, Neo4j
Nyah Macklin is a seasoned researcher and speaker on AI, ML, Ethics, Governance, and Responsibility. Nyah serves as a Sr. Developer Advocate at Neo4j, specializing in context engineering, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven developer tooling where Nyah has built high-impact technical... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall C
  Agentic Engineering
 

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