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2026 September 10-11 | Tokyo, Japan
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Thursday, September 10
 

10:15 JST

Stateless MCP: Inside the 2026 Transport Spec - Himanshu Sangshetti, Mem0
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:15 - 10:40 JST
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 2026 spec release candidate, locked May 21, fixes this at the transport layer through three SEPs.
- SEP-1442 removes the mandatory init handshake so negotiation folds into the first request.
- SEP-2322 makes elicitation stateless.
- SEP-2243 mirrors routing data into HTTP headers so load balancers can route without parsing the payload.

This session covers what each SEP changes, what breaks in the server you run today, and what to refactor before the spec ships. I'll also show how we externalize session state at Mem0, so a stateless server keeps the memory and context a real agent needs.

You'll leave with a migration checklist and an architecture for stateless-first MCP.

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avatar for Himanshu Sangshetti

Himanshu Sangshetti

Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Mem0
Himanshu Sangshetti is an MTS at Mem0 (60k+ 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 Cloud Capt... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:15 - 10:40 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

10:50 JST

CrabRAG: Why Automated Assistants Need Graph Memory, Not More Tokens - Stephen Chin, Neo4j
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:50 - 11:15 JST
Autonomous assistants are easy to demo and hard to make reliable. The problem is usually not tool access. It is memory.

Most assistant architectures still treat memory as a chat log plus vector retrieval. That is fine for document question answering, but it breaks down when the assistant must connect conversations, people, tools, and decisions across multiple tool iterations. For an AI engineer, a single request can depend on a Slack thread, a GitHub PR, a failed CI run, a calendar event, and prior operating preferences or constraints. These are not isolated pieces of context. They form a connected state that changes as work progresses and context grows.

In this talk, I’ll show why knowledge graphs, context graphs, and GraphRAG provide a better foundation for OpenClaw-style assistants. Knowledge graphs capture durable entities and relationships. Context graphs capture the operational layer assistants usually lose, including actions, decision traces, provenance, and recency. GraphRAG turns that structure into task-time context by combining graph traversal, semantic retrieval, and tool use.

Attendees will leave with practical patterns for schema design, retrieval routing, and evaluation, plus a concrete blueprint for assistants that remember more than the last prompt and retrieve more than the nearest chunk.

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Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:50 - 11:15 JST
Hall 1F
  Agentic Engineering
  • Audience Level Any
  • Presentation Language English

11:25 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 11:25 - 11:50 JST
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 through a defender’s lens and highlight the practical risks that emerge when session state disappears, trust boundaries move and extension-based flexibility expands the attack surface. I will discuss failure modes such as broken state assumptions, capability confusion, unsafe cross-client behavior, and authorization mistakes in real deployments. The session will also cover concrete hardening patterns for secure MCP adoption, including least-privilege tool design, explicit state handling, authorization scoping, telemetry and rollout validation. Attendees will leave with a practical checklist for evaluating stateless MCP systems and defending agent runtimes in production.

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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 11:25 - 11:50 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

12:00 JST

Sponsored Session: Same Prompt, Different Agent: Building an Assembly Line for Agents - Kan Wang, Raytone
Thursday September 10, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 JST
Run the same prompt twice and you get two different agents. Both work. Neither is the same. If you ship agents to customers rather than demos, this is a failure mode you already know, and it is why agent work has not industrialized.

Today's AI coding is 3D printing: brilliant for one-offs, unreliable at scale. Assembly is the alternative, and agents have finally converged enough to make it possible. They have a bill of materials: model, harness, interface layer, state, tool integrations. Open source ships every part. Nobody ships the guarantee that two of them work together.

You will leave with the six-station line we run, why moving the model from author to assembler cuts variance and token spend at the same time, the compatibility matrix we maintain, and the list of component pairs that deadlock, which is the part almost nobody publishes.

We will also name what assembly does not fix, and where reproducibility stops being enough.


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 

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Speakers
avatar for Kan Wang

Kan Wang

Co-Founder, Raytone
Kan leads international Token business development at Raytone, with over 11 years of experience in global cloud services, AI data, and enterprise technology partnerships. He previously worked in Business Strategy and Innovation at ByteDance, developing international business models... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 JST
Hall 1F
  Building Reliable Agent Systems
  • Audience Level Any
  • Presentation Language English
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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
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 search an API surface, generate code, and interact with services directly. If models can consume entire APIs and write code to acomplish a task, does tool design still matter?

In this talk, we'll compare three approaches to agent tooling: curated workflow-oriented tools, tool discovery and search, and Code Mode's search-and-execute model. Using real-world examples, benchmarks, and evals, we'll explore the trade-offs in reliability, latency, token usage, and task success.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for deciding when to consolidate tools, when to expose APIs, and whether the future of MCP is better tools or fewer tools altogether.

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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

14:05 JST

Who Owns the Agentic Loop? - Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
A customer is due a refund. The support agent sends 10x the amount that was due. Who is at fault? Was it the team that set the rules, the runtime that managed the loop, the model that chose the action, or the tool that carried it out?

In this agentic whodunit, we'll follow the evidence through one failed run and uncover where the mistake happened. Solving the case raises a harder question. Who owns the outcome when an agent acts on your behalf?

We'll examine the agentic loop as the unit of ownership, from the runtime and model to the tools, data, and control plane around them. You'll learn what teams need at each layer to inspect what happened, constrain what can happen, and change the system when it no longer meets their needs. Along the way, we'll see how open source infrastructure gives teams the access they need to own the full path from decision to action.

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Angie Jones

Vice President, Agentic AI Foundation

Thursday September 10, 2026 14:05 - 14:30 JST
Hall 1F

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
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. We built a paid MCP server on Cloud and ran it end to end, live, settling real payments on a public testnet. We put the agent behind an identity provider and a policy gateway, to see what a paid tool call has to carry before anyone would run one in production. We gave the same work to two competing vendors to see who really decides which one gets bought. And we varied the system prompt, to see how much of a model's spending behaviour is a property of its instructions rather than of the request.

The result is practical guidance for maintainers: how to price a call, where the payment flow breaks, which model behaviours to expect, and whether per-call payments can realistically fund an open-source MCP server.

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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 →
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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

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
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 the generated interface inside that boundary: a component registry, model-friendly UI language, streaming validation, form state, and explicit actions that route back to MCP tools.

The key shift is that MCP UI does not have to mean one fixed widget per tool result. A server can expose capabilities and context, the agent can generate the right interface for the task, and the host can still control rendering, permissions, actions, and observability.

The demo uses a data-dashboard workflow: an agent connects to a datasource, inspects data, generates an interactive dashboard with filters and drilldowns, then turns the result into persistent artifacts such as reports, documents, or slide decks.

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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

16:10 JST

Tasks at Scale: How MCP's New Task Lifecycle Powers Long-Running Agentic Systems - Abhishek Pandit, NitroStack
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
In the 2026-07-28 MCP spec, Tasks graduated from an experimental core feature to a full extension, and the redesign reflects hard lessons from production use. For teams building agentic systems, this isn't a minor API tweak. It changes how long-running work, the kind agents constantly trigger (data pipelines, multi-step workflows, async approvals) gets modeled, tracked, and scaled across a stateless protocol.

This session is a field report on what it takes to build agentic systems around the new Tasks lifecycle.

We'll cover:
  1. Why Tasks moved from core to an extension, and what that signals about MCP's evolution philosophy
  2. The new server-directed task model: how a tools/call returns a task handle, and the client drives it via tasks/get, tasks/update, and tasks/cancel
  3. Why tasks/list was removed entirely, and what that means for how agents discover and track in-flight work
  4. Patterns for orchestrating dozens or hundreds of concurrent tasks across a fleet of agents without sessions to lean on
  5. Migration lessons from the experimental 2025-11-25 Tasks API, including what broke and how we handled the transition without downtime.

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Speakers
avatar for Abhishek Pandit

Abhishek Pandit

CEO, NitroStack
Abhishek Pandit is a technology entrepreneur and software architect with 7+ years building scalable, high-performance systems using Node.js, React, AWS, and Azure. As CEO of NitroStack, he focuses on AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP), helping developers build secure, production-ready... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon

16:45 JST

Running an MCP Proxy at Scale - Camila Rondinini, Anthropic
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:45 - 17:10 JST
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 doesn't answer.

This talk is about three of them:

- Authentication: How do we make authentication work across servers that all implement it a little differently? How do we keep people connected when connections drop and credentials expire, without making them sign in again?

- Caching: How do we avoid hammering the MCP remote servers, and which caching strategies make that possible?

- Monitoring: How do we monitor a system where the servers vary widely, from stable production ones to unstable ones still in development? When something breaks, how do we tell whether the fault is ours or the server's?

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Speakers
avatar for Camila Rondinini

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
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, and read the other side via silence-detected transcripts. A frontier model becomes the caller, phoning our production voice agents in an agent-calls-agent loop — one mechanism covering the whole testing spectrum: ping-style health checks, deep evaluation via scripted and adversarial conversations, and load testing with concurrent caller fleets.

We cover the MCP tool design for a domain the spec wasn't written for — tools that block for tens of seconds, turn-taking over live audio, per-call session state — where the spec fought us and what we would feed back, plus what broke: timeout cascades and evaluations that flap.

We are open-sourcing the server. You'll leave knowing how to connect your own agent to the PSTN — and how to ping, probe, and load-test anything that answers a phone.

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Presentation Language: Japanese

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Speakers
avatar for Shinya Saito

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
 
Friday, September 11
 

10:20 JST

Skills as Reusable Operational Knowledge - Nimit Savant, DevRev
Friday September 11, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 JST
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 workflow primitives that package expertise, decision-making patterns, and execution steps into portable capabilities. Instead of relying on increasingly large prompts, teams can teach agents repeatable workflows once and reuse them across tasks, products, and environments.


Key Takeaways

- Why prompts don't scale for repetitive work
- Skills as reusable workflow contracts
- Reducing token consumption through workflow reuse
- How skills and MCP work together
- Building self-improving agent systems

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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
Friday September 11, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 JST
Hall 1F
  Interoperability & Standards

10:55 JST

You Have 1000 Employees and None of Them Have a Name - Marcus Tenorio, Bitso
Friday September 11, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 JST
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 anonymous processes : no identity, no credentials, no audit trail, no way to fire them when something goes wrong. If a human employee operated this way, you'd call security. For agents, we call it production.

This talk proposes a fundamentally different approach: onboard your agents like employees. Every agent in your swarm deserves a verifiable identity, scoped permissions, a centralised audit trail, and an offboarding process. Drawing from experience securing cloud native and AI infrastructure, this session presents a blueprint for an open source "Okta for agents"! composing Identity Providers, API gateways, and policy engines to bring the same governance we give humans to the systems acting on their behalf.

You hired 1000 people. It's time to learn their names.

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Speakers
avatar for Marcus Tenorio

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 10:55 - 11:20 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

11:30 JST

MCP-Powered Crash Investigation: How 11 MCP Servers Help an AI Agent Debug Production Issues at Uber - Kriti Dangi, Uber
Friday September 11, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 JST
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, landed the fix the same day — preventing it from reaching thousands of users. Built on LangGraph with 11 MCP servers, 5 plugins, and parallel subagents: Sourcegraph for code search, crash analytics, Jira, feature flags, Jaeger, and logging — all one protocol.

Debug Assist even works on user-reported bugs which have minimal information attached. A user complained of battery drain, and Debug Assist traced it to a hot-looping code path, producing an RCA from behavioral evidence alone.
Domain knowledge lives in markdown skill files in a plugin marketplace — any developer can contribute fix patterns with no code, no redeployment.

We'll share how we built this from ground up, scaled to 5,000 RCAs/month across 6 languages, the challenges we hit, and how we improved the acceptance rate from 5% to 30%.

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Speakers
avatar for Kriti Dangi

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!

Friday September 11, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 JST
Hall 1F
  MCPCon
  • Audience Level Any
  • Presentation Language English
  • Presentation Slides Attached Yes

12:05 JST

The Model and the Mask: An Actor's Method for Engineering Agent Character - Nick Howden-Steenstra, Independent
Friday September 11, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 JST
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 generating model does Stanislavski table-work (super-objective, through-action, lining) before writing a word; a separate director model audits it blind; and voice is scored by a Laban Movement Analysis classifier that grades the human-written corpus and the machine's output on the same instrument. Brand voice becomes a falsifiable measurement. Case two: the home lab - eleven agents built with a Stanislavski character method, orchestrated over MCP, running my actual work.

You'll leave with the model/mask distinction, a character pipeline you can copy, and the failure modes: drift, voice collapse, paint-by-numbers slop.

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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 12:05 - 12:30 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

13:40 JST

From Clicks To Context: Building an Open-Source Evaluation Pipeline for AI Agents - Inês Bolaños, PagerDuty
Friday September 11, 2026 13:40 - 14:05 JST
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 specialized framework designed to help teams decide, with data, when to hire, train, or fire an AI agent. In this session, I will walk through the H.I.R.E. Framework methodology and share the technical architecture of an evaluation pipeline that turns qualitative conversational data into structured, actionable product insights. I will share the open-source repository containing these metric definitions and templates, providing resources for the community to move past agent-washing and toward building verifiable, trustworthy agentic systems.

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Speakers
avatar for Inês Bolaños

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 is helping... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 13:40 - 14:05 JST
Hall 1F
  Evals & Testing

14:15 JST

What's Missing in the Open Agentic Stack: Lessons From OSS Integration - Tatsuya Sato & Satoshi Ito, Hitachi, Ltd.
Friday September 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:40 JST
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 of how to combine them and what architectural considerations and integration gaps emerge.

This session shares our work on organizing the landscape of OSS-based agentic AI stacks, and on designing architectures built around MCP, A2A, and representative OSS, including prototyping through reference implementations. We explore several architectural patterns from a whole-system perspective. With enterprise use in mind, our scope also covers cross-cutting concerns such as authentication and observability. (LLMs are currently proprietary.)

Through this work, we examine what each OSS layer solves and does not solve, and highlight cross-layer concerns that emerge only when components are integrated as a multi-agent system. We share these observations with a demo of the reference implementation.

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Speakers
avatar for Tatsuya Sato

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 14:15 - 14:40 JST
Hall 1F
  Open Source Tools

14:50 JST

The Conductor Pattern: Multi-Granularity Feedback for Creative Agents - Yusuke Shibui, MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps Community
Friday September 11, 2026 14:50 - 15:15 JST
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 Engineer, Adversarial Critic — turning natural language into a score evaluated across six dimensions, every note carrying provenance.

https://github.com/shibuiwilliam/YouAndOrchestra

Three collaboration patterns from iteration:
1. Three-tier feedback. Users rewrite the YAML spec, regenerate a section, or pin feedback to a bar, beat, and instrument. Choosing the level is itself a UX problem.
2. Conductor loop with a critic gate. Generate, evaluate, adapt, regenerate runs up to three iterations, with critics gating before notes are placed.
3. Provenance as trust substrate. /explain queries an append-only causal graph — "why did the chorus modulate to the relative minor?"

Attendees leave with patterns and open-source code for agent systems where the human stays in the seat of judgment.

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Presentation Language: Japanese

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Speakers
avatar for Yusuke Shibui

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 14:50 - 15:15 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

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
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 security concept. One author. No review process. A library too large for any agent to navigate without a map.

Not a component library talk. A talk about what the workflow was missing when the docs were already done.

I'll walk through the workflow that came out of those sessions: why a component file needs more than one author before agents can trust it; how an index changes what agents can find; and the naming decision that was invisible to humans and catastrophic for agents. Including the moment the team realized the problem wasn't the docs.

You'll leave with one reframe: a component library has always had two users. It now has a third. Here is what the workflow looks like when you build for all three.

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Presentation Language: English

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Speakers
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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

Build Your Own Open-Source Claude Code With Local LLMs - Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Friday September 11, 2026 16:10 - 16:35 JST
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 hosted LLMs, Models as a Service, OpenCode, and AI guardrails. Developers will be able to explore a codebase, generate changes, review explanations, and trigger controlled actions without exposing sensitive data.

We’ll also cover the guardrails needed for real use: secrets protection, data leakage checks, unsafe command blocking, insecure code detection, and policy-based action control.

You’ll leave with a practical blueprint for building a private, secure coding assistant that improves developer productivity without compromising trust, privacy, or compliance.

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Presentation Language: English

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avatar for Daniel Oh

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 Source Tools

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
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 problems.

This session shares how we run multiple harness-based agents in sandboxes, and introduces two open-source tools we built to externalize agent state. mem9 (github.com/mem9-ai/mem9) records sessions through harness hooks and, at the next session, runs hybrid retrieval over past sessions from the user's instruction, injecting only relevant history—persisting sessions while compressing context and cutting token usage. drive9 (github.com/mem9-ai/drive9) is a cloud filesystem FUSE-mounted into each sandbox, persisting artifacts beyond sandbox lifetimes, auto-attaching metadata, and enabling semantic search over outputs.

Attendees will leave with a vendor-neutral, open-source architecture for agent memory and storage that works across any harness, plus lessons from real operation.

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Presentation Language: Japanese

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Speakers
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Tadatoshi

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 Source Tools

17:20 JST

From Logs to Proofs: Cryptographic Compliance for Agentic Payments - Aggre Hiroyuki, Lemma Oracle
Friday September 11, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Most agentic payment systems enforce compliance through post-hoc log monitoring: detection after the fact, not prevention. This talk argues that cryptographic proof can replace compliance theater: an agent generates a zero-knowledge attestation that its intended payment satisfies policy constraints before execution.

We present Trust402, an open-source protocol demonstrating this model in production. Agents produce zero-knowledge proofs that verify spend limits, role permissions, and regulatory constraints. Circuits are proof-system-agnostic, enabling post-quantum upgrades without policy-layer changes.

Concrete takeaways:
  • The wrapFetchWithProof pipeline: ZK proof generation composes into x402. No valid proof, no payment
  • The role-spend-limit circuit: LessEqThan constraints mapping role membership and spend limits to provable gates
  • Verification: ephemeral proofs, on-chain attestation per transaction
  • Trade-offs: proving time vs. trust model, circuit expressiveness vs. policy complexity

Attendees leave understanding where ZK proofs fit in agentic payments, what's production-ready, and where the hard problems remain.

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Presentation Language: English

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Speakers
avatar for Aggre Hiroyuki

Aggre Hiroyuki

CTO, FRAME00, Inc.
CTO at FRAME00, Inc., building "Lemma", a verifiable trust infrastructure for AI agents and payments. Works at the intersection of zero-knowledge proofs (Groth16, Circom), blockchain protocols, and autonomous agent systems. Creator of Trust402, an open-source ZK payment attestation... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 17:20 - 17:45 JST
Hall 1F
  Agentic Commerce
 
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