AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026

AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026

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

08:00 JST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)

09:00 JST

Keynote: Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation Hall C

09:10 JST

Keynote: David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic Hall C

09:20 JST

Keynote: Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io Hall C

09:35 JST

Keynote: Kaz Sato, Staff Developer Advocate, Cloud AI, Google Hall C

09:45 JST

Coffee Break Hall A

10:05 JST

Stateless MCP: Inside the 2026 Transport Spec - Himanshu Sangshetti, Mem0 Hall 1F

10:40 JST

Let AGENTS.md Write Itself: Self-Improving Coding Agents, No RL Required! - Rudraksh Karpe, Simplismart; Satyam Soni, NitroStack Hall C MCP Auth: Am I Doing It Right? - Paul Carleton, Anthropic Hall 1F

11:15 JST

Carbon-Aware Agentic Engineering: Reducing Unnecessary Computation in AI Agent Workflows - Kouki Hama, NTT, Inc Hall C MCP 2026-07-28 Under the Microscope: Security Implications for Stateless Agents - Thejes sree Satheesh kumar, Thoughtworks & Srinivasan Sekar, TestMu AI Hall 1F

11:50 JST

Letting an Agent Upgrade Production Kubernetes — Without Getting Paged at 3 AM - Sanskar Agrawalla & Abhijeet Chaudhuri, Quartic.ai Hall C

12:15 JST

Lunch (Provided Onsite) Hall A

13:30 JST

Designing Trust Boundaries for Agent-to-Agent Systems: Lessons Learned from a Technical PoC - Ryuji Iijima, Softbank Corp. Hall C Do Tools Still Matter? MCP Tool Design in the Age of Code Mode - Ruben Casas, Postman Hall 1F Workshop: Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI Hall B

14:05 JST

The Agent Builder Loop from Daily Work to OSS - Minoru Onda, KDDI Agile Development Center Corporation Hall C MCP-Powered Crash Investigation: How 11 MCP Servers Help an AI Agent Debug Production Issues at Uber - Kriti Dangi, Uber Hall 1F

14:40 JST

What Happens When Your MCP Tools Cost Money? - Prakash Rao, AIG Technologies & Marco González, Red Hat Hall 1F The Production Gap: Why Governing Agent Traffic Is the Key To Shipping Multi-Agent Systems - Juhi Singh, Kong & Prithvi Raj, Mirantis Hall C

15:05 JST

Coffee Break Hall A

15:35 JST

Stop Giving Agents Tokens: Securing With Side-Car Proxies - Girish Motwani, Microsoft & Ritwik Ranjan, Microsoft Hall C Lessons From Building a Generative UI Runtime for MCP Apps - Rabi Guha, Thesys Inc Hall 1F Workshop: Getting Started with Goose & MCP Apps - Abhijay Jain, AAIF Goose Hall B

16:10 JST

Your Platform Is Your Context: Scaling AI Agents With Platform Engineering - Gang Luo & Kristina Kondrashevich, Electrolux Hall C

16:45 JST

Intent as Code: Why Existing Permissions Aren’t Enough for AI - Masaya Nakamura, Studist Hall C Running an MCP Proxy at Scale - Camila Rondinini, Anthropic Hall 1F

17:20 JST

Legacy Meets LLM: Giving Frontier Models a Telephone (PSTN) Over MCP - Shinya Saito, Gen-AX Corp Hall 1F Accelerating the Autonomous Web With WebMCP - Vin Lim, StaffOS Hall C

17:45 JST

Sponsor Showcase Hall A

08:00 JST

Registration & Badge Pick-Ip B1F Foyer (Outside Hall C)

09:00 JST

Keynote: Welcome - Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, The Agentic AI Foundation Hall C

09:10 JST

Keynote Session to be Announced Hall C

09:25 JST

Keynote: Skills Over MCP: From Experiment to Extension - Ola Hungerford, Principal Engineer, Nordstrom Hall C

09:40 JST

Keynote: Manik Surtani, Chief Technology Officer, The Agentic AI Foundation & Paul Conyngham, Founder, Gamgee Hall C

09:45 JST

Coffee Break Hall A

10:05 JST

One Proxy To Rule Them All: MCP, LLM, and A2A - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc. Hall C Skills as Reusable Operational Knowledge - Nimit Savant, DevRev Hall 1F

10:40 JST

How I Built the Most Viral Agentmemory Completely Opensource With 22K+ GitHub Stars - Rohit Ghumare, iii & Vinuja Khatode, JP Morgan Chase Hall C You Have 1000 Employees and None of Them Have a Name - Marcus Tenorio, Bitso Hall 1F

11:15 JST

The 3 AM Page: Turning Chaos Into Context With Bounded AI and Structured Evidence - Madhu Patel & Sudhanshu Sah, Adobe Hall C The Primitive AI Agents Are Missing: Graph-Based Code Intelligence - John Interlante, Aleutian AI Hall 1F

11:50 JST

Your Agent Starts the Checkout. Then What? - Muskan Jain, Independent Hall C The Model and the Mask: An Actor's Method for Engineering Agent Character - Nick Howden-Steenstra, Independent Hall 1F

12:15 JST

Lunch (Provided Onsite) Hall A

13:30 JST

Stateful Sandboxes for Stateless Agents: Designing Durable Volumes for MCP Tool Workspaces - Weiwei Zhu, Juicedata Hall C From Clicks To Context: Building an Open-Source Evaluation Pipeline for AI Agents - Inês Bolaños, PagerDuty Hall 1F

14:05 JST

What's Actually Running in Your Coding Agent: The Shadow AI Stack - Alexander Frazer, Runlayer Hall C What's Missing in the Open Agentic Stack: Lessons From OSS Integration - Tatsuya Sato & Satoshi Ito, Hitachi, Ltd. Hall 1F

14:40 JST

Building an Agentic Software Factory - Valentin De Matos, Delphi Hall C The Conductor Pattern: Multi-Granularity Feedback for Creative Agents - Yusuke Shibui, MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps Community Hall 1F

15:05 JST

Coffee Break Hall A

15:35 JST

Governed Agent Autonomy: Building a Control Plane for Agentic Systems - Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI Hall C Built for Two: What Design Systems Are Missing When AI Agents Become the Third User - Karen Ng, Endor Labs Hall 1F

16:10 JST

Beyond Prototypes: Building Enterprise-scale Agentic Systems - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Dash0 Hall C Build Your Own Open-Source Claude Code With Local LLMs - Daniel Oh, Red Hat Hall 1F

16:45 JST

Why Traditional AI Benchmarks Fail Voice Agents - Harshita Jain, Smallest AI Hall C Externalizing Agent State: Memory and Filesystem Management for Sandboxed Coding Agents - Tadatoshi Sekiguchi, PingCAP Hall 1F

17:20 JST

Your Agent Inherits Code, Not Decisions: How To Use Context Graphs for Intent - Nyah Macklin, Neo4j Hall C