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.

09:00 JST

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

09:05 JST

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

09:10 JST

Keynote: David Soria Parra, Co-creator of MCP, Anthropic Hall C

09:20 JST

Keynote: Every AI Agent Needs a Gateway - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io Hall C

09:35 JST

Keynote: The State and Future of A2A - Kaz Sato, Staff Developer Advocate, Cloud AI, Google Hall C

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 Workshop: Building MCP Authorization with Keycloak and agentgateway - Yoshiyuki Tabata & Michito Okai, Hitachi Hall B

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 Sponsored Session: Same Prompt, Different Agent: Building an Assembly Line for Agents - Kan Wang, Raytone Hall 1F

13:30 JST

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

15:35 JST

Stop Giving Agents Tokens: Securing With Side-Car Proxies - Girish Motwani, Microsoft & Ritwik Ranjan, Independent Contributor Hall C Lessons From Building a Generative UI Runtime for MCP Apps - Rabi Guha, Thesys Inc Hall 1F

16:10 JST

Building an AI for Security Exception Tickets: What Actually Worked - Juan Corena, Woven by Toyota Hall C Tasks at Scale: How MCP's New Task Lifecycle Powers Long-Running Agentic Systems - Abhishek Pandit, NitroStack Hall 1F Workshop: Enterprise Agentic AI: Architecting Autonomous Java Systems for Production - Daniel Oh, Red Hat & Kevin Dubois, IBM Hall B

16:45 JST

Running an MCP Proxy at Scale - Camila Rondinini, Anthropic Hall 1F

17:20 JST

Accelerating the Autonomous Web With WebMCP - Vin Lim, StaffOS Hall C

09:00 JST

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

09:10 JST

Sponsored Keynote: From Consumers to Contributors: Why Japan Must Join the Agentic AI Upstream - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Chief OSS Consultant, Hitachi Hall C

09:25 JST

Sponsored Keynote: Beyond the Model: Control and Execution for Enterprise AI - Allan Teng, Founder & Senior Advisor, APAC & Japan | General Manager & Vice President, Workato Japan, Workato Hall C

09:40 JST

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

10:20 JST

Building Local Regression Testing and Evals for ADK Agents - Thu Ya Kyaw, Google Hall C Skills as Reusable Operational Knowledge - Nimit Savant, DevRev Hall 1F

10:55 JST

Architecture Behind the Most Viral Agent Memory Open Source Project - Rohit Ghumare, DEVREL AS SERVICE & Vinuja Khatode Hall C You Have 1000 Employees and None of Them Have a Name - Marcus Tenorio, Bitso Hall 1F Workshop: From goose to GDK: Building Your Own Agentic Applications - Abhijay Jain, AAIF goose Hall B

11:30 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

12:05 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

13:40 JST

Stateful Sandboxes for Stateless Agents: Designing Durable Volumes for MCP Tool Workspaces - Rui Su, Juicedata Hall C Workshop: Delegated Authorization for AI Agents: Build an Agent with Fine-Grained Permissions - Sohan Maheshwar, AuthZed Hall B

14:15 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

14:50 JST

Building an Agentic Software Factory - Valentin De Matos, Delphi Hall C

15:35 JST

Governed Agent Autonomy: Building a Control Plane for Agentic Systems - Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI Hall C Trace-Based Evaluation of Open-Weight Coding Agents: Measuring Real Agent Behavior - Kota Tsuyuzaki, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. Hall B 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 Workshop: Building Secure & Discoverable Agent Infrastructure with agentgateway & AgentRegistry - Mehmet Hilmi Emel, ACEDEMAND IT Consulting Services Hall B

17:20 JST

From Logs to Proofs: Cryptographic Compliance for Agentic Payments - Aggre Hiroyuki, Lemma Oracle Hall 1F Your Agent Inherits Code, Not Decisions: How To Use Context Graphs for Intent - Nyah Macklin, Neo4j Hall C