MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru 2026

MCP reached infrastructure currency in 13 weeks. CNCF took 13 months. That compression is the problem. The shared plumbing every production MCP deployment now reinvents, because no neutral open implementation exists yet, has to be built in months instead of years.

This talk maps five missing layers of the MCP ecosystem and what each needs before the protocol scales two more orders of magnitude.

1. Discovery federation. One registry lookup does not survive public, private, and vendor registries coexisting.
2. Workload identity for servers. Not user OAuth. Who is this server, who signed it, what is it allowed to do?
3. Observability backbone. OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for MCP are still draft, so every gateway ships its own trace format.
4. Health and reputation signals. When seventeen servers are named github-mcp, which one should an agent trust?
5. Metering and cost attribution. Boring, load bearing, absent from the spec.

For each layer: what exists today, where it breaks at scale, what a minimum viable open implementation needs. Attendees leave with a concrete map of which gaps are urgent, which are deferrable, and which are already being filled.

For fifty years, software has been built around one consumer: the human user. Every API pattern, every UX principle, every interaction model has assumed a person on the other end. In the last eighteen months, that assumption broke.

The consumer of software is increasingly not a person — it's a language model, reasoning about systems on our behalf. The Model Context Protocol is the first widely adopted standard for this new world, but MCP is just the skeleton. The real work — designing for the machine experience — is a discipline we are inventing in real time.

In this opening keynote, Sam Partee (CTO and Co-Founder of Arcade.dev) frames where we are, what's at stake, and why the builders in this room have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define how software will be designed, secured, and consumed for the next decade.

What does it take to build agentic AI systems that are scalable, affordable, and trustworthy for India? This keynote explores the emerging AI stack powering next-generation healthcare and public service workflows from frontier and small models to interoperable MCP architectures and DPI integration.

Speakers from the Gates Foundation, Eka Care, and EkStep Foundation discuss the technical and governance choices that will shape AI deployment across India and other emerging markets.