MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru 2026: Full Schedule

June 9-10, 2026
Bengaluru, India
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9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:30am - 9:40am IST

Convention Hall

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation

An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her extensive knowledge with software companies and conference audiences worldwide.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is recognized for her innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, which has led to 27 patented inventions in virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet initiatives, and software development processes... Read More →

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Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:30am - 9:40am IST
Convention Hall

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
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9:40am IST

Keynote: The Foundation for Agentic AI Interoperability - David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience, Amazon Web Services

Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:40am - 9:50am IST

Convention Hall

Speakers

David Nalley

Director, Developer Experience, AWS

David Nalley is Director of Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he leads efforts to improve how developers interact with AWS services and technologies. He brings over two decades of experience in technology to his role.
Nalley previously served as President of... Read More →

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Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:40am - 9:50am IST
Convention Hall

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
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9:55am IST

Keynote: The Missing Middle: The Shared Infrastructure MCP Needs Before It Hits a Million Servers - Hrittik Roy, vCluster

Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:55am - 10:05am IST

Convention Hall

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.

Speakers

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →

Hrittik Roy pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 9:55am - 10:05am IST
Convention Hall

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

10:05am IST

Keynote: From UX to MX: Designing Software for Machines - Sam Partee, Founder, CTO, Arcade

Tuesday June 9, 2026 10:05am - 10:15am IST

Convention Hall

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.

Speakers

Sam Partee

Chief Tochnology Officer, Arcade

Tuesday June 9, 2026 10:05am - 10:15am IST
Convention Hall

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

10:15am IST

Keynote: Building Trustworthy Agentic AI on India's Digital Public Infrastructure - Jagadish Babu, EkStep Foundation; Neha Jagadeesh, Eka Care; Arjun Venkatraman, Gates Foundation

Tuesday June 9, 2026 10:15am - 10:30am IST

Convention Hall

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.

Speakers

Jagadish Babu

Chief Operating Officer, EkStep Foundation

Jagadish has helped shape India’s education DPI including DIKSHA. He currently focuses on using AI and generative tools in constrained settings to improve learning and livelihoods. Jagadish leads AXL and contributes to OpenAgriNet/Vistaar.

Neha Jagadeesh

Lead, AI Engineering, Eka Care

Neha Jagadeesh is a founding team member at Eka Care, where she leads AI Engineering. With 13+ years of experience building software, she's a developer at heart, currently building agentic pipelines and LLM systems that turn frontier AI research into products people love to use. She... Read More →

Arjun Venkatraman

Senior Officer, Artificial Intelligence, Gates Foundation

Arjun's work at the Foundation is focused on shaping and scaling the use of artificial intelligence for social good, with a keen focus on enabling inclusion and expanding adoption in public sector service delivery and equitable digital transformation. His work is grounded in over... Read More →

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Tuesday June 9, 2026 10:15am - 10:30am IST
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Keynote Sessions

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11:00am IST

Improving Reliability in MCP Applications Through Tool Design - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage

Tuesday June 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:25am IST

Convention Hall

Modern MCP applications depend on tools to extend model capabilities, yet tool interface design is a primary source of unreliability. Ambiguous descriptions, poorly structured schemas, and inconsistent outputs often lead to incorrect tool selection, invalid inputs, and unpredictable system behavior.

This session introduces a practical framework for designing reliable MCP tools. We begin with a concise mental model of how language models interpret tool interfaces, followed by real-world failure scenarios that expose common design pitfalls. Building on this, we present design principles for clear naming, well-defined schemas, and structured outputs, along with patterns for creating predictable and composable tools.

The session concludes with a practical checklist and actionable guidelines that attendees can immediately apply to improve reliability, reduce debugging complexity, and build robust MCP applications in production environments.

Speakers

Yashasvi Misra

Software Engineer, Everpure

Yashasvi Misra is a Software Engineer at Pure Storage and Chair of the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Working Group. She has contributed to foundational projects like NumPy & Kubernetes and has been an active part of the Python community since her college days. Yashasvi is also a passionate... Read More →

Tuesday June 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:25am IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:30am IST

Intelligence Placement Patterns for MCP-Connected Agent Systems - Giri Venkatesan, Solace

Tuesday June 9, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am IST

Convention Hall

MCP standardizes how tools are described and invoked, but not what they should return. That leaves a critical decision open: whether an MCP tool returns raw data, shared state, or decisions. That choice determines where intelligence lives.

This talk presents three placement patterns in MCP tool design. Centralized Intelligence treats tools as data sources, returning raw inputs agents must interpret. Streaming Intelligence exposes pre-processed state so agents operate on shared context. Edge Intelligence pushes decisions into tools, with MCP delivering opinionated outputs rather than raw inputs.

These patterns produce fundamentally different behavior across tool call volume, context window usage, latency, and failure modes. In multi-agent systems they determine whether agents converge or diverge: raw data per agent leads to inconsistent reconstruction; shared state or decisions make coherence a property of the architecture itself.

This talk introduces a practical decision framework for MCP tool design based on data volatility, agent reuse, and consistency requirements.

MCP is a tool contract. Intelligence placement is the architectural decision it doesn't make for you.

Speakers

Giri Venkatesan

Principal Developer Advocate, Solace

Giri Venkatesan is a Developer Advocate and Architect at Solace, focused on agentic AI, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration. With decades of experience, he helps organizations design autonomous AI agents that reason and act across distributed systems, using events... Read More →

Tuesday June 9, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

12:00pm IST

OWASP MCP Top 10: A Practical Security Guide for MCP Builders - Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe, Big4 Consulting Firm; Dheeraj Choudhary, AWS

Tuesday June 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST

Convention Hall

MCP adoption has outpaced security. An audit of 17 popular MCP servers found an average security score of 34 out of 100. Tool poisoning attacks succeed at 84.2% with auto-approval enabled. Over 30 CVEs have been filed against MCP implementations in the past 60 days. The first confirmed malicious MCP server, postmark-mcp, silently BCC'd every outgoing email to an attacker-controlled address for weeks before detection.

OWASP responded with the MCP Top 10, a structured threat taxonomy purpose-built for the protocol. This talk is a practitioner's walkthrough of all ten risks, not a slide-read, but a builder's guide to what each risk looks like in a real MCP deployment, how it gets exploited, and what a concrete fix looks like in code.

We cover token mismanagement and secret exposure, prompt injection via tool responses, tool poisoning through malicious descriptions, excessive permissions, insecure output handling, context over-sharing, missing authentication, rug-pull attacks, shadow MCP servers, and the audit trail gap.

Leave with a pre-deployment security checklist you can run against any MCP server before connecting it to production.

Speakers

Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe

Cloud Security Consultant, '-

Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe is a DevSecOps Engineer and cloud security practitioner. He speaks at community and security events on practical DevSecOps and Kubernetes security topics. He volunteers with AWS User Group Pune and contributes to the cloud-native community through talks, workshops... Read More →

Dheeraj Choudhary

Cloud, Devops & AI Consultant, DC Edusphere Solutions

Tuesday June 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:55pm IST

From SSE To Streamable HTTP: What Actually Changed in MCP's Transport Layer and Why You Should Care - Animesh Pathak, Harness Inc

Tuesday June 9, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST

Convention Hall

When I started building MCP-powered agents and Claude Skills at Harness, I kept running into weird transport issues, connections dropping behind load balancers, SSE endpoints behaving differently across clients, tutorials that contradicted the actual spec. Turns out, MCP's transport layer had quietly gone through a major overhaul and most of the content out there hadn't caught up.

In this talk, I'll walk through MCP's transport journey, stdio for local tooling, the dual-endpoint SSE model that powered early remote servers, and the Streamable HTTP design that replaced it in the March 2025 spec update. More importantly, I'll explain why each shift happened: the scaling headaches SSE caused, the connection recovery gap, and the auth/CORS simplifications that Streamable HTTP unlocked.

I'll share code from actual migrations I've worked through, what breaks when you switch, what gets simpler, and the backward-compatibility gotchas that the docs don't warn you about. If you're building or maintaining MCP servers today, this should save you a few weekends of debugging.

Speakers

Animesh Pathak

DevRel Engineer, Harness

SSE to Streamable HTTP pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST
Convention Hall

MCP Protocol in Depth

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

2:25pm IST

Voice-First MCP: Real-Time Tool Calling Through a Spoken Interface - Samyuktha Mohan Alagiri, IBM

Tuesday June 9, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm IST

Convention Hall

Every MCP demo assumes text in and text out. This talk explores what actually happens when you replace the text interface with a live voice stream.
Connecting a real-time voice pipeline to an MCP-backed agent introduces problems that the current MCP ecosystem has no established answers for. This talk walks through them one by one: end-of-turn detection and how tool-calling latency affects perceived conversational fluency, interruption handling when a user speaks while a tool is executing, tool result verbalization where structured JSON responses need to be narrated naturally without losing meaning, and error communication when a tool fails mid-conversation.
The talk is grounded in a working system built with a real-time voice layer, Sarvam AI for speech processing, and MCP-connected agents handling live tool calls. Attendees will see a live demo and leave with an architectural blueprint for voice-first MCP agents, including the specific latency budgets, buffering strategies, and verbalization patterns that make the experience feel natural rather than robotic.
This is a frontier that very few builders have shipped in production.

Speakers

Samyuktha M S

Software Developer, IBM

Samyuktha is a Software Developer at IBM India Software Labs who loves building things that actually work in production, from voice agents and multilingual multi-agent pipelines to self-healing infrastructure using MCP, LangGraph, Claude, and Qdrant. A 13x hackathon winner including... Read More →

Voice First MCP Real Time Tool Calling Through a Spoken Interface pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

2:55pm IST

Putting MCP on a Diet: A Proxy for Tool Scoping and Context Compression - Prathamesh Saraf, Truefoundry

Tuesday June 9, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm IST

Convention Hall

Connect three MCP servers and 55,000 tokens are consumed before the agent reads the user's query. Perplexity's CTO called this out at Ask 2026. Cloudflare measured 244,000 tokens for their API surface. The protocol isn't the problem. The "load everything upfront" pattern is.

FastMCP Code Mode solves this server-side, but requires the server author to opt in. Most MCP servers in the wild will never add it.

I'm currently building mcp-guardian, an open-source Python proxy that addresses this for any server, unmodified. It will do two things:

1. Tool scoping: filter tools/list against a YAML config so agents only see allowed tools. delete_repo won't exist in the agent's world.

2. Progressive disclosure: expose three meta-tools (search_tools, get_schema, execute_tool) instead of full schemas. Agents will start at ~300 tokens instead of ~8,000 and load schemas on demand.

I'll live-demo: direct connection (14 tools, ~8,000 tokens) vs through the proxy (3 meta-tools, ~300 tokens). I'll walk through the JSON-RPC interception, share token benchmarks, and compare with Code Mode. They're complementary, not competing.

The project will be open source.

Speakers

Prathamesh Saraf

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer, Truefoundry

I'm a senior forward-deployed engineer specializing in GenAI: voice agents, agentic workflows, RAG, and the infrastructure underneath. I ship in customer environments, with customer teams, against customer constraints, and I stay through the part where systems have to actually keep... Read More →

presentation pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

3:25pm IST

MCP Schema Evolution: Versioning Tool Contracts Without Breaking Agents - Yogesh Sardana, Cloud Engineering Leader & Researcher

Tuesday June 9, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm IST

Convention Hall

This is just not about a single organisation but for every organisation, tool schemas in MCP evolve as platforms change parameters get renamed, new required fields are added, response shapes shift. Agents built against an older schema break silently, produce incorrect results, or enter undefined behavior, and there is no established SemVer discipline for MCP tools today. This session proposes a practical versioning specification for MCP tool definitions covering additive-only change policies, explicit deprecation signals embedded in tool metadata, capability negotiation via request headers, and client-side schema compatibility layers. The session demonstrates these patterns with a real Kubernetes tool server that ships v1 and v2 tool definitions side by side, with running agents targeting each version independently, and a live migration showing how a breaking change is introduced and absorbed without downtime.

Speakers

Yogesh Sardana

Cloud Leader, Independent

I'm working as a Cloud Leader, part of R&D wing, known as Jack of all trades but master of Cloud. Been into various tech stacks before of SDLC like Full Stack App Dev, Testing, Data Analytics, having fun with tech.

mcp schema evolution bengaluru 2026 pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 3:25pm - 3:50pm IST
Convention Hall

MCP Protocol in Depth

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

4:20pm IST

MCP Resources Are Already a Knowledge Graph - You Are Just Not Reading the Headers - Kesigan Anbalagan, Comcast

Tuesday June 9, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm IST

Convention Hall

Most retrieval systems ignore the structure MCP Resources already provide unique URIs, typed links, version metadata, timestamps and flatten everything into vector chunks. GraphRAG proved retrieval needs relational structure; MCP already has it natively.
This talk demonstrates with a live adversarial demo: a vanilla RAG agent and a Resource-graph agent answer the same questions against the same corpus. RAG works on single-hop queries. It confidently returns stale data when a superseded document exists. The graph agent catches the version conflict using last-modified metadata that was already there. When the graph has a broken link, it reports the dead end instead of hallucinating.
A hop-count benchmark across seven questions (1–5 hops) makes the gap measurable: at three hops, RAG hit rate dropped to 50% while graph traversal held at 100%.
The primary deliverable is a draft cross-reference metadata convention four optional fields (superseded_by, depends_on, implements, compliance_scope) that any MCP Resource provider can add without breaking existing consumers. The goal: make knowledge as navigable for AI agents as hypertext made the web for people.

Speakers

Kesigan Anbalagan

Principal Engineer, Comcast India Engineering Center LPP

I am Kesigan Anbalagan technology leader and AI enthusiast with extensive experience in cloud-native solutions, developer experience platforms, and enterprise AI integration. As part of the Central DevX team at Comcast, he focuses on embedding AI across the software development lifecycle... Read More →

MCP Resources KnowledgeGraph pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm IST
Convention Hall

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

4:50pm IST

When MCP Meets Reality: Performance, Latency, and the Hidden Cost of AI Orchestration in Enterprises - Partha Sarthy, Applied Materials

Tuesday June 9, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm IST

Convention Hall

MCP enables powerful AI-driven workflows — but production enterprise systems have SLAs, throughput contracts, and years of performance tuning. Wiring a reasoning loop into that environment reveals costs that don't show up in demos: latency amplification from sequential tool invocations, data movement overhead across system boundaries, schema drift, and observability gaps that span model reasoning and distributed backends.

This talk takes a systems-engineering lens to MCP in enterprise-scale data platforms. We formalize the MCP execution pipeline, identify where overhead accumulates, and present architectural patterns that contain the cost — including isolating orchestration from hot paths, fronting high-performance backends with thin MCP adapters over gRPC, and tracing multi-step workflows end to end.

The central argument: MCP belongs on the control plane, not the data plane. Enforce that boundary, and you gain adaptive orchestration without sacrificing reliability. Cross it, and predictability erodes fast. Attendees leave with a latency model, a failure-mode taxonomy, and a practical framework for deploying MCP in production — deliberately, not by accident.

Speakers

Partha Sarthy

Software Engineer, Applied Materials

I am a Software Engineer at Applied Materials working in the HPC and AI domain. I have a cumulative experience of close to 8.5 years and have served in companies like HPE, Juniper and Cisco. I am also an active member of IEEE and have presented in Conferences relating to Solid State... Read More →

Partha When MCP Meets Reality pdf

Tuesday June 9, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm IST
Convention Hall

Enterprise Adoption + Integration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Yes

5:20pm IST

Who Let the Agent In? Securing MCP Servers in Production - Prachi Jamdade, Gravitee

Tuesday June 9, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm IST

Convention Hall

What if your MCP server could confidently decide who gets access to what, without turning your codebase into a security nightmare? In this session, we follow the journey of a simple MCP server as it evolves from an open endpoint into a fully secured, production-ready system. Along the way, you’ll see how authentication actually works in MCP, how to move beyond basic role checks into fine-grained, contextual authorization with OpenFGA, and how these pieces fit together in real-world scenarios. The highlight is a live demo where we lock down an MCP server step by step, making the invisible layers of security visible and practical. By the end, you won’t just understand MCP security, you’ll know exactly how to implement it or even offload it entirely so you can focus on building powerful agent-driven experiences.

Speakers

Prachi Jamdade

Developer Advocate, Gravitee

Prachi Jamdade is a Developer Advocate at Gravitee, working at the intersection of developer experience, APIs, AI governance and security. She has worked with multiple startups and shipped global products.

Tuesday June 9, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm IST
Convention Hall

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