9:30am • Keynotes To Be Announced
10:55am • Improving Reliability in MCP Applications Through Tool Design - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage
11:20am • Intelligence Placement Patterns for MCP-Connected Agent Systems - Giri Venkatesan, Solace
11:45am • OWASP MCP Top 10: A Practical Security Guide for MCP Builders - Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe, Big4 Consulting Firm; Dheeraj Choudhary, AWS
12:10pm • From SSE To Streamable HTTP: What Actually Changed in MCP's Transport Layer and Why You Should Care - Animesh Pathak, Harness Inc
2:15pm • Keynotes To Be Announced
3:20pm • Voice-First MCP: Real-Time Tool Calling Through a Spoken Interface - Samyuktha Mohan Alagiri, IBM
3:45pm • Putting MCP on a Diet: A Proxy for Tool Scoping and Context Compression - Prathamesh Saraf, Truefoundry
4:10pm • MCP Schema Evolution: Versioning Tool Contracts Without Breaking Agents - Yogesh Sardana, Admiral Group PLC
5:15pm • MCP Resources Are Already a Knowledge Graph - You Are Just Not Reading the Headers - Kesigan Anbalagan, Comcast
5:40pm • When MCP Meets Reality: Performance, Latency, and the Hidden Cost of AI Orchestration in Enterprises - Partha Sarthy, Applied Materials
6:05pm • When Dashboards Lie: Building MCP Tools That Chase Down the Truth - Hrittik Roy & Saiyam Pathak, vCluster
10:55am • MCP in Production: OAuth, Session Isolation, and Audit Trails for Remote Servers - Rajan Sharma, Ispace INC
11:20am • From Alert To Revert: One MCP 500+ Tools for Production Triage and Real-world DevOps - Avinash Kumar Lodhi, Coursehero
11:45am • Context-Aware MCP Servers for Small Language Models - Vivek Mankar, Anto Ajay Raj John, Stuti Sinha, Reeva Nanda, Nethra Khandige, Pradipta Ghosh, IBM
12:10pm • Designing a Control Plane for Agentic Systems Using MCP - Malepati Bala Siva Sai Akhil, Couchbase
3:20pm • Dead Runbooks, Dangerous Agents, and the Security Model That Saved Us - Koti Vellanki, TransUnion
3:45pm • InstaMCP: Instant MCP-ification of Enterprise APIs - Rupal Sharma & Ujjal Sharma, Nutanix
4:10pm • Cloud-engineer-mcp: Implementing the Gateway Pattern for Multi-Cloud MCP Orchestration - Aniruddha Biyani, Prophecy
5:15pm • MCPeek Into Your Server's Secrets - Akash Sathish, Sahaj Software
5:40pm • MCP Servers on Kubernetes: Deployment Patterns, Scaling, and What Breaks - Kunal Das, Cast Ai
6:05pm • MCP + Kubernetes: Building a Self-Healing AI Platform (Not Just Pipelines) - Raghu Reddy, Calix & Esakki Raj E, Cisco
9:30am • Keynotes To Be Announced
11:00am • From Intent To Production: MCP Gateway Patterns for Regulated Banking - Hariskumar Panakkal, Wipro
11:25am • Building Interactive Tools With MCP Elicitation - Ashwin Hariharan, Redis
11:50am • Running MCP Fully Local: Private, Offline-Capable Agents With Ollama and Open Models - Harish Kotra, Forge Alumnus
12:15pm • One MCP Server, Five Languages, Zero Containers - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
2:15pm • Keynotes To Be Announced
3:20pm • Skills Are Not MCP Servers: When To Use Which (and How To Make Them Work Together) - Animesh Pathak & Jyoti Bisht, Harness Inc
3:45pm • The Invincible MCP Server: Building Crash-Proof AI Tools With Durable Execution - Shubham Londhe, Temporal
4:10pm • Building Rich AI-Native UI for Agentic Interactions Using MCP Apps - Ashita Prasad, AWS
5:15pm • The MCP Has No Clothes: What Most Benchmarks Miss About Real MCP Servers - Arnav Balyan, Concierge AI
5:40pm • Managing Token Usage in MCP Servers Using Code Mode - Bhumika Satpathy, Google
6:05pm • Why Our AI Agent Couldn't Scale Without MCP — and How We Built It - Para Hitesh & Mohit Jichkar, Red Hat
11:00am • "Allowed To" Is Not Enough: Access Control That Understands What Your Agent Is Actually Doing - Tejas Ladhani, Motorola Solutions Inc & Chandrashekar Haleupparahalli, Motorola Solutions
11:25am • SEO for Agents: Designing MCP Endpoints That Let Agents Evaluate Each Other Before Transacting - Manav Agarwal, Dream11
11:50am • Ambient Identity: Just-in-Time Authorization Patterns for the Model Context Protocol - Ayesha Dissanayaka, WSO2
12:15pm • Why Your Database MCP Should Never Talk To Your Database - Gowtham Raj Elangovan, Comcast
3:20pm • Auditing MCP Tool Calls at the Kernel Level: eBPF as a Trust Boundary Enforcer - Harini Anand, IBM
3:45pm • Who Let the Agent In? Securing MCP Servers in Production - Prachi Jamdade, Gravitee
4:10pm • When Agents Get SSH Keys: Securing Distributed AI Fleet With MCP - Mradul Dubey, ApraLabs
5:15pm • Beyond Containers: Sandbox Architecture for MCP Tool Execution at Scale - Vikram Vaswani, Self Employed - Consultant
5:40pm • Multilingual MCP: Making Tool Calling Work for the Next Billion Users - Samyuktha Mohan Alagiri, IBM
6:05pm • Your MCP Server Answers Every Call. Should It? - Atulpriya Sharma, Improving
11:00am • Beyond Tools and Resources: A Deep Dive into MCP Sampling for Agentic Features - Kevin Vaz, Smartbear
11:25am • Closing the Loop on Observability: Using MCP for Continuous Telemetry Optimization - Parthiv Roshan Menon, Smarsh
11:50am • From MCP Discovery To Execution: Building a Governed Marketplace & Gateway for Agentic Systems - Rahul Ganesh Partheeban, Freshworks
12:15pm • Agents Don't Fail, Environments Do: Lessons From Production MCP Deployments in Telecom - Divya Vijay, NetoAI
3:20pm • The Stdio Deadlock Nobody Warned Us About: OS-Level Process Management for MCP - Yuvraj Pradhan, MIT ADT University & Archana Kumari, MIT ADT University
3:45pm • Agentic DX: Bringing Your IDP Into the IDE - Adnan Vahora, Motorola Solutions
4:10pm • Why Agents Make Different Decisions With the Same Tools - Jyoti Bisht & Animesh Pathak, Harness; Aditya Oberai, Appwrite
5:15pm • Where MCP Ends and A2A Begins: and Why That Seam Is Breaking Your Agents - Arushi Garg, Adobe & MV Shiva, Google
5:40pm • Extending MCP: Writing Custom Protocol Extensions Without Breaking Compatibility - Saurabh Mishra, Optum/UnitedHealthGroup
6:05pm • Why We Built a CLI Instead of an MCP Server for Jupyter Notebooks — and What We Learned - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS
