9:30am • Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation
9:40am • Keynote: The Foundation for Agentic AI Interoperability - David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience, Amazon Web Services
9:55am • Keynote: The Missing Middle: The Shared Infrastructure MCP Needs Before It Hits a Million Servers - Hrittik Roy, vCluster
10:05am • Keynote: From UX to MX: Designing Software for Machines - Sam Partee, Founder, CTO, Arcade
10:15am • Keynote: Building Trustworthy Agentic AI on India's Digital Public Infrastructure - Jagadish Babu, EkStep Foundation; Neha Jagadeesh, Eka Care; Arjun Venkatraman, Gates Foundation
11:00am • Improving Reliability in MCP Applications Through Tool Design - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage
11:30am • Intelligence Placement Patterns for MCP-Connected Agent Systems - Giri Venkatesan, Solace
12:00pm • OWASP MCP Top 10: A Practical Security Guide for MCP Builders - Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe, Big4 Consulting Firm; Dheeraj Choudhary, AWS
1:55pm • From SSE To Streamable HTTP: What Actually Changed in MCP's Transport Layer and Why You Should Care - Animesh Pathak, Harness Inc
2:25pm • Voice-First MCP: Real-Time Tool Calling Through a Spoken Interface - Samyuktha Mohan Alagiri, IBM
2:55pm • Putting MCP on a Diet: A Proxy for Tool Scoping and Context Compression - Prathamesh Saraf, Truefoundry
3:25pm • MCP Schema Evolution: Versioning Tool Contracts Without Breaking Agents - Yogesh Sardana, Cloud Engineering Leader & Researcher
4:20pm • MCP Resources Are Already a Knowledge Graph - You Are Just Not Reading the Headers - Kesigan Anbalagan, Comcast
4:50pm • When MCP Meets Reality: Performance, Latency, and the Hidden Cost of AI Orchestration in Enterprises - Partha Sarthy, Applied Materials
5:20pm • Who Let the Agent In? Securing MCP Servers in Production - Prachi Jamdade, Gravitee
11:00am • MCP in Production: OAuth, Session Isolation, and Audit Trails for Remote Servers - Rajan Sharma, Ispace INC
11:30am • From Alert To Revert: One MCP 500+ Tools for Production Triage and Real-world DevOps - Avinash Kumar Lodhi, Coursehero
12:00pm • Context-Aware MCP Servers for Small Language Models - Vivek Mankar, Anto Ajay Raj John, Stuti Sinha, Reeva Nanda, Nethra Khandige, Pradipta Ghosh, IBM
1:55pm • Designing a Control Plane for Agentic Systems Using MCP - Malepati Bala Siva Sai Akhil, Couchbase
2:55pm • InstaMCP: Instant MCP-ification of Enterprise APIs - Rupal Sharma & Ujjal Sharma, Nutanix
3:25pm • Cloud-engineer-mcp: Implementing the Gateway Pattern for Multi-Cloud MCP Orchestration - Aniruddha Biyani, Prophecy
4:20pm • MCPeek Into Your Server's Secrets - Akash Sathish, Sahaj Software
4:50pm • MCP Servers on Kubernetes: Deployment Patterns, Scaling, and What Breaks - Kunal Das, Cast Ai
5:20pm • MCP + Kubernetes: Building a Self-Healing AI Platform (Not Just Pipelines) - Raghu Reddy, Calix & Esakki Raj E, Cisco
10:00am • Keynote: Architecting Internet-Scale Agent Skills with Managed MCP - Prashanth Subrahmanyam, Lead for Google Cloud DevRel in JAPAC, Google
10:00am • Keynote: Welcome Back - Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation
10:15am • Keynote: Extending Goose: Building an AI Teammate for
Open Source - Abhijay Jain, Maintainer, Contributor & Grant Recipient, AAIF Goose
10:25am • Keynote: From Shadow IT To Scale: The MCP Adoption Journey - Shannon Williams, Obot AI
11:00am • From Intent To Production: MCP Gateway Patterns for Regulated Banking - Hariskumar Panakkal, Wipro
11:30am • Beyond Tool Calls: Unlocking Interactive, Token-Smart Agents with MCP Apps - Suraj B, HDFC Bank
12:00pm • Running MCP Fully Local: Private, Offline-Capable Agents With Ollama and Open Models - Harish Kotra, Forge Alumnus
1:55pm • One MCP Server, Five Languages, Zero Containers - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
2:25pm • Skills Are Not MCP Servers: When To Use Which (and How To Make Them Work Together) - Animesh Pathak & Jyoti Bisht, Harness Inc
2:55pm • The Invincible MCP Server: Building Crash-Proof AI Tools With Durable Execution - Shubham Londhe, Temporal
3:25pm • Building Rich AI-Native UI for Agentic Interactions Using MCP Apps - Ashita Prasad, AWS
4:20pm • The MCP Has No Clothes: What Most Benchmarks Miss About Real MCP Servers - Arnav Balyan, Concierge AI
4:50pm • MCP Anti-Patterns: Mistakes Made While Building Agentic Systems for the Enterprise - Abhishek Pandit & Satyam Soni, NitroStack
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
11:30am • SEO for Agents: Designing MCP Endpoints That Let Agents Evaluate Each Other Before Transacting - Manav Agarwal, Dream11
12:00pm • From MCP Discovery To Execution: Building a Governed Marketplace & Gateway for Agentic Systems - Rahul Ganesh Partheeban, Freshworks
1:55pm • Agents Don't Fail, Environments Do: Lessons From Production MCP Deployments in Telecom - Divya Vijay, NetoAI
2:25pm • The Stdio Deadlock Nobody Warned Us About: OS-Level Process Management for MCP - Yuvraj Pradhan, MIT ADT University & Archana Kumari, MIT ADT University
2:55pm • Agentic DX: Bringing Your IDP Into the IDE - Adnan Vahora & Rinkal Mav, Motorola Solutions
3:25pm • Why Agents Make Different Decisions With the Same Tools - Jyoti Bisht & Animesh Pathak, Harness; Aditya Oberai, Appwrite
4:20pm • Multilingual MCP: Making Tool Calling Work for the Next Billion Users - Samyuktha Mohan Alagiri, IBM
4:50pm • Extending MCP: Writing Custom Protocol Extensions Without Breaking Compatibility - Saurabh Mishra, Optum/UnitedHealthGroup
5:20pm • Why We Built a CLI Instead of an MCP Server for Jupyter Notebooks — and What We Learned - Piyush Jain, AWS
11:00am • Beyond Tools and Resources: A Deep Dive into MCP Sampling for Agentic Features - Kevin Vaz, Smartbear
11:30am • Building Interactive Tools With MCP Elicitation - Ashwin Hariharan, Redis
12:00pm • Ambient Identity: Just-in-Time Authorization Patterns for the Model Context Protocol - Ayesha Dissanayaka, WSO2
1:55pm • Why Your Database MCP Should Never Talk To Your Database - Gowtham Raj Elangovan, Comcast
2:25pm • Auditing MCP Tool Calls at the Kernel Level: eBPF as a Trust Boundary Enforcer - Harini Anand, IBM
2:55pm • Sponsored Session: You Built an MCP Server – Now What? The Path from Prototype to Production - Jatin Mehrotra & Varsha Das, AWS
3:25pm • When Agents Get SSH Keys: Securing Distributed AI Fleet With MCP - Mradul Dubey, ApraLabs
4:20pm • Where MCP Ends and A2A Begins: and Why That Seam Is Breaking Your Agents - Arushi Garg, Adobe & MV Shiva, Google
4:50pm • Managing Token Usage in MCP Servers Using Code Mode - Bhumika Satpathy, Google
5:20pm • Why Our AI Agent Couldn't Scale Without MCP — and How We Built It - Para Hitesh & Mohit Jichkar, Red Hat
