By: Dr. Adal Munier Editor @ Large for World Liberty TV

The event spotlighted the role of open standards and interoperability in enabling secure, scalable agentic AI systems, and how shared infrastructure like MCP is helping agents connect, coordinate and operate across tools, models, and platforms.

Speakers from industry leaders like Anthropic, Datadog, Hugging Face and Microsoft highlighted real-world MCP implementation, best practices and technological innovation.

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the open foundation driving the transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI, today announced the conference session lineup for MCP Dev Summit North America 2026.

Which  Took place April 2-3 in New York City. The program featured more than 95 sessions from MCP co-founders, maintainers, contributors, and organizations deploying MCP in production, offering a detailed look at how open standards are shaping the next generation of AI agents.

“AI agents are quickly moving from demos to deployed systems, and that shift demands shared infrastructure,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

“The companies that compete on AI models are collaborating inside the Agentic AI Foundation to build the plumbing that makes agents work together. MCP Dev Summit North America is where that work happens in the open.”

MCP Dev Summit North America bought together the engineers, architects and platform teams building on MCP and related open agent technologies.

The agenda spans protocol evolution, conformance testing, security research, real-world deployment lessons, and scalable agent system design, grounded in production.

Session highlights included: Mental Reset: How To Rethink Your User Flow in the Age of MCP & ChatGPT Apps – Erica Beavers, Alpic, One Spec, Ten SDKs, Zero Excuses: Conformance Testing MCP – Paul Carleton, Anthropic.

When MCP Isn’t Enough: Product Decisions Behind Scalable Agent Systems – Cansu Berkem, Datadog,

MCP at 18 Months: Protocols, Patterns, and What We Didn’t See Coming – Shaun Smith, Hugging Face

Mix-Up Attacks in MCP: Multi-Issuer Confusion and Mitigations – Emily Lauber, Microsoft.

Close to 1200 people were in attendance from all over the World, making MCP Dev Summit North America-2026, largest attendance of all time.

There were high level networking events during breaks, offline VIP Events, Dinner parties and receptions. We had the pleasure of attending The Lucky Strikes Closing party, plenty of food, games and if you are a bowling fan then this event was for you.

Some of the Sponsors included: Diamond sponsors: AWS, Docker, Obot, Workato, and WorkOS; Platinum sponsors: Google Cloud, Manufact, Prefect, and Runlayer; Gold sponsors: Apollo, BlueRock, Chainguard, Descope, Elastic, IBM, Kong, Neo4j, OpenSearch, Orkes, Solo.io, Sonar, and Tailscale, and many more.

 

MCP Dev Summit North America:  Is the premier gathering for builders, contributors, and organizations advancing AI development with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This year’s summit brings together MCP co-founders, contributors, and developers to explore the latest innovations, share best practices, and showcase the next generation of AI agents built on MCP.

MCP has quickly become a transformative framework for developers, providing a standardized approach and blueprint for connecting LLMs with applications and tools. The MCP Dev Summit offers an immersive experience with deep technical sessions on scaling MCP, secure orchestration, observability, and enterprise integration, designed to empower the community building the future of AI agents.

 About The Linux Foundation: The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, Zephyr, and more.

The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, click here.

About the Agentic AI Foundation: The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the open foundation for the rapidly expanding ecosystem of agentic AI technologies that enable autonomous, interoperable AI systems.

With founding projects including MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md, AAIF governs the core standards and protocols that enable agents to operate interoperably across platforms.

Through transparent governance and broad industry participation, AAIF is driving adoption and ensuring agentic AI infrastructure evolves openly, predictably, and at production scale. For more information, Click here.

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