The Linux Foundation | 23 February 2026
New York City event will explore how open standards and shared infrastructure enable secure, scalable AI agents in production
Summary
- The Agentic AI Foundation today announced the conference session lineup for MCP Dev Summit North America, which will be held in New York City on April 2-3, 2026. Keynotes and Day 0 workshops will be announced the last week of February
- The event will spotlight 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 will highlight real-world MCP implementation, best practices and technological innovation.
SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 23, 2026 – 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, taking place April 2-3 in New York City. The program features 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 brings 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 include:
- 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
Developers, architects, and enterprise technology leaders interested in attending can view the full schedule here.
Registration, Scholarships and Sponsorships
Registration for MCP Dev Summit North America is open with an early bird deadline of February 25.
Applications for scholarships are now being accepted. For details on eligibility and how to apply, click here. The Linux Foundation’s Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to participate in these events, that otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend due to funding limitations. Learn more and apply here.
For information on becoming an event sponsor, see here. To request a press pass, contact pr@aaif.org.
MCP Dev Summit North America is made possible by our sponsors, including 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 more. See them all 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, please visit https://aaif.io/.
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