MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 — Conference Links
A curated collection of links and resources referenced during the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026.
Official Conference Links
- MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 — Official event page hosted by the Linux Foundation
- Agentic AI Foundation — The foundation governing MCP and related projects
Protocol & Standards
- MCP Specification — The official Model Context Protocol specification
- RFC 9728 — OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata — IETF standard for OAuth 2.0 protected resource metadata, referenced in MCP auth discussions
- MCP GitHub Organization — Official GitHub repositories for MCP SDKs and tooling
Open Source Projects
- Duolingo Slack AI Agents — Duolingo's open-source AI Slackbot framework, connecting 180+ MCP tools to Slack
- Sam Morrow's MCP Security Workshop — Security workshop materials for MCP server hardening and vulnerability research
Enterprise Resources
- Workato Seven Factors for Agent Control Plane — White paper on building deterministic control planes for AI agents, covering governance, mutations, access control, retries, errors, and observability
Speaker Companies
- Anthropic — Creator of MCP and Claude. David Soria Parra presented on MCP growth and protocol roadmap.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) — James Hood shared Amazon's internal MCP registry, agent configurations, and the "lethal trifecta" security concept.
- Uber — Meghana Somasundara and Rush Tehrani presented Uber's MCP gateway, registry, and agent platform serving 5,000+ engineers.
- Duolingo — Aaron Wang demonstrated Duolingo's AI Slackbot with 180+ MCP tools and 30+ internal servers.
- Obot — Sheng Liang (formerly Rancher Labs) presented on gateway + registry patterns and enterprise security layers.
- Workato — Adam Seligman and Zayne Turner introduced the Agent Control Plane and Seven Factors framework.
- Datadog — Diamond Bishop shared lessons from deploying 100+ agents, including Bits AI SRE, Dev, and Security Analyst.
- Apify — Jan Čurn presented MCPC (MCP CLI Client) and progressive discovery for context window optimization.
- Gluu — Mike Schwartz presented enterprise identity federation patterns and the "Golem to Murderbot" governance framework.
- Docker — Cecilia Liu presented on MCP Gateway development and production deployment patterns.
- Nordstrom — Ola Hungerford shared AI Enablement team integration with natural language interfaces.
- WorkOS — Ryan Cook discussed MCP community events and engineering leadership.
- OpenAI — Nick Cooper discussed OpenAI's involvement with the Agentic AI Foundation.
- PwC — Jacob Wilson presented on business-driven generative AI and skills orchestration.
Conference: April 1-3, 2026 | New York City