Over the past year the MCP project has quickly reshaped how developers are building AI agents, introducing a critical layer of standardization, and a blueprint for how LLMs can interface with applications and tools. The MCP Dev Summit will bring together MCP co-founders and contributors working on the future of MCP project with developers using it to build the next generation of AI agents.
Please be aware that the Linux Foundation will now be utilizing Sessionize for CFP submissions. Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.
- CFP Closes: Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM CEST (UTC +02:00) / Monday, June 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM EDT (UTC -04:00)
- CFP Notifications: Friday, July 10, 2026
- Schedule Announcement: Tuesday, July 14, 2026
- Event Dates: Thursday, September 17 – Friday, September 18, 2026
- Core Agent Systems
- Agent Foundations, Architectures, and Design Patterns
- Memory, Knowledge, State and Context Management
- Reasoning, Planning, and Decision Systems
- Multi-Agent Systems and Coordination
- MCP & Agent Protocols
- MCP Server Design Patterns and Best Practices
- MCP Transport Layers: Stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP
- Building and Distributing MCP Servers at Scale
- MCP Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth Flows
- Remote MCP: Hosting, Discovery, and Lifecycle Management
- Agent-to-Agent Protocols: A2A, ACP, and Emerging Standards
- Infrastructure
- Running Agents Locally and at the Edge
- Developer Tools, Platforms, and Agent Engineering
- Agent Orchestration Frameworks and Runtimes
- Scaling Agent Infrastructure
- Model Routing and Gateway Architectures for Agents
- Agentic Sandboxing
- Operationalizing Agentic AI (AgenticOps)
- Agents in Production: Lessons
- Industry and Enterprise Applications: Best Practices
- Agent and Capability Discovery
- Cost Management and Token Economics
- Failure Recovery, Retries, and Graceful Degradation
- Quality and Operations
- Accuracy, Reliability, and Robustness
- Evals, Benchmarks, and Testing
- Observability and Traceability
- Debugging Multi-Step Agent Traces
- Regression Testing for Non-Deterministic Agent Behavior
- Identity, Trust and Governance
- Identity, Authorization, and Agent Credentials
- Trust and Credibility Systems
- Consent and Approval, Data Protection and Rights
- Governance, Risk, and Regulatory Alignment
- Security and Privacy
- Agentic Threat Modeling and Mitigation Strategies
- Privacy Management
- Supply Chain Security for MCP Servers and Agent Tooling
- New surface area attacks
- Agentic Economy and Human Experience
- Human-Agent Collaboration and Oversight
- User Experience and Trust Signals
- Agentic Commerce, Marketplaces and Ecosystems
- The Agentic Future Directions
- Future Architectures: Filling the Gaps
- Autonomous Agent Societies and Emergent Behavior
- Agentic Engineering
- Unique Agentic Harnesses
- Context Engineering: repo setup, instruction files, memory, workflows that make agents reliable
- Tools + interoperability: MCP, tool interfaces, auth/permissions, making agents composable
- Orchestration: long-running tasks, parallel agents, state, retries, handoffs
- AI-native CI/CD: PR review, test generation, policy enforcement, maintainers’ workflows
- Shipping workflows: “vibe to production” stories that actually shipped
- Unique Uses of File Structures
- Voice Agents
- Agentic voice loops: real-time perception → reasoning → action → speech (interruptible, streaming-first)
- Voice-driven tool use via MCP (agents invoking tools through spoken interaction)
- Stateful, multi-turn voice agents (memory, context, and long-running tasks over speech)
- Orchestration of voice agents (handoffs, parallel agents, human-in-the-loop via voice)
- Trust, safety, and evaluation for agentic voice systems (identity, spoofing, observability, outcomes)
- Team + Management
- Team structures, ownership and in a land of agents
- Empowering engineers
- Managing tool and skill sprawl (when code is free)
- Code review process
- Agentic education within organizations
- Session Presentation (25 minutes in length)
- Panel Session Presentation (25 minutes in length)
- Workshop (60 minutes in length)
- All speakers are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.
- Panels (any talk with more than two speakers) must include the names of all participants in the initial submission to be considered. In addition, The Linux Foundation does not accept submissions with all-male panels in an effort to increase speaker diversity.
- Complimentary Passes For Speakers – One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for the accepted speaker(s) per submission.
- Avoid sales or marketing pitches and discussing unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies when preparing your proposal; these talks are almost always rejected due to the fact that they take away from the integrity of our events, and are rarely well-received by conference attendees.
- Reviewers must be able to confidently assess a speaker’s subject-matter expertise from the proposal. Submissions that rely heavily on AI generated or templated content often lack the specificity needed to evaluate technical depth and may be harder to advance. Please ensure your proposal clearly reflects your own experience and understanding of the topic you intend to present.
- All accepted speakers are required to submit their slides prior to the event.
preparing to submit your proposal
While it is not our intention to provide you with strict instructions on how to prepare your proposal, we hope you will take a moment to review the following guidelines that we have put together to help you prepare the best submission possible. To get started, here are three things that you should consider before submitting your proposal:
- What are you hoping to get from your presentation?
- What do you expect the audience to gain from your presentation?
- How will your presentation help better the ecosystem?
There are plenty of ways to give a presentation about projects and technologies without focusing on company-specific efforts. Remember the things to consider that we mentioned above when writing your proposal and think of ways to make it interesting for attendees while still letting you share your experiences, educate the community about an issue, or generate interest in a project.
First Time Submitting? Don’t Feel Intimidated
Linux Foundation events are an excellent way to get to know the community and share your ideas and the work that you are doing and we strongly encourage first-time speakers to submit talks for our events. In the instance that you aren’t sure about your abstract, reach out to us and we will be more than happy to work with you on your proposal.
First time using Sessionize?
Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.
Submitting on behalf of somebody else?
While speakers ordinarily submit their sessions themselves, it’s also common for them to have someone else do it in their name. Submitters can choose to submit as someone else and must fill out the necessary speaker fields, but the session submission process is otherwise identical to when the session is submitted by the speaker themselves.
The Linux Foundation is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review our complete Code of Conduct.
