Featured Speakers

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the ​Agentic AI Foundation

An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her extensive knowledge with software companies and conference audiences worldwide.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is recognized for her innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, which has led to 27 patented inventions in virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet initiatives, and software development processes.

Clare Liguori is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS, focusing on developer tooling and agentic AI. She primarily works on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK. She is also a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification. Over 12+ years at Amazon, she has worked on AWS Proton, Amazon ECS, the AWS Code Suite, and open source projects including AWS CDK, Spinnaker, and Backstage. Before Amazon, she was a software engineer at Motorola Solutions in the WiFi space. She holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

I am the co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (Modelcontextprotocol.io) and a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on a wide variety of things. Formerly a senior manager at Facebook working on static analysis and simulation based testing. I was responsible of integrating acquisitions like Oculus into facebooks developer tooling and have spent the last 20 years in and around dev tools. Moving fluently between engineering and management. Currently back being an individual contributor.

Dex is CEO and co-founder at HumanLayer, building an agentic IDE and collaboration platform that helps teams solve hard problems in complex codebases without devolving into slop. Dex coined the term context engineering in April 2025, has keynoted two AI Engineer conferences, and his practical, no-hype talks on agentic coding have over 1 million views on YouTube. Dex built lunar exploration tooling for NASA researchers in high school, and spent 10+ years in the Kubernetes/Infra space before getting into AI.

I work on agentic web platform APIs in Chrome!

Fred is a passionate opinionated builder. He’s been in the infrastructure space, and in particular in serverless technologies.

He built Lift and Revant to help people ship infrastructure and reduce their newly generated cost…

He’s now building with Alpic the missing infrastructure layer for the new agentic internet where AI consume services instead of human. He’s working full time on Skybridge, a new open-source framework to build ChatGPT and MCP Apps.

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of Solo.io, a company that creates open-source tools to assist enterprises in adopting and extending innovative cloud-native technologies while modernizing their existing IT investments. Solo.io is a top contributor to CNCF projects such as Envoy Proxy, Istio Service Mesh, and Cilium CNI. Their portfolio of open-source products includes Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based gateway, and Gloo Mesh, an Istio distribution for service mesh.

Keith Babo is the Chief Product Officer at Solo.io, where he leads product strategy and execution, enabling enterprises to build and scale the next generation of cloud-native and agentic infrastructure for AI-driven applications. Prior to Solo.io, Keith held leadership roles in product management and engineering at Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and Intel Corporation.

Marlene is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and GitHub focusing on Python and AI. She is a computer scientist, keynote speaker and explorer. Marlene is the current co-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) practitioner board, was the previous vice chair of the Python Software Foundation and led the first PyCon Africa.

Maarten Grootendorst is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google DeepMind. He holds master’s degrees in organizational psychology, clinical psychology, and data science, which he leverages to communicate complex machine learning concepts to a wide audience. With his popular blogs, he has reached millions of readers by explaining the fundamentals of artificial intelligence—often from a psychological point of view. He is the author and maintainer of several open source packages that rely on the strength of large language models, such as BERTopic, PolyFuzz, and KeyBERT. His packages are downloaded millions of times and used by data professionals and organizations worldwide. Maarten is the co-author of the bestselling “Hands-On Large Language Models” book.

Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. An IEEE Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Wharton MBA, Mazin brings 25+ years of experience driving AI innovation from research to global-scale deployment. His career spans senior leadership at Google as Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML, and at AT&T as VP of Network Analytics and Automation.

RL Nabors has spent over a decade making hard technology approachable, from building award-winning dev portals, standards, and education on teams like React and MDN to pushing the web forward working with browsers. Today, they’re building Mima.social, a user-first app that makes the social web safe, private, and fun again.

Shaun works on Open Source Agents and MCP at Hugging Face, and is an MCP Maintainer and Community Moderator. He is also the author of `fast-agent` – a coding agent, toolbox and reference platform for MCP and one of the few clients with comprehensive protocol support and diagnostic capabilities.

Sheng Liang is cofounder and CEO of Obot.ai. Previously, Sheng founded and served as CEO of successful open source software companies, including Rancher Labs and Cloud.com, and served in executive roles at SUSE and Citrix. He started as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the Java Virtual Machine. Sheng has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.