Speaker Guide

We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe which will take place Thursday, 17 September – Friday, 18 September 2026, at the RAI Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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• Schedule Announced: Thursday, 23 July
• Speaker Registration Deadline: Thursday, 6 August
• Additional AV Needs Deadline: Monday, 17 August
• Slide Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 16 September
• Event Dates: Thursday, 17 September – Friday, 18 September

To confirm you will be presenting, please register as a speaker by Thursday, 6 August July using the details you received in your notification email. If you are not registered by Thursday, 6 August, there is a possibility that your speaking slot will be replaced by one on our waiting list, so please do so promptly. 

Please register for the event and then complete the visa letter request if you require a visa letter.

In addition, we ask that you please note the following:

• Provision of a visa letter by The Linux Foundation does not guarantee visa approval, as final approval is made at the sole discretion of the government of the event’s host country.
• The Linux Foundation strongly recommends requesting a visa letter at your earliest possible convenience and contacting your local Embassy/Consulate with any visa questions you may have.
• The Linux Foundation processes most visa letter requests in (3) business days.

If you require travel funding as a part of your proposal and have not submitted your request, please do so as soon as possible. You can access the form here. The deadline for travel funding applications is Sunday, 26 July. 

*  Please note: Talk acceptance does not guarantee travel funding.

This year’s event will take place at the RAI Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Please view this information on our Venue & Travel page.

The schedule will be announced Thursday 23 July, and posted on our website using sched.com. You will receive an email directly from sched.com asking you to create your account; please make sure to upload your bio and photo.

If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or find that it conflicts with the content of another talk; or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact [email protected].

Please note the following technical requirements:

• All speakers must supply their computers and adapters to use during their talk.
• Presentation slides should be formatted in 16:9. 
• The room will include a screen, projector, and (2) microphones. 
• If you require any additional AV, please email [email protected] with those needs by Monday, 17 August. The Linux Foundation will make every effort to accommodate other AV needs; however, final approval for additional AV requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.

All speakers are required to submit their final presentation slides ahead of the event. In addition to providing a hard copy for accessibility purposes, we find that adding the presentations before the event helps to drive interest in attending the session. The deadline for presentations is Wednesday, 16 September.

To upload slides:

An optional Powerpoint is available for download.

As you prepare, don’t forget to check out the speaker marketing kit, it’s packed with dynamic social media copy and graphics. Take a look and feel free to post to any of your social channels and distribute to your networks.

Sample Posts:

I’m speaking at #AGNTCon + #MCPCon Europe, 17-18 September in Amsterdam! 🚀 Excited to share my insights and connect with developers, researchers, platform builders, and enterprises working across the agentic stack. Register now + join me 👉 https://bit.ly/4xRZN6j 🔥 Explore the schedule: https://bit.ly/4fIOhmu 

Excited to be speaking at #AGNTCon + #MCPCon Europe, going live 17-18 September in Amsterdam!  Catch my session, “[SESSION TITLE]”, and participate in deep technical sessions, hear real-world case studies, and be part of the ecosystem collaboration. View the schedule: https://bit.ly/4fIOhmu  🎟️ Register Now! https://bit.ly/4xRZN6j

I’m looking forward to speaking at #AGNTCon + #MCPCon Europe this 17-18 September in Amsterdam. The agenda is packed with conversations around what it really takes to build and scale agentic AI systems in production, from orchestration and infrastructure to evaluation, resilience, observability, and debugging. I hope to see you there! Schedule ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fIOhmu  Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/4xRZN6j

View all graphics here:  Speaker Graphics (download for best quality)

We encourage all speakers to take the online course developed in partnership with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) to promote inclusivity and unconscious bias awareness in your presentations. We also recommend consulting the Inclusive Language Initiative’s language recommendation list for guidance as well.

Please read, and abide, by our code of conduct. Our code of conduct is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentations.

If you have any other platform, speaker, or schedule-related questions, please contact us at [email protected].