Featured Keynote Speakers

Yoshiyuki Tabata is a Chief OSS Consultant at Hitachi OSPO with more than a decade of experience in identity and access management (IAM), authentication, authorization, and API security. He is a contributor to Keycloak, a co-author of the CNCF IAM Whitepaper, and serves as Tech Lead of CNCF TAG Security & Compliance. He is also a CNCF Ambassador and AAIF Ambassador, actively contributing to cloud native security, identity standards, and emerging AI agent ecosystems.

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.

Kaz Sato, a Staff Developer Advocate from the Cloud AI team, has authored over 25 ML/AI blogs and demos for Google Cloud’s official blog. His work has garnered attention from Jeff Dean and Eric Schmidt, and been featured in Newsweek and The New Yorker. He’s a regular speaker at Google I/O and Cloud Next, and has presented internationally in 17 countries. Kaz also shares ML/AI updates with his 20,000 X followers.

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book “Istio Ambient Explained” and has more than 200 patents to her name.

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.

Ola Hungerford is a Principal Engineer at Nordstrom and a maintainer and community moderator for the Model Context Protocol. She leads AI enablement initiatives while contributing to MCP’s specification, developer tooling, documentation, and community governance. Ola comes from a diverse technical background spanning two decades, including personalization systems and enterprise platforms. She’s also a vocalist and songwriter who experiments with augmenting human creativity through technology.

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.