Featured Speakers

Aaron Wang is a Software Engineer on Duolingo’s DevXAI team, building AI-powered developer tools. He led the development of Duolingo’s AI Slackbot with 180+ MCP tools—helping employees find answers in help channels, triage alerts, debug incidents, and navigate internal systems. Previously, Aaron spent four years at Google and two years at Qumulo, bringing a decade of experience building infrastructure.

Ido Salomon is a seasoned AI lead and cloud architect, working on AI and MCP in Monday’s CEO Office. Ido is the creator of MCP-UI, co-author and co-moderator of the MCP Apps workgroup, and co-creator of GitMCP. Previously, Ido led end-user AI at Palo Alto Networks. In his spare time, he’s an avid contributor to open-source, having created several projects in the agentic AI space.

ames is a Principal Software Engineer and 16-year Amazon veteran with experience across AWS and Stores. He founded Amazon’s internal AI “power user” community and now focuses on integrating AI into internal builder tools as part of the Amazon software builder experience organization. James is passionate about accelerating productivity through the combination of cultural transformation and intelligent tooling.

Jim’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the use of open source and Linux.

At The Linux Foundation, Jim works with the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud, and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry.

Jim has been recognized for his insights on the changing economics of the technology industry. His writing has appeared in Businessweek, Wired, and other top technology journals, and he is a regular keynote speaker at industry events. He advises a variety of startups, including Splashtop, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.

Liad Yosef is a seasoned AI lead and software architect, working on AI and MCP in Monday’s CEO Office. He previously led AI and MCP infrastructure in Shopify’s CEO Office, co-created GitMCP, and is now building MCP-UI while co-moderating the UI Working Group in the MCP committee. A web enthusiast for over two decades, Liad is passionate about crafting developer-first experiences and is a creator and an active contributor of multiple open-source projects. Outside of work, he writes poetry and moonlights as an analog astronaut for the European Space Agency.

Product Lead with 10+ years of experience building mission critical AI and Generative AI Platforms at Meta and Uber, holding a Masters in Machine Learning from Columbia University. Established several AI Platforms powering thousands of ML models and personalized experiences for products used by billions of users.

Nick Cooper is a senior member of technical staff at OpenAI working with a particular focus on scalable patterns to make life easy while iterating quickly. He is the technical lead at OpenAI for protocols, MCP Core maintainer and AAIF governing board member. He comes from a brief stint in start-ups after a lifetime in big tech. If forced to share a personal hobby he’ll tell you it’s woodworking but really it’s cooking.

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.

Rush leads the Agent Platform charter at Uber. Prior to establishing the Agent Platform charter, he led model deployment, inference and monitoring. Before joining Uber, he was the founder and creator of Onepanel, an open source, Kubernetes native computer vision platform.

Ryan Cooke is a technologist and founder with two decades of experience building early-stage startups. Despite several founding roles, he remains a developer at heart, drawn to hard problems in information retrieval, security and data modeling. He’s led engineering teams across enterprise SaaS and fintech, building data connectors, enterprise search platforms, and context engines that help organizations make sense of complex, distributed data.

​I work on the AI Enablement team at Nordstrom, focusing on platform engineering for MCP and AI agents. My past background in security grounds my decision-making, allowing me to balance safe architecture with a passion for AI productivity. I build infrastructure that empowers internal teams to deploy scalable solutions easily and securely.

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.