Program Committee

Angie Jones is the Vice President of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block, Inc.

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.

I’m Den Delimarsky. I am a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where I help build MCP.

I started my engineering journey all the way back in the 90s, with a 386 box that was barely enough to run DOS games (I’ve upgraded since then). I’ve spent plenty of time writing code in Visual Basic 6.0 but for more than two decades now I am writing C# and Python. I’m learning C++, Rust, and Go when I need to really get out of my comfort zone.

I enjoy mixing product sense with putting hands on the keyboard and getting code out to the public – that’s the reason I steered my career towards developer tools.

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 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, such as AgentCraft.

Matt White is the Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at the Linux Foundation. He is also the Director of the Generative AI Commons, an open community initiative focused on advancing responsible generative AI under the LF AI & Data Foundation. Matt has nearly 30 years of experience in applied research and standards in AI and data in telecom, media and gaming industries. He began his career programming expert systems in the telecom industry and since 2012 has been focused on machine learning and research at the intersection of AI, simulations and multi-sensory learning. Matt is the Co-founder and Chair of the Open Metaverse Foundation at the Linux Foundation. He is also a Chair at the Metaverse Standards Forum and runs the Silicon Valley Generative AI paper reading group and is a co-organizer at the GenAI Collective.

Paul Carleton is a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he designs authorization patterns and leads auth implementations across the TypeScript and Python SDKs. He also drives MCP conformance testing efforts to ensure consistent behavior across the ecosystem.

Sambhav Kothari is the Head of AI Productivity at Bloomberg, where he leads teams across London and New York building scalable Al infrastructure solutions that provide secure paved paths for AI development.

Shannon Williams is the Co-founder and President of Obot AI, an open-source software company building the enterprise gateway for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard. Obot AI is focused on giving organizations the secure, scalable foundation they need to adopt AI assistants in the enterprise.

Prior to Obot, Shannon was Co-founder and President at Rancher Labs, where he helped build Rancher into the leading Kubernetes management platform. Following Rancher’s acquisition by SUSE, he served as CRO at SUSE, leading global go-to-market for the company’s cloud-native portfolio.

Tadas is a member of the MCP Steering Group where he maintains the MCP Registry and moderates the MCP Contributor community. He is a co-founder of PulseMCP, where he has been writing an in-depth weekly MCP newsletter since November 2024 while commercializing MCP registry solutions used by enterprises, MCP gateways, and MCP client builders.