Den Delimarsky
Lead Maintainer, MCP
Anthropic
Den Delimarsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he helps build the Model Context Protocol (MCP). He's spent over a decade at the intersection of product management and engineering, building developer tools and platforms.
Conference Sessions
- Keynote: Den Delimarsky, Lead Maintainer, MCP, Anthropic 5 Oct 2026 • 9:40 AM-9:55 AM Ballroom East/Center
Chris Alexiuk CA
Senior Product Research Engineer, Deep Learning
NVIDIA
Chris Alexiuk is a deep learning developer advocate at NVIDIA, working on creating technical assets that help developers use the incredible suite of AI tools available at NVIDIA. Chris comes from a machine learning and data science background, and he is obsessed with everything and anything about large language models.
Conference Sessions
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Keynote: Running MCP for Real
6 Oct 2026 • 9:40 AM-9:55 AM
Ballroom East/Center
MCP is part of the beating heart of technology that powers AI-Q and NVIDIA’s broader agent tooling. This session covers the history, evolution, and operational patterns that we’ve found work “in prod”. We’ll cover authorization and tool filtering, multi-user deployments, guardrails, and how the evolving spec has interacted with building dope technology. You’ll leave knowing which patterns we’ve found crush it.
Angie Jones
Vice President
AAIF
Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem. Angie is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.
Conference Sessions
- Keynote: Welcome 5 Oct 2026 • 9:30 AM-9:40 AM Ballroom East/Center
- Keynote: Welcome Back 6 Oct 2026 • 9:30 AM-9:40 AM Ballroom East/Center
Michael Forrester
AI Business Stream Lead at Accenture LearnVantage
Accenture
Michael Rishi Forrester is the AI Business Stream Lead for Organizations, Enterprises, and Leaders at Accenture LearnVantage, leading enterprise AI enablement across workforce transformation, adoption, and AI security governance. Over 25+ years he's gone from CTO to IC across operations, AI, cloud, and platform engineering, including AWS, ThoughtWorks, Red Hat, and Honeywell. His training has reached over a million engineers. His thesis: tools don't transform organizations, people do.
Conference Sessions
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Keynote: Governing MCP for a Workforce the Size of a City
6 Oct 2026 • 10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Ballroom East/Center
"How many users do we need to support on MCP?" "Possibly all of them. Maybe 750,000." That was the start of a conversation about deploying MCP at a scale matching frontier SaaS services. Our demo was amazing — one minute, one agent, one tool, MCP in between. Then came the real engineering. Nobody had really said yes to any of it. There was also nowhere to say no. That exposed us to the world this session covers: a registry as the source of truth for which servers exist, who owns them, and what an agent may discover. A gateway as the single path between agents and tool… identity, authorization, rate limiting, and policy enforced once instead of rebuilt per server. An AI gateway as the governed route to inference. Then the rollout: phased, control plane in GitOps, admission control so an unsanctioned server can't land, runtime detection on the tool-execution surface, and workload identity so the gateway knows which agent is calling. We close on what the gateway caught, what slipped past us, how we handled scale and security, and everything on the road to 200,000 deployed internal users at a single company. We counted. The number was horrifying.
Dana Harrison
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
TELUS
With almost twenty years in the industry and the last four spent with TELUS, Dana has developed a "Jack-of-all-trades" skill set including system administration, software development, DevOps, and now Site Reliability and Observability Engineering. Dana has helped uplift his fellow developers, DevOps engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers with meaningful insights into observability tooling and SRE practices. These days, you’ll find him deep into agentic development and automation.
Conference Sessions
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One Year of MCP in the Enterprise: Registry, Workflows, Agents, and Remote Hosting
5 Oct 2026 • 10:10 AM-10:25 AM
Ballroom East/Center
Let us show you what a full enterprise MCP practice looks like end to end, built at TELUS over the past year. The tour: IRIS, an n8n-based AI operations agent exposed as an MCP server — with a Slackbot front end — that routes real operational requests; n8n workflows that call MCP tools to automate the boring parts of running a platform; a shared "ai-dev" registry that catalogs the MCPs most useful across the org, so teams discover and reuse instead of rebuilding the same connector multiple times; and finally remote MCP hosting on Gizmos, our last-mile platform built on Cloudflare Workers — plus the OAuth wall every enterprise slams into. Dynamic Client Registration is the usual answer, and the usual disappointment; we'll cover why we went with Client ID Metadata Documents instead, and the tradeoffs behind that call. No product pitch — reusable patterns for any stack. You'll leave with a map of the whole enterprise MCP stack — registry, workflow automation, agent front ends, remote hosting — the failure modes we hit, and where the spec and tooling are still rough.
Kevin Ng
Staff Developer Advocate
TELUS
Kevin Ng is a Staff Developer Advocate on the Platform Engineering Excellence team at TELUS, where he's worked since 2006. He builds internal AI tooling and platform infrastructure and helps engineering teams adopt agentic workflows in production. He's also a member of the AAIF's Workflows & Process Integration workgroup, focused on turning practitioner experiments into reusable patterns.
Conference Sessions
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One Year of MCP in the Enterprise: Registry, Workflows, Agents, and Remote Hosting
5 Oct 2026 • 10:10 AM-10:25 AM
Ballroom East/Center
Let us show you what a full enterprise MCP practice looks like end to end, built at TELUS over the past year. The tour: IRIS, an n8n-based AI operations agent exposed as an MCP server — with a Slackbot front end — that routes real operational requests; n8n workflows that call MCP tools to automate the boring parts of running a platform; a shared "ai-dev" registry that catalogs the MCPs most useful across the org, so teams discover and reuse instead of rebuilding the same connector multiple times; and finally remote MCP hosting on Gizmos, our last-mile platform built on Cloudflare Workers — plus the OAuth wall every enterprise slams into. Dynamic Client Registration is the usual answer, and the usual disappointment; we'll cover why we went with Client ID Metadata Documents instead, and the tradeoffs behind that call. No product pitch — reusable patterns for any stack. You'll leave with a map of the whole enterprise MCP stack — registry, workflow automation, agent front ends, remote hosting — the failure modes we hit, and where the spec and tooling are still rough.
