MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026: Full Schedule

June 14-15, 2026
Mumbai, India
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11:30am IST

Workshop: Building Production-Ready MCP Servers: Lessons From an Open Source Template - Abhishek Kumar & Deepak Koul, Red Hat

Sunday June 14, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

**Space Limited - First Come, First Served. Please bring a fully charged laptop to the workshop**

Most MCP tutorials stop at "hello world." This session goes further. We will walk through how we built a production-grade, open source MCP server template at Red Hat, covering FastMCP + FastAPI integration, multiple transport protocols (HTTP, SSE, streamable-HTTP), OAuth with PostgreSQL token storage, structured logging, and OpenShift deployment manifests. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of what it actually takes to go from a local MCP prototype to something you can run in production on Kubernetes. We will also share the design decisions we made, the mistakes we avoided, and how developers can use this template as a starting point for their own MCP servers.

Speakers

Deepak Koul

Senior Engineering Manager, Red Hat

Likes to ideate, build and talk about AI

Abhishek Kumar

Architect, Red Hat

Architect & Technical Lead at Red Hat with 15+ years in backend, distributed systems, and cloud-native tech. Currently building Agentic AI solutions using MCP, AI agents, and intelligent data platforms. Works across Java, Python, AWS, Quarkus, and OpenShift. Passionate about open... Read More →

building production ready mcp servers pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:05pm IST

Welcome & Opening Remarks - Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:05pm - 2:15pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

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... Read More →

Angie Jones pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:05pm - 2:15pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:15pm IST

Keynote: Who Keeps It Open? The Story Behind the Agentic AI Foundation, and the Future We're Building - Manik Surtani, CTO Agentic AI Foundation

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:15pm - 2:25pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

18 months ago, Block open-sourced an agent framework called Goose. Community grew quickly, faster than I ever expected. Then the community came back with a question I didn't have a good answer to: who keeps this open?
This is the story of chasing that answer - how it led to a foundation co-founded by fierce rivals, why nearly two hundred companies have since joined, and what we've learned about open along the way. Because open, on its own, doesn't stay open; we've seen that movie before, and the agentic layer raises the stakes higher than anything that came before it.
It's also a look forward - to the future we're building toward, where agents from any vendor can find each other, trust each other, and transact on rails no single company, or government, can ever pull out from under us. The agentic layer is still being shaped. This talk is about how we keep it open, and how you can help, while it's still ours to shape.

Speakers

Manik Surtani

CTO, Agentic AI Foundation

2.Manik Surtani pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:15pm - 2:25pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:30pm IST

Keynote: Extending Goose: Building an AI Teammate for  Open Source - Abhijay Jain, Maintainer, Contributor & Grant Recipient, AAIF Goose

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:30pm - 2:40pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Goose is an open-source AI agent that can be extended through integrations, tools, and community-driven projects. In this talk, I'll share my journey working with Goose, explore how its capabilities can be extended through community-driven projects, highlight examples from the Goose ecosystem, and discuss the development of GooseBot as one approach to bringing AI agents closer to developer communities. Along the way, I'll cover lessons learned from building in the open and why extensibility is key to the future of open-source AI agents.

Speakers

Abhijay Jain

Maintainer & Contributor, AAIF Goose, AAIF Goose

I’m Abhijay Jain, an open-source developer and FOSS enthusiast with experience across developer tooling, Bitcoin infrastructure, AI products, and modern web technologies.

Over the years, I’ve contributed to global open-source programs and organizations including the Linux Foundation, Google summer of code, Block, UnternehmerTUM, and several community-driven ecosystems. I started my open-source journey as an LFX mentee with Open Horizon (IBM open... Read More →

3.Abhijay Jain pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:30pm - 2:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:40pm IST

Keynote: The Foundation for Agentic AI Interoperability - David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience, Amazon Web Services

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:40pm - 2:50pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers

David Nalley

Director, Developer Experience, AWS

David Nalley is Director of Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he leads efforts to improve how developers interact with AWS services and technologies. He brings over two decades of experience in technology to his role.
Nalley previously served as President of... Read More →

4.David Nalley v2 pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:40pm - 2:50pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:55pm IST

Keynote: From Shadow IT to Scale: The MCP Adoption Journey, Shannon Williams, President, Obot AI

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:55pm - 3:05pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers

Shannon Williams

President, Obot AI

I am the President and co-founder of Obot AI, and have been building open source software for the last 20 years. Prior to starting Obot, I co-founded Cloud.com (creator of CloudStack) and Rancher Labs (creator of Rancher, k3s, Longhorn, etc). I was a board member of the CNCF for 4... Read More →

5.Shannon Williams pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 2:55pm - 3:05pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

3:20pm IST

The Illusion of Idempotency: Why MCP Actions Aren’t as Safe as You Think - Prerit Munjal, Groupon

Sunday June 14, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

We design MCPs assuming idempotency, apply the same action twice nothing changes, reconcile repeatedly, and state is declarative.

But in reality, most MCP actions are only partially idempotent, because beneath the abstraction external systems mutate independently, side effects escape the control plane, ordering of operations matters, and “same input” doesn’t always mean “same result”. At scale, MCPs rely on many things like reconciliation loops, declarative APIs, retry-based execution.

We’ll unpack how MCPs unintentionally, violate idempotency through hidden side effects, depend on ordering guarantees that don’t exist, produce divergent states under retries, mask unsafe operations behind “safe” abstractions. This isn’t a talk about retries or Kubernetes patterns. There are no controller frameworks, just a deeper examination of why MCPs aren’t as safe as we assume, and how to design them with fewer hidden risks.

Because the most dangerous systems aren’t the ones that fail.
They’re the ones you believe are safe to retry.

Speakers

Prerit Munjal

Senior Technical Product Manager, Groupon

Prerit is a Cloud-Native Platform Leader with extensive experience designing and scaling secure, resilient cloud infrastructures. As the former CTO of KubeCloud, he built no-code solutions bridging Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, leading the company to a successful acquisition. Currently... Read More →

MCPDevSummitIN PreritMunjal pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

MCP Protocol in Depth

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

5:20pm IST

Closing the AuthZ Gap in MCP: Policy-Driven Tool Invocation Control - Oshi Gupta, Infracloud Technologies - An Improving Company & Sonali Srivastava, Improving

Sunday June 14, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

MCP tools give AI agents direct access to external services - production databases, internal APIs, third-party platforms. But most teams deploying MCP today have no answer to a simple question: who authorized that tool call?

MCP has made remarkable strides in standardizing agent-to-tool connectivity - but AuthN and AuthZ at the tool invocation layer remain an open problem. Tool calls are dynamic and runtime-driven; static Kubernetes RBAC has no vocabulary for per-tool, per-agent, or per-parameter enforcement. There is no native spec primitive to say "only this agent can call this tool."

In multi-tenant environments this gets worse - one misconfigured agent can invoke tools across tenant boundaries and nobody finds out until the damage is done. Teams filling this gap today are relying on custom middleware, app-level checks, or nothing at all.

This talk explores where MCP's authorization model falls short and how policy-as-code closes the gap - with Kyverno as one strong implementation path. The session walks through real ClusterPolicy configurations, multi-tenant isolation patterns, and hard-won lessons from tuning enforcement without breaking production agents.

Speakers

Oshi Gupta

Site Reliability Engineer, Improving Pune (Infracloud)

Oshi Gupta works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Improving Pune (Infracloud). She is a CNCF Kubestronaut , AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certified and LFX mentee for CNCF Kyverno.

Sonali Srivastava

Senior Developer Advocate, Improving

Sonali Srivastava is a Senior Developer Advocate at Improving, Co-chair KubeCon India 2026, and Co-organizer CNCF Women in Cloud Native. With experience across system administration, open source contribution and developer advocacy, she focuses on bridging gap between developers and... Read More →

Closing the AuthZ Gap in MCP pdf

Sunday June 14, 2026 5:20pm - 5:45pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Security, Identity + Trust

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

10:00am IST

Welcome Back - Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

Monday June 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:10am IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation

Monday June 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:10am IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

10:01am IST

Keynote: Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Agents - Sam Partee, Founder, CTO, Arcade

Monday June 15, 2026 10:01am - 10:11am IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

MCP is the protocol layer for the new consumer of software. But protocols are necessary, not sufficient. The next generation of agents won't be soley defined by the protocol they speak — but also the infrastructure that powers it.

In this keynote, Sam Partee (CTO and Co-Founder of Arcade.dev) walks through the agent runtime components needed to drive more adoption of MCP: delegated identity that scopes what an agent can do; tool routing that survives ten thousand registered tools; memory and provenance that turns one-shot demos into auditable systems. Each layer is grounded in production data — what breaks, mistakes we made, what to build, why, and what the next two years of infrastructure work look like.

Speakers

Sam Partee

Chief Tochnology Officer, Arcade

Monday June 15, 2026 10:01am - 10:11am IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

10:40am IST

Keynote: Agents @ Scale: The Platform Mandate - Romin Irani, Developer Advocate, Google

Monday June 15, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has fundamentally revolutionized developer velocity, allowing engineers to build and iterate complex AI agents seamlessly on a local machine. However, when moving these autonomous agents from a local sandbox into a production enterprise environment, organizations hit a sudden architectural ceiling. The local agility that fuels early-stage innovation quickly breaks under the compounding pressure of agentic sprawl, fragmented data integrations, and critical compliance requirements.

This keynote addresses the hidden architectural dimensions required to run enterprise AI agents safely and reliably at scale. Moving past individual agent scripts, we will explore why a centralized, fully managed platform is no longer a luxury, but a core system dependency. We will dive into the four essential pillars—Build, Scale, Govern, and Optimize—with a specific focus on how a managed MCP control plane provides the cryptographically-attested identity, granular gateway policies, and runtime isolation required to cross the chasm from an impressive local prototype to a secure, enterprise-grade AI ecosystem.

Speakers

Romin Irani

Developer Advocate, Google

Romin Irani works as a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. He has over 30 years of experience designing and building systems. He lives and works in Mumbai, India.

5.Roman Irani pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

12:00pm IST

Journey to Build the LFX MCP Server - Manish Dixit, The Linux Foundation

Monday June 15, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

The LFX ecosystem faced fragmentation, hundreds of siloed APIs and scattered data made simple questions complex and prevented AI agents from connecting. This talk chronicles the journey to build the LFX MCP Server, a 100% open-source solution that established a single, standard AI interface, enabling every LFX system to speak the same language. You will hear why MCP was chosen over custom integrations and learn about unexpected challenges, including securing authentication, managing permissions, and tackling immediate data quality issues. Finally, we share critical lessons learned, emphasizing the power of fewer, sharper tools and the necessity of governance from day one.

Speakers

Manish Dixit

SVP, GM Product Engineering and IT, The Linux Foundation

Manish Dixit is Senior Vice President of Product, Engineering & IT at The Linux Foundation, where he leads teams building the digital platforms, systems, and capabilities that support the global open source ecosystem. His work spans product strategy, engineering execution, IT operations, data... Read More →

Monday June 15, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Any

12:30pm IST

MCP: The Gateway To Real-Time Human–AI Collaboration in Jupyter at Scale - Piyush Jain, AWS

Monday June 15, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Jupyter Notebooks are critical medium for code, data, and ML, demanding a paradigm shift for AI assistance. With Jupyter's real-time collaboration and cloud-native evolution, it's becoming a powerful portal to a full data platform, beyond mere notebooks.

This session explores MCP as the essential framework for human-AI synergy within this expanded Jupyter ecosystem. Leveraging Jupyter's extensibility, MCP expands its API, opening gateways to services across the entire data, ML, and AI landscape. By extending Jupyter’s real-time collaborative models, MCP enables AI agents to seamlessly co-create alongside human developers. This integration moves beyond traditional AI coding assistance, fostering true parallel work without conflicting edits, eliminating friction and accelerating development.

The speakers will give the live demo showing how MCP provides the blueprint for connecting AI assistance directly with the Jupyter environment, both locally and in the cloud. This empowers builders to redefine human-AI interaction and unlock unprecedented productivity across the entire AI development lifecycle – from data preparation and feature engineering to LLMs fine-tuning and evaluations.

Speakers

Piyush Jain

Principal Engineer, AWS

Piyush Jain is a Principal Engineer at AWS working on Jupyter and Agentic AI. He is a distinguished Jupyter contributor, a member of the Jupyter Server Council and founding member of Jupyter AI Contrib Github Org.

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Monday June 15, 2026 12:30pm - 12:55pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

2:55pm IST

Where MCP Ends and A2A Begins: and Why That Seam Is Breaking Your Agents - Arushi Garg, Adobe & MV Shiva, Google

Monday June 15, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Everyone's heard the AAIF framing: MCP handles agent-to-tool, A2A handles agent-to-agent. Clean in theory. In practice, every multi-agent system lives at the boundary of both, and that boundary has no standard.
Context gets dropped. Errors go silent. A state that survived an entire A2A task lifecycle vanishes the moment it crosses into an MCP tool call. Nobody is talking about this publicly.
This session replaces the "vertical vs horizontal" mental model with something more honest: a precise seam diagram showing what each protocol guarantees, what it doesn't, and what falls into the gap. We'll go deep on MCP's Tasks primitive (SEP-1686)- including its two admitted gaps: no retry semantics, no expiry policies. We'll map the real failure modes developers are hitting today, drawn from open GitHub issues across both protocol repos.
Then a live demo using Google's open-source A2A sample repo: no custom code. We'll run a real multi-agent task, cross the protocol boundary, sever the trace header, and watch the silent failure happen in real time.
You'll leave with a clear mental model, a three-point failure checklist, and a concrete picture of what the spec needs next.

Speakers

MV Shiva

SWE, Google

Arushi Garg

MTS-2, Adobe

Arushi Garg is an AI Engineer and researcher focused on building intelligent, scalable, and autonomous AI systems. At Adobe, she works on AI-driven backend solutions and cloud-native architectures with expertise in Kubernetes, MCP-based systems, AI agents, and distributed AI workflows... Read More →

Monday June 15, 2026 2:55pm - 3:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

MCP Protocol in Depth

Audience Experience Level Any

5:50pm IST

MCP-Powered Ops: Red Hat Kubernetes MCP & Grafana MCP for Mission-Critical Applications - Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla & Sayantan Karmakar, Motorola Solutions

Monday June 15, 2026 5:50pm - 6:15pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

At Motorola Solutions, downtime isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a public safety risk where lives are at stake. This session explores how we revolutionized incident response for mission-critical applications by moving beyond fragmented tools and alert fatigue. Historically, siloed data across Kubernetes and Grafana led to 45-minute MTTRs and manual context-switching.

We will detail our adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), specifically utilizing Red Hat Kubernetes and Grafana MCP servers to build an AI-assisted operations layer. Learn how this unified context allows an AI agent to correlate metrics with cluster states in seconds, reducing MTTR to under 4 minutes while sustaining 99.99% uptime.

We'll share our production architecture for natural language incident resolution and our "human-in-the-loop" approach that ensures SREs remain in control of all write operations. Attendees will leave with practical guidance on scaling reliability in regulated environments and empowering junior engineers with senior-level operational context. Discover how to turn fragmented data into a mission-critical intelligence amplifier.

Speakers

Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla

Manager, Software Engineering, Motorola Solutions

Dynamic Engineering Manager leading CPS Observability teams at Motorola Solutions, specializing in Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Kubernetes (GKE/OpenShift/Native), and AI/ML integrations (Vertex AI, Agentic AI workflows). Drives unified observability, SRE excellence, and platform... Read More →

Sayantan Karmakar

Platform Devops Engineer 2, Motorola Solutions

I’m a Platform DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in open-source platforms, cloud-native technologies, and GitOps practices. I’m a Golden Kubestronaut, Red Hat, AWS, Terraform and OCI certified, with hands-on expertise in multiple Cloud Native tools. I’m... Read More →

Final MCP DevSummit Mumbai Rishi Sayantan.pptx pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 5:50pm - 6:15pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Agent Architecture + Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any
Session Slides Yes

5:50pm IST

The 5 Wrong Reasons To Build an MCP Server (And What To Do Instead) - Daniel Oh, IBM

Monday June 15, 2026 5:50pm - 6:15pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

MCP brings structure and standardization to how LLMs interact with tools and resources—but that power comes with cost. We’ve built multiple MCP servers across different use cases, and not all of them should have existed.
This session distills hard-earned lessons from real-world implementations: where MCP created long-term leverage, where it introduced unnecessary complexity, and where a direct API call would have shipped faster and cleaner. We’ll share a clear evaluation checklist you can use before starting your next build—so you choose MCP intentionally, not reflexively.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

MCP DevSummit Mumbai The 5 Wrong Reasons to Build an MCP Server (And What to Do Instead) pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 5:50pm - 6:15pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Building with MCP

Audience Experience Level Any

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