10:00am • Workshop: Enabling MCP at Enterprise Scale: Navigating Authentication and Governance Challenges - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI
11:40am • Workshop: Beyond RAG: Building a Context Engine for Multi-Agent Systems Using MCP - Saradindu Sengupta, Lytx Inc
3:20pm • The Illusion of Idempotency: Why MCP Actions Aren’t as Safe as You Think - Prerit Munjal, Groupon
3:45pm • Agentless Agents: Replacing Sidecar Observability With eBPF + MCP Tool Chains - Harini Anand, IBM
4:10pm • The Handoff Hallucination: Why Agents Skip Steps and How To Catch It - Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Skeps
5:15pm • Scaling AI: gRPC as Transport Backbone for Enterprise MCP - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google
5:40pm • Rethinking Agent–Database Access: A Secure Approach With MCP Toolbox - Shivay Lamba, Qualcomm & Anushka Saxena, Google
6:05pm • The Coordination Tax: Why Your MCP Multi-agent System Degrades at Scale, and How To Fix It - Rudra Kushwah & Jay Shukla, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur; Shivaprasad Gowda, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; Krishna Padia, Shri Vil
10:00am • Workshop: Building scalable, edge-native, production-grade MCP tools with RUST - Rajesh Sola, KPIT
11:40am • Workshop: Building Production-Ready MCP Servers: Lessons From an Open Source Template - Abhishek Kumar & Deepak Koul, Red Hat
3:20pm • Who's Calling? Bringing Identity To the MCP Host - Ayesha Dissanayaka, WSO2
3:45pm • Building an Enterprise MCP Registry: Secure Discovery, Governance, and Reuse at Scale - Kushagra Mittal, Motorola Solutions & Dhruv Agarwal, Motorrola Solutions
4:10pm • Operationalizing MCP: Security, Control Planes, and Risk Governance - Sagar Dashora, JPMorgan Chase & Co
5:15pm • Closing the AuthZ Gap in MCP: Policy-Driven Tool Invocation Control - Oshi Gupta, Infracloud Technologies - An Improving Company & Sonali Srivastava, Improving
5:40pm • Orchestrating Agent Swarms With MCP, Sandboxing and Shared Filesystems - Vikram Vaswani, Developer Advocate
6:05pm • Zero-Trust Execution: Sandboxing MCP Data Agents With WebAssembly - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Palo Alto Networks
10:00am • Keynotes To Be Announced
11:30am • The Benchmark That Almost Convinced Us MCP Was Wrong - Ravi Madabhushi, Scalekit
11:55am • Rethinking Testing for MCP Servers - Puja Jagani, BrowserStack
12:20pm • MCP: The Gateway To Real-Time Human–AI Collaboration in Jupyter at Scale - Jake Diamond-Reivich, Project Jupyter
12:45pm • Stateful AI Agents: Building Consistent Systems With MCP and Distributed SQL - Nasiullha Chaudhari, YugabyteDB & Vanshika Jain, Brudite Private Limited
2:45pm • Keynotes To Be Announced
3:50pm • Designing Low-Latency MCP Systems for High-Throughput Data Pipelines: Architecture and Bottlenecks, - Partha Sarthy, Applied Materials
4:15pm • Starling: Building a Pay-as-you-go MCP Server for Live Kubernetes Ops - Avinash Patil, Warble Cloud
4:40pm • What a Database Team Discovers Building an MCP Server - Sfurti Sarah, Yugabyte & Heather Downing, YugabyteDB
5:35pm • Beyond Tool Calls: Unlocking Interactive, Token-Smart Agents With MCP Apps - Suraj B, HDFC Bank
6:00pm • Building an MCP Marketplace: Lessons in Discovery, Versioning, and Trust - Saurabh Mishra, Optum/UnitedHealthGroup
6:25pm • The 5 Wrong Reasons To Build an MCP Server (And What To Do Instead) - Daniel Oh, IBM
11:30am • Why Most MCP Tools Fail Silently, and How To Measure It - Om Shree, Shreesozo
11:55am • Who Watches the MCP Servers? Building Observability for the MCP Layer - Koteswara Rao Vellanki, TransUnion
12:20pm • Beyond 1:1 Mapping: Designing MCP for Real Enterprise Systems - Naresh Waswani, Simpplr Inc. & Jyoti Notani, Persistent Systems Ltd
12:45pm • The Sticky Session Bottleneck: Why MCP Agent Orchestration Breaks When You Scale - Yuvraj Pradhan, MIT ADT University & Archana Kumari, MIT ADT University
3:50pm • Where MCP Ends and A2A Begins: and Why That Seam Is Breaking Your Agents - Arushi Garg, Adobe & MV Shiva, Google
4:15pm • 100 Agents in 100 Days: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for MCP-Based Multi-Agent Systems - Harish Kotra, Forge Alumnus
4:40pm • The AI-First Device Farm: Exposing Remote Hardware Infrastructure Via MCP - Kalyan Kolachala, SymphonyAI Group India & Vaishali Shetty, GetWell Network (SAI Group)
5:35pm • Building Interactive Tools With MCP Elicitation - Ashwin Hariharan, Redis
6:00pm • Stop the Wild Goose Chase: Enterprise Agents With Goose - Ram Iyengar, OpenSSF
6:25pm • MCP-Powered Ops: Red Hat Kubernetes MCP & Grafana MCP for Mission-Critical Applications - Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla & Sayantan Karmakar, Motorola Solutions
11:30am • The Invincible MCP Server: Building Crash-Proof AI Tools With Durable Execution - Shubham Londhe, Temporal
11:55am • From Shadow MCP To Sanctioned MCP: Building an Enterprise Agent Governance Program - Navin Pai, StackGen & Archana Rajkumar, SentinelOne
12:20pm • Your AI Chatbot Just Exposed Your CEO’s Salary To an Intern: Securing Enterprise AI Agents - Hasini Samarathunga & Sahan Dilshan, WSO2
12:45pm • Your MCP Server Is an Attacker's Dream: A Security Playbook From Real-World Assessments - Akash Mahajan, KLOUDLE Inc.
3:50pm • MCP Elicitation in the Wild: When Agents Ask for Too Much - Kaiwalya Koparkar, Gravitee.io
4:15pm • Securing MCP Servers for the Enterprise: OAuth 2.0, Keycloak, and Spring Boot in Production - Vishal Singh, Quest2travel
4:40pm • Agentic DX: Bringing Your IDP Into the IDE - Adnan Vahora & Dhwani Suthar, Motorola Solutions
5:35pm • Why Your MCP Server Needs Real Users — Implementing OAuth and Dynamic Client Registration for MCP - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium & Achanandhi M, EY
6:25pm • Who Do You Trust? Securing Multi-Agent MCP Systems in Healthcare - Yuvraj Pradhan, MIT ADT University & Archana Kumari, MIT ADT University
