Diagrid at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026
Where the agent stack is being built.
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America is the Agentic AI Foundation's flagship conference for the open agentic AI ecosystem, hosted under the Linux Foundation. It's built around AAIF's three projects — the Model Context Protocol, the goose agent framework, and the AGENTS.md specification.
Two days, 3,500+ attendees, and a programme aimed squarely at production: reliability, evals, observability, routing, sandboxing, security, and the infrastructure underneath all of it. Workshops are included with registration.
Why we're there
Diagrid is a Silver sponsor, and the problems on this agenda are the ones we work on.
An agent that loses its place when a process restarts isn't ready for production. We put durable execution underneath the agent's control loop, so every tool call and model call becomes a step that can be retried, resumed and replayed rather than started over. An MCP server that hands every agent the same broad credentials isn't ready either, so we scope tool access per agent identity and keep a record of what was called.
If that's what your team is wrestling with, come and find us.
Agenda
All times PDT.
Wednesday, October 21 — pre-conference
- 2:00 PM
Registration & badge pick-up — The Hub
- 6:00 PM
AI Community Bash featuring De La Soul — Concert Venue
Thursday, October 22 — Day 1
- 7:30 AM
Registration & badge pick-up — The Hub
- 9:00 AM
Welcome — Angie Jones, AAIF — Grand Ballroom
- 9:05 AM
Opening remarks — Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, AAIF
- 9:15 AM
Keynote — Manik Surtani, CTO, AAIF
- 9:25 AM
Keynote: Tokenomics — Energy to Intelligence to Value — J.R. Storment, Tokenomics Foundation
- 9:30 AM
Keynote — David Soria Parra, co-creator of MCP, Anthropic
- 9:40 AM
Keynote: Building the Human-Agent Workplace — Bradley Axen, Block
- 9:55 AM
Coffee break — Solutions Showcase opens
- 10:20 AM
Breakout tracks begin — MCPCon, Agentic Engineering, Building Reliable Agent Systems, Evals & Testing, Interoperability & Standards, Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems, Human-Agent Collaboration, Enterprise Adoption, Agentic Commerce
- 12:05 PM
Hands-on workshops begin
- 1:40 PM
Lunch — Solutions Showcase. Women + non-binary community gathering runs alongside
- 2:55 PM
Keynote — Dawn Song, UC Berkeley
- 3:10 PM
Sponsored keynote: The Anything Trap — Lena Hall, Akamai
- 3:20 PM
Sponsored keynote: Agents as Actors — Idit Levine & Keith Babo, Solo.io
- 3:25 PM
Keynote: The Agentic Web — Sarah Drasner, Google
- 3:45 PM
Afternoon breakouts and workshops
- 7:00 PM
Attendee reception and poster presentations — Solutions Showcase
Friday, October 23 — Day 2
- 9:55 AM
Keynote — Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media
Breakouts, workshops and the Solutions Showcase run through the day
Times and rooms are subject to change.
