AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 runs 22-23 October 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center and is the Agentic AI Foundation's flagship North American event, hosted under the Linux Foundation. It is built around the foundation's three projects - the Model Context Protocol, the open-source agent framework goose, and the AGENTS.md specification - and covers how teams run agent systems in production: reliability, evaluation, interoperability, identity and permissions, security and observability. The call for proposals ran across ten topic areas including agentic payments, multi-agent coordination and enterprise adoption, and the conference explicitly bars product and vendor sales pitches. A sibling European edition ran in Amsterdam on 17-18 September 2026.

• Standard registration ends (late $925 rate begins)Oct 7, 2026

Date

October 22–23, 2026

Location

San Jose McEnery Convention Center, California

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)

Added

Jun 24, 2026

Updated

Aug 11, 2026

• ✓Platform Engineering Lead
• ✓AI/ML Engineer
• ✓Enterprise Architect
• ✓Open Source Maintainer
• ✓Head of AI Infrastructure
• ✓Security Engineer
• ✓Researcher / Academic

For a platform or AI engineering leader this is the only vendor-neutral venue where the people who maintain MCP, goose and AGENTS.md are in the room with the enterprises deploying against them, so protocol decisions that will constrain an agent architecture for years get argued in public rather than announced later. The programme is weighted to production concerns: evaluation and regression testing, agent identity and permissions, tracing and sandboxes, rollout governance and integration with internal systems. At $475 standard admission it costs less than a single analyst enquiry, and the no-sales-pitch rule is a written condition of speaking rather than an aspiration.

• ✓Topic area: Building Reliable Agent Systems - production architecture, observability, debugging, failure recovery, resilience and performance
• ✓Topic area: Interoperability, Protocols (MCP, A2A) and Standards - agent communication, identity, permissions, discovery and cross-framework compatibility
• ✓Topic area: Evaluation and Testing - benchmarks, eval design, regression testing, safety checks and measuring real-world usefulness
• ✓Topic area: Open Infrastructure and Tooling - runtimes, memory layers, tracing, sandboxes, developer tools and deployment platforms
• ✓Topic area: Agentic Engineering - context engineering, composable workflows, long-running tasks, handoffs and parallel agents
• ✓Topic area: Human-Agent Collaboration - UX, oversight, handoffs, trust and operator workflows
• ✓Topic area: Enterprise Adoption in Practice - architecture reviews, governance, rollout lessons and operational maturity
• ✓Topic area: Multi-Agent and Distributed Systems - coordination patterns, task routing, state sharing and orchestration
• ✓Topic area: Agentic Payments - infrastructure, protocols and security models for autonomous financial transactions
• ✓Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification offered on site
• ✓Session formats: 25-minute talks and panels, plus 60-minute workshops
• ✓AI Community Bash on 21 October and an attendee reception on 22 October

• ★Vendor-neutral by governance: run by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, and the CFP states plainly that this is 'a community event - so no product and/or vendor sales pitches'.
• ★It is the home conference of the Model Context Protocol itself, alongside goose and AGENTS.md, so the maintainers are the programme rather than guest speakers.
• ★Agentic payments - protocols and security models for agents that autonomously initiate and authorise transactions - is a named first-class topic area, which almost no other agent conference programmes.
• ★Academic and student registration is $149 across the entire pricing window, and an expo-plus-party pass costs the same.
• ★Part of a global AAIF programme that also includes AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe (Amsterdam, 17-18 September 2026) and MCP Dev Summits in ten cities including New York, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto and Nairobi.

Attendee registration: early bird $375 (2 April - 28 July 2026, now expired), standard $475 (29 July - 7 October 2026), late $925 (8-23 October 2026). Academic rate $149 for the whole window, for current full-time students and faculty or staff providing an institution-issued ID, transcript or proof of employment. An Expo + Party pass is $149 and covers the sponsor showcase, the AI Community Bash on 21 October and the attendee reception on 22 October, but excludes conference sessions and lunch. A 25% discount applies to 10+ registrations purchased together, and Linux Foundation / AAIF members can request 20% off. Each pricing period ends at 23:59 Eastern on the stated date.

When is AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026?

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 takes place October 22–23, 2026 in San Jose, California.

Where is AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 held?

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 is held in San Jose, California. The event format is in-person.

What is the AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 submission deadline?

The next AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 deadline is standard registration ends (late $925 rate begins) on Oct 7, 2026.

How much does AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 cost?

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 is paid. Attendee registration: early bird $375 (2 April - 28 July 2026, now expired), standard $475 (29 July - 7 October 2026), late $925 (8-23 October 2026). Academic rate $149 for the whole window, for current full-time students and faculty or staff providing an institution-issued ID, transcript or proof of employment. An Expo + Party pass is $149 and covers the sponsor showcase, the AI Community Bash on 21 October and the attendee reception on 22 October, but excludes conference sessions and lunch. A 25% discount applies to 10+ registrations purchased together, and Linux Foundation / AAIF members can request 20% off. Each pricing period ends at 23:59 Eastern on the stated date.

Who should attend AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026?

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 is aimed at Platform Engineering Lead, AI/ML Engineer, Enterprise Architect, Open Source Maintainer, Head of AI Infrastructure, Security Engineer, Researcher / Academic.

What topics does AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 cover?

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 covers Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent Interoperability & Standards, Multi-Agent Systems, Agent Evaluation & Testing, Agent Observability & Reliability, Agentic Payments, Human-Agent Collaboration, Enterprise Agent Adoption, Open Source Governance.

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