Model Context Protocol (MCP) at tech events
32 write-ups · 23 events · 2025–2026
Here I gather sessions, demos and hallway conversations about the Model Context Protocol and the agent protocols around it. Across AGNTCon and MCPCon, Red Hat Summit and local AI meetups, the recurring themes are how MCP servers get built, how tools and legacy systems are exposed to agents, and how access to them is secured.
2026
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: All the AnnouncementsComplete roundup of all AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe announcements — MCPA certification, Gates Foundation, Traefik, WSO2, Grape Up, AgentCat, A2A, Envoy.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in AmsterdamAGNTCon + MCPCon Europe lands September 17-18, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. Preview of the agentic AI + MCP conference from the people building the stack.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 Recap: Agents, MCP, and Production RealityTwo days at RAI Amsterdam. The agentic stack is moving from demos to production — here's what actually works when agents touch real infrastructure.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026: Key TakeawaysAGNTCon + MCPCon 2026 recap: 81% have agents in production, MCP hits 89% adoption, AGENTS.md at 60k repos, and the shift from demos to reliability is real.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Two Days of Real Agentic AI at RAI AmsterdamDay 1 of AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam: 2,000+ attendees, keynotes from MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, and agentic AI production data.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-AgentDay 2 at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — stateless MCP in production, agent identity, and multi-agent orchestration.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People I Met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026The builders behind the agentic stack — speakers, panelists, and hosts I met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
MCPA Certification: Validating MCP Expertise at AGNTCon + MCPCon EuropeAgentic AI Foundation launches MCPA certification at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — validating MCP concepts, architecture, and implementation.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Securing Agentic AI Traffic: Gravitee at PlatformCon 2026Gravitee evolved its API and event-stream management platform into a full agent management layer covering MCP, LLM, and agent-to-agent traffic.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible MCP Server Demo: AI Automation in Cursor IDELive demo of the Ansible MCP Server from Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: agentic job management, root cause analysis, and NL automation in Cursor.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible VS Code Extension with MCP ServerRed Hat's Ansible VS Code extension now embeds an MCP server for AI-assisted playbook creation, context-aware linting, and compliant scaffolding.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible Intelligent Assistant & MCP Server: BYOK RAGRed Hat's Automation Intelligent Assistant (AIA) brings BYOK RAG, a hosted MCP server exposing AAP to LLMs, and multi-provider BYOM flexibility.
21 May 2026 · Who's Watching the Agents? · Amsterdam
Who's Watching the Agents? AI Observability Meetup atSRE NL and Coralogix hosted 'Who's Watching the Agents?' at Miro's Amsterdam office — covering AI-powered observability, MCP servers for telemetry, custom.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
AI-Powered RHEL Management with MCP Servers at Red HatHands-on lab at Red Hat Summit 2026 — managing RHEL fleets with Model Context Protocol servers for Lightspeed and Satellite, presented by Nathan Kinder.
7 May 2026 · MLOps Community Amsterdam: agent memory evening · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam: Agent Memory and ChunkingMLOps Community Amsterdam, 7 May 2026: Qdrant on token cost and chunking, Nextcloud memory with verify-on-read, and LangWatch on agent evals.
May 2026 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck Demo Night · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck Demo NightLive demos of conversational BI with DuckDB WASM, proactive AI coaching agents, and event-driven orchestration at NIO House Amsterdam.
11 Mar 2026 · The Future of Product #3 · Amsterdam
The Future of Product #3: AI Product Meetup AmsterdamThe Future of Product #3 in Amsterdam: Miro on everyone as a builder, miyagami's AI product lifecycle and Orq.ai's single vs multi-agent eval results.
10 Mar 2026 · AICamp AI Meetup Amsterdam (A2A Protocol and Deep Search) · Amsterdam
AICamp Amsterdam: A2A Protocol and Deep SearchModerating the AICamp AI meetup in Amsterdam at ML6. Talks on Google A2A Protocol and Deep Search AI Agents solving the Olof Palme murder case.
25 Feb 2026 · Becoming a 10x Engineer in the Age of AI Devtools (LangWatch x AI Foundry) · Amsterdam
Becoming a 10x Engineer: AI Devtools Meetup AmsterdamLangWatch and AI Foundry's 10x engineer evening in Amsterdam: Claude Code workflows, OpenClaw goodies, a real AI stack and a feedback-loop takeaway.
24 Feb 2026 · An Evening with Cursor: Advanced Workflows · Amsterdam
Nick Miller (Cursor) at AI House: Advanced WorkflowsNick Miller of Cursor at AI House Amsterdam on dynamic context discovery, long-running cloud agents, hooks, debug mode, skills, subagents and plugins.
31 Jan 2026 · Udienza 2026 conference coverage (FOSDEM, KubeCon EU/Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon, OSS Europe)
Where Udienza Films: Conferences and Media PartnershipsWhere Udienza filmed in 2026: FOSDEM, KubeCon Europe and Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon and Open Source Summit Europe, and what a media partnership means.
15 Jan 2026 · AI Native Netherlands: Applied AI: Navigating Legacy Systems and Building Agentic Workflows · Amsterdam
AI Native Netherlands at Elastic: Agents, MCP, WorkflowsAI Native Netherlands at Elastic Amsterdam: ANWB on forecasting roadside assistance demand, then Elastic on moving from RAG to agents, MCP and workflows.
2025
7 Nov 2025 · SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4 · Amsterdam
SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStackNotes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
6 Nov 2025 · Apidays Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
Apidays Amsterdam 2025: MCP, API Security, TerraformNotes from Apidays Amsterdam on 6 November 2025: a MuleSoft founder fireside, an MCP lifecycle workshop, API security talks and AWS serverless with Terraform.
30 Oct 2025 · ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future · Amsterdam
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future RecapElasticON Amsterdam 2025 at the Beurs van Berlage: the agenda, AWS and Google Cloud sessions, TVH's observability road, and A-CORN filtered vector search.
19 Sept 2025 · AI4Devs Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
AI4Devs 2025 Amsterdam: Spring AI, Iceberg and StrandsAI4Devs Amsterdam, September 2025: Josh Long built a RAG assistant with Spring AI, Pratik Patel queried Iceberg with LLMs, then Koog and Strands Agents.
10 Sept 2025 · Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025 (roundup) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025: A RoundupTwelve smaller Amsterdam tech events from autumn 2025: LangChain, ClimateHack, AI House coding sessions, Apidays, SREday, OpenJDK and sustainable UX.
14 Jul 2025 · Data Agent Builders Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
LlamaIndex Data Agent Builders Meetup, Amsterdam 2025LlamaIndex's Data Agent Builders meetup in Amsterdam, 14 July 2025: GUI-agent datasets, what makes an agent, MCP tools and an agentic OCR pipeline.
9 Jul 2025 · MLOps Community AI Agent World Tour Amsterdam · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam, July 2025: Agents in ProductionAI Agent World Tour Amsterdam, 9 July 2025: Lumina, an agent control tower, secure agent-to-agent protocols and JetBrains Koog, plus the panel on agents.
2 Jun 2025 · Security in AI: an afternoon with Sarah Young (Global AI Utrecht) · Utrecht
Sarah Young on AI Security: Global AI Utrecht 2025Sarah Young of Microsoft at Global AI Utrecht, June 2025: threat stats, keyless auth, layered controls, data oversharing, MCP security and a short interview.
27 May 2025 · AI Native Netherlands meetup #1 · Amsterdam
re:cinq AI Native Meetup 2025: MCP Security Wild WestFirst AI Native Netherlands meetup, May 2025: re:cinq on AI-native platforms, plus a Wild West tour of MCP risks, protocol competition, privacy and regulation.
20 May 2025 · To MCP or not to MCP (Treblle / Push to Main Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
Treblle MCP Meetup Amsterdam 2025: To MCP or NotTreblle's 'To MCP or not to MCP' meetup at ML6 Amsterdam: ClickHouse on MCP in production, Cloudflare on remote servers, ML6 on Agent2Agent.