Agentics Day: MCP + Agents Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
as the organisers put it
Agentics Day: MCP + Agents Europe 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, security engineers, platform architects, engineering managers
topics
MCP servers and extensions; streamable HTTP for MCP; MCP apps with live UIs; AI coding fabric infrastructure; spec registries and versioning; long-running agent sandboxes; agent observability and provenance; Envoy-mediated agent security; SPIRE identities and mTLS; service mesh for tool authorization; agentregistry and A2A blueprints; agent-driven AIOps and remediation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Manik Surtani, Varun Talwar | 06m |
A day zero event launched six months after the idea highlights a push to move agents from demos into production with clear numbers: measurable fast ROI is… | ||
| MCP in 2026: Context is All You Need | David Soria Parra | 29m |
MCP reports tens of millions of downloads per month and thousands of published servers with many more private enterprise deployments; recent additions are… | ||
| The New AI Coding Fabric | Patrick Debois | 25m |
Argues that a new infra layer — an AI Coding Fabric — is forming to support autonomous coding agents, and lists concrete needs: spec registries and versioned… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: How I Built My Laptop Into an MCP Server To Create Secure Cloud Native Infrastructure | Mahendran Selvakumar | 10m |
A laptop runs a local MCP server.py that accepts plain‑language requests and returns vetted Kubernetes YAML: Deployments, Services, probes, required labels… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Day-2 Ready: Bringing ag... | Idit Levine, Keith Babo | 06m |
Live demo takes an app from zero to production in about 5 minutes using the CLI and VS Code, scaffolding an agent with two local tools (roll die, check prime)… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Rescue Agents From Prototype Purga... | Ignasi Barrera | 06m |
Defines concrete readiness checks for agents: resilience to model changes, strict data-exfiltration controls, and behavioral boundaries, with an explicit… | ||
| Beyond Vibecoding: The Coach/Player Model for Actual Autonomous Development | Douwe Osinga | 26m |
Introduces dialectical autocoding: a coach/player adversarial loop where a player implements and a coach critiques from a fresh context each turn. Uses… | ||
| Keeping Your Agents in Check: Layered Security for Agentic Platforms in Production | Evaline Ju, Kelly Abuelsaad | 27m |
Demo shows a Kubernetes debug agent connected to GitHub and K8s MCP servers that follows a malicious README and issues kubectl get secrets until an Envoy-based… | ||
| Fantastic Vibes and Where To Find Them | Erica Hughberg, Mauricio Salatino | 27m |
Empirical report on using coding agents: teams defining agent teams with a Docker Agents YAML topology and sharing them as OCI images on Docker Hub see… | ||
| Is AIOps the Future of Operations? Real Use Cases From the Trenches | Iveri Prangishvili, Danilo Banjac | 29m |
Adobe operates 70+ clusters and 200,000+ services and builds an agent marketplace that deploys agents as MCPs to Azure functions/foundry, indexes GitHub… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: Securing AI Agents: Applying Service Mesh Patterns To MCP | Shriya Chaitanya Kamat Tarcar | 10m |
Claims that MCP deployments lack mutual TLS and per-tool authorization and demonstrates applying service mesh primitives to close those gaps using Istio (Envoy… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How AI Agents Are Ending Interrupt-Driven Platform Work | Sunny Whang | 10m |
Claim: a deployed multi‑agent platform (open‑sourced as CAIPE/Cape now in CNOE) eliminates interrupt‑driven tickets by routing work to a deep supervisor agent… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Manik Surtani, Varun Talwar | 01m |
Brief wrap up that mostly thanks the audience for staying until 6:00, notes a plan to take the feedback as it comes back, and signals end-of-day logistics with… | ||
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