AgentCon North America 2026 Keynotes on MCP, Agent Networks, and Agentic Development

A compilation of keynote talks from AgentCon North America covering how agentic AI systems are being built, governed, and connected through open protocols such as MCP. Speakers from industry and research discuss protocol security, agent-to-agent collaboration, enterprise deployment, software correctness, and emerging economic mechanisms.

■ Protocol and platform updates
- MCP specification changes, tool-list notifications, and authorization considerations
- Enterprise agent governance, identity, registries, observability, and gateways
- MCP adoption across Claude products and directory listings

■ Agent collaboration and software development
- Personal agent networks and cross-owner agent rooms
- Agent-written code review, session logs, and Git infrastructure for agents
- Universal properties and formal methods for correctness in agent-generated software

■ Applied examples and ecosystem
- A computationally designed mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog
- PyTorch continual learning loops and on-the-job training for models
- Mechanism design and open-source lessons for the AI economy
- Community awards and foundation updates

The recording is a conference keynote compilation rather than a hands-on tutorial. It is suited to developers, platform engineers, AI product leaders, and researchers interested in agent infrastructure and open standards. Viewers gain an overview of current agentic AI challenges and approaches, and can use the talks to assess protocol security, governance, and collaboration models for their own projects.