Aug 17, 2026

MCP Goes Stateless | ​John Dellenbaugh & Pankaj Kumar | MCP Release Party - Seattle

This session details the transformation of the MCP protocol to a stateless design, addressing previous scaling challenges by externalizing session state to a database and eliminating the need for sticky sessions and complex infrastructure. The presentation includes a live demo comparing stateful and stateless architectures, highlighting benefits in scalability and simplified deployment. It also covers considerations for security and data resiliency within this new paradigm.

Jul 08, 2026

Building an ACP-Compatible Agent Live — Bennet Fenner, Zed

This session explores building an AI coding agent that integrates with the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), Zed's open-source JSON RPC-based standard for agent-client communication. It covers essential architectural elements, including protocol design, session lifecycle management, real-time streaming of model output via session updates, and sophisticated handling of tool calls, such as proxied file system operations and self-modifying code for new capabilities like a terminal tool.

May 20, 2026

Building MCP Before MCP Existed: Inside Despegar's Sofia Agent

A deep dive into Despegar's GenAI travel agent, Sofia. Explore its multi-agent architecture, the custom orchestration layer 'Chappi' built before MCP was a standard, and the strategy of decentralizing agent development across company squads to cover the entire five-phase travel arc.

May 14, 2026

MagenticLite is here: A full-stack agentic experience powered by Small Models

Microsoft Research introduces MagenticLite, an agentic framework powered by two new small, open-weight models: Magentic Orchestrator for planning and coding, and Fara-1.5 for browser automation. The talk details the novel synthetic data generation techniques and training strategies used to achieve state-of-the-art performance in small models, enabling them to compete with much larger ones.

May 13, 2026

Build Hour: GPT-Realtime-2

Explore GPT-Realtime-2, OpenAI's advanced voice AI model, through practical demos and a deep dive with Sierra on building production-grade, low-latency voice agents with complex reasoning and tool use.

May 13, 2026

Building AI Agents in Kotlin • Anton Arhipov • YOW! 2025

Anton Arhipov from JetBrains introduces Koog, a lightweight, Kotlin-native framework for building tool-using LLM agents. This session covers the rationale for using Kotlin in AI, the architecture of Koog agents, and how its graph-based DSL enables the creation of structured, type-safe, and reproducible agent workflows, moving beyond simple prompt-chaining to sophisticated orchestration.