World Congress 2026 Europe

The Agent Interface Layer: Protocols, Tools and Trust Boundaries

July 9, 2026 15:30 – 16:00 · 30 min Mainstage

David Soria Parra

Co-creator of MCP, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Duan Lightfoot

Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai

Malte Ubl

CTO of Vercel

Taroon Mandhana

CTO of AI and Teamwork of Atlassian

What this session covers

For agents to be useful, they have to connect to tools, data and systems - and a new layer is forming to make that possible. The people building that layer come together to ask how agents should meet the real world, and where the boundaries belong. A look at what is taking shape and what is still wide open.

Related talks at this congress

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 13

Beyond authentication: an open-source trust model for the agentic web

Alexander Günsche, Sabrina Engling

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 09:45–11:45

Room M1 (60 Seats)

Agents at Scale: Multi-Agent Architecture with A2A Protocol on Agent Runtime and ADK Integration

Javier Cañadillas, Daniel Strebel

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 10:55–11:05

Airstream 2

Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster

Mardu Swanepoel

Head of AI Engineering at Flinn.ai

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Room M3 (18 Seats)

Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production

Alex Iordan, Cliff Simpkins

All sessions at this congress