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# The Agent Interface Layer: Protocols, Tools and Trust Boundaries


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 15:30–16:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100132-the-agent-interface-layer-protocols-tools-and-trust-boundaries)

## Description

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.

## Speakers

### [David Soria Parra](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@david-soria-parra)

Co-creator of MCP, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
### [Duan Lightfoot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@duan-lightfoot)

Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai
### [Malte Ubl](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@malte-ubl)

CTO of Vercel
### [Taroon Mandhana](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@taroon-mandhana)

CTO of AI and Teamwork of Atlassian


## Related talks at this congress

- [Beyond authentication: an open-source trust model for the agentic web](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1081-beyond) — Alexander Günsche, Sabrina Engling
- [Agents at Scale: Multi-Agent Architecture with A2A Protocol on Agent Runtime and ADK Integration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1234-agents-at-scale) — Javier Cañadillas, Daniel Strebel
- [Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1020-fast-agents-produce) — Mardu Swanepoel
- [Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1446-trust-but-verify) — Alex Iordan, Cliff Simpkins