On this page · 12 sections
- AGNTCon + MCPCon 2027 at a glance
- What changed for 2027
- Key dates and deadlines
- The 2027 CFP tracks for engineering teams
- What the MCP roadmap and release plan say
- What to expect from A2A
- Should your team attend, follow remotely or submit?
- Worked cost example: a five-person team to San Francisco
- India, UK and EU notes
- Preparation checklist for teams that build agents and MCP servers
- How eCorpIT can help
- References
Summary. The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), which operates under the Linux Foundation, has set two AGNTCon + MCPCon editions for 2027. North America runs on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 April 2027 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Europe runs on 15 and 16 September 2027 in London, so far only as a save-the-date with no venue, programme or call for proposals. The North America call for proposals opened on Sessionize on 2 November 2026 and closes on Monday 18 January 2027 at 11:59 pm Pacific time, 68 days from today; notifications follow on 15 February and the schedule on 18 February. Registration has not opened, but prices are listed: $375 per attendee until standard pricing of $475 starts on 1 March 2027, $149 for academics, 20% off for Linux Foundation and AAIF members and 10% off for groups of five or more. Two 2026 changes shape the agenda: A2A joined AAIF, announced on 27 August, and MCP's 2026-07-28 revision made the protocol stateless and deprecated Sampling, Roots and Logging. MCP maintainers now target the next revision for March 2027, before San Francisco. No 2027 speakers are announced. Our verdict: submit by 18 January, register before 1 March, or plan to follow the recordings.
About this article. For engineering leads, platform teams and MCP or A2A builders deciding whether to submit a talk, attend or watch remotely. On 11 November 2026 we checked dates, venue, CFP rules and prices against the Linux Foundation event pages and Sessionize, and protocol details against the MCP and A2A project sites, specification pages and published maintainer meeting notes. Organisers change programmes and prices, so re-check before you book; no organiser or sponsor paid for inclusion. Researched with AI assistance and reviewed by our editorial team.
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2027 at a glance
AGNTCon + MCPCon is AAIF's flagship conference. The North America page promises two days of keynotes, technical sessions and workshops on agentic engineering, MCP, evals, security, interoperability, multi-agent systems and the infrastructure that production agents run on. AAIF describes itself as a neutral foundation under the Linux Foundation that hosts open protocols and projects for agentic AI. The table below draws on the venue, schedule and calendar pages.
| Item | North America 2027 | Europe 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Dates | Wed 28 to Thu 29 April 2027 | Wed 15 to Thu 16 September 2027 |
| City and venue | San Francisco, Moscone Center, 747 Howard St, CA 94103 | London, England; venue not published |
| Call for proposals | Open on Sessionize; closes 18 January 2027 | Details not yet published |
| Registration | Not open; attendee $375, $475 from 1 March 2027, academic $149 | Not published |
| Programme | Schedule due 18 February 2027; keynotes, technical sessions and a sponsor solutions area on both days | Not published |
| Hotels | Information to follow | Not published |
| Days from 11 November 2026 | 168 | 308 |
The North America homepage advertises 6,000+ attendees, 700+ organisations, 375+ talks and 12 workshops. It does not say whether those numbers describe the 2026 event or a 2027 target, so read them as a sense of scale, not a forecast.
What changed for 2027
North America moves to spring. The Linux Foundation's event archive shows the 2026 North America edition ran on 22 and 23 October 2026 in San Jose. The 2027 edition comes six months later in San Francisco. Speakers from October now face a January CFP deadline, and travel budgets planned around a late-year event need to move to April.
Europe moves from Amsterdam to London. The 2026 European edition ran on 17 and 18 September 2026 at RAI Amsterdam, and its MCP strand promised to bring attendees up to date on the 2026-07-28 specification: the stateless core, the extensions framework, authorisation changes and client and server migration. London comes a year later, after the earliest removal date for MCP's deprecated features has passed.
The foundation's project list grew. AAIF's projects page lists ten projects: Agent Router, Agent Skills, Agent2Agent, AGENTS.md, agentgateway, goose, Model Context Protocol, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox. Each has its own CFP topic for 2027. The biggest arrival is A2A: its maintainers announced on 27 August 2026 that AAIF had accepted it as a Growth Stage project, which puts MCP and A2A under one foundation.
More regional events. The 2027 calendar also lists AGNTSummit Sydney (16 to 17 June) and AGNTSummit New York City (1 to 2 November), plus Open Nexus events featuring AGNTSummit in Shanghai (12 to 13 May) and Bengaluru (9 to 10 September).
Key dates and deadlines
All dates come from the CFP, Sessionize, registration, calendar and co-located event pages; days are counted from 11 November 2026.
| Date | Milestone | Days away | Action for engineering teams |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 18 Jan 2027, 11:59 pm Pacific | North America CFP closes | 68 | Submit up to three proposals per person |
| Mon 15 Feb 2027 | CFP notifications | 96 | Accepted speakers get a registration link |
| Thu 18 Feb 2027 | Schedule announced | 99 | Pick sessions and decide who travels |
| Mon 1 Mar 2027 | Attendee price rises from $375 to $475 | 110 | Register before this if registration has opened |
| Mon 15 Mar 2027 | Agentics Day: MCP + Agents, Barcelona | 124 | Option for EU teams already at KubeCon Europe |
| Wed 14 Apr 2027 | Our reading of the last refund date | 154 | Confirm travellers or transfer passes |
| Wed 28 to Thu 29 Apr 2027 | AGNTCon + MCPCon North America | 168 | Attend, or watch recordings later |
| Thu 9 to Fri 10 Sep 2027 | Open Nexus India featuring AGNTSummit, Bengaluru | 302 | Lower-cost option for India-based teams |
| Wed 15 to Thu 16 Sep 2027 | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, London | 308 | Watch for the CFP and prices |
Two notes on these dates. The Linux Foundation CFP page labels the cut-off as PST but gives the offset as UTC-07:00, which is daylight time; Sessionize, which runs the submission form, says the call closes on Pacific Standard Time (UTC-08:00). On the Sessionize clock the cut-off is 1:29 pm IST on Tuesday 19 January; the UTC-07:00 label would make it 12:29 pm. Treat 18 January as the real deadline. The refund date is our reading of the registration page, which refunds only cancellations received two weeks before the main event starts, minus a 6% processing fee, and prints no calendar date.
The 2027 CFP tracks for engineering teams
The CFP lists six general topics and ten project topics. The table groups them by who should care.
| Track | What the CFP asks for | Most relevant to |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Engineering | Agent harnesses, multi-agent coordination, local and self-hosted inference, cost optimisation, context engineering, memory, retrieval, tool discovery | Platform and application teams running agents in production |
| Enterprise Adoption in Practice | Choosing use cases, pilot to production, ownership, governance, measuring outcomes, regulated environments | Engineering managers and CTOs |
| Evals & Reliability | Evaluation pipelines, regression testing, observability, incidents, failure recovery | QA, SRE and ML engineers |
| Security, Identity & Control | Authentication, authorisation, identity, delegation, sandboxing, guardrails, human approval | Security and identity teams |
| Agent Interfaces & Interaction | Agent-ready applications, browser and voice agents, computer use, human-agent collaboration | Front-end and product teams |
| Agentic AI 101 | Introductory sessions for newcomers | Teams new to agents |
| Project: MCP | MCP Apps, Tasks, Skills over MCP, Server Cards, OAuth Client Credentials, Enterprise-Managed Authorization | MCP server and client builders |
| Project: A2A | Agent discovery, task delegation, streaming and asynchronous work, secure cross-organisation communication | Multi-agent and integration teams |
| Project: Skills and Project: AGENTS.md | SKILL.md authoring and evaluation; AGENTS.md for coding agents and monorepos | Developer-experience teams |
| Project: agentgateway and Project: Agent Router | Routing, securing and observing traffic to models, MCP tools and agents; Agent Router is the Envoy-based project once called Envoy AI Gateway | Platform and gateway owners |
| Project: goose, Open Responses, OpenEnv, OpenSandbox | Agent runtime, shared LLM API format, training environments, sandboxing | Specialists in each project |
The MCP project topic is the clearest signal of where the protocol is heading. It asks for talks on interactive MCP Apps, long-running Tasks, Skills distributed over MCP, server discovery through Server Cards and enterprise authorisation patterns.
Submission rules worth knowing
- Formats. 25-minute sessions (two speakers at most), 25-minute panels (four including the moderator), 5-minute lightning talks and live demos (two speakers each), 90-minute workshops and 25-minute poster presentations (two presenters).
- Limits. Up to three proposals per submitter. Panels must name every participant at submission, and the Linux Foundation does not accept all-male panels.
- Tone. Sales pitches and talks on closed-source technology rarely get accepted, and the page warns that proposals leaning on AI-generated or templated text may struggle to advance.
- Passes. Each accepted submission gets one complimentary speaker pass plus two attendee passes for guests. Accepted speakers must submit slides before the event.
The strongest proposals are usually migration stories with specifics you can share: moving a server to the stateless 2026-07-28 revision, replacing Sampling, or running A2A across two frameworks.
What the MCP roadmap and release plan say
The current MCP revision is 2026-07-28. The roadmap page, last updated 22 August 2026, sets out the Core Maintainers' view for the next six to twelve months and says it reflects current thinking rather than firm commitments. It gives no release date. Notes from the Core Maintainers' meeting on 15 September 2026, held alongside the Amsterdam event, fill that gap: the next specification release now targets March 2027, replacing a 15 December 2026 date, with releases every September and March after that. The maintainers chose March and September partly to fit the community event calendar. A March release would land before San Francisco and a September one close to London, but neither is fixed to a day and either can slip. Specification Enhancement Proposals (SEPs) inside the five roadmap areas get expedited review.
| Priority area | Deliverables named for this roadmap period | What it means for builders |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Agentic messaging primitives | Server-initiated events (channels, subscriptions, webhooks); a composition review of Tasks, Triggers and related primitives; continued work on the Tasks extension (SEP-2663) toward core inclusion | Long-running tools may stop relying on client polling |
| 2. HTTP-native transport unification | HTTP over stdio, possibly HTTP/2 over stdin and stdout, so Streamable HTTP becomes the single binding; ETag caching that builds on ttlMs and cacheScope from SEP-2549 | Local and remote servers may converge on one transport stack |
| 3. Agent identity and enterprise security | Finalise DPoP; agent identity and delegation through Workload Identity Federation (SEP-1933), the ID-JAG grant used by Enterprise-Managed Authorization, and RFC 8693 token exchange | Pasted API keys and long-lived refresh tokens are the stated problem |
| 4. Improved primitives | Redesign the tools/call result shape (content versus structuredContent); progressive discovery of large tool catalogues; review of content annotations, which may be deprecated if unused | Tool output contracts may change |
| 5. SDK developer experience | Define the extension contract; generate a candidate Tier 1 SDK and quickstarts from the specification and validate them against the conformance suite | SDK behaviour may become more uniform across languages |
Two dates frame the 2027 conversations. The 2026-07-28 revision deprecated Roots, Sampling and Logging (SEP-2577), and the deprecated-features registry makes them eligible for removal only in the first revision released on or after 28 July 2027. On the maintainers' plan, a March 2027 revision must keep them and September 2027 is the first that could drop them, though removal is a decision, not an automatic event. San Francisco falls before that floor and London after it. Our guide to the Sampling, Roots and Logging deprecation covers the migration paths.
The second thread is authorisation. The same revision deprecated Dynamic Client Registration in favour of Client ID Metadata Documents, and the roadmap's identity work goes further, toward agents acting under their own identity. If you are choosing an authentication approach for MCP servers now, our comparison of managed MCP authentication options covers token custody and cost.
Questions worth bringing to maintainers, based only on the published roadmap:
- Whether the Tasks extension will move into the core specification in the March 2027 revision.
- How HTTP over stdio will affect existing stdio servers that log to stderr.
- When DPoP and Workload Identity Federation will be stable enough to require in enterprise deployments.
What to expect from A2A
A2A shipped v1.0 on 12 March 2026, which its maintainers presented as the protocol's first stable release for production use. The release added multi-protocol bindings with version negotiation, multi-tenancy (one endpoint hosting many agents), signed Agent Cards and a modernised security model. It includes breaking changes to the interaction protocol, but Agent Cards can advertise v0.3 and v1.0 support at once so clients can migrate in steps. At that release the Technical Steering Committee included representatives from AWS, Cisco, Google, IBM Research, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow.
The A2A roadmap, last updated 15 September 2026, lists four near-term initiatives. One has already shipped: the official A2A CLI was announced on 1 October 2026, built on the Go SDK's command-line client and speaking A2A v1.0.
| Initiative | Tracking issue | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| v1.1 protocol enhancements | #1991 | Task timeline specification, standard event filtering with backward compatibility, handling messages received while an agent is working |
| Bidirectional streaming | #1995 | Real-time artifact updates and multi-turn messaging while tasks run |
| A2A CLI and coding-harness integration | #1929 | A command-line client so coding harnesses and scripts can message A2A agents; released 1 October 2026 |
| Elicitation and multi-turn workflows | #2149, #2143 | Structured human-in-the-loop interaction and multi-round negotiation patterns |
The roadmap's three-to-six-month section covers governance through extensions and samples, validation with the A2A Inspector and a Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), the SDKs (already hosted in six languages: Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, .NET and Rust) and collecting community best practices. The post announcing the AAIF move describes MCP as the vertical layer that connects agents to tools and A2A as the horizontal layer between agents. If you are still deciding which one your architecture needs, our MCP vs A2A decision guide works through it.
Should your team attend, follow remotely or submit?
Both listed pass types include post-event session recordings, and the North America page links the 2026 livestreams and recordings on YouTube.
| Pick this | If |
|---|---|
| Submit a talk by 18 January | You have shipped an MCP server, A2A integration, gateway or eval pipeline to production and can share specifics without a sales pitch |
| Attend San Francisco | You build MCP clients or servers and want time with maintainers soon after the planned March revision; you are US-based or already travelling |
| Wait for London | Your team is in the UK or EU, or you want to hear removal decisions after the 28 July 2027 deprecation floor |
| Attend Open Nexus India in Bengaluru | You are India-based and want AAIF content without long-haul travel; its programme is not yet published |
| Follow remotely | Your agent work is early or budget is tight; the passes list post-event recordings |
| Skip both | You only consume agents through a vendor product and do not build tools, servers or integrations |
Worked cost example: a five-person team to San Francisco
This covers registration only, using the published price list. Travel, hotels and visas are excluded because hotel information has not been published and those costs depend on where you start.
| Scenario | Arithmetic | Registration total |
|---|---|---|
| Five attendees, early rate | 5 x $375 | $1,875.00 |
| Five attendees, early rate, group discount | $1,875 x 0.90 | $1,687.50 |
| Five attendees, standard rate | 5 x $475 | $2,375.00 |
| Five attendees, standard rate, group discount | $2,375 x 0.90 | $2,137.50 |
| One accepted talk (1 speaker pass + 2 guest passes) plus two paid early-rate attendees | 2 x $375 | $750.00 |
Buying five passes before 1 March rather than after saves $450 with the group discount ($2,137.50 minus $1,687.50). An accepted talk covers three of the five people, worth $1,125 at the early rate (3 x $375). The group discount needs the same pass type for everyone, one group registration and one credit card. The page does not say whether the 20% member discount stacks with the group discount, so do not assume it does. A refundable cancellation still loses the 6% fee: $22.50 on a $375 pass. For Indian budgets, at ₹93.93 per US dollar (ECB reference rates, 10 November 2026), the early group total of $1,687.50 is about ₹1,58,507 and the standard group total of $2,137.50 about ₹2,00,775, before card foreign-exchange charges.
India, UK and EU notes
India. The Linux Foundation archive lists MCP Dev Summits in Bengaluru on 9 to 10 June 2026 and Mumbai on 14 to 15 June 2026. For 2027 the calendar lists Open Nexus India, featuring AGNTSummit alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Open Source Summit and PyTorch Conference, on 9 to 10 September 2027 in Bengaluru; its page is a save-the-date with no programme or prices yet. For many Indian teams that is the cheaper way into the same community, and it ends five days before London opens. Teams sending engineers to San Francisco should start US visa paperwork early, because appointment waits vary by consulate.
Agent identity, delegation and audit trails are where India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act and the EU GDPR meet MCP deployments, because an agent calling a tool for a user processes that user's data. The Security, Identity & Control and Enterprise Adoption in Practice tracks are the ones to watch for regulated-industry lessons. This is general information, not legal advice.
UK and EU. London is the obvious choice for European teams. Agentics Day: MCP + Agents on 15 March 2027 in Barcelona is a CNCF-hosted event co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe (15 to 18 March 2027) and covered by the all-access KubeCon pass; its CFP closed on 18 October 2026. At the 2026 Amsterdam edition the Linux Foundation sold a Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification add-on for €175, which it described as reflecting a 20% registrant discount on a $250 list price. It has not said whether the 2027 events will repeat that.
Preparation checklist for teams that build agents and MCP servers
- Decide the role by 18 January. Speaker, attendee or remote follower. Speakers need a proposal; attendees need budget approval before 1 March.
- Get current on the 2026-07-28 revision. Sessions will assume the stateless core and the new request patterns. A team still on
2025-11-25will spend the event catching up.
- Inventory deprecated features. List every use of Sampling, Roots, Logging, Dynamic Client Registration and HTTP+SSE in your servers and clients, so you can ask specific questions.
- Read the five MCP roadmap areas and pick two. Most teams care about identity (area 3) and tool result shape (area 4).
- Check your A2A version. If you run A2A, know whether your agents speak v0.3, v1.0 or both, and whether your SDK supports v1.0.
- Bring an eval story. The Evals & Reliability track rewards teams that measure regressions. Our guide to agent evals in CI/CD is a starting point.
- Write down identity questions. Agent identity is the busiest roadmap area, so arrive with your non-human identity and delegation questions in writing.
How eCorpIT can help
eCorpIT is a Gurugram-based technology organisation, founded in 2021, assessed at CMMI Level 5 and MSME certified, with senior-led engineering teams working across AWS, Microsoft and Google platforms. We build and migrate MCP servers and clients to the 2026-07-28 revision and add the identity and eval controls the 2027 tracks focus on, as set out on our MCP server development and integration service page. Talk to us at /contact-us/.
Last updated: 11 November 2026.
