Two-day flagship conference for the open agentic AI community at RAI Amsterdam, 17-18 September 2026. Organised by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, it merges AGNTCon (agent architectures) and MCPCon (Model Context Protocol) into one programme, with Diamond sponsors AWS and Google and the consolidated European MCP content that MCP Dev Summit Europe previously carried.
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe is the European edition of the flagship conference for the open agentic AI community, organised by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. The 2026 edition consolidates two strands under one roof: AGNTCon, focused on agent architectures and infrastructure, and MCPCon, focused on the Model Context Protocol. It runs for two days at RAI Amsterdam and covers production agentic AI systems, open interoperability standards, security, observability and enterprise deployment. It is the point where the European MCP conference content, previously carried by MCP Dev Summit Europe, is now consolidated. It sits within the developer AI circuit tracked by Events Index.
Agentic AI systems go beyond single-turn model interactions: they plan, use tools, call external APIs, coordinate with other agents and operate over multi-step tasks with a degree of autonomy. The protocols and architectures that make these systems interoperable, observable and secure are the centre of gravity at AGNTCon + MCPCon. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for tool-to-model communication that anchors the MCPCon strand; agent orchestration frameworks and multi-agent coordination anchor the AGNTCon strand. The event stewards these questions from inside the foundation that now governs the underlying projects, rather than as an outside observer, which shapes how much of the programme is oriented toward specification work and governance rather than product launches.
The 2026 programme covers agent architectures, Model Context Protocol implementation and scaling, production-ready agent systems, AI security and observability, open standards and governance, and enterprise deployment patterns. The organiser has framed the programme around how teams build reliable, scalable and secure agent systems in production, through technical sessions, real-world case studies and community collaboration. The two-day structure runs as follows:
The session schedule was set to be published on 14 July 2026 following the close of the call for proposals; named speakers are announced closer to the event and were not yet listed at the time of this verification. For attendees who want a narrower, protocol-only agenda, the MCP-specific content that ran as a standalone event now lives inside this conference, as reflected in the companion MCP Dev Summit Europe record.
Sponsors confirmed on the official site as of July 2026, by tier:
The sponsor roster overlaps with the vendors most active in agent infrastructure, identity and authorisation for agents (Auth0, Descope), data and graph back-ends (Elastic, Neo4j), and workflow orchestration (Orkes, Temporal). Attendees comparing developer-facing agent events elsewhere on the circuit also track AI Engineer Europe, AgentCon Utrecht, and AI Native DevCon for adjacent audiences within the developer AI circuit.
Coverage clusters around the December 2025 formation of the Agentic AI Foundation, the governance body that runs this conference, rather than around the Amsterdam edition itself, which had not yet taken place at the time of this verification. Three confirmed angles:
The organiser does not publicly disclose accredited journalist counts or media request volumes as of this verification.
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, formed on 9 December 2025 to steward open standards for agentic AI. It is anchored by three founding project contributions: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic, goose from Block, and AGENTS.md from OpenAI. Its Platinum members include Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. The AAIF organises the AGNTCon + MCPCon conference series and manages the governance of the open agentic AI specifications and working groups. Its executive director is Mazin Gilbert.
MCP is an open protocol that standardises how AI models communicate with external tools, databases and services. Originally developed by Anthropic and donated to the Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025, it lets AI applications connect to any MCP-compatible tool without custom integration. Anthropic has stated that MCP's governance model is unchanged by the move to the foundation and that maintainers will continue to prioritise community input. As of mid-2026, MCP is widely adopted across developer toolchains and enterprise AI platforms.
The European MCP conference content that MCP Dev Summit Europe previously carried is now consolidated into AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam on 17-18 September 2026. Attendees looking for the standalone MCP agenda should treat this conference as the venue for that content; the MCP Dev Summit Europe record is maintained as a companion pointer to this consolidation.
The Agentic AI Foundation runs both a North America and a Europe flagship edition in 2026. The Europe edition is at RAI Amsterdam on 17-18 September; the North America edition runs 22-23 October in San Jose, California. The foundation also runs regional MCP Dev Summits, including Toronto (5-6 October) and New York (2-3 April). Content themes overlap across editions.
RAI Amsterdam is a major European convention and exhibition complex at Europaplein 22-36, 1078 GZ Amsterdam. It regularly hosts large-scale technology conferences, including major Linux Foundation events (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe has been held there), and industry summits. Amsterdam RAI station is adjacent to the complex and provides direct train connections to Schiphol Airport (approximately 12 minutes) and Amsterdam Centraal (approximately 10 minutes). The complex includes conference rooms, expo halls and reception areas suited to multi-day developer events, and it can accommodate the co-located MCP content alongside the main AGNTCon and MCPCon strands.
The Linux Foundation is a US-based non-profit that convenes open-source collaboration and developer events globally, with decades of experience stewarding projects including the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, Node.js and PyTorch. The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a directed fund it launched in December 2025 specifically for the agentic AI field. Together they run the AGNTCon + MCPCon series as the community governance and convening body for open standards in agentic AI.
Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the AAIF, framed the 2026 events programme this way: "The 2026 AAIF events program reflects growing global demand for open, vendor-neutral infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate reliably and securely across tools, data, and platforms." That positioning, an open and vendor-neutral home for agent standards, is the throughline connecting the foundation, its three founding projects and this conference.
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe is worth tracking less for its programme, which was still being finalised at verification, than for what it represents: the first European flagship gathering of the Agentic AI Foundation, the body that now governs MCP, goose and AGENTS.md with AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic as Platinum members. Consolidating the standalone European MCP content into this conference makes RAI Amsterdam the single reference point for the open agent-standards community in EMEA this autumn, alongside other fixtures of the developer AI circuit.
Registration is at events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpcon-europe/register/. Pricing is published on the registration page and was not disclosed as a fixed figure at the time of this verification. The Linux Foundation typically offers early-bird and group rates, along with speaker and scholarship options. A livestream access tier is available for remote participants.
Registration URL: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpcon-europe/register/
The programme includes an attendee reception on Thursday evening and informal networking throughout the expo hall. As a Linux Foundation event, it carries a strong open-source community component: contributors to the founding projects (MCP, goose, AGENTS.md) and the associated working groups are part of the attendee pool, which makes the corridor conversations closer to a working-group meeting than a vendor showcase. Consolidating the European MCP content into the same venue widens that pool across the agent-architecture and protocol strands.
Amsterdam RAI station is adjacent to the convention centre. Direct trains run from Schiphol Airport (approximately 12 minutes) and Amsterdam Centraal (approximately 10 minutes). By tram, lines 4 and 25 stop at Amsterdam RAI.
Yes. Livestream access is available for those who cannot attend in person. Check the Linux Foundation registration page for the virtual ticket option.
The Linux Foundation publishes session recordings on its YouTube channel. Search for "AGNTCon" or "MCPCon" to find recordings once the 2026 edition sessions are posted.
| Official website | https://events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpcon-europe/ |
| Register | https://events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpcon-europe/register/ |
| MCP Dev Summit Europe (consolidated into this event) | /events/mcp-dev-summit-europe.html |
| Agentic AI Foundation | https://aaif.io/ |
| Linux Foundation | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ |
| Developer AI circuit (Events Index) | /developer-ai.html |
| Upcoming EMEA events (Events Index) | /upcoming.html |