In 2026 there is no standalone MCP Dev Summit in Europe. The Model Context Protocol conference programme for the region is folded into AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam on September 17-18, organised by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
"MCP Dev Summit Europe" is a name that many developers use for the European stop on the Model Context Protocol conference circuit. In practice, for 2026 there is no separate event under that name. The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the vendor-neutral home for MCP under the Linux Foundation, runs its regional MCP Dev Summit series in cities outside Europe (New York, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto, Nairobi) and consolidates the European MCP programme into its flagship AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam. Anyone searching for an MCP-focused developer conference in Europe in 2026 is looking for that Amsterdam event. It sits inside the developer and AI engineering circuit tracked by Events Index.
The AAIF 2026 events programme, announced on 17 April 2026, lists ten dated events. Eight are MCP Dev Summits: New York (2-3 April), Bengaluru (9-10 June), Mumbai (14-15 June), Seoul (13-14 August), Shanghai (6-7 September), Tokyo (10-11 September), Toronto (5-6 October), and Nairobi (19-20 November). None of these is in Europe. The two flagship AGNTCon + MCPCon events are the North America edition in San Jose (22-23 October) and the Europe edition in Amsterdam (17-18 September). The AAIF press release states plainly that the European flagship is branded AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, combining what would elsewhere be a regional summit and a flagship conference into one event. So the MCP conference content for Europe lives inside AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, and the Linux Foundation registration path for "mcp-dev-summit-europe" resolves to that same Amsterdam conference. Events Index maintains a dedicated fiche for the flagship: AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe.
MCP is an open protocol, originally developed by Anthropic and now governed as an open standard under the Agentic AI Foundation, that standardises how AI models communicate with external tools, databases and services. It lets any AI application connect to any MCP-compatible tool without custom integration code. MCP is one of AAIF's three founding projects, alongside goose and AGENTS.md. The protocol has been adopted across AI development toolchains, and a growing set of MCP servers covers use cases from code editors to enterprise data systems. This protocol layer is the reason the MCP conference content commands its own track inside the Amsterdam flagship rather than being diluted across a general AI agenda.
The Amsterdam programme is built for the people who write and run agent infrastructure, not for a general business audience:
The 2026 speaker pool is drawn from MCP core maintainers and from teams shipping agents in production. Reporting and the organiser's own promotion point to contributors from Anthropic and Block (the two companies most associated with MCP and goose respectively), alongside engineers from other production agent teams. A full session-by-session speaker list had not been published on the Linux Foundation schedule page at the time of verification.
Inside AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, the MCP-specific content spans protocol design and security, scaling MCP deployments, secure MCP orchestration, observability and monitoring for MCP-based systems, enterprise integration patterns, tool and server development, and production deployment case studies. This runs alongside the AGNTCon track on agent architectures, multi-agent systems and orchestration, plus a shared track on open standards and governance. The two-day format follows the standard Linux Foundation conference shape: keynotes, technical sessions, an expo hall, and an attendee reception on the first evening.
Sponsorship for the Amsterdam flagship is organised in tiers on the Linux Foundation event page. As of July 2026 the confirmed sponsors are:
The presence of both AWS and Google at Diamond tier is a signal of how far MCP has moved from an Anthropic-specific integration to a cross-vendor standard. Developers weighing adjacent stops on the circuit also track AI Engineer Europe, AgentCon Utrecht, and AI Native DevCon for overlapping audiences within the developer and AI engineering circuit.
MCP as a topic drew substantial trade coverage in 2026, though most reporting attaches to the North America edition and to MCP generally rather than to the Amsterdam event as a named subject:
No independent journalist-accreditation figures or attendance counts have been published for the Amsterdam event as of this verification. Any such number should be treated as unconfirmed until the organiser or a named outlet reports it.
RAI Amsterdam is one of Europe's larger convention and exhibition complexes, at Europaplein 22-36, 1078 GZ Amsterdam. It is reachable by multiple metro and tram lines and sits directly next to Amsterdam RAI station, roughly 12 minutes by direct NS train from Schiphol Airport. RAI Amsterdam regularly hosts Linux Foundation events and major European technology conferences, which is part of why the Foundation routes its European flagship there.
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) describes itself as the neutral home for the open standards behind agentic AI systems, hosted under the Linux Foundation. Its founding projects are the Model Context Protocol, goose, and AGENTS.md. The Linux Foundation is a US-based non-profit that hosts collaborative open-source projects and runs more than 60 annual conferences, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Open Source Summit, and a growing portfolio of AI events. The MCP Dev Summit series and the AGNTCon + MCPCon flagships were launched in 2026 as the AAIF events programme, following rapid growth in MCP adoption. Mazin Gilbert, the AAIF Executive Director, framed the 2026 programme as a response to "growing global demand for open, vendor-neutral infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate reliably and securely across tools, data, and platforms."
No. The AAIF 2026 events programme places its eight regional MCP Dev Summits outside Europe (New York, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto, Nairobi). The European MCP conference content is folded into AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam on 17-18 September 2026. If you were looking for an MCP developer conference in Europe this year, the Amsterdam flagship is the event.
The MCP Dev Summits are regional, developer-focused gatherings for hands-on engagement with MCP and the other AAIF projects. AGNTCon + MCPCon events are the flagship gatherings that add enterprise strategy, governance and cross-industry content on top of the project-level material. In Europe the two are merged into a single flagship rather than run separately.
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the vendor-neutral home for MCP, goose and AGENTS.md, in partnership with the Linux Foundation (LF Events). The Linux Foundation hosts open-source technology events including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Open Source Summit.
The honest read on "MCP Dev Summit Europe" is that the search term outlived the standalone event. For 2026 the MCP conference content in Europe runs inside AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam, and the fact that AWS and Google both sit at Diamond tier tells you MCP has crossed from an Anthropic integration into a cross-vendor standard worth tracking on the developer and AI engineering circuit.
Registration runs through the Linux Foundation event page, which resolves to the Amsterdam AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe conference. Prices exclude 21% VAT:
| Ticket type | Price (EUR, ex-VAT) |
|---|---|
| Attendee, early bird (27 Jan to 2 Aug 2026) | 275 |
| Attendee, standard (3 Aug to 3 Sep 2026) | 375 |
| Attendee, late (4 to 18 Sep 2026) | 795 |
| Academic (any window, students and faculty/staff) | 130 |
Academic rates require valid institutional documentation. Session recordings are typically made available after Linux Foundation events via the Foundation's YouTube channel.
The two-day format includes an expo hall across both days and an attendee reception on the first evening. As part of a flagship Linux Foundation conference, the MCP programme benefits from the wider AGNTCon + MCPCon community sharing the same campus, which is the practical value of the merger for anyone who came specifically for MCP.
A direct NS train from Schiphol to Amsterdam RAI station takes about 12 minutes. The RAI convention centre is directly adjacent to the station.
Attendee passes start at EUR 275 (ex-VAT) in the early-bird window and rise to EUR 375 standard and EUR 795 late. A flat academic rate of EUR 130 (ex-VAT) applies to current full-time students and faculty or staff with valid institutional documentation.
Yes. Because the European MCP programme is merged into AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, a single conference registration covers both the MCP track and the AGNTCon agent-architecture track at the same venue on the same dates. Check the official event page for the current agenda. See also the companion fiche for AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe and other upcoming EMEA events.
| Official website | https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-europe/ |
| Register | https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-europe/register/ |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe (Events Index) | /events/agntcon-mcpcon-europe.html |
| Agentic AI Foundation | https://aaif.io/ |
| Developer and AI circuit (Events Index) | /developer-ai.html |
| Upcoming EMEA events (Events Index) | /upcoming.html |