The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic

Presenters David Soria Parra Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 The Agent Ecosystem: From Demos to Production-Ready Connectivity 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! David Soria Parra here, and I’m buzzing with excitement about the incredible evolution of the agent ecosystem. We’ve come a long way from simple specs and local tools to a vibrant, production-ready landscape. Let’s dive into what’s happening and where we’re headed! MCP Applications: Shipping Intelligence, Not Just Code 💡 Imagine an agent that ships its own interface, not as a plugin or a hardcoded feature, but as a fully functional application served over an MCP server. This is the power of MCP applications! You can take this server, deploy it anywhere – the cloud, ChatGPT, VS Code Cursor – and it just works. This requires a crucial element: semantics. Both the client and the server need to understand each other, how to render the UI, and that an interface is indeed coming. This is where a robust protocol becomes essential. ...

April 19, 2026 · 6 min

State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger

Presenters Peter Steinberger Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 The State of the Claw: Navigating the Future of Agentic AI 🤖 In just five months, OpenClaw has achieved what many thought impossible: it has become the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub’s history. With nearly 30,000 commits, 2,000 contributors, and a trajectory that defies traditional growth charts, OpenClaw is redefining how we interact with personal AI agents. Peter Steinberger, the project’s creator and a recent addition to the OpenAI team, took the stage to discuss the “State of the Claw,” the challenges of hyper-growth, and why the future of AI belongs to the users. ...

April 17, 2026 · 4 min

Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner

Presenters Mario Zechner Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Slop: Why I Built Pi and Why We Need to Slow Down Hey there, I’m Mario Zechner. Recently, I’ve been wearing a t-shirt covered in paid ad space to raise money for charity, but when I’m not being a human billboard, I’m thinking about the “tragedy” of modern AI development. We are currently living in a world of slop, and I’m here to tell you how I built Pi to escape it. ...

April 16, 2026 · 5 min

Model Context Protocol(MCP) Authorization for Enterprise Use Case With Keycloak - Yutaka Obuchi

Presenters Yutaka Obuchi Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Enterprise AI: How Keycloak and ID Jot Streamline Authorization 🚀 In today’s increasingly complex digital landscape, enterprises are leveraging AI agents to automate tasks and interact with a multitude of tools. But how do we ensure these agents have secure and efficient access to the resources they need, especially within the strict confines of an enterprise environment? Yutaka Obuchi, a dedicated Keycloak contributor and software engineer at Hitachi, dives deep into this critical question, exploring the challenges and presenting an elegant solution using Keycloak and the emerging ID Jot standard. ...

April 13, 2026 · 7 min

The Keycloak-Token-Configuration Mistake, 90% of All Developers Do (and How To Avoid... Niko Köbler

Presenters Niko Köbler Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 🛡️ Stop Building “God Tokens”: Avoiding the Top Keycloak Mistakes At the first-ever KeycloakCon in Amsterdam, industry veteran Niko Köbler dropped a bombshell: 90% of Keycloak developers are making critical mistakes in their configuration. Having worked with Keycloak since its infancy in 2015, Niko has seen it all—from massive enterprise LDAP migrations to modern microservices architectures. If your application “just works,” you might think you’re safe. But in the world of identity and access management, “working” and “secure” are two very different things. Here is how to stop issuing dangerous God tokens and start implementing professional-grade security. ...

April 13, 2026 · 5 min