Agentic AI Foundation Announces 10-City Global Events Program: AGNTCon + MCPCon Flagship Conferences in Amsterdam and San Jose

On April 2, 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation-backed neutral home for open standards powering agentic AI systems, announced its expanded 2026 global events program spanning 10 cities across North America, Europe, Asia, India, and Africa.

Flagship events:

• AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe: September 17-18, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• AGNTCon + MCPCon North America: October 22-23, San Jose, California

MCP Dev Summit series (hands-on developer events):

• New York: April 2-3 (happening now)
• Bengaluru: June 9-10
• Mumbai: June 14-15 (co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India)
• Seoul: August 13-14 (co-located with Open Source Summit Korea)
• Shanghai: September 6-7 (co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China)
• Tokyo: September 10-11
• Toronto: October 5-6
• Nairobi: November 19-20

The events focus on three core AAIF technologies:

1. MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP): The open protocol enabling AI agents to connect to tools and data sources in a standardized way. MCP has become the de facto standard for agent-tool integration.

2. GOOSE: Block-backed open-source AI agent framework (github.com/block/goose) for building autonomous coding and task agents.

3. AGENTS.MD: The emerging standard for declaring agent capabilities and instructions, enabling interoperability between agent frameworks.

Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of AAIF, stated: 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.

The significance of this announcement is that it signals agentic AI standards have reached the conference-circuit maturity level — similar to how Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies built their ecosystems through CNCF events. The AAIF is explicitly modeling its event strategy on the Linux Foundation playbook: co-locate with established tech conferences (KubeCon, OpenInfra Summit) to capture existing developer audiences while building a standalone community.

The 10-city reach across 4 continents also signals that agentic AI standardization is not a US-only phenomenon. The inclusion of Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Nairobi reflects the global nature of agent development and deployment.

The AAIF was announced in December 2025 with founding members including Anthropic, Block, Google, Microsoft, and others. The rapid expansion from concept to 10-city event program in under 5 months shows the urgency around standardizing agentic AI infrastructure.