Agentic AI Night - MCP Release Party

On July 28, 2026, the Model Context Protocol graduates.

Come join us for a celebration for MCP's global graduation party!

The stateless protocol core ships. Enterprise security hardening goes live. MCP becomes the formal standard for how AI agents connect to tools, data, and APIs.

AAIF Community Austin is hosting one of the global MCP Graduation Parties.

What's Changing

The new MCP spec (2026-07-28) fundamentally changes how you deploy agents at scale:

🔄 Stateless Protocol Core — No more sessions. Any server instance handles any request. Round-robin load balancing works. Serverless-friendly.

🔐 Enterprise Security — OAuth 2.1 hardening with formal resource indicators and anti-mix-up attack protection

🧩 Extensions Framework — Protocol grows without breaking existing deployments

What We're Covering

We'll explore what's new in the latest MCP release, hear from AWS on production agent architecture, learn from Cisco engineers building at scale, and discuss real-world experiences deploying agents in enterprise environments.

Expect technical talks, honest conversations about governance and migration, demos, and plenty of opportunities to connect with builders shipping on MCP.

Agenda

5:30 PM — Doors open & networking
6:00 PM — Welcome: AAIF Community Austin
6:10 PM — Stephen Kirby (Coder): Coding and MCP highlights
6:30 PM — Nayan Karumuri (AWS): Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in Production
7:05 PM — Gregory Kolb (Bitmovin): Audio, Video & Multimodal MCP
7:25 PM — Panel: MCP Release, Governance & Deployment Experiences
8:00 PM — Networking!
9:00 PM — End

Speakers

Stephen Kirby —Solution Engineer,  Coder
Stephen will share how they're thinking about MCP for developer tooling, plus what's new in coding agent infrastructure.

Nayan Karumuri — Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Nayan helps enterprises build production-ready AI agents. He'll walk through Bedrock AgentCore architecture, real customer stories, and why the new MCP spec matters for scaling agents.

Gregory Kolb — Solutions Engineer, Bitmovin
Gregory works on multimodal video and audio streaming infrastructure at Bitmovin. He'll cover what's unique about MCP for media use cases at scale, and demo Bitmovin's open-source MCP eval tool.

Ravi Teja Chikkam — Manager, Data Science & AI Engineering, Cisco
Ravi manages LLM evals, governance, and change management at scale. On the panel discussing how MCP's evolution impacts enterprise deployment and governance strategies.

Who Should Come

AI engineers building agents, platform teams deploying MCP, infrastructure architects, data science leaders, founders exploring agentic AI, anyone interested in the future of AI interoperability.

Whether you're already shipping MCP servers or just starting to explore how agents work—you'll find people building real solutions and willing to share what actually works.

Logistics & Parking
📍 Look for the large Coder sign under the "Cabana" sign, just off 520 E Oltorf.
🚪 Enter through the main door — Suite A — which will stay unlocked for the full event.
🅿️ The lot has plenty of spaces; if it fills up, overflow parking is available on nearby streets like Rebel Rd. and the surrounding neighborhood.

The Global Moment

🌍 This is one of 10+ MCP Graduation Parties happening simultaneously around the world on July 28. Austin's event brings together AWS, Cisco, local builders, and the AAIF community to celebrate and understand what's next for AI infrastructure.

Hosted By

Mario Lazo and Arham Choudhury — AAIF Community Austin Organizers

​About AAIF

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a community dedicated to advancing the understanding and practical application of agentic AI. We bring together engineers, researchers, founders, builders, and AI enthusiasts to explore how autonomous AI systems are designed, evaluated, and deployed.

Through reading groups, workshops, and community discussions, AAIF brings together engineers, researchers, founders, and AI enthusiasts to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and learn from one another.

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