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· New York Times Building, New York
MCP Release Party
Release party from the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) for the 2026-07-28 MCP specification, with talks on the stateless spec, evaluating an MCP server and MCP authorization.
On stage
- Alex Hancock
Software Engineer, Block; MCP Rust SDK maintainer; core maintainer, Goose · Blockspeaker
- Michael Levan ↗
AI Architect / Principal Solutions Engineer, Solo.io · Solo.iospeaker
- Scott Yak ↗
Senior Software Engineer, Datadog — Applied AI (MCP services) · Datadogspeaker
- Angie Jones ↗
VP, Developer Experience — Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) · Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)host
Recap pending.
Alex's posts
- Pre-event · weekly roundupRead on LinkedIn ↗
- RecapRead on LinkedIn ↗
Sources from the first comment
- Datadog MCP Server: datadoghq.com/product/ai/mcp-server
- MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate: blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/
- What MCP is: modelcontextprotocol.io/
- AAIF events: aaif.io/events
- RecapRead on LinkedIn ↗
Sources from the first comment
- MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate (largest spec revision since launch): blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/
- What MCP is: modelcontextprotocol.io/
- New extensions referenced: MCP Apps (SEP-1865), Tasks (SEP-2663), Extensions framework (SEP-2133) — github.com/modelcontextprotocol
- Goose (Block's open-source agent, one of the first MCP clients): block.github.io/goose
- Datadog MCP Server: datadoghq.com/product/ai/mcp-server
- solo.io/ agentgateway (where Levan argues security belongs): solo.io/
- AAIF events + the six-city party series: aaif.io/events