The MCP Dev Summit comes to Nairobi on Nov. 19 and 20, the Linux Foundation says on its event page. It’s part of a series of technical gatherings for developers building agent systems on the Model Context Protocol.
MCP is an open standard that lets AI models connect to outside tools and data through a common interface. It’s now hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.
The organizers say talks will cover MCP’s development, multi-agent systems, enterprise integration and the work of running agents securely in production. Both days include keynotes, breakout sessions and a solutions showcase, and the first day ends with an attendee reception.
Keynotes
Angie Jones, vice president of the Agentic AI Foundation, opens both days, according to the schedule. Rachel Sibande, a senior program officer for AI at the Gates Foundation, and Steven Wanyee, deputy chairperson of Africa Digital Health Networks, share a keynote on the first morning. Sibande’s bio says she leads the foundation’s Africa AI Scaling Hubs initiative.
On day two, Carl Ross, a member of technical staff at OpenAI, gives a keynote titled “Agentic E2E Software Factories with MCP.” His abstract says his team, which it describes as the original group that implemented MCP at OpenAI, has studied software pipelines run entirely by agents. The constraints were no token budget, no human intervention and full production authority for the agents.
The abstract says agents in those tests collaborated on proposals, wrote and reviewed code, ran testing and handled release and production monitoring, all through MCP. Ross plans to show “what breaks” and where gaps remain.
Sam Morrow, a staff software engineer who leads GitHub’s MCP server, speaks on translation. His abstract says most MCP servers target only English, which “excludes much of the world from a first class agent experience.” He plans to show how to ship translations in servers and clients.
Local builders
Jerry Ochieng Anyumba, a Nairobi backend engineer, presents Goose In A Pond, an offline smart home assistant built on Block’s open-source Goose agent. His team of five Catholic University of Eastern Africa graduates won one of Block’s $100,000 Goose grants, according to his bio. The abstract says the system runs on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and even a Raspberry Pi 5, and the team plans to open-source its MCP extensions.
Hritik Raj, an ML systems engineer at Nutanix, gives a keynote on how MCP moved from a stateful, connection-based protocol to a stateless design in its latest release candidate.
The event page calls Nairobi one of Africa’s fastest-growing technology hubs and says the summit will highlight developers and startups there building AI tools. The Linux Foundation lists travel funding, visa letter requests and child care on the event site. It also offers a Model Context Protocol Associate certification.
Source: Linux Foundation Events, Linux Foundation, “MCP Dev Summit Nairobi”
