Eight Days Out: AGNTCon Keynote Assignments Map the Agent Control-Plane Playbook

The AGNTCon+MCPCon North America 2026 keynote schedule and the program’s Featured Keynote Speakers page function as a strategic map of the emerging agent infrastructure landscape. By analyzing the speaker assignments, we can identify how major vendors are positioning their platforms and where they are concentrating their influence. The stage in San Jose this October reveals a clear divide between those prioritizing broad platform governance and those focusing on specialized technical foundations. Our earlier read of this program mapped its 11 tracks as competing control planes. The keynote assignments add the second layer this piece reads: who got the main stage, and what each vendor chose to do with five minutes of it. Google has secured the most significant presence, utilizing three keynote slots to signal a full-stack approach.

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