The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek

​Hosted by Open Future Forum
Sponsored by Agentic Fabriq

​AI agents need access to real tools and data—but every new connection introduces questions about identity, permissions, security, reliability, and control.

​Join Open Future Forum during SF a16z TechWeek for a practical, developer-focused discussion about the MCP gateway: the secure infrastructure layer between AI agents and the systems they need to use.

​We’ll explore how a unified gateway can give agents controlled access to tools, APIs, databases, and enterprise platforms while giving engineering teams one place to manage policy, credentials, routing, and observability.

​Topics will include:

• ​MCP gateway architecture and deployment patterns

• ​Secure tool discovery, connectivity, and routing

• ​Authentication, authorization, credentials, and secrets

• ​Policy enforcement, permissions, and human approvals

• ​Observability, audit logs, rate limits, and failure handling

• ​Enterprise requirements for operating agent integrations at scale

​This session is for AI engineers, platform and infrastructure teams, security leaders, API builders, technical founders, and anyone building agents that must connect safely to production systems.

​Come ready for a candid technical conversation with the people building the gateway layer for the agentic web.