# (A)Identity: Auth tips to secure AI agents and MCP servers

> Session, Thursday 12 November, 14:00 to 14:45, Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FIL. Part of the official Web Summit programme.

*Source: <https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/events/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers/index.html> · site v0.1.12 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.*

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| **When** | Thursday 12 November, 14:00 to 14:45 (Lisbon time) |
| **Where** | [Developer Lounge](../../places/developer-lounge/index.md), [MEO Arena and FIL](../../places/meo-arena-and-fil/index.md), [Parque das Nações](../../places/parque-das-nacoes/index.md), [Lisbon](../../places/lisbon/index.md), [Portugal](../../places/portugal/index.md) |
| **As the source puts it** | Developer Lounge, MEO Arena and FIL |
| **Kind** | Session |
| **Organiser** | [Web Summit](../../organisations/web-summit/index.md) (the official programme) |
| **Part of** | [Web Summit Lisbon 2026](../web-summit-lisbon-2026/index.md) |
| **Our pick** | Yes: the team chose to follow it |

## Speakers {#speakers}

As the event's page lists them: name, role, organisation.

- [Samudra Gupta](../../people/samudra-gupta/index.md), Solutions Engineer, [Descope](../../companies/descope/index.md)

## Companies and organisations {#companies}

- [Descope](../../companies/descope/index.md): hosts it; a speaker is listed under it.

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [websummit.com/sessions/lis26/2701a938-524f-4c24-b0da-cb8fdd4e030b/a-id](https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/2701a938-524f-4c24-b0da-cb8fdd4e030b/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers/), read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky. Via the team's data/events.json, re-checked at the source.

Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change: check the source before you go.

The same, as data: [events/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers.json](../../api/v1/events/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers.json) and its graph, [graph/events/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers.json](../../api/v1/graph/events/a-identity-auth-tips-to-secure-ai-agents-and-mcp-servers.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)).

[All events](../index.md)

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