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title: "Liad Yosef"
category: "people"
role: "Co-creator"
company: "MCP Apps"
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twitter: "https://x.com/liadyosef"
website: "https://ora.ai"
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highlightPriority: "critical"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule", "Transcript-backed synthesis", "Highlight registry"]
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# Liad Yosef

## Profile
Co-creator at [[mcp-apps|MCP Apps]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/liadyosef)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/liadyosef)
- [Website](https://ora.ai)

## Biography
Liad Yosef is the co-creator and maintainer of the [[mcp-apps|MCP Apps]] spec, a member of the MCP Steering Committee, and the co-builder of MCP-UI. Liad is currently the co-founder and CTO at ORA - building the future of the agentic web. Previously leading agentic interfaces in Shopify's CEO office, Liad is a seasoned AI lead and software architect. He has been a web enthusiast for two decades, passionate about crafting developer-first experiences. When he isn't defining open-source standards for the agentic web, he writes poetry and moonlights as an analog astronaut for the European Space Agency.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-liad-yosef-rebuilding-the-web-for-agents]] — Rebuilding the web for agents (2026-06-29, 12:05pm-12:25pm, Search & Retrieval / Track 3). This is the main page for the reachability, agent-readiness, nearly-headless-web, and ORA research synthesis.
- [[2026-06-30-liad-yosef-mcp-apps-extending-the-frontier]] — MCP Apps - Extending the frontier (2026-06-30, 2:25pm-2:45pm, Context Engineering / Track 8). This is the main page for MCP Apps as an agentic app runtime and interactive UI inside MCP hosts.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-liad-yosef-rebuilding-the-web-for-agents|Rebuilding the web for agents]]
- [[2026-06-30-liad-yosef-mcp-apps-extending-the-frontier|MCP Apps - Extending the frontier]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ` — 3,969 transcript words; 1 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: apps, host, claude, back, chatgpt, look, mcpui, chat.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: engineering, future.
- Evidence links for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-transcript]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-slides]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-dense-slides]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-reconstructed-slides]]

## Why Highlighted
Liad is one of the strongest anchors for the conference's agentic-web thread. His scheduled talks connect ORA's research on how agents actually use websites, [[mcp-apps|MCP Apps]] as an interactive runtime, WebMCP/headful fallbacks, and the practical question of what makes a site visible or invisible to agents.

The key contribution is that agent readiness is not just "add a protocol file." The stronger claim is that agents choose reachable, trusted, operable surfaces. A site can publish the right file and still lose if agents cannot discover it from the paths they already use.

## Agentic Web Thesis
- [[reachability-over-format]] — the clever method from the talk: format matters less than whether agents can actually find and reach the guidance.
- [[nearly-headless-web]] — most execution becomes machine-operable, but human-visible checkpoints still matter.
- [[agent-ready-accessibility]] — agent readiness and accessibility share the same engineering base: explicit structure, reachable controls, and understandable state.
- [[mcp-app-runtime]] — MCP Apps gives agentic software an interactive UI layer inside MCP hosts.

## ORA Context
- [[ora]] — ORA is Liad's agentic-web company/research context, focused on agent readiness and making the web agent-accessible.
- [[agentic-web]] — Liad's World's Fair sessions are central schedule anchors for this topic.
- [[mcp-apps]] — MCP Apps is the protocol/UI work connected to Liad and Ido Salomon's related session.

## Related Source Material
- [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ]] — related AI Engineer video with Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon on MCP UI / MCP Apps.
- [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-transcript]] — cached transcript markdown used as supporting context.
- [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-slides]] — extracted slide evidence from the related video.