Liad Yosef
Profile
Co-creator at MCP Apps.
Biography
Liad Yosef is the co-creator and maintainer of the 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
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 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.