NANDA x Glasswing Ventures’ Rudina Seseri
Join Glasswing Ventures’ Rudina Seseri and MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar as they lead two sessions on the latest in agentic web, role of NANDA/A2A/MCP and the landscape of current innovations in research and startup ecosystem.
Boston: A vision for a ‘Agentic Zone’ by Boston City CIO, Santiago “Santi” Garces. An invitation to seed stage, mature startups and innovators to work with City AI agents. (With live demos)
Schedule
530pm: Social
6pm: Santi Garces, Boston City CIO
610pm: Pradyumna Chari, Maria Gorshikh, NEST platform
620pm: Projects Presentations
635pm: Ramesh Raskar
645pm: Rudina Seseri
7pm: Fireside Chat: Raskar and Seseri
730pm: Break
740pm: Panel Discussion
8pm: Project Presentations
830pm: Social (Meet at FlatTopJohnny's, Self Pay)
Apply to Present Your Project
Please apply to present innovations form your own projects, startup or organizations.
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The 3 hour session at MIT is a fast-moving, showcase of agent-to-agent collaboration—where autonomous systems connect, negotiate, and execute together - complemented with networking opportunities to consolidate and connect!
Executives and builders will see how NANDA/ MCP/ A2A frameworks supercharge productivity, streamline operations, and enable truly intelligent ecosystems of AI-driven collaboration.
Rudina Seseri
Rudina Seseri is a Boston-based venture investor and board director whose work sits squarely in the emerging world of AI agents and the agentic web. As Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, she leads one of the few early-stage venture firms purpose-built for AI-native and frontier-tech startups in enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, and intelligent verticals, often as the first institutional investor. Her thesis focuses on companies that treat AI and agents as core “co-workers” in the value chain rather than bolt-on features—spanning vertical AI platforms, automation systems, and security and data infrastructure that can host, orchestrate, or empower agentic workflows at scale.
Founder & Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures (AI-native & frontier-tech focused): https://glasswing.vc/our-team/
Leads investments in AI data, analytics, vertical AI, and automation platforms that form key building blocks for agentic systems and an Internet of AI agents: https://glasswing.vc/our-companies/
Frequent speaker on “the transition to an AI-native economy,” including how autonomous workflows and agents will reshape enterprises: https://www.becboston.org/event-5829507
Serves on the Governor of Massachusetts’ Artificial Intelligence Strategic Task Force and multiple public-company boards, bridging startup innovation, regulation, and real-world deployment of AI-intensive (increasingly agentic) systems.
Shares practical playbooks for building AI-first businesses and billion-dollar AI companies, relevant to founders building for the agentic web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3rIcutbno
Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT, leading pioneering research at the intersection of distributed AI agent architectures, health technology, and computational imaging. As a founding architect of NANDA, he focuses on agentic web infrastructure that empowers decentralized decision-making in complex systems. He received the National Academy of Inventors award (2024), Lemelson Award (2016) and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Apple and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies. He holds 100+ US patents.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raskar
Santiago “Santi” Garces
Santiago “Santi” Garces is a civic technology leader and practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of AI, data, and public-sector systems—highly relevant to how agentic web infrastructure can serve real communities. As Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston and a Senior Fellow with Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard and the Burnes Center at Northeastern, he leads teams that use data, generative AI, and human-centered design to redesign government services, making them more responsive, equitable, and AI-enabled. His recent focus includes deploying generative AI in city operations with clear governance, writing some of the first municipal AI guidelines in the U.S., and exploring how AI agents and automation can turn open data, permitting, transportation, and resident-facing workflows into coordinated, agentic systems that “level the playing field” for constituents.
https://www.boston.gov/departments/innovation-and-technology/santiago-santi-garces
Data-Smart City Solutions profile – https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/people/santi-garces · “Redefining City Governance with Generative AI” podcast – https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/redefining-city-governance-generative-ai ·
About NANDA
NANDA (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture) which originated at MIT aims to dismantle the four critical choke points within this ecosystem's infrastructure by focusing on consensus driven innovation: 'DNS', 'CA', 'Orchestration', and 'Attestation'.
NANDA is pioneering the foundational infrastructure for the Internet of AI Agents — enabling autonomous systems to interact, transact, and collaborate seamlessly.
NANDA employs a three-pronged approach: (i) Technology: Building technology, standards, and reference implementations through a collective of top minds. (ii) Social Mission: Working to maintain an open Agentic Web for innovators while ensuring safety for vulnerable populations. (iii) Venture Ecosystem: Fostering a wide coalition of founders and investors.
NANDA's development draws on proven MIT research in AutoML, split learning, privacy-preserving architectures, and decentralized coordination. Early partners in the coalition gain preferential access to emerging standards, reference implementations, and the academic-industry consortium that will influence the emerging frameworks globally.
Invited Presentations
Robert Bench, Radius
Robert Bench is the co‑founder and CEO of Radius, a Cambridge-based company building high‑performance payments and infrastructure for the emerging “agentic economy,” with a focus on low-latency transactions for machine-to-machine and agent-to-agent interactions. Radius positions itself as the network layer for frictionless digital value, combining a scalable stablecoin rail with authorization mechanisms (such as EVMAuth and x402-style protocols) so AI agents can not only compute and communicate but also pay, incentivize, and coordinate economic activity across the web.
Jim Ryan
Jim Ryan serves as Chief Strategy Officer of the Keep AI Safe Foundation (KAISF), a nonprofit launched in 2025 to advance global AI safety, alignment, and governance through advocacy, education, and policy engagement. Drawing on his background in strategy, governance, and AI practice, he leads the foundation’s efforts to steer more funding and attention toward safety work, build partnerships, and shape frameworks that ensure powerful AI systems strengthen society rather than expose it to catastrophic risks.
NEST (Nanda Agent Exchange, Sandbox & Testbed)
NEST (Exchange, Sandbox & Testbed) is NANDA’s unified environment for building, testing, and verifying autonomous AI agents at planetary scale. It’s where decentralized intelligence becomes measurable — a live, visual network connecting agents, registries, and clouds across the globe.
Inside NEST, developers and researchers can:
Launch & Monitor agent networks across regions (US, EU, APAC).
Simulate real-world interactions through safe, policy-aware sandboxes.
Benchmark ROI & Reliability for multi-agent systems in action.
Observe Global Flows of requests, responses, and trust across the NANDA Index.
NEST transforms abstract ideas like agentic coordination, policy routing, and sovereign AI into living, testable systems. It’s not just a dashboard — it’s a working map of the Internet of Agents.
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