The Agentic Frontier - Building the Next Internet - NANDA x AGNTCY x Akamai, Feb 5th Cambridge MA
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The Agentic Frontier - Building the Next Internet
Entry to building requires govt ID & matching registration approved on Luma
Building the Open Agentic Web 'takes a village'. Join collaborators from across the community including MIT, Akamai, Agncty, Dell, Cisco, NANDA, and more. Starting with pizza social, we will dive into an exciting evening of technical developments, innovations and visions for 2026.
Directions: Akamai HQ: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
Due to construction, go to the North East corner of Galileo Galilei Way and Broadway and walk between the construction barriers and Akamai building to the east side entrance.
Schedule
5:30 Pizza
6:00 Welcome - Hema Seshadri (Akamai)
6:05 Agentic Web - Ramesh Raskar (MIT, NANDA)
6:15 Agntcy.org - Linux Foundation Project - Tim Swanson (Cisco), John Cardente (Dell)
6:25 Fireside Chat - Directories & Registries - Ramesh Raskar (MIT, NANDA), Tim Swanson (Cisco), John Cardente (Dell)
6:55 Panel - Vision for 2026:
Moderator: Shereen Bellamy (Cisco)
Panelists:
- Ramesh Raskar (MIT, NANDA)
- Hema Seshadri (Akamai Technologies)
- John Cardente (Dell)
- Marc Todd (Skreens)
- Sharan Gurunathan (Presidio)
- Thomas Hazel (LatentSpin)
- Lynn Birch (Skreens)
7:35 NANDA NEST 2.0 Tutorial - Karan Bharadwaj (NANDA)
7:50 Using NEST to research child safety
- Uzma Farheen (KAISF)
7:55 Innovation Showcase
- Skreens - Multi-Agentic Innovation in Media
- Northeastern University Student Projects (Neha Save, Manikandan Sundaram, Sharanya Badrinarayanan)
8:25 Networking
About NANDA x AGNTCY
https://outshift.cisco.com/blog/outshift-mit-agentic-web
Outshift by Cisco and NANDA have released open source technologies that enable cross-platform agent discovery allowing AI agents from different registries and directories to find and coordinate with each other for the first time.
https://github.com/projnanda/nanda-index/tree/main/agntcy-interop
About NEST, the developer sandbox for Internet of AI agents
https://nest.projectnanda.org/
A unified platform for managing, monitoring, and orchestrating autonomous AI agents across the Internet of Agents. Build the future of distributed intelligence. Partners and Contributors: Radius, Tresata, Nasiko, KAISF, Hexaware and More
About ProjectNanda
Project NANDA is architecting the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web.
We are solving the core challenge of the next decade: How can billions of AI agents discover each other, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities. https://projectnanda.org/
Apply for paid fellowships https://projectnanda.org/#/./home/fellowship
About Keep AI Safe Foundation (KAISF)
KAISF is working with NEST platform to build the world's first AI Toy Safety Testing Platform. KAISF is committed to Protecting Children from Unsafe AI Toys. See how KAISF is using NEST from ProjectNanda