NANDA Summit + Hackathon-Demos at MIT, Sat July 11th, 2026 with MIT Media Lab and HCLTech
Join us for the NANDA Summit at MIT Media Lab.
The Summit sessions include top industry and research leaders, along with working group discussions.
The NandaHack Hackathon sessions include tutorials, hack showcase, hackathon awards, and interaction with our judges.
Important note for hackathon participants:
Follow instructions on this google doc document [link]
We expect you to finish majority of coding well before you arrive at MIT on Saturday morning.
ALL submissions should be registered by Friday July 10th Noon ET. But the final submission, along with a video, is due on Saturday July 11th at 2pm.
The hackathon participants are not required to attend this MIT event, and your score will not be impacted by not attending--you can still win without being at the event.
You do NOT need to register on this LuMa if you are participating in the hackathon virtually.
If you are participating for the hackathon sessions in person, each team member must register on this Luma individually, as an acceptance to this event grants individual entry, not team entry.
Summit Sessions (9 am - 5 pm) Jul 11th
Schedule:
9:00-9:30 am:
Opening Keynote by HCLTech and MIT Media Lab:
Trustworthy Infrastructure for AI Agents - (Jeff Turnham, Grace Davin, Jie Hui, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar)
9:30-10:00 am:
Civic Agents Across Four Global Hubs: Helping residents access public services
City of Boston: Santiago Garcés, CIO [Link]
City of Charlotte: Markell Storay, CIO
City of Milan: Antonio Corghi, BIP & Italy Agents4All Initiative [Link]
India and Kumbh Mela: Abhishek Singh, NANDA Mobile Edge team [Link]
Moderator: Daniel Windham, Project NANDA Civic Agents [Link]
10:00-11:30 am:
Civic Agents Breakouts
1. Identity and Authentication for Civic Agents (Room 240)
2. Civic Services Interface (Room 244)
3. Equity, Privacy, and Digital Access (Room 393)
4. Governance and Policy (Room 341)
5. Civic Concerns (Room 359)
Parallel: Hackathon Prep (Videos/Slides)
11:30 - 12:00 pm:
Future of Agentic Commerce:
Rohit Prasad (former head of Alexa) Vivek F. Farias (MIT Sloan School), David Herman (Glasswing Ventures). Moderator: Abhishek Mehta (Tresata)
12:00-12:30 pm:
From Agents to Agentic Societies:
Ramesh Raskar (MIT), Ayush Chopra (MIT)
12:30-1:00 pm:
Enterprise Agentic Web:
Shankar Krishnan (Stripe), Pavan Pant (Fiddler AI), Nirmal Jingar (Wayfair), Praveer Sinha (Tata Power). Moderator: Pradyumna Chari
1:00 - 2:00 pm:
Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00 pm:
Agentic Web Innovations:
- Data Facts: Brittany Box, Tresata
- NANDATown: Maria Gorskikh, Maritime
- Index: Pradyumna Chari, MIT Media Lab
- Knowledge Pricing: Charles Lu, MIT Media Lab
- Agent Receipts: Sharath Chandra, Stellarminds.ai
3:00 - 4:00 pm:
Agentic Web Workshops:
1. Agentic Commerce (Room 240): Shankar Krishnan (Stripe), Jie Hui (HCLTech), Charles Lu (MIT), Nirmal Jingar (Wayfair), Robert Bench (Radius), Fayner Costa (Itaú Unibanco)
2. Edge AI Agents and Devices (Room 244): Justin Sun (Red Hat), John Zinky (Akamai), Rodan Zadeh (IBM), AJ Debole (Oracle), Selena Mosley (HPE)
3. Agentic Web Futures (Room 359): Ramesh Raskar (MIT), Sharath Chandra (Stellarminds.ai), Sashi Lakshmanan (J&J)
(Parallel: Hackathon Project Showcase)
4:00-4:30 pm:
Demos/Presentations from top 10 teams
4:30 - 5:00 pm:
Venture Landscape in Agentic Web:
Panelists: Marc Weber, John Harthorne, Habib Haddad, Emmanuel Vallod
5:00 pm:
Hack Results and Closing
530pm-7pm:
Reception at FlatTopJohnny's on MIT Campus
Thank you Tresata, Fiddler and Hivemind Capital for supporting the lunch and receptions.
NANDAHack: (Parallel to the Summit)
Schedule:
9:00 am - 2:00 pm:
Phase 2 (Skill md) Hack preparation
2:00 pm:
Final Phase 2 + Video Submissions Are Due
See document for more information: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/100rrUf9q22wn4RRP_S8k-u_JT_sJioA8uANMg3Hm1wk/edit?usp=drivesdk]
2:00 - 3:00 pm:
Break for Hackathon
Join tech deep dives for Nanda Summit
3:00 - 4:00 pm:
Showcase for Hack team and Innovators
4:00 - 4:30 pm:
Top 10 presentations
5:00 pm:
Hack Results and Awards
Join the virtual hackathon at https://nandahack.media.mit.edu.
Then (optionally) join us in person at MIT on July 11th.
(Judging for all teams: 2pm to 4pm for selection of top 10 teams. Your submitted 3 min videos are critical for judges.)
Judges:
Abhishek Mehta (Tresata), Keon Jung (Eon), Heena Purohit (Microsoft), Robert Bench (Radius), John Zinky (Akamai), Rebecca Xiong (Harvard iLab), Karrie Karahalios (MIT Media Lab)
How to support NANDA at MIT Media Lab
Nanda at MIT Media Lab is financially supported via the AGNI (AI Agents and Networked Intelligence) research projects. A new computational layer is forming: a decentralized Internet of AI Agents, or the Agentic Web. The AGNI research projects, at the MIT Media Lab, will study and build this emerging layer.
The AGNI research projects bring together researchers, students, and member organizations to investigate how AI agents are designed, deployed, discovered, trusted, coordinated, and evaluated across open and heterogeneous environments — combining fundamental research, system-building, and hands-on experimentation in shared agent environments.
Become a sponsor.
https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/nanda/overview/
NandaHack
More Details: https://nandahack.media.mit.edu.
The NANDAHack, by MIT Media Lab and HCLTech, invites builders to create and demo real agentic applications inside NANDATown, a sandbox for the Internet of AI Agents. Teams will explore how autonomous agents can discover each other, coordinate tasks, exchange information, and work together across an open ecosystem. The hackathon will feature tutorials, demos from top teams, judges from AI and enterprise infrastructure, and awards for standout projects.
About NANDA Town, the developer sandbox for Internet of AI agents
https://nandatown.projectnanda.org/
NANDATown is a unified platform for managing, monitoring, and orchestrating autonomous AI agents across the Internet of Agents. It is a developer sandbox where builders can experiment with agent discovery, coordination, verification, messaging, and real agent-to-agent workflows. Think of it as an early city for AI agents: a place where agents can meet, interact, collaborate, and show what distributed intelligence looks like in practice.
Partners and Contributors:
Radius, Tresata, Nasiko, KAISF, Kyndryl, Hexaware and More
The NADATown Hackathon is where the Open Agentic Web becomes hands-on. Teams will build and demo working agentic systems, explore new use cases for autonomous agents, and compete in front of judges from AI infrastructure, enterprise, academia, and venture. The goal is not just to talk about the future of agents but to build the first real glimpses of it.
About NANDA:
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.
MIT Research: https://nanda.mit.edu
OpenSource: https://projectnanda.org/
Deep dives into new projects and the plans
NANDATown.projectnanda.org , and the agent coordination stack
NANDA Mobile Edge (agents on mobile phones)
NANDA DataFacts (a new field in AgentFacts and machine-readable way to describe the data behind an agent https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7476851966506131456/)
Sovereign AI agents and Civic Agents (DigiDoot in India, BostonAgents in MA, MilanAgents in Italy)
How NANDA is partnering with ai-catalog , AgentResourceDirectory, DNS-AID and ANS. And how NANDA aims for democratization of agentic web beyond enterprise use cases.
How startup innovators can benefit via NANDATown
Opportunities for enterprise adoption and partnership alignment
Networking with leaders from AI infrastructure, academia, and venture
How to sponsor:
https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/nanda/overview/