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Nanda Summit + Hackathon at MIT, Sat July 11th, 2026 with MIT Media Lab and HCLTech

Name: Nanda Summit + Hackathon at MIT, Sat July 11th, 2026 with MIT Media Lab and HCLTech
Start: 2026-07-11T10:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-07-11T17:00:00.000-04:00
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NANDA: "Internet of AI Agents"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

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Summit Sessions (10am-1pm)

930am: Opening Keynote by HCLTech and MIT Media Lab: Trustworthy Infrastructure for AI Agents

10:00-10:30 am: Sovereign AI agents: Boston and India (Santiago Garcés, CIO City of Boston and Ramesh Raskar, Prof. MIT) [Link]

10:30-11:00 am: From Alexa to Agentic Commerce - Panel discussion (Rohit Prasad, former head of Alexa)

11:00-11:30 am: Venture Landscape in Agentic Web (Host: John Werner, Panelists: Marc Weber*, John Harthorne*, Habib Haddad*)

11:30-12:00 pm: Agentic Systems (Abhishek Mehta, Abhishek Yadav, Rahul Todkar, Karan Bharadwaj, Maria Gorskikh)

12:00-12:30 pm: From Agents to Agentic Societies (Ayush Chopra, Pradyumna Chari)

12:30-1:00 pm: Enterprise Agentic Web

NandaHack: (2-5pm)

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.

Join the virtual hackathon June 7-July 10th at https://nandahack.media.mit.edu. Then join us in person at MIT on July 11th.

2:00-2:15 pm: Opening Keynote

2:15-2:30 pm: NandaTown Introduction and Tutorials

2:30pm-4:30 pm: Demos from top 10 teams

4:30-5:00 pm: Demo Awards and Summary

Judges (selected): Abhishek Mehta (Tresata), Rob Bench (Radius), Rob Lincourt (Dell), John Zinky (Akamai), Rebecca Xiong (Harvard iLab), Karrie Karahalios* (MIT Media Lab)

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 NandaTown 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/

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