​Join us for an exclusive, invitation-only MIT Media Lab event exploring the frontiers of AI agents and the agentic web. Hosted by MIT Media Lab researchers alongside industry leaders and innovators, this workshop brings together 30 forward-thinking executives and builders to examine how autonomous agents are reshaping technology, business, and human-computer interaction.

​Across four interactive, facilitated roundtables led by MIT Media Lab faculty and researchers, participants will engage in candid discussions on the technical architectures, emerging opportunities, and real-world deployment of agentic AI systems.

​Final schedule and panelists are subject to change.
Email dec-ai@media.mit.edu for any questions.

​Panelists include
Arvind Jain* (CEO, Glean), Phil Mui (SVP Saleforce AgentForce), Mallik Tatipamula (CTO, Ericsson), Babak Hodjat (CTO, Cognizant), Apoorv Iyer (CTO HCLTech), Debo Dutta (Chief AI Office, Nutanix), Vinod Marur (VP, Databricks), Nikunj Parekh (Head of AI, Wipro), Biswaroop Palit (VP, Box), and about 30 leaders in Agentic Systems.

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​Program

• ​4:00 – 4:30 PM: MIT Faculty Agentic Innovations
  Prof. Ramesh Raskar, Exploring NANDA (Network AI agents in Decentralized Architecture)
  Prof. Paul Liang, Multi Agent Systems

• ​4:30 – 5:15 PM: AI Agents in Enterprise Applications
  (Invited or confirmed) Salesforce, Atlassian, Adobe, Workday, Oracle, SAP, Anaplan, Oracle NetSuite, GitHub
  Moderator: Calvin Chen (E14 Fund)

• ​5:20 – 6:05 PM: Agentic AI Ecosystem Collaborators
  (Invited or confirmed) Kong, Portkey, LangChain, CrewAI, Redis, Mem0, Pinecone, Langfuse, Databricks, CrowdStrike, Zapier
  Moderator: Rahul Todkar (Nasiko)

• ​6:10 – 6:55 PM: AI Agents in Industry Verticals 1
  (Invited or confirmed) JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Stripe, PayPal, Visa, Capital One
  Moderator: Pradyumna Chari (MIT Media Lab)

• ​6:10 – 6:55 PM: AI Agents in Industry Verticals 2
  (Invited or confirmed) Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, Wayfair, Amazon

• ​7:00 – 8:30 PM: Mixer and MIT Media Lab Project Showcase

​Space is limited, and we're keeping this invitation-only to foster meaningful dialogue among MIT Media Lab member companies and collaborators. Register to express your interest, and we'll let you know if you're selected. Accepted attendees receive event location details via email.

​Special thanks:

• ​Event supporter + MIT Media Lab member: Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center, HCLTech, Google

• ​Event co-host: Nasiko

​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 )

  • ​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/

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​Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads NANDA to build open infrastructure for the Agentic Web. His research focuses on open protocols, machine identity, and trust mechanisms that enable autonomous AI agents to discover, negotiate, and transact across platforms. He holds over 100 patents and has received major honors including the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award, and election to the National Academy of Inventors. Additionally, he has led research initiatives with major technology companies, including Google [X], Apple, and Facebook.

​Paul Liang is an Assistant Professor at MIT's Media Lab and EECS, where he leads the Multisensory Intelligence research group. His work focuses on foundational multimodal AI architectures that integrate vision, language, audio, and physical senses to build capable autonomous agents. He investigates the core scaling principles of multi-agent and agentic systems to understand how controlled configurations drive cooperative performance. Ultimately, his research aims to develop trustworthy, multisensory AI systems that enhance human capability and foster true human-AI symbiosis.

​Pradyumna Chari is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab where he contributes as a lead researcher on NANDA to build open infrastructure for the Agentic Web. His research spans decentralized AI agent discovery protocols, 3D computer vision using Gaussian Splatting, and physics-guided computational imaging. His academic achievements have earned him top honors from IIT Madras—including the President of India Prize and Gold Medal—alongside a UCLA Graduate Dean's Scholars Award and a Cisco PhD Fellowship.

​Rahul Todkar is the CEO of Nasiko and former VP and Head of Data & AI at Tripadvisor. He previously served as Head of Go-to-Market Data Science at LinkedIn and held executive analytics leadership at Charles Schwab & Co. Earlier in his career, he led analytics and data science teams at Intuit, eBay, PayPal, and Capital One. He remains actively involved in the AI community, collaborating on emerging agentic AI ecosystems and enterprise data strategy.