DigiDoot: What Should YOU Build for the Age of AI Agents? An Evening With Prof. Ramesh Raskar
AI agents are rapidly becoming a new interface between people, businesses, government services, and the digital world.
India has a unique opportunity to shape this transition.
Just as Digital Public Infrastructure created open rails for identity, payments, and digital services, DigiDoot explores what open infrastructure is needed for trusted AI agents that can act on behalf of individuals while preserving privacy, consent, security, and user control.
But DigiDoot is not simply one agent or one application. It creates a much larger question:
What new technologies, research problems, startups, and public infrastructure will be needed when millions of personal AI agents begin interacting with governments, businesses, and each other?
This gathering in Bangalore will bring together researchers, founders, developers, technology leaders, and public-sector innovators to explore that opportunity.
Significant work is already underway, with a broader technical team and collaborators in place.
DigiDoot and paper v1.0: https://digidoot.in/
Open-source code: doot-ai/doot.specs
Team and supporters: https://digidoot.in/team
The Opportunity
Many of the foundational layers for citizen AI agents are still open for invention:
How does an agent prove who it represents?
How can users give agents limited, revocable authority?
How should agents authenticate to government and commercial services?
How can agents access private data without centralizing it?
How do agents discover and communicate with services across organizations?
How do we establish trust, reputation, accountability, and auditability?
How should agents make payments and conduct transactions?
How can small, personalized agents work with more powerful models when needed?
How can agents operate across languages, devices, clouds, and networks?
What does an open ecosystem look like where thousands of startups can build services around citizen agents?
These are not only engineering challenges. They can become important research areas, open-source projects, new standards, and entirely new startup categories.
What We Will Discuss
The session will explore:
DigiDoot as Digital Public Infrastructure for the agent era
What should remain public and interoperable, and what should be built competitively by startups?
The emerging startup ecosystem around citizen agents
Opportunities in identity, authorization, privacy, memory, payments, security, discovery, agent services, compliance, personalization, and coordination.
Research problems that do not yet have good answers
From delegation and agent identity to decentralized intelligence, privacy-preserving personalization, agent evaluation, governance, and large-scale multi-agent coordination.
Building for India—and potentially the world
Can India's experience with DPI provide a new blueprint for an open and inclusive Agentic Web?
Avoiding the next generation of walled gardens
How can DigiDoot enable innovation across companies, startups, universities, and government rather than locking citizens into a single model, cloud, or technology provider?
Why This Matters for Researchers and Startups
DigiDoot can create something more valuable than a single application: an open ecosystem on which others can innovate.
For researchers, it opens foundational problems spanning AI, security, privacy, distributed systems, economics, human-computer interaction, governance, and multi-agent systems.
For startups, it can create new markets for the infrastructure and services that millions of agents will require—similar to how the web, smartphones, UPI, and cloud computing each created entire generations of companies around shared underlying infrastructure.
“What can thousands of researchers, startups, and developers build once trusted citizen agents become possible?”
Who Should Attend
This gathering is designed for:
AI and systems researchers
Startup founders and entrepreneurs
Developers building agent technologies
Security, identity, privacy, and payments experts
Product and engineering leaders
Investors exploring the emerging agent ecosystem
Government and Digital Public Infrastructure leaders
Anyone interested in building an open Agentic Web from India
Schedule
Schedule
5:00 PM Arrival and Networking
5:45 PM Lightning Pitches: AI Innovations in India
6:30 PM DigiDoot and the Opportunity for an Open Agent Ecosystem
7:00 PM Fireside Chat: Research and Startup Opportunities in Agentic AI in India (with Ramesh Raskar, and Umakant Soni)
7:40 PM Neysa Info Session: Infrastructure for AI Agents
8:00 PM Onwards Networking Dinner & Open Discussion
The internet created millions of websites and businesses because nobody needed permission to build on it
India's DPI created enormous innovation because common infrastructure allowed the private and public sectors to build independently on shared rails.
Can DigiDoot do the same for the age of AI agents?
Join us in Bangalore to help identify the research problems, startup opportunities, and open infrastructure needed to make that possible.
Learn more about bangalore chapter: https://blrprojectnanda.pages.dev/
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