AgenticWeb@NYC Sat Nov 15th 4pm with MIT Prof Ramesh Raskar
Here are the details for today because Columbia will allow only Columbia IDs to attend the Columbia Session
See the detailed schedule below
Columbia session is 315-430pm
Non-columbia session is 345pm-5pm at a restaurant nearby (self-pay but you dont have to order anything)
If you are non-Columbia, you will not be able to enter the campus. If you are Columbia, we encourage you to come to Columbia session and not the external location to keep the numbers manageable
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Columbia Session (Uris Hall)
315pm Social
330pm: Prof Ramesh Raskar, MIT
4pm: Panel Discussion with Columbia Researchers
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Non Columbia Session
345pm: Social
4pm: Prof Ramesh Raskar MIT
430pm: Launch of NYC Chapter for Agentic Web
445pm: Discussion
The location is right next to Columbia University. We will send details in the next few minutes.
In the meantime, please create your own agent at https://join39.org and read up on details at https://projectNanda.org
See you all soon
You will need an approved Columbia QR code to enter campus. For that you first need approval of your registration followed by an email from organizers of this event. No walks ins allowed.
Schedule
330pm: Social and Networking
4pm: Prof Ramesh Raskar, MIT
415pm: How to build your own AI agents and launch it on the web in 1 minute
420pm: VC and investor panel on AI agents and Agentic web
445pm: Launch of NYC Chapter for Agentic Web
5pm-530pm: Closing remarks and Mixer
Who is going to build the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web - a system where trillions of AI agents can collaborate, communicate, and transact across organizational boundaries without bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities.
MCP and A2A has created tremendous momentum for the syntax and protocols. NANDA addresses the core challenge: how can billions or even trillions of AI agents discover each other, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities. The project develops both the technical infrastructure (index - interop links between all heterogenous agent registries, protocols, SDKs) and the governance frameworks needed for a responsible, Open Agentic Web.
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NANDA, is architecting the building blocks for the Internet of AI Agents in a three-phase roadmap.
About NANDA: Research
How can trillions of AI agents collaborate across organizational silos, communicate seamlessly, navigate autonomously on the internet, socialize, learn, earn and transact on our behalf.
NANDA (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture) which originated at MIT aims to dismantle the four critical choke points within this ecosystem's infrastructure by focusing on consensus driven innovation: 'DNS', 'CA', 'Orchestration', and 'Attestation'.
The NANDA efforts include research, code base, standards and a venture hub. Roadmap includes trust layers, knowledge pricing, packet switched intelligence, population AI and PrivateML.
Research and Development Roadmap
Phase 1: Foundations of Agentic Web Build the core infrastructure enabling agents to find each other, communicate seamlessly across different platforms and protocols, and integrate easily into existing systems through standardized onboarding tools and interoperability frameworks.
Phase 2: Agentic Commerce Establish economic mechanisms where agents can price and trade knowledge, leverage distributed edge computing resources, and participate in marketplace systems with proper payment protocols and incentive structures for services and capabilities.
Phase 3: Society of Agents Create collective intelligence networks where large populations of agents can learn collaboratively while maintaining privacy, coordinate across organizational data boundaries, and distribute AI processing across networks to achieve emergent group behaviors.
About Professor Raskar
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT, leading pioneering research at the intersection of distributed AI agent architectures, health technology, and computational imaging. As a founding architect of NANDA, he focuses on agentic web infrastructure that empowers decentralized decision-making in complex systems. He received the National Academy of Inventors award (2024), Lemelson Award (2016) and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Apple and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies. He holds 100+ US patents.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raskar
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