Patchwork: Syncing on AI Standards
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Everyone’s shipping. But are we syncing?
Across AI, builders are creating new standards for agents, identity, and payments — sometimes solving problems no one else has seen yet, and other times solving the same ones differently.
Dozens of efforts (HCS-14, ERC-8004, x402, FPP, MCP, A2A, Trust Over IP, AGNTCY, and more) are racing ahead. Each is building a vital piece of interoperability for the AI stack.
We will also have participation from IEEE, IETF, DTLF, WC3, and additional standards bodies presenting their latest work.
However, by building in isolation we risk incidental incompatibilities that could complicate or threaten comprehensive interoperability.
This is a community breather — a space to step back, compare notes, and align the patchwork of standards.
The Advanced AI Society is convening a 4-hour working session to:
1️⃣ Map the current standards landscape with lightning updates from leading projects and standards bodies.
2️⃣ Identify overlaps, gaps, and potential collisions.
3️⃣ Prioritize what needs collective focus next — continuity of identity, agent discovery, verifiable payments, registry interoperability, and more.
The gathering will unfold in two parts:
Part 1 is the mini-conference where we hear from leading protocols in lightning talks and panels.
Part 2 is the micro-unconference to surface priority areas of work.
Event will be recorded and streamed online to our Youtube channel.
Find the most complete agenda here: https://patchwork.hol.org/
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PART 1 MINI-CONFERENCE
7:30 AM to 11:10 AM PST | 10:30 AM EST to 2:10 PM EST | 3:30 PM to 8:10 PM CET
10:35-10:44 AM ET Welcome & Event Goals - Advanced AI Society - Tricia Wang and Michael Casey
10:45-10:54 AM ET (Talk) The Standards Governance Stack; Alex Tweeddale, Cheqd
10:55-11:09 AM ET (Talk) Cartography of Standards; Sri Chandra, IEEE Foundational Tech
11:10-11:16 AM ET - (Talk) The Internet Isn't Built for Agentic AI; Patches (Ty)
Topic 1: Registries 11:17-11:52 AM ET
11:17-11:21 AM ET - ERC-8004; Marco de Rossi, Ethereum
11:22-11:26 AM ET - Hashgraph Online Registry Broker + HCS-14, Michael Kantor
11:27-11:31 AM ET - ANS; Vineeth Sai, CISCO
11:32-11:51AM ET - Panel Agent Discovery & Registries
Moderator: Bettina Warburg - Advanced AI Society
Panelists: Pradyumma Chari - Project NANDA | Scott Courtney - VP of Godaddy | Balázs Némethi - agents | Michael Kantor - HOL (HCS-14) | Marco DeRossi - Metamask ERC-8004
Topic 2: Identity 11:52-12:45 PM ET
11:55-11:59 PM ET - OAuth MCP; Ken Huang
12:05-12:14 PM ET - First Person Project Decentralized ID Foundation Trust Over IP; Drummond Reed
12:15-12:44 PM ET - Panel: Identity
Moderator: Ben Christiansen - AI 2030
Panelists: Kristina Yasuda - DIW | Stephen Curran - Anoncreds | Julu Panat - AGNTCY, Cisco | Marcus Sabadello - W3C (DIDs) | Drummond Reed - Trust Over IP/First Person Project
Topic 3: Inter-Agent: 12:45-1:45 PM ET
12:50-12:59 PM EST - Fireside Chat: AGNTCY; Luca Muscariello, CISCO, moderated by Ahmer Inam
1:00-1:04 M ET - NEAR; Cameron Dennis
1:05-1:09 PM ET - Google A2A; Alan Blount, Google
1:10-1:39 PM ET - Panel: Inter-Agent Communication
Moderator: Ahmer Inam
Panelists: Majumder Souva - IEEE SA IC25-003 Eval Multiagent | Cameron Dennis - NEAR | John Parello - AGNTCY | Alan Blount - Google A2A
1:40-1:47 PM ET - Building the Universal Railroad for AI Together; Patches (Ty)
1:48-1:59 PM ET - Capstone: Takeaways & Next Steps; Advanced AI Society - Tricia Wang and Michael Casey
PART 2 MICRO-UNCONFERENCE
11:10 AM PST - 12:00 PM PST | 2:10 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST | 8:10 PM CET - 9:00 PM CET
30 Minutes - Breakout Rooms - Panel Q&A - Micro-Unconference
Official Adjourn
🧠 We'll keep the breakout rooms open after we adjourn.
📸 Event will be recorded and streamed to Youtube.
We are currently developing the event agenda and welcome your input on preferred session topics and discussions. Additionally, we may have opportunities for moderators and speakers. Please complete this form to express your interest.
Who Should Join
If you’re building anything that depends on interoperability — enterprise implementation or governance, identity, registries, payments, routing, trust frameworks, or agent infrastructure — this is a room you should be in.
Builders maintainers of open agent, identity, and compute protocols
Entrepreneurs and engineers offering Proof-of-Control AI solutions in provable compliance, edge scale, or payments
Standards authors and contributors (W3C, IETF, EBSI, and others)
Developers at hyperscalers working on agentic or privacy-focused AI initiatives
Teams building federated, DePIN, or Web3 frameworks
Researchers, auditors, and governance leads focused on interoperability and verifiable compliance
Hosted by the Advanced AI Society
We are an industry association advancing enterprise-grade adoption of Proof-of-Control AI solutions that ensure verifiable trust between agents, humans, and infrastructure.
Organized with:
Hashgraph Online - Hashgraph Online is a consortium led by a DAO, dedicated to building open-source standards and SDKs for the emerging agentic internet.
Angela Garabet, Sam Nathans, Michael Kantor, Grace Scheerhout
Partners
IEEE Blockchain (Knowledge Partner) - A global hub for advancing technology, education, research, and standards across blockchain, distributed ledger and related communities.
Linux Foundation Distributed Trust - An organization that champions open source best practices across a growing ecosystem of blockchain, ledger, identity, cryptographic, and related technologies.
AI Alliance - An organization dedicated to building and advancing open source AI agents, data, models, evaluation, safety, applications and advocacy to ensure everyone can benefit.
Market Across - PR for the world's leading blockchain companies.
AI 2030 - AI 2030 is a global initiative aiming to harness the transformative power of AI to benefit humanity while minimizing its potential negative impact.
Wire Network - A service that aenables seamless, secure, and efficient transactions across all blockchains.
Morpheus - An open-source peer-to-peer network of personal general-purpose AI (smart agents).
w3.io - An industry consortium uniting the best in class network partners to create open standards that drive innovation and expand the reach of Web3.
Constellation Research - A technology research and advisory firm based in Silicon Valley delivering strategic guidance to companies seeking to transform their businesses through the early adoption of exponential technologies.