Ericsson × MIT NANDA: Architecting the Agentic Web
The internet is moving into a decisive new era: a Web-of-Agents in which autonomous AI systems transact, negotiate, and collaborate across every layer of our digital world. In this special Ericsson × NANDA gathering, Dr. Mallik Tatipamula leads an evening dedicated to exploring the network, standards, and infrastructure shifts required to support this emerging landscape.
Drawing on his influential work reimagining internet architecture for the age of intelligent systems — featured in Communications of the ACM, co-authored with Vint Cerf, Mallik offers a forward-looking framework for how telecom, cloud, and AI must converge to elevate agents as first-class participants in the network. Expect clarity, ambition, and a sense that the future is arriving with remarkable speed.
Hosted by Dr. Mallik Tatipamula (CTO, Ericsson Silicon Valley)
Speakers
Prof. Ramesh Raskar (MIT)
Dr. R.V. Guha (Microsoft NLweb)
Showcase of the NEST (NANDA Sandbox & Testbed) (https://nest.projectnanda.org)
Many Special Guests
Today's Schedule:
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Guest Checkin and Social Hour
6:00 PM to 6:10 PM Welcome & Introductions - Gurusha Raskar
6:10 PM to 6:20 PM Keynote Address - Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
6:20 PM to 6:50 PM Keynote Speaker - Prof. Ramesh Raskar
6:50 PM to 7:00 PM NEST Demo
7:00 PM to 7:20 PM Audience Viewpoint and Q&A
7:20 PM to 7:30 PM Book Launch (soft launch)
Closing Statement - Gurusha Raskar
7:30 PM to 8:00 PM - Breakout and networking
The next platform war is here. The Internet of AI Agents risks splintering into proprietary silos, leading to either incumbent oligopolies extracting monopoly rents or fragmentation that prevents valuable services from emerging. Immediate coordination on interoperability standards—for agent identity, discovery, and marketplace infrastructure—is crucial. Early movers who establish these rails will control future AI transactions; those who wait will be building on others' platforms or become irrelevant.
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'.
What to Expect
Architecture discussions on networks built for agents, not retrofitted for them
Live NANDA NEST demonstrations showing policy-aware coordination and multi-agent transactions at scale
Off-the-record conversation with founders, investors, and infrastructure leaders
Access to the community building standards for the Agentic Internet
⚡ NEST Snapshot
NEST (Network Sandbox & Testbed) is Project NANDA’s unified environment for building, testing, and verifying autonomous AI agents at planetary scale. It’s where decentralized intelligence becomes measurable — a live, visual network connecting agents, registries, and clouds across the globe.
Inside NEST, developers and researchers can:
Launch & Monitor agent networks across regions (US, EU, APAC).
Simulate real-world interactions through safe, policy-aware sandboxes.
Benchmark ROI & Reliability for multi-agent systems in action.
Observe Global Flows of requests, responses, and trust across the NANDA Index.
NEST transforms abstract ideas like agentic coordination, policy routing, and sovereign AI into living, testable systems. It’s not just a dashboard — it’s a working map of the Internet of Agents.
Virtual Attendance Link - Microsoft Teams.
Hosted by Project NANDA - SF Bay Area Chapter, this event brings together researchers, founders, and builders to explore the emerging landscape of Agentic Web— where autonomous AI agents transact, negotiate, and collaborate across digital economies.
About NANDA
NANDA is pioneering the foundational infrastructure for the Internet of AI Agents — enabling autonomous systems to interact, transact, and collaborate seamlessly.
NANDA employs a three-pronged approach: (i) Technology: Building technology, standards, and reference implementations through a collective of top minds. (ii) Social Mission: Working to maintain an open Agentic Web for innovators while ensuring safety for vulnerable populations. (iii) Venture Ecosystem: Fostering a wide coalition of founders and investors.
NANDA's development draws on proven MIT research in AutoML, split learning, privacy-preserving architectures, and decentralized coordination. Early partners in the coalition gain preferential access to emerging standards, reference implementations, and the academic-industry consortium that will influence the emerging frameworks globally.
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.
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