​MIT Professor’s Bold Predictions on AI’s Next 18 Months

​EDGE Chambers — off the record with Prof. Ramesh Raskar (MIT · ex-Google X) and 12 founders.

​The Agentic Web’s open layers — identity, trust, coordination, payments — are still up for grabs. Raskar’s prediction: that window shuts in 18 months. What’s built before then becomes infrastructure. What’s built after becomes a feature on someone else’s platform.

Friday, 28th · Gurgaon · Entry by application. Curated, as always

​About Prof. Ramesh Raskar — MIT Media Lab · Founder, Project NANDA · ex-Google [X], Facebook, Apple

​Raskar founded Project NANDA to keep the next layer of AI open rather than owned by a handful of companies. Over a decade at MIT, alongside research stints at Google [X], Facebook, and Apple, his work has focused on what a distributed, trustworthy agentic internet actually requires. He holds 100+ US patents and is regarded as one of the clearest voices globally on the fork ahead for agentic infrastructure — open standard, or walled garden.

Co-Hosted By
Sandeep Aggarwal — Founder & CEO, Droom

​The Room

​This is not a talk. The conversation goes wherever the table takes it — what corporate capture looks like in practice, which startup categories are most exposed, when partnering with a hyperscaler is leverage and when it's a trap, where the durable opportunities in open infrastructure actually sit.

​Format:

• ​12 founders, private residence, Gurgaon

• ​Chatham House Rule — nothing recorded, nothing repeated outside the room

• ​Entry by application, curated as with all EDGE Chambers

​Who this is for: Founders building in or around AI, with real exposure to the platform-dependency question - not spectators.

​12 founders. A private residence in Gurgaon. Chatham House Rule — nothing recorded, nothing repeated outside the room.