MIT Decentralized AI Summit

MIT Decentralized AI Summit Highlights

The Internet of AIs with Edge Compute, Siloed Data, Agents, and Data Markets

In today's AI landscape, data, computation, and governance are centralized. Decentralized AI offers a promising alternative leveraging intelligent, network-based approaches to improve collaboration, incentives, and innovation at the edges. It offers a promising alternative enabling collaboration between distrusted, disincentivized, and disinterested entities.

AI has made remarkable strides, showcasing its vast ability to tackle large-scale challenges. These advancements open new possibilities for areas where data and knowledge are distributed across different organizations and regions—such as healthcare, climate science, and supply chain management. We highlight five essential technical opportunities: (1) enhancing privacy, (2) ensuring verifiability, (3) aligning incentives, (4) enabling orchestration, and (5) improving crowdUX. By addressing these opportunities, diverse entities can collaborate to solve global issues while still achieving their local goals. This vision of Decentralized AI encourages further dialogue and research toward a decentralized, inclusive, and resilient AI future.

Events

Tue, May 13 Project Nanda Summit: Trust Layer for Internet of AI Agents (Online Event)

Registration: Link

Schedule (Times based on PT)

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM PT – Keynote Speakers
3 Keynote Speakers
- Rao Surapaneni, head of A2A, Google
- Raghotham Murthy, Open Source Lead for Llama, Meta
- Ganesha Rasiah, CSO, HP
- John Roese, CTO, Dell
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM PT – Project Nanda, Internet of AI Agents A2A/MCP demo from NANDA. Trust in context of NANDA.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT – Implmentation of Trust AI Agents: 3 Panel Discussions
Panelists:
- 10-10:30 AM PT Vijay Reddy, Mayfield AI Startup Fund Acorn, Vijil, Tadata, Portkey, Mindsdb
- 10:30-11 AM PT Will Knight, Wired Magazine Ismael Faro, VP, IBM Bee AI Project, Cisco, Tech Crunch
- 11-11:30 AM PT: Cameron Dennis, NEAR Foundation Coinbase, NEAR, OpenAI
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PT – Research in Trust Layer for AI Agents: Short talks + Discussion
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PT – Presentations on Trust for Nanda/MCP/A2A (Call for Projects)
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PT – Closing Comments

Tue, April 15 (MIT DecAI Summit at Imagination in Action)

10:30 AM – The Future Internet of AI Agents and Why this is a New Frontier Location: Multipurpose Room, 6th Floor
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar
12:00 – 12:30 PM – The Beginning of the New Era – Internet of AI Agents Location: 3rd Floor Atrium
Speakers:
- Ramesh Raskar – MIT Media Lab
- Anil Sharma – TCS
- Anna Kazlauskas – Vana
- Aditya Challapally – Microsoft
12:30 – 12:55 PM – The Commerce Begins – Internet of AI Agents Location: 3rd Floor Atrium
Speakers:
- MacKenzie Sigalos – CNBC
- Einar Braathen – CoinFund
- Alpen Sheth – Borderless Capital
- Daniel Barabander – Variant
- Mark Weber – Techtonic VC
12:55 – 1:20 PM – Will Enterprise Lead the Race – Internet of AI Agents Location: 3rd Floor Atrium
Speakers:
- Aaron Pressman – Boston Globe
- Caroline Yap – ex-Google
- Shyam Nagarajan – Hedera
- Rajeev Wadhwa – HCL
- Antonio Figueiredo – Salesforce
- Zafer Sahinoglu – Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
1:20 PM – 1:30 PM – Fireside Chat: The Future of Work with AI Location: 3rd Floor Atrium
Speakers:
- MacKenzie Sigalos – CNBC
- Ayush Chopra – Camera Culture
- Michael Casey – DAIS
1:45 – 2:45 PM – Block A — Agentic Futures - Internet of AI Agents Location: Bartos Theater (Toward the other side —look for signs)
Speakers & Topics:
- Chris Pease – AgentiCorp: Multi-Agent Systems (next 12 months)
- Abhishek Singh – MIT Media Lab: Nanda Protocol
- Naman + Jon – NANDA Team: NANDA
- Andrea Ridi – ScaleUp Labs: Agent Commerce
- Marco Cello – Meshify: Agents for SME Operations
- Raghu Bala – Synergetics: Agent Registries (AgentWorks Platform)
- Anil Sharma – TCS: Human Intelligence + Decentralized Intelligence
- Peeyush Aggarwal – Deloitte: Data Across Silos
- Aditya Challapally – Microsoft: Edge AI
- William Lindskog-Münzing – Flower Labs: Federated Learning
- Cameron Dennis – NEAR AI: Private Agent Cloud
- Vlad Larin – Fortytwo: Planetary-Scale Intelligence
- John Donaghy – Gensyn: Network Protocol
- Phil McMannis – Beacon Protocol: Private Data Networks
- Ayush Chopra – Camera Culture: Large Population Models
- Richard Blythman – Naptha: Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
- Gabriela Torres – Sundai: A2A Payments (Radius × Sundai)
- Gauri Gupta – Parallel Web Systems: AI Agents Future landscape
2:45 – 3:15 PM – Break
3:15 PM – Block B – Lightning Presentations (1 min each) Location: Bartos Theater
Presenters:
- Alyssa Taliotis – 42os
- Maria Gorskikh – NANDA development for startups
- Jim Nasr – Acoer
- Alessandro De Carli – Acurast Association
- Liz Graham – Ada IQ
- Levi Rybalov – Apiary (rebrand in progress)
- Gautham Pasupuleti – Biodesign Innovation Labs, Inc
- Lia Müller Peña – bitGPT
- SATHYA KRISHNASAMY – ChainAim Labs: ZK-PRET
- Matthew Blumberg – Charity Engine
- Rahul Manikandan, Bharath Vishal G – Digital Biomedical
- Sudhendra Kambhamettu – Dropout
- Dave Peak – Easy Bee
- Matthew Blumberg – Find.Bio
- Aoife Manley – Gemsen
- Alex G. Lee – HealthnovationAI
- Ada – Hetu
- Dr. Maha Achour – Kodamai
- Erik Jespersen – MyLife
- Vlad Duda – Nomad AI
- Jay Ma – Nyxion
- David S. Bennahum – ONIX
- Marvin Tong – Phala
- Kenric Nelson – Photrek
- Tim Miano – Polymathic
- Nick Trauger – Reso Network
- Niraj Pant – Ritual
- Swapneel Mehta – Sakhi
- Stu Angus – Scriptome.AI
- Tejas Gopalan – Smortr
- Michael Goodwin – SQE
- Cristina Grau-Vilchez – Twintual Inc.
- Sree bhargavi balija – UFM-R
- Agrim Mithal – Undergraduation.com
4:30 PM – Building with Vana - An Open Protocol for Data Sovereignty Location: Bartos Theater
Presenters: Anna Kazlauskas

Mon, April 14 (MIT DecAI Summit)

4:00 PM – Welcome address Location: MIT Media Lab, Room 633
Decentralized AI updates, MIT engagement opportunities
How to get the most from the summit
Presenters: Ramesh Raskar, Chris Pease
4:15 PM – Session with Anna Kazlauskas (Vana)
4:45 PM – How startups could monetize NANDA and explore real-world applications
Presented by: MIT Team
5:15 PM – Multi-Agent Economy Panel
Moderator: Michael Casey (Chairman, Decentralized AI Society)
Panelists:
- Toufi Saliba (CEO, Hypercycle)
- Clara Tsao (Director, Filecoin Foundation)
- Pei Chen (Executive Director, Theoriq Foundation)
5:45 PM – Closing Notes
6:00 PM – Invitational DecAI dinner sponsored by VANA

Past Summit

The MIT Decentralized AI Summit on October 11, 2024 focused on the potential of decentralized AI to transform various sectors. The summit addressed the limitations of centralized AI systems, particularly in areas where data and knowledge are distributed across organizations and regions, such as healthcare, climate science, and supply chain management. Key discussions highlighted five technical opportunities: enhancing privacy, ensuring verifiability, aligning incentives, enabling orchestration, and improving user experience. By addressing these areas, the summit emphasized how diverse entities can collaborate on global challenges while achieving their local objectives, promoting a decentralized, inclusive, and resilient AI future. The event also featured a project showcase, where participants presented their ventures, fostering networking and collaboration among researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors.