NANDA Summit + Hackathon-Demos at MIT, Sat July 11th, 2026 with MIT Media Lab and HCLTech

Join us for the NANDA Summit at MIT Media Lab. The Summit sessions include top industry and research leaders, along with working group discussions.The NandaHack Hackathon sessions include tutorials, hack showcase, hackathon awards, and interaction with our judges. Important note for hackathon participants: There will be no coding / building at the in-person event; only demos and interaction with other builders and judges. You should build and submit your demo by Friday July 10th at noon ET. ALL submissions are due on Friday July 10th. (Phase 1)The hackathon participants are not required to attend this event, and your score will not be impacted by not attending--you can still win without being at the event.You do NOT need to register on this LuMa if you are participating virtually.If you are participating for the hackathon judging sessions in person, each team member must register on this Luma individually, as an acceptance to this event grants individual entry, not team entry. Research and Startup Innovation Showcase: Apply to present your demo, research or startup innovation [link] Summit Sessions (9 am - 5 pm)Schedule: 9:00-9:30 am: Opening Keynote by HCLTech and MIT Media Lab: Trustworthy Infrastructure for AI Agents - (Jeff Turnham, Grace Davin, Jie Hui, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar) 9:30-10:00 am: Civic Agents/Sovereign AI Agents: When every citizen has an agentBoston: Santiago Garcés (CIO, City of Boston)India and KumbhDoot (Nanda Mobile Edge): Abhishek Singh, Milan: Antonio, Charlotte [Link] 10:00-11:30 am: Civic Breakouts 1. Identity and Authentication for Civic Agents2. Civic Services Interface3. Equity, Privacy, and Digital Access4. Governance and PolicyParallel: Hackathon Prep (Videos/Slides) 11:30 - 12:00 pm:Future of Agentic Commerce: Rohit Prasad (former head of Alexa) Vivek F. Farias (MIT Sloan School), David Herman (Glasswing Ventures) 12:00-12:30 pm: From Agents to Agentic Societies:(Ayush Chopra & Pradyumna Chari)12:30-1:00 pm: Enterprise Agentic Web:(John Zinky, Akamai, Pavan Pant, Fiddler AI) 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch break 2:00 - 3:00 pm: Agentic Web Innovations:- Data Facts: Abhishek Mehta, Tresata- NANDATown: Maria Gorskikh, Maritime- Index: Pradyumna Chari, MIT Media Lab - Agent Receipts: Akash Srivastava, IBM 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Agentic Web Workshops:1. Agentic Commerce2. EdgeAI) (Parallel: Hackathon Project Showcase) 4:00-4:30 pm: Demos/Presentations from top 10 teams 4:30 - 5:00 pm: Venture Landscape in Agentic Web:Panelists: Marc Weber, John Harthorne, Habib Haddad, Emmanuel Vallod 5:00 pm: Hack Results and Closing NANDAHack: (Parallel to the Summit) Schedule: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm: Phase 2 (Skill md) Hack preparation 2:00 pm: Final Phase 2 + Video Submissions Are DueSee document for more information: [Link] 4:00 - 4:30 pm: Top 10 presentations 5:00 pm: Hack Results and Awards More Details: https://nandahack.media.mit.edu. The NANDAHack, by MIT Media Lab and HCLTech, invites builders to create and demo real agentic applications inside NANDATown, a sandbox for the Internet of AI Agents. Teams will explore how autonomous agents can discover each other, coordinate tasks, exchange information, and work together across an open ecosystem. The hackathon will feature tutorials, demos from top teams, judges from AI and enterprise infrastructure, and awards for standout projects. Join the virtual hackathon June 7th-July 10th at https://nandahack.media.mit.edu. Then (optionally) join us in person at MIT on July 11th. (Judging for all teams: 9:30 am to Noon for selection of top 10 teams) Judges (selected): Abhishek Mehta (Tresata), Rob Bench (Radius), Rob Lincourt (Dell), John Zinky (Akamai), Rebecca Xiong (Harvard iLab), Karrie Karahalios (MIT Media Lab) About NANDA Town, the developer sandbox for Internet of AI agents https://nandatown.projectnanda.org/ NANDATown is a unified platform for managing, monitoring, and orchestrating autonomous AI agents across the Internet of Agents. It is a developer sandbox where builders can experiment with agent discovery, coordination, verification, messaging, and real agent-to-agent workflows. Think of it as an early city for AI agents: a place where agents can meet, interact, collaborate, and show what distributed intelligence looks like in practice. Partners and Contributors: Radius, Tresata, Nasiko, KAISF, Kyndryl, Hexaware and More The NADATown Hackathon is where the Open Agentic Web becomes hands-on. Teams will build and demo working agentic systems, explore new use cases for autonomous agents, and compete in front of judges from AI infrastructure, enterprise, academia, and venture. The goal is not just to talk about the future of agents but to build the first real glimpses of it. About NANDA: NANDA is architecting the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web. We are solving the core challenge of the next decade: How can billions of AI agents discover each other, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities. MIT Research: https://nanda.mit.eduOpenSource: https://projectnanda.org/ Deep dives into new projects and the plansNANDATown.projectnanda.org , and the agent coordination stackNANDA Mobile Edge (agents on mobile phones)NANDA DataFacts (a new field in AgentFacts and machine-readable way to describe the data behind an agent https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7476851966506131456/)Sovereign AI agents and Civic Agents (DigiDoot in India, BostonAgents in MA, MilanAgents in Italy)How NANDA is partnering with ai-catalog , AgentResourceDirectory, DNS-AID and ANS. And how NANDA aims for democratization of agentic web beyond enterprise use cases.How startup innovators can benefit via NANDATownOpportunities for enterprise adoption and partnership alignmentNetworking with leaders from AI infrastructure, academia, and venture