Building the Internet of Agents in the Open

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AI agents can now plan tasks and use tools, and they increasingly need to work with agents built by other companies. Agents can only work with each other across companies if developers share open protocols and standards that no single company controls. The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) was formed under the Linux Foundation in December 2025 to give these standards a neutral home. In less than a year, the foundation has grown from three projects, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), to ten projects and more than 300 members. In this talk, I’ll explain how these projects let agents connect and work together, and I’ll cover the open problems in security and trust where students and researchers can contribute.

 


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  • Santa Clara University
  • 500 El Camino Real
  • Santa Clara, California
  • United States 95053
  • Building: Bergin Hall
  • Room Number: 116
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  • Co-sponsored by Santa Clara University
  • Starts 08 November 2026 08:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 16 November 2026 11:00 PM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

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Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. An IEEE Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Wharton MBA, Mazin brings 25+ years of experience driving AI innovation from research to global-scale deployment. His career spans senior leadership at Google as Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML, and at AT&T as VP of Network Analytics and Automation. Mazin has built production-grade GenAI, machine learning, and agentic AI platforms at scale. He co-founded open-source landmarks including ONAP, Akraino, and Acumos, and helped found the LF Networking, LF Edge, and LF AI. He has served on the boards of the Open Network Foundation, NSF MLWINS, and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley. Mazin holds 260+ U.S. patents, has authored 100+ research papers, and became an IEEE Fellow in 2012 for pioneering contributions to speech processing.