Why attend AGNTCY Summit?
Discuss ideas, outline problems, and explore open source solutions for building multi-agent systems. Join industry leaders, researchers, and practitioners pushing agentic development forward.

Digital Jungle • 972 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
OCT 22, 2025
2 PM PDT
Tackling discovery, communication, identity, observability, and security of multi agent systems
Interested in and actively building the foundations of an open, interoperable internet of agents
Accelerating production-grade agentic use cases






Discuss ideas, outline problems, and explore open source solutions for building multi-agent systems. Join industry leaders, researchers, and practitioners pushing agentic development forward.
Opening Session
Welcome to AGNTCY Summit and overview
2:00-2:15PM
Speakers:
Luke Tucker, Director, Product Marketing, Outshift by Cisco
John Parello, Principal Engineer, Outshift by Cisco
Preview the outline of the days content as we focus on collaboration and learning together. Get an overview of the AGNTCY open source components.
Panel 1
Investing in breakthroughs of multi-agentic systems
2:15 - 3:00 PM
Speakers:
Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners
Jon Sakoda, Founding Partner, Decibel Partners
Saanya Ojha, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
Tim Tully, Partner at Menlo Ventures
Papi Menon, VP Product, Outshift by Cisco
AI Investment and market trends of today and insights into how multi agent systems will evolve over the coming years. Hear from top investors from seed stage to late stage discuss pricing tactics for agents, the role of open source in multi agent systems, investing beyond the model layer, the problem areas they’re most excited to invest in and more.
Panel 2
Multi-agentic foundations: Agent discovery, identity, & trust
3:00-4:00 PM
Join the brightest minds in AI & ML in San Francisco from October 18-26. Explore the full lineup of community-driven AI innovation.


AGNTCY, a project of the Linux Foundation, provides the complete infrastructure stack for agent collaboration—discovery, identity, messaging, and observability that works across any vendor or framework. It is the foundational layer that lets specialized agents find each other, verify capabilities, and work together on complex problems.



















Speakers:
Holly Watson, Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle Cloud
Anand Raghavan, VP of Product, Cisco AI Software and platform
Tatyana Mamut, CEO, Wayfound.AI
Eric Olden, CEO, Strata
Tushar Agrawal, Sr. Director, Product Management, Outshift by Cisco
Moving beyond one-to-one agent interactions to scalable trustworthy multi-agent frameworks involves robust discussion and problem solving. Panelists will share insights and lessons learned tackling these problems head on with open source foundations.
Panel 3
Distributed agent messaging and gateways
4:10 - 5:10 PM
Speakers:
Karthik Ramgopal , Distinguished Engineer, LinkedIn
Idit Levine, Founder and CEO at Solo.io
Dwahal Patel, Principal Generative AI Architecture Lead, AWS
John Parello, Principal Engineer and AGNTCY Architect
Ayush Chopra, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT
The industry has come along way in just 11-months since MCP was released. Panelists will discuss current state of of MCP and A2A and where we move forward to achieve global scale of many-to-many agent collaboration. What messaging patterns are going to be different in multi-agent systems? What about messaging integrity, authenticity, and providence? It will be a jam packed hour!
BREAK
Networking
5:10 - 6:00 PM
Keynote
The future of multi-agentic systems
6:00 - 6:45 PM
Speakers:
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation
Vijoy Pandey, Senior Vice President, Outshift by Cisco
Jim Zemlin has an illustrious 20+ year career leading the Linux Foundation, and together with the worldwide open source community, is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Join Cisco SVP Vijoy Pandey in a discussion with Jim on the importance of building this new era of AI compute on the bedrock of open source.
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