MIT/Conference/IIA/25/04/15/1400 Block B Lightning Talks

• 1600 Lightning Talks

  • 15:58 Person/John Donaghy, an ML Engineer at Gensyn, will be presenting on “Gensyn Protocol”
    • My Notes
      • custom Ethereum/Rollup with trustless protocols
      • RL-Swarm - analogous to TCP
        • anyone can join - open, permissionless and neutral
  • 16:02 Gabriela Torres – Sundai: A2A Payments (Radius × Sundai)
    • https://linktr.ee/sundai_club - they get together every Sunday to experiment with AI
    • My Notes
      • demo 1 - how do you tip the supply chain if you like a bottle of wine in a restaurant
      • demo 2 - repuscore - reputation scoring system that ranks agents on trustworthiness or riskiness -
      • demo 3 -
      • demo 4 - launchbid - a "penny auction, microequity, and microloan platform" for early stage founders
      • demo 5 - beacon protocol
        • My Notes
          • private data
          • that's coming from not just consumers but also enterprises
          • there isn't any transparency
          • where you store your data and compute are critical control layers right now
          • what's it worth in the long-term?
      • demo 6 - Person/Richard Blythman – Naptha: Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
        • My Notes
          • why decentralized AI
          • he used to work in centralized AI and quit for ethical reasons

    • 16:23 Newfoundation Newfoundation

      • My Notes
        • Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
        • Newfoundation
        • newOS

    • 16:27 Borderless | Home web3 VC

    • 16:28 apiary - programmable markets for the infrastructure economy

      • Levi Rybalov

    • https://bepolymathic.com/

      • real time knowledge sourcing

    • QuantumProof

      • zero knowledge proofs
      • it's

    • 16:38 CreativeLab

      • Tae Taechasith Kangkhuntod

    • Dropout - Revolutionizing Tech Careers with AI

      • Sudhendra Kambhamettu
      • it's a tech community with AI
      • trying to create a communiy that helps you do mock interviews xunialabs.com
      • dropout community.com

    • EasyBeeAI

      • make digital AI agents for SME
      • easybee.ai
      • they created an agent that
      • Dave Peak, CEO
      • Karim Issa, CTO
      • local
      • they have a factory and an assembly line
    • Crypto/Layer 1 Protocol

    • NANDA: The Internet of AI Agents - linkedin post

    • Universitas AI – Socrates Research Agent

      
      Time: 5:03 PM
      
      🔗 universitas.ai
      

      • Product: Socrates, a research agent assistant
      • Solves: Training data limitations by dynamically extending context to include millions of academic papers and journals
      • Capabilities:
        • Recognizes gaps in its own training
        • Proactively researches relevant primary sources
        • Evaluates, ranks, and reads the most relevant papers
        • Returns citation-backed, research-grade answers
      • Use case: Accelerates literature reviews and research workflows with trustable, up-to-date outputs
      • Positioned as a solution to the “knowledge gap crisis” in AI research assistants
      • Presented as part of their official launch
  • • 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