PROJECT NANDA ITALY COMMUNITY CHAPTER — HOSTED BY BIP xTECH
The multinational company hosted the inaugural community gathering during “The Agentic Era”, the first event dedicated to the agentic future of organizations.
Artificial Intelligence is entering a new phase of evolution: after the era of copilots and assistants, the age of AI agents is beginning to take shape — systems capable not only of generating content, but also of planning, deciding and acting within business processes, collaborating with people and other agents in a coordinated way.
This was the central theme of “The Agentic Era – The Agentic Future of Organizations”, the event organized by BIP xTech, the Center of Excellence specialized in Agentic AI, Cloud and Data.
Bringing together leading players from Italy’s industrial and financial sectors, the event featured BIP Chairman Donato Iacovone, CEO Alberto Idone and Antonio Corghi, Partner at BIP xTech, alongside Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT. Discussions explored the topic through complementary strategic, cultural, technological and regulatory perspectives.
A challenge that is not only technological, but also one of strategic and organizational design.
“The Agentic Era” also served as the stage for the inaugural community gathering of the Project NANDA – Chapter Italy hosted by BIP (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture), an international initiative born at the MIT Media Lab aimed at developing the enabling infrastructure for a true “Internet of AI Agents”.
The idea is to build a decentralized ecosystem in which billions of specialized AI agents can collaborate autonomously and securely, communicating, learning, performing complex tasks and even managing economic transactions on behalf of individuals and organizations.
To make this vision more concrete, the project promotes the creation of a global network of communities and innovation hubs called “The Agentic Web: Innovation Council for Project NANDA”.
Project NANDA – Italy Chapter
The Italy Chapter will be hosted as a community initiative by BIP xTech, marking Italy’s inclusion among the countries playing a leading role in the development of the next generation of Artificial Intelligence.
The Italy Chapter will play a central role in developing the Project NANDA ecosystem in Italy by building a national neutral multi-stakeholder national community involving companies, startups, universities and public institutions, through open-source research, hackathons, events and collaborations with other international Chapters.
Through this initiative, BIP strengthens its position within the global technology landscape and acts as a bridge between enterprises, institutions and innovators, highlighting the growing relevance of Agentic AI, considered one of the most significant evolutions of Artificial Intelligence in the coming years: autonomous systems capable not only of analyzing data, but also of making decisions, coordinating with one another and executing complex processes in interconnected environments.
This marks the beginning of a new phase, in which AI assumes an operational role similar to a managerial layer, focused on goals rather than tasks alone.
Antonio Corghi, Partner at BIP xTech, commented:
“Agentic AI represents one of the main drivers of technological transformation for the near future. With the Project NANDA Italy Chapter, we aim at building an active and collaborative community capable of connecting companies, startups, universities and institutions to develop real, open and shared innovation.”
“We are at the beginning of a new phase of Artificial Intelligence, in which autonomous agents will become an integral part of economic and organizational processes. The NANDA Italy Chapter was created to position Italy within this global scenario and to build, together with universities, companies and institutions, an ecosystem capable of leading this transformation,” concluded Alberto Idone, BIP CEO.
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