Agent-to-Agent Interactions with NLIP and an application to AllyCat

**Description** NLIP (Natural Language Interaction Protocol) is a project defining an interoperable protocol for user-to-agent and agent-to-agent natural language interactions. In this talk, Tom will describe the goals of the NLIP project and then demonstrate a proof of concept agent network built using NLIP. One of the agents is an AllyCat instance that has been modified by giving it an NLIP server. By adding NLIP to the AllyCat server, it is immediately available to Chat Clients and other Agents, making it part of an expanding network of agents. **Speaker bio** Tom Sheffler is a computer engineer currently working towards interoperability of secure agentic systems. He is also a solution architect with UnifabriX - a maker of CXL memory pooling systems for memory-bound HPC applications. Previously, Tom built global web applications for managing and scaling genomics computations at Roche. As an entrepreneur, he founded the cloud-based video analytics company, Sensr.net, that provided a consumer solution for home security cameras. Tom was an early employee at Rambus where he worked on the architecture and verification of high-speed memory devices. **About the AI Alliance** The [AI Alliance](https://thealliance.ai) is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players. **Join the community** Sign up for the [AI Alliance newsletter](https://thealliance.ai/community) (check the website footer) and join our new [AI Alliance Discord](https://discord.gg/YtsWdke6E9).