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Date: Thursday, 3 April 2025
Time: In-person: 6:30-8:00 PM (PDT), Online: 7:00-8:00 PM (PDT)
Speaker: Ron Bodkin
Location: Heafey 225, Santa Clara University. Hybrid (online info). Sandwiches/water provided for in-person attendees.
In-person Cost (pre-order): $15.00 general admission, $10.00 IEEE Members
In-person Cost (at the door): $20.00, no IEEE discount
Online Cost: Free

Abstract: AI and Web3 are both accelerating and the two are coming together to enable agentic economies—networks of AI agents autonomously executing trades, coordinating liquidity, and optimizing financial primitives. This session will explore how AI agents are leveraging reasoning, tools and diverse models and data to drive high performance, how agent swarms that dynamically discover each other and collaborate work and enable better results. We also look at how this applies in AIFi – agents interacting on-chain for decentralized economies.

Speaker Bio: Ron Bodkin is the co-founder and CEO of Theoriq labs, that develops Theoriq – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent swarm protocol that allows specialized AI agents to collaborate to enable the agentic economy. Ron has over 15 years of AI experience. He was responsible for Applied AI and Responsible AI in the Google Cloud CTO office. He also was the VP and GM of AI at Teradata, following the acquisition of his company, Think Big Analytics, and led AI Engineering and was CIO at Vector Institute.