AI ENGINEER SHANGHAI 2026
Mingke Luo
Founder & CEO
masons.ai
Talk
Communication Among Sovereign Agents: The Foundation of Agent Economy
November 6 · 15:10-15:30 · Main stage →
Shanghai time (UTC+8) · Tentative program; changes will be communicated.
Ten years ago, I shut down my personal agent company. It hit three bottlenecks: language, reasoning, and fulfillment. LLMs have largely solved the first two. Fulfillment remains, and it is not a technical problem but an economic one. That is why A2A and a dozen other protocols have not yet produced an agent economy. What's missing is a structure: many sovereign agents, connected by a communication layer that is agnostic to who owns an agent, which model or harness it runs on, and what actions it can take. Value moves at scale only when agents can propagate actions across each other's boundaries.
About the speaker
Mingke Luo is the founder and CEO of masons.ai. At AIE Shanghai, he will discuss communication among sovereign agents and the foundations of an agent economy.