Why Your AI Agents Can't Talk to Each Other (Yet) — Vlad Luzin, BAND

This talk argues that current approaches to AI agent communication are insufficient, often relying on manual routing or basic scripting. It identifies the single-agent bottleneck (confirmation bias, attention dilution) and explains why existing messaging protocols (Slack, MCP, A2A) fail to enable true agent-to-agent collaboration. The core technical contribution is framing agent connection as a distributed systems problem, requiring real-time ordered transport, persistence, runtime binding, identity, and observability. The talk introduces BAND as an interaction layer designed to address these challenges, demonstrating agents onboarding and collaborating across users.