We invite researchers and practitioners from communications, multi-agent systems, robotics, protocol design, edge computing, satellite communications, and control theory to help reshape this promising research frontier. Technical comparison of Google's A2A and Anthropic's MCP protocols for real-time, latency-sensitive agent coordination. Analyzes serialization efficiency, network overhead, and synchronous/asynchronous call performance for CTOs and engineering leads. Use MCP to equip an individual agent with the specific tools it needs to do its job (e.g., access to a GitHub repository or a SQL database). Use A2A to let that specialized agent securely collaborate with other agents across different frameworks. SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging) is a next-generation communication framework that provides the secure, scalable transport layer for AI agent protocols like A2A (Agent-to-Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol). That pattern works well when all your agents live in the same application, share the same runtime, and are maintained by the same team. But real-world agent systems often need to communicate across boundaries. The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol addresses a critical challenge in the AI landscape: enabling gen AI agents, built on diverse frameworks by different companies running on separate servers, to communicate and collaborate effectively - as agents, not just as tools. To solve this, the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol provides a standardized way for agents to communicate and collaborate effectively. Enables agents to discover each other and interact using Agent Cards that describe their capabilities. AGNTCY is an open source collective building the software components and services that let agents discover each other, verify capabilities, communicate securely, and collaborate across frameworks and organizational boundaries. The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol is an open standard designed to facilitate communication and interoperability between independent, potentially opaque AI agent systems. The Agent-to-Agent protocol (A2A) is the industry's answer: an open standard that lets agents discover each other, delegate work, and collaborate across frameworks, vendors, and company boundaries.