Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes 97 New Members As Demand for Open, Collaborative Agent Standardization Increases
Industry leading organizations unite under neutral Foundation led by new governing board chair David Nalley to support the future of interoperable AI
Summary
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Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) appoints David Nalley as governing board chair, and welcomes 18 new Gold Members and 79 new Silver Members.
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Under the AAIF, members help to reduce fragmentation in the ecosystem, improve interoperability, shape standards and advance open protocols.
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New Gold Members include industry leaders Akamai, American Express, Autodesk, Circle, Diagrid, Equinix, Global Payments, Hitachi, Huawei, Infobip, JPMorgan Chase, Keycard, Lenovo, Red Hat, ServiceNow, TELUS, UiPath and Workato.
NAPA, Calif. – The Linux Foundation Member Summit – Feb. 24, 2026 – The Agentic AI
Foundation (AAIF), the open foundation driving the transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI, today announced the addition of 18 new Gold Members and 79 new Silver Members. The AAIF now represents a community of 146 members collaborating to advance open protocols, tooling and best practices for agent-based AI systems.
Additionally, the AAIF has appointed David Nalley, director of developer experience at AWS, as governing board chair. With more than two decades of open source leadership experience, Nalley brings deep expertise spearheading large-scale open source initiatives and enabling collaboration across diverse, global communities. As governing board chair, he will help set the Foundation’s strategic priorities, ensure strong, neutral governance, and align member participation around advancing open protocols, interoperability, and production-ready agentic AI standards.
“Agents are rapidly maturing from experimental prototypes to production-ready systems that are fundamentally transforming how we build applications and conduct business across industries,” said David Nalley, governing board chair of the AAIF and director of developer experience at AWS. “Building and scaling open source tools and standards for agentic AI will require the collective expertise and collaboration of all our members. I’m thrilled to welcome so many new companies to the AAIF and excited to invite innovative projects and contributors across the AI ecosystem to join us as we work together to shape the future.”
This leadership growth and rapid expansion reflects rising industry demand for shared, open standards as AI moves from experimental to operational. Research on the economic impacts of open source shows that 89% of organizations that have adopted AI use open source in their infrastructure, reinforcing the importance of neutral governance, agreed upon standards, and open collaboration as agentic architectures mature.
By joining the AAIF, new members gain access to a global ecosystem where they can directly shape emerging standards, collaborate on open source innovation, and help meet growing demand for interoperable, standardized agentic infrastructure.
“Nearly 150 organizations joining the AAIF in its early days is a strong signal that agentic AI is shifting from experimentation to real-world deployment,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “The infrastructure for autonomous systems must be open, interoperable and community-governed. The AAIF exists to make that possible.”
New Gold Members
The following organizations have recently joined the AAIF as Gold Members:
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Akamai is a cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects businesses online. Its market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense-in-depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform.
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American Express (NYSE: AXP) is a global, premium payments and lifestyle brand powered by technology. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York, American Express is built on trust, security, and service, with a long history of innovation and delivering membership value to customers.
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Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) is changing how the world is designed and made. Its technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment, helping innovators solve challenges big and small and build a better world.
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Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a leading internet financial platform company advancing an open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. With USDC, Circle Payments Network, and Arc, Circle enables trusted financial innovation for institutions, enterprises, and developers worldwide.
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Diagrid builds platforms and services for AI agents and durable workflow execution, delivering enterprise-grade resiliency, security, and observability. Diagrid is an open-source-first company and an active contributor to CNCF projects including Dapr and KEDA.
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Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) is the world’s largest digital infrastructure company, operating more than 270 data centers globally. Equinix provides the foundational infrastructure that enables the digitally connected world, delivering seamless digital experiences and supporting cutting-edge AI everywhere.
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Global Payments is a leading payment technology and software company that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes worldwide. With global reach, local expertise, and scale, Global Payments manages trillions in payment volume and billions of transactions across more than 175 countries.
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Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are balanced through its Social Innovation Business. By combining IT, OT (Operational Technology), and products, and with Lumada at its core, Hitachi creates value by integrating data, technology, and domain knowledge to solve customer and societal challenges.
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Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With approximately 208,000 employees, Huawei operates in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people and working toward a fully connected, intelligent world.
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Infobip is a global leader in omnichannel engagement, powering messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement, authentication, and security. It helps businesses simplify communications, grow faster, and enhance customer experiences in a secure and reliable way.
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JPMorgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm. As of December 31, 2025, it held $4.4 trillion in assets and $362 billion in stockholders’ equity, with leadership across investment banking, consumer and small business financial services, commercial banking, transaction processing, and asset management.
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Keycard aims to unlock the power of AI agents by providing developers and enterprises with the foundations to build trusted agentic applications at scale. Its identity and access platform delivers real-time, contextual guardrails to support secure, autonomous, machine-driven workflows.
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Lenovo is a global technology powerhouse serving millions of customers daily. Guided by its vision of Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo delivers a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices, infrastructure, software, solutions, and services.
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Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, providing a trusted and consistent foundation for IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio spans cloud, developer tools, AI, Linux, automation, and application platforms—enabling any application, anywhere.
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ServiceNow acts as the AI control tower for business transformation. The ServiceNow AI Platform integrates clouds, models, and data sources to orchestrate enterprise workflows, unifying systems, applications, and AI agents into a single, scalable platform with measurable outcomes.
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TELUS is a world-leading technology company operating in more than 45 countries and generating over $20 billion in annual revenue through a global portfolio of communications, digital customer experience and health technologies. In 2025, TELUS launched Canada’s first fully sovereign AI factory dedicated to advancing a sovereign and open source AI ecosystem.
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UiPath is a global leader in agentic automation. The UiPath Platform™ uniquely combines controlled agency, developer flexibility, and seamless integration to help organizations scale agentic automation safely and confidently. Connecting agents, AI models, applications, robots, and people into orchestrated workflows, UiPath delivers measurable business impact at scale.
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Workato is the Enterprise MCP company, providing the connective layer that gives AI agents secure, governed access to enterprise systems and data. Built on a decade of integration expertise spanning 14,000+ applications, Workato’s platform enables organizations to move from simple automation to agentic AI that can reason, act, and orchestrate work across the entire business.
New Silver Members include:
1Password, AG2, Agent Field, AIERA, Airbyte, AI Robotix, AlloIA, Alpic, Alterion AI, AltLayer, Apollo GraphQL, ASAPP, Avrio AI, Bluefin Payment Systems, BlueRock Security, BrightQuery, Capsule Security, Cequence, ChainOpera AI, Citiri, Clutch Security, Corridor, Dataiku, Data Science Dojo, Datastrato, Decentralization Research Center, Descope, ESET, Future of Life Institute, Geniez, Golf, Gravitee, Guru Technologies, Hashgraph, Helmet Security, Identity Digital, Infoblox, Interop.io, iProov, Juicedata, Kilo, Kite AI, Komodor, Langdock, Liquid Reply, MACH Alliance, Mezmo, MindsDB, Mirror Security, Mistral AI, MoonLight Marketing, MotherDuck, Neo4j, NuStudio.AI, Nx, Ocean Security, Okahu, Pallas Security, Palma.ai, pgEdge, PlayerZero, Reboot Technologies, Resolve Technology, rocketride.ai, RX-M, Safe Software, Scalekit, StackGen, StackQL Studios, TensorOpera AI, Ultra Security, USI, Vstorm, Warp, XTrace, Yaala Labs, Yasp.ai, zCloak Network, and ZeroClick.
Upcoming Event
New and existing AAIF members will gather in New York City at the MCP Dev Summit, taking place April 2–3.
View the agenda and register to attend via the official event page.
Learn More
To learn more about the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)—including how to get involved, become a member, or contribute—please visit:
aaif.io
Supporting Quotes
“The enterprise adoption of AI agents requires open standards that prioritize interoperability, architectural flexibility, and security. Akamai is proud to support the Agentic AI Foundation as a Gold Member to help shape frameworks that enable businesses to deploy autonomous AI at scale. Standards for AI agents and MCP servers will help developers leverage the right infrastructure to meet their needs without compromising portability or security. We’re committed to working with the community to accelerate responsible, scalable AI innovation.”
— Jon Alexander, Senior Vice President of Product, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai“American Express is pleased to join the Agentic AI Foundation and collaborate with industry peers to advance open standards and protocols that support interoperability across agentic AI systems. Open standards play an important role in enabling collaboration and supporting the secure and transparent evolution of agentic AI. Through the AAIF, we look forward to contributing our perspective to help encourage responsible adoption across the ecosystem.”— Hilary Packer, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Data and AI, American Express
“Agentic AI has the potential to transform how work gets done, but real customer workflows span many tools, data sources, and partners. Reliable automation at this scale requires deep interoperability, open protocols, and shared standards across the ecosystem. We’re joining the Agentic AI Foundation to help advance the open foundations that agent-driven workflows depend on—so customers can benefit from trustworthy, scalable automation across the systems they use every day.”
— Raji Arasu, Chief Technology Officer, Autodesk
“As software increasingly coordinates economic activity, open standards and trusted financial infrastructure are essential. At Circle, we believe programmable, internet-native money is foundational to this shift and will be the basis for the emerging agentic economy. Stablecoins enable automated systems to move value globally and in real time, and joining the Agentic AI Foundation reflects our commitment to open collaboration and interoperable infrastructure.”
— Li Fan, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Circle
“Open source is foundational to the adoption of new technologies and standards. As AI agents become more capable and autonomous, the ecosystem requires a neutral home that enables broad collaboration and shared innovation. By joining the Agentic AI Foundation, Diagrid brings deep expertise in protocols, distributed systems, and durable execution to help advance a scalable, production-ready agentic AI ecosystem.”
— Mark Fussell, Founder and CEO, Diagrid
“As AI evolves toward an autonomous ‘Internet of Agents,’ the industry must solve challenges that extend beyond software, including global scale, secure interconnection, and ultra-low-latency execution. Equinix bridges the gap between AI software and the physical infrastructure that powers it, providing a neutral, distributed environment where agents can interact securely and at scale. By joining the AAIF, Equinix is helping build an open, secure, and infrastructure-ready foundation for the global autonomous economy.
— Arun Dev, Vice President of Digital Interconnection, Equinix
“Agentic AI has the potential to transform how global commerce operates, but only if it is built on shared foundations. Through our membership in the Agentic AI Foundation, we will drive industry-led collaboration that promotes consistency, openness, and responsible innovation—so merchants can reliably and safely accept transactions from agents without complex systems or heavy investments.”
— Cindy Turner, Chief Product Officer, Global Payments
“By collaborating with the Keycloak project in CNCF, Hitachi has developed deep expertise in SSO technologies for AI-driven systems. Leveraging this expertise through HMAX by Hitachi—a suite of next-generation solutions bringing AI to social infrastructure—we will enable secure interoperability between Physical AI and Agentic AI, supporting the growth of the Agentic AI ecosystem.
— Yuichi Nakamura, Head of OSPO, Hitachi, Ltd.
“We are excited to join the Agentic AI Foundation and look forward to collaborating with others in the community. Agentic AI is core to many of our technologies and products, from cloud to consumer products to AI solutions. We firmly believe that working together in open source will bring forth many new exciting innovations for the shared benefit of all.
— Bill Ren Xudong, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer, Huawei
“MCP fundamentally transforms how platforms integrate with AI agents by eliminating manual API integration work. Our communication APIs are machine-readable, allowing AI agents to independently discover capabilities and execute actions like sending SMS, RCS, or WhatsApp messages through shared language. This dramatically reduces integration overhead and accelerates development. We’re excited to join the Agentic AI Foundation and help shape the open standards powering the future of agentic AI.”
— Adrian Benić, Chief Product Officer, Infobip
“Agents are rewriting the foundations of computing. The protocols and standards that emerge now will redefine the next decade of software. Keycard is joining the AAIF because we believe agent identity and control must be built on open foundations so everyone can realize their promise.”
— Ian Livingstone, Co-founder and CEO, Keycard
“As AI agents become more autonomous, collaborating with the Agentic AI Foundation is essential to define standards that allow agents to scale reliably. Grounded in Lenovo’s Hybrid AI vision—from personal AI to enterprise systems—we are committed to building an open, interoperable ecosystem where intelligent agents operate seamlessly across devices, edge, and cloud.”
— Tolga Kurtoglu, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Lenovo
“The future of enterprise AI will be defined by its ability to operate autonomously across the hybrid cloud. Transparent, interoperable standards and open collaboration are critical. Joining the Agentic AI Foundation is the logical next step in advancing agentic AI responsibly and at production scale.”
— Brian Stevens, Senior Vice President & CTO for AI, Red Hat
“For agentic AI to deliver real enterprise value, it must be open by design—interoperable, governed, and trusted. ServiceNow is proud to be part of the Agentic AI Foundation, bringing a workflow-first perspective to help mature the agentic AI ecosystem for real-world use.”
— Joe Davis, Executive Vice President of AI Platform Engineering, ServiceNow
“The future of AI depends on open standards and real collaboration. Transparency and shared responsibility must be the backbone of agentic AI. Through AAIF, we’re contributing to a more open and trustworthy global AI ecosystem.”
— Hesham Fahmy, Chief Information Officer, TELUS
“Joining the Agentic AI Foundation reflects our commitment to advancing open enterprise frameworks for agent development, governance, and orchestration. UiPath looks forward to helping shape interoperable standards that enable trusted, scalable agentic automation.
— Raghu Malpani, Chief Technology Officer, UiPath
“MCP has set the standard for how AI agents connect to business systems. With Workato Enterprise MCP, we’ve delivered the orchestration, security, and governance required to put agentic AI to work at scale. We’re proud to join the Agentic AI Foundation as a Gold Member and help define the next chapter of enterprise-ready AI infrastructure.”
— Adam Seligman, Chief Technology Officer, Workato
About the Agentic AI Foundation
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the open foundation for the rapidly expanding ecosystem of agentic AI technologies that enable autonomous, interoperable AI systems. With founding projects including MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md, AAIF governs the core standards and protocols that allow agents to operate seamlessly across platforms.
Through transparent governance and broad industry participation, AAIF is driving adoption and ensuring agentic AI infrastructure evolves openly, predictably, and at production scale.
Learn more at https://aaif.io
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