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Lightning Talks - August 2025

Quick, focused presentations covering cutting-edge AI agent development and protocols.

⚡ A2A Quick Start Guide​

Ship an agent card + JSON-RPC service in ~60 minutes

Learn how to:

  • Create agent discovery cards
  • Implement JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoints
  • Add CORS, rate limiting, and caching
  • Test with LangGraph harness

📊 A2A Field Results​

Live analytics from production deployment

Key Findings (Jul 17 → Aug 13):

  • 561 total sessions, 443 active users
  • 29.77% engagement rate
  • 5.2% of traffic from AI agents (29/561 sessions)

Agent Breakdown:

  • ChatGPT: 13 sessions, 61.5% engagement, 47s avg duration
  • Perplexity: 5 sessions, 54s avg duration
  • Bing: 11 sessions, 7s avg duration

🔑 Key Takeaway​

"Agents are becoming the discovery layer (GEO > SEO). If you expose machine-readable capabilities + content, agents can find, cite, and link you."

Quick Demo​

30-second cURL test of A2A endpoint:

# Get metadata
curl -sX POST https://<your-domain>/api/a2a/service \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"blog.get_metadata","id":1}' | jq

# List posts
curl -sX POST https://<your-domain>/api/a2a/service \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"blog.list_posts","params":{"limit":5},"id":2}' | jq

Presenter​

Colin McNamara - Community Founder & Lead

  • Implemented A2A on personal blog
  • Analyzed real-world agent traffic patterns
  • Open-sourced implementation patterns

Lightning talks provide rapid insights into emerging patterns and real-world results from the AI agent ecosystem.