We are pleased to share that our upcoming workshop of "Human-Centric Agentic Web (HAW)" has been accepted and will be co-located in London, at Decentralised AI 2025 on 21 November, 2025.

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of intelligent agent technologies. These agents, built on top of powerful foundation models, are showing promising performance in long-horizon tasks, collaborating with humans and other agents, and acting autonomously across digital environments. However, the current discourse surrounding LLM-based agents has been heavily focused on algorithmic innovation – prompt engineering, planning and reasoning mechanisms, memory architectures, and tool use — while comparatively little attention has been paid to the foundational systems and infrastructural underpinnings that will be critical for deploying these agents at scale, safely, and for the benefit of users.

This workshop aims to explore the emerging infrastructure required to support safe, user-centric, and decentralised AI agents. Unlike classical multi-agent systems that often operated in controlled, closed environments, LLM-based agents are poised to operate openly and widely across the internet, potentially interacting with other agents and humans across jurisdictions, platforms, and use cases. This introduces new challenges in identity management, communication protocols, access control, privacy, auditability, availability and quality of inference data, interoperability, and alignment with user intent. These are not merely engineering problems; they require careful rethinking of how we design agent systems that are robust, accountable, privacy-preserving, and work for diverse stakeholders.

This workshop will convene discussion around novel architectures, system design patterns, protocol development, data interoperability, data quality, decentralised governance models, human-in-the-loop safety mechanisms, and standards for inter-agent communication. By bringing together researchers from multi-agent systems, systems engineering, security, HCI, and AI ethics, the workshop seeks to chart a path toward responsible infrastructure for next-generation AI agents.

Workshop Organisation Commitee

Core Organising Team

• Dr Panayiotis Danassis, University of Southampton
• Dr Naman Goel, University of Oxford
• Jesse Wright, University of Oxford
• Dr An Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

Steeing Committee

• Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt
• Dr Jun Zhao
• Dr Rui Zhao

Workshop formats and duration

Further details about the workshop format and duration will be shared on the dedicated workshop page. Please look out for this space.