OPAQUE Systems Joins AGNTCY to Advance Secure, Confidential AI Collaboration
Multi-agent workflows are fundamentally transforming enterprise AI, enabling intelligent systems to collaborate and deliver unprecedented business value. As organizations accelerate innovation with agentic systems, trust and confidentiality have become essential to unlocking AI's full potential across industries. AGNTCY brings together diverse companies and technologists to create the practical components needed for the Internet of Agents. With the addition of OPAQUE and its Confidential AI Platform, we are uniquely suited to address this critical need by ensuring robust data and model confidentiality and integrity.
'Before multi-agent software can truly become embedded in critical processes, we need verifiable privacy, data sovereignty, integrity, and runtime guarantees-so organizations can safely scale AI ecosystems without duct-taping manual review at every step. That's why we're welcoming OPAQUE as a member in AGNTCY. They help solve the trust infrastructure problem we're all going to hit as we build the Internet of Agents together,' said Vijoy Pandey, GM and Senior Vice President, Outshift by Cisco.
'Multi-agent workflows are transforming enterprise AI, fundamentally changing how intelligent systems collaborate', said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of OPAQUE. 'Trust and confidentiality are essential to unlocking their full potential and delivering genuine business value across industries. Joining AGNTCY aligns with OPAQUE's mission to ensure that confidential AI enables secure agent collaboration that accelerates innovation while maintaining privacy in an open, interoperable future for agentic systems.'
OPAQUE joins a growing community of technologists, innovators, and thought leaders dedicated to solving the trust and security challenges inherent in next-generation AI workflows.
Want to dive deeper into the future of secure agent collaboration and multi-agent systems? Listen to Vijoy Pandey, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Outshift by Cisco, on an upcoming episode of OPAQUE's AI Confidential Podcast airing July 1st as he explores how AGNTCY is building the trust infrastructure for the Internet of Agents.
About OPAQUE SystemsOPAQUE is the Confidential AI company. Rooted in groundbreaking research from UC Berkeley's RISELab, OPAQUE Systems delivers a Confidential AI platform that transforms how enterprises handle, analyze, and share sensitive data. Its Confidential Agents platform enables enterprises to run AI on sensitive data—without risk, delay, or compliance tradeoffs. Customers include ServiceNow, the European Union, and other global leaders in AI, fintech, and enterprise infrastructure. To learn more, visit opaque.co or request a demo to see Confidential AI in action.
About AGNTCYAGNTCY is the open source collective building the foundational technologies and standards for the Internet of Agents—an open, interoperable internet for agent-to-agent collaboration. Founding contributors Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo, AGNTCY develops standards and frameworks that enable AI agents to discover, compose, deploy, and evaluate collaborative workflows across platforms and organizations. For more information, visit agntcy.org to see how we're building the Internet of Agents. Explore the AGNTCY GitHub repo to try the protocols, tools, and frameworks driving the Internet of Agents.
Contact: Inkhouse for OPAQUEopaquesystems@inkhouse.com
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